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50-year-old Lufkin man pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of assault Monday in connection to an incident in which he
rammed his truck into his brother's wrecker in March 2011, causing injury to
his sibling. Billy Wayne Ebarb was sentenced to two days in the county jail and
a fine of $4,000.
According
to an investigator with the Angelina County Sheriff's Office, the incident was
just the latest in an ongoing feud between the two men which has been going on
for 30 years. Ebarb appeared in the 217th Judicial District Court Monday.
Ebarb was booked into the Angelina County Jail Monday and released later than day. Under disposition, the county's Web stated, "Time served."
Ebarb was
originally charged with assault causing bodily injury, which is a felony. However,
his plea bargain resulted in him being charged with Class A assault, a misdemeanor.
He also waived his right to appeal the judge's decision.
An arrest
warrant affidavit stated that an ACSO deputy responded to a disturbance call in
the 5200 block of U.S. 59 North. When he got there, he learned that Ebarb used
a 1982 Ford one-ton flat-bed truck to ram a 1990 Chevrolet rollback wrecker,
causing damage to the vehicle and injuries to his brother.
While the
deputy was speaking to witnesses, Ebarb walked up and told him that he was the
driver of the Ford truck. Seth Stover, an investigator with the ACSO, said the
dispute was over a camper trailer.
"Someone
had left a camper trailer there, and both of them thought they had a right to
it," Stover said in a previous interview. "His brother parked the wrecker in
the way and he just tried to ram it out of the way."
Stover
said the brothers keep law enforcement officers busy.
"He and
his brother have been fighting for 30 years," Stover said. "They don't talk to
each other. They just act irrational."
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Billy Wayne Ebarb (Source: Angelina County Jail)
