Jadelfrick Benton (Source: Angelina County Jail)
Jarred Hunt (Source: Angelina County Jail)LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) -
Lufkin Police arrested two men, one for allegedly giving his
younger brother a black eye, during a traffic stop Thursday afternoon on Martin
Luther King Drive.
According to the police report, officers stopped a vehicle
for a traffic violation at 4 p.m. on the 1500 block of Martin Luther King
Drive. The driver gave two false names before officers learned his real name
was Jadelfrick L. Benton, 18, of Lufkin, and that there was a warrant for his
arrest on a charge of third-degree injury to a child, according to the report.
The passenger, Jarred T. Hunt, 17, of Lufkin, did not have a
driver's license and officers told him he could not take the vehicle. Hunt told
the officers his brother would come get the vehicle, but while officers waited
for him to arrive, Hunt got into the driver's seat and drove away, according to
the report.
An officer stopped him on Leach Street and arrested him on a
charge of no driver's license.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Benton is accused
of punching his 13-year-old brother in the eye and giving him a black eye. An
officer was able to use text messages between Benton and his mother as evidence
to make the arrest. According to the affidavit, Benton admitted to his mother
through text that he punched him because he was disrespectful. He also told his
mother that he had a gun and he would kill his brother, according to the
affidavit.
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