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Teens Indicted In Plot To Kill Girl's Father
April Rhoten and her boyfriend, James Neal Perkins. remained in the Smith County Jail Monday after being indicted for conspiracy to commit murder for an alleged plot to kill the girl's father.

On Feb. 29, Tyler Police detectives arrested Ms. Rhoten, a Robert E. Lee student, and Perkins for an alleged plan to "slit the father's throat while he slept," police said.

Don Martin, the agency's public information officer, said police learned that the pair had planned for some time to kill Dennis Rhoten, the girl's adopted father.

Martin said after hearing the information, they learned Perkins was wanted on a state-jail felony warrant for an incident at Chapel Hill High School, so they went to his workplace at Goodwill Industries on West Locust Street and arrested him.

Smith County Sheriff Lt. Larry Wiginton said the incident at the Chapel Hill High School consisted of Perkins leaving anonymous notes on a teacher's desk threatening to kill a female student.

Detectives then began questioning Perkins and learned he had been told by Ms. Rhoten that her father had been abusing her. They also learned the plot was very real.

"She had originally told the boyfriend that her father beat her and did other things, and had convinced him to kill her father," Martin said. "This was a definite conspiracy and more than just talk."

Martin said police have not been able to verify the girl's accusations, and they believe she made them up to develop the murder plot.

Ms. Rhoten was taken into custody at the high school.

The pair remains in jail on $750,000 bonds each for the conspiracy to commit murder charge.

A Smith County grand jury in 241st District Judge Jack Skeen Jr. handed up 34 additional indictments on Thursday. The true bills, released Monday, include:

  • Jenny Anderson, 31, 12158 18th Ave., driving while intoxicated with a child, April 6;

  • Cetera Bates, 19, Dallas, theft, Jan. 30;

  • Vester Battee, 17, 1210 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., burglary of a habitation, March 20;

  • Colin Blood, 28, 5502 Indian Springs Drive, theft, April 23;

  • Robert Brooks, 50, Bullard, driving while intoxicated, March 25;

  • Angie Christopher, 35, Bullard, driving while intoxicated with a child, Feb. 8;

  • Heavanly Dawson, 20, Dallas, possession of a controlled substance, May 9, 2006;

  • Torrance Deveroex, 21, Dallas, evading arrest, April 21;

  • Donald Eubanks, 42, Irving, delivery of a controlled substance, Feb. 26;

  • Miguel Galvan, 24, 710 S. Kennedy Ave., burglary of a building, March 31;

  • Walter Gray, 75, 1911 N. Palace Ave., driving while intoxicated, Feb. 15;

  • Vianca Green, 21, 3400 Varsity Drive, theft, Jan. 30;

  • Timothy Hubbard, 25, 3400 Varsity Drive, credit card abuse, April 22;

  • Edward Jasper, 35, Troup, theft, March 23;

  • Jonathan Johnigan, 30, 10694 Kiamichi Drive, possession of marijuana, Dec. 7;

  • John Landrum, 24, Dallas, aggravated assault, possession of a controlled substance, May 9, 2006;

  • Ashalia Masenburge, 19, Jacksonville, forgery, March 28;

  • Ernest Miller, 51, 20030 CR 410, driving while intoxicated with a child, Feb. 22;

  • Daniel Narvaez, 23, 11046 Hebron Road, possession of a controlled substance, March 11;

  • Jonathan Paz, 33, Gladewater, credit card abuse, April 10;

  • Lakendrick Pettigrew, 21, 2327 Woodlawn St., theft, April 14;

  • Harris Prince, 52, Chandler, driving while intoxicated, Feb. 22;

  • Jamaine Pringle, 17, 1125 S. Academy St., burglary of a habitation, March 9;

  • Andrew Robinson, 37, Hawkins, three counts of possession of a controlled substance, Feb. 8, 16 and 26;

  • William Ross, 46, Bullard, possession of a controlled substance, Feb. 23;

  • Corey St. John, 31, Lindale, two counts of assault/family violence, April 8 and 9;

  • Stephon Thompson, 47, Duncanville, theft, April 1, 2005;

  • Kenisha Tijerina, 18, 10055 Texas Highway 64 East, burglary of a habitation, March 9;

  • Suzanne Voss, 40, 2525 Shiloh Road, assault/family violence, Jan. 1;

  • Lois Watson, 33, 11517 Hickory, possession of a controlled substance, March 11.


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