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Thursday, March 15, 2018
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Denton, Texas
Online sting nets sheriffs sergeant
ranks from detention
officer to patrol ser-
geant in 25 years at
the sheriff’s office, was
arrested
night on a second-de-
gree felony charge of
online solicitation of a
minor.
Jordans alleged activities, but they be-
gan a proactive investigation Tuesday
into a report of solicitation on Craigslist,
the affidavit said.
Investigators created an undercover
profile on the website to look like that of
a 16-year-old boy, the affidavit said. One
investigator responded to an advertise-
ment Jordan posted on Craigslist that
day reading, “I’m looking for a needy
twink,” the affidavit said.
Twink is a slang word that refers to a
young gay man.
“I’m looking for a young discreet
twink that’s into body contact, make
out, oral, and is a top, bottom or [versa-
tile],” the first portion of the advertise-
ment read, according to the affidavit.
The investigator emailed the ad
poster, who was later identified as Jor-
dan, and posed as a 16-year-old boy liv-
ing in H lust.
“I would love to but no car,” the in-
vestigator told Jordan, according to the
affidavit.
Weston then told the supposed boy
that he would come pick him up, but he
said the boy also would have to spend
the night with him, the affidavit said.
Speaking as the boy, the investigator
Man accused of seeking
sex from person he
thought was teen boy
“predator” in a statement issued with a
news release.
“I was extremely shocked and sad-
dened and angered at the same time,”
Murphree said later in a phone inter-
view, adding that he’s known Weston
for about 20 years.
Weston was arrested in North Rich-
land Hills after a coordinated investiga-
tion with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s
Office, the Texas Department of Public
Safety, the Fort Worth Police Depart-
ment and the FBI, according to the ar-
rest affidavit
The document did not specify how
long investigators had been aware of
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Tuesday
By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
dentonrc.com
A Denton County Sheriff’s Office pa-
trol sergeant has been accused of solic-
iting sex from who he thought was a 16-
year-old boy responding to the ser-
geant’s Craigslist ad, according to an ar-
rest affidavit.
Weston Jordan, who moved up the
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was
booked into Tarrant County Jail in lieu
of $5,000 bail. If convicted, the charge
carries a maximum punishment of 20
years in prison.
Jordan, 46, has been fired from his
position, according to Sheriff Tracy
Murphree, who referred to the man as a
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CANONSBURG, Pa. - Republicans
eyed a recount and a lawsuit over per-
ceived irregularities in a closely watched
U.S. House race in Pennsylvania where
Democrat Conor Lamb clung to a slender
lead Wednesday in the longtime GOP
stronghold friendly to President Donald
Trump.
With the last batch of absentee ballots
counted, Lamb, a 33-year-old former prose-
cutor and fir st-time candidate, saw his edge
over Republican Rick Saccone shrink slight-
ly, to 627 votes out of more than 224,000
cast, according to unofficial results.
Be,yotWfy
A federal judge has dis-
missed a lawsuit against
living ISD, the city of
Irving and several others
filed by the father of a
teen who was arrested
after bringing a home-
made clock to school that
was mistaken for a bomb.
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Contract workers fill in extra space around a newly planted tree on the median along the 2000 block of West
University Drive on Wednesday. The city of Denton is paying $80,000 to add trees to the median. The project
is part of the city’s expansion plan and follows the widening of the road that was substantially completed in
the summer of 2017.
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Tens of thousands demand action on gun violence
Toys R Us is headed
toward shuttering its
U.S. operations, jeop-
ardizing the jobs of some
30,000 employees while
spelling the end for a
chain known to genera-
tions of children and
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By Collin Binkley
Associated Press
They bowed their heads in honor of the
dead. They carried signs with messages
like “Never again” and ‘Am I next?” They
railed against the National Rifle Associa-
tion and the politicians who support it.
And over and over, they repeated the
message: Enough is enough.
In a wave of protests one historian
called the largest of its kind in American
history, tens of thousands of students
walked out of their classrooms Wednes-
day to demand action on gun violence and
school safety.
The demonstrations extended from
Maine to Hawaii as students joined the
youth-led surge of activism set off by the
Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
“Were sick of it,” said Maxwell Nardi, a
senior at Douglas S. Freeman High School
in Henrico, Virginia, just outside Rich-
mond. “We’re going to keep fighting, and
were not going to stop until Congress fi-
nally makes resolute changes.”
Nearly 400 students from Waco-area
schools participated in walkouts, but there
“Enough is enough. People
are done with being shot. ”
— Iris Fosse-Ober, 18, a senior at
Washburn High School in Minneapolis
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parents for its sprawling
stores and Geoffrey the
giraffe mascot.
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were no other reports of walkouts in Texas
as most schools in the state are on spring
break this week. That included all districts
in Denton County.
However, rallies are planned around
the state, including Denton, on March 24
and again on April 20 — the 19th anniver-
sary of the shooting at Columbine High
School in Colorado where 13 people died.
A group of students at Guyer High
School in Denton are making plans for
National Walkout Day on April 20. The
protest will consist of students congregat-
ing in the school gym for a 17-second mo-
ment of silence, speeches and voter regis-
tration opportunities.
Students around the nation left class at
10 a.m. local time for at least 17 minutes —
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