Grubbs denies Hellstern cover-up. Click here for the full version

County Attorney Joe Grubbs will have to answer for this:

Included in a gold mail folder that was handed to me before tonight’s Republican Party Executive Committee lies an incident report [Case No. 06-16721*2] dated Oct. 3, 2006 — that would be during the election for Ellis County Court at Law No. 2 that pitted incumbent Judge Gene Calvert, R-Waxahachie, against Grubbs’ assistant, Cindy Hellstern, D-Ennis.

Complainant: Complainant alleges on Tuesday Oct. 3, 2006, a white man in a “maroon Dodge vehicle” was masturbating; he was “fully erected and he was not trying to hide the fact that he was exposing himself.” Note: These quotes are from the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office incident report that I was handed – and the information was not redacted, but everything is spoken in context [sic]

Complainant a truck driver who makes regional trips to Seagoville, Forney, Terrell and other places (meaning he’s not from around here), wrote down the license plate of this Dodge four-door vehicle that he saw on the south-bound Interstate Highway 45 Mile Marker 263. The license plate: J25*NJT

That LP was registered to a Don and Cindy Hellstern of 400 W. Baylor in Ennis. Hellstern ran as a Democrat in both 2002 and 2006. She currently works for Grubbs in the DA’s office as a prosecutor.

Officer who took the report: Kenneth Hatcher
Officer (investigator) assigned: Michael Tobey
Offense: Disorderly conduct

Follow-up report #1: Daryl Spence (investigator)
Report #1 states:

This writer [Spence] attempted to contact the [complainant]. This writer left a message for the [complainant] to call this writer back.”

Follow-up report #2: Clint Tims (investigator)
Report #2 states:

This writer (Clint Tims #112) spoke with the complainant in this offense, [Complainant] by public service, phone # 847/804-6766 in reference to the offense reported. Writer asked [Complainant] if he could identify the suspect and the suspect vehicle in this offense & McDaniels’ advised that hecould. [Complainant] told this writer that the suspect was a w/m, mid 40′s or early 50′s, 220-240 pds., balding & was well dressed & he (suspect) was driving a ‘wine’ colored Dodge [four-door] Intrepid with TX LP# J25*NJT. Writer advised [Complainant]‘ that this offense was Class C misdemeanor, like receiving a speeding ticket & asked if he would be willing to testify in a court of law on the offense reported. [Complainant]‘ told writer that he was an over-the-road truck driver & that he usually made a run once a month to Seagoville, Forney, Terrell & Houston, TX, but if he needed to come down anytime sooner, he could. Writer told [Complainant] that this office would be back in contact with him upon further investigation into this offense. [Complainant] advised that he appreciated the call & would look forward to hearing from writer.

Of course, this never went to a court of law. In fact, according to investigators and defense lawyers who know about this case, this highly-sensitive report was quashed.

That, by the very definition, is a cover-up.

In 2006, according to the ECSO, Joe Grubbs’ office quashed and covered up an investigation into one of his top assistant’s husband for masturbating in his vehicle on Mile Marker 263 in Palmer on the night of Oct. 3.

This was at the height of the 2006 mid-term elections. Hellstern would go on to lose badly – again – to Calvert. But, had this issue gone out in the public beforehand, who knows the ramifications. Hellstern would have lost anyway, but still, it sat dormant until tonight.

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With that said, here is Trevino’s letter to the citizens of Ellis County:

[Editing only for spelling and grammar; all else is verbatim]

Mr. Dauben,

Sir, I want to thank you for writing to me and that God has put it in your heart to remember me and that the seed laid in fertile soil where it has prosperous by labor and prayers to God, who is able. (Exodus 2:23-25) where God heard the children of Israel cried out and their cry came up to God because of the bondage, their grooming, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.

The story of Joseph in Genesis 37-50 – where Joseph was first sold by his brother then falsely accused of attempt of sexual assault sent to prison, but God used Joseph to save many people from dying. So I pray that God will use me here to save people too and raised Joseph to [second] to Pharaoh in rank.

I have been incarcerated since 25, August 1995 falsely accused, tried by a specially all white jury who all had been a victim or a family loved one of a sex crime for a sure conviction. Defendent Vital Evidence withheld by Ellis County District Judge Gene Knize even when the judge outside the present of the jury acknowledged one of the main state witnesses Shawn Lankford impeach himself by a letter Shawn wrote to me on 4-12-1994 and proves Shawn fabricated his sexual assault charge against me. When Shawn filed his charge, it was in August 1994 after Patrick Lankford, his brother, had been filed “statutory rape” charge on a 12-year-old girl (Stacy Harris), who had been taken to the Waxahachie hospital emergency room for bleeding after having sex with Patrick for hours – no report on this was in court or the police reports which were taken at the ER room, nor the doctor’s DNA kit report, nor was Patrick Lankford an adult of 17 or 18 years old at the time when he had sex with Stacy Harris who was 12 years old. No arrest the police detective who had 4 1/2 years experience at the time as being in charge of crimes against persons and testify in court was Det. Billie Wiggins said that the reason she didn’t arrest Patrick was that no probable cause against this happened 4 August 1994 end at the tie of my trial 21 August 1995 after a year Det. Wiggins had not arrested Patrick but got Shawn, Patrick and his gang to file charges against me so Patrick would not go to court or prison! Patrick’s signed statement dated 23 Sept. 1994 where he first moved in my house was also withheld because it also proves that Patrick fabricated his charges saying he had moved into my house on 1st March or 1st April 1994; lied to Judge Gene Knize, withheld for a sure conviction.

Mr. Dauben, you got my permission to print this and any thing about my case and to talk wit attorney Udashen, 2301 Cedar Springs Road, Suite 400, Dallas, Texas.

Respectfully,

Robert Trevino

Notes from Trevino in margin: Shawn’s letter was thanking me, saying I was his homie and his best friend and that he should listen to me when I kept telling him good advice. But Shawn had falsely testified in court (see dates)

Editor’s note: the words “me” and “my” and “I” are in replacement of Trevino’s last name. For whatever reason Trevino used “Trevino” and not “me,” “my” or “I.

Q: Are you willing to be independent of County Attorney Joe Grubbs & County Judge Chad Adams?

In other words, can decisions, budget decisions and requests, staffing concerns and political-administrative decisions be made without the direction and influence of the county attorney or county judge?

Law enforcement works hand-in-hand with prosecutors, but to what extent is that “healthy?”

Your choices for Ellis County Sheriff:

GOP
Steve McKinney
Johnny Brown
James Ledbetter

Democrat
None

Libertarian
Mike Treis