San Jacinto County Chief Deputy
Sheriff Tim Keen, Let's listen .
All right. I'm the number two gy
here at the Sheriff's Office.
You're not going to be seeing the sheriff.
My sheriff is sleeping all righ.
He did a 30 hour stretch.
I really am glad that he's sleeping too.
Okay. Since Friday we have workd
here.
Well, y'all put it so low
here. What's the deal?
All right, all right. Can you hear me?
OK, Look, the sheriff is sleepi.
He did about a 30 hour stretch
straight and before that I thine
slept about 6 hours since Frida.
I've been there every step of the way
with him and I'm in the same boat, OK?
I'm on about 27 hours right now,
so this thing is finally wrappe.
I'll answer what I can,
but I can't talk about the
investigation very much because
it's an ongoing investigation, ?
I'm not going to say the guy's .
You guys know his name.
He's in this jail right here.
I don't think he deserves
the glory for what he's
what he's done. Can you
give us any updates on intervies
with the people who were at the
house where he was arrested?
Are they arrested in any way?
Any other arrests?
There has been several arrests.
But I can't go into the details on that.
There was no nothing,
nothing major, I mean, just a
little simple flurry of resista.
But they, they had a canine
dog from what I understand and
there's no injuries of any kind.
The house is connected.
I'm not going to say anything
about that right now because the
investigation still we're still going.
You said there were several arr.
Is it 234? I'm not going to go o
that right now because others ae
hinging on what's going on right now.
So it's in progress?
Possibly,
yes. It's been more than one
as of now.
We may have the weapon,
but we have to wait for Ballist.
So we, I can't confirm
we have spoken with him. Yes.
Yes. Yes,
all that will happen this mornis
his bond will be set and that wl
be done in the jail. By judge Y.
It it's five it will be 5,000,00
Yes. No. Have the other people
that have been arrested,
have they been booked into the
jail already as well? Some have.
How many, how many people
are you getting here?
I, I I can't go into the
it's it's fluid right now.
I can't go into that.
No, it's not more than five. No.
No
one was close, but that's
no, he wasn't.
Can't say. At the moment,
I don't know for sure.
I don't want to give you
anything that's not a true
accurate statement, Okay.
We think we know how he got the,
but we have to, you know,
we have to prove that out.
Not going to go into his exact
route that we think it is until
we can prove what it is. Okay.
No, it wasn't. Did you?
Is there any indication that he
was about to leave this particur
house and get on the move again?
Not when he was caught. I beliee
he thought he was in a safe spo.
Can't talk about his wife right.
If you guys were out there this whole time,
there was a flurry about activity on Hwy.
105 when we had about 30 vehicls
and a helicopter go out there.
We did confirm that was him on foot running,
but we lost track of him.
That was not a false alarm. That was him.
I don't even know what day
it is right now. So it
when the schools got locked
down it was that event.
So if you were there you'll remember.
It's all like 1 long day to me.
So I don't, I don't remember.
Not really. We deduce that pretty early on.
Just once we got the federal
help with the electronic
equipment and the phone analysi,
then we could we could tell thae
wasn't people he was contacting,
were in the area, never left.
He did have a cell phone.
He had another cell phone, Yes.
I don't know yet.
I can't go into that right now.
He's in this jail right now, probably
having a hot breakfast when we aren't
and we're out here talking abou,
calm.
Has he confessed? Can't go into that.
OK. Yes, I've heard this.
All right, you got it.
If any of you guys been to
the scene where the house is,
all right, you know what
kind of roads those are.
To go from here to there,
lights and siren,
we're talking at least 30 minut.
This is not a rich county, all right?
We've got 3 deputies on patrol
to cover this entire county.
If you're going from North
County to Trails Inn,
which is where this occurred at,
it's an hour drive.
That's with lights and siren, all right.
We've got poor roads.
We're understaffed and welcome
to rural law enforcement.
This is the way most of
this nation is right now.
So our response time really I I
don't have the exact numbers buI
remember looking at we we had aa
timeline on that and I think its
around 14 minutes something like that but I.
I can't prove that I don't have
the paperwork right here with m,
but for that area,
that's excellent.
Does that mean there was a shers
deputy probably down in that
there was a other patrol unit on
aggravated robbery call and thed
to leave the aggravated robbery call,
which is a serious call, all ri.
And so you've got two bad
things going on at once.
With one deputy to do it all
you can't remember all the
there was the first assistant Ds
on our air last night saying tht
the response time was 11 minuteK
that that sounds about right toe
too but I I don't have the exact
that's that's the estimate righw
from time it was dispatched. All right.
So when it when it's dispatched,
that's when the deputy acknowles
receiving the call and then he starts moving.
Now you know, you've got to pula
guy off an aggravated robbery c.
And you got to remember the
initial call on this was someboy
firing their gun in the yard.
All right, that's not at that p,
it wasn't an attack.
So the aggravated robbery Trump's the
guy shooting in the yard at the time.
So he's doing that call and
then that other call escalated.
All right.
So we do what we can with what we have.
Sir,
I don't really know the details on that.
I don't want to give you a wrong
answer on that.
We know if they helped him at
will or or threatened in any wa,
what are they telling you aboutt
happened? The people arrested
are not telling us very much.
Anybody that helps Anybody that helped this
maniac is definitely got some kind of.
Issues as far as I'm concerned,.
Did any of those arrested call n
one of the tips? Not that I kno.
I'm not the sheriff.
He's well, the day shift Sergeat
that's one of the patrol
deputies and we got two more ou.
So that's the shift for the whole county.
We have 32 sworn positions
and we're about 6 short.
We've got 28 jail positions
and we're 11 short. So we're
missing half our jail staff.
And if anybody wants a job,
we're hiring, OK? It's about 30.
Yeah, that definitely.
But I'm not the judge.
I don't set the bail,
can't go into the tip right now.
All right. Do you know if we get more
clarity today on the other arre,
you probably won't because this
is all you're going to get toda.
The sheriff's going to be in hibernation
and I will be after we're done.
All the detectives are down.
That massive effort you
saw was was wonderful.
The effort was to catch this gu.
The case is ours. Where this?
We do our own work, all right?
And you're talking about a lot f
work and we don't have many peo.
So these are going to be 15 hour days,
seven days a week till
this thing gets wrapped up.
Not that I know of.
Whenever the judge gets here,
that would be sometime this mor.
But they do that all inside the jail.
No, ma'am, I'm not. Not inside the jail. Do
you have a
jail roster on what? Inmates? Y,
there will be. Yes.
That's all public record.
We'll we'll get it to you, OK?
I can't go into the it's still
fluid, still fluid right now.
There's there's still things being done.
There's a lot of capabilities
in terms of just stabbing
and quality roads out there.
Given the circumstance,
limited response from
the aggravated property,
I would really.
I've worked down there myself.
I mean, when I started working ,
I started in the jail and worked
all the way to where I'm at.
And I work down there.
And that's really pretty quick
because if you're alone patrollg
down there and you get in a
gunfight or a big fight just
to get law enforcement aid,
you're looking at 3045 minutes.
And that's that's why you can't
put people down there by themses
because they can't get help.
No, Sir, they're not.
I don't know who maintains them.
I mean, we've brought this up wh
Commissioners Court many times,
put you on the spot one, one more time.
The Montgomery County Jail is reporting
wife as being hooked in that ja.
That sounds about right,
he said. Montgomery County Jail was saying
that, but it sounds about right to me.
If they're saying that's the case, right?
Yes.
Well, it does happen every nigh.
Every single night they're
out there doing that.
And by and when they're
when they make the call.
If a neighbor calls,
by the time we get there,
they know how long it takes.
The guns are put up,
everybody's in the house and
now we see no violation, Okay.
So when you don't see anything
in your presence as a policeman,
you can't just go in there and
kick somebody's door down.
But.
We this agency, did not.
That's what it sounds like.
Because he said they were there.
The the District Attorney is
going to be working on a charge
package with a grand jury.
So they're they're going
to be serious. Trust me,
it's not really a hearing.
He just gets a magistrate warning, Yeah.
Yeah, The judge reads him his
rights and then signs the,
the bond certification
that that's all it is. Do
you think he'll disseminate the mugs?
Not going to be on the website or any idea
how that process might control? Probably
I'll, I'll go in there and talk to some
people and we'll get get that out. OK. Thank
you. Yes, anything else
I can do for you guys?
Oh yes, definitely it was.
It was, it was a good team effo.
I mean, I wish we'd got that
much help in the hurricane,
but appreciate you guys support and then
that'll probably be all that comes out.