Published: November 13, 2009 10:52 pm      

Indictments issued in child injury, assault cases

GREENVILLE — Several people received indictments from the Hunt County grand jury Friday for allegedly injuring or assaulting children.

A West Tawakoni man was accused of seriously injuring a child on two separate occasions in April. A Quinlan man was charged with allegedly molesting a child 20 times during a nine-year period. An Arkansas man was indicted for the alleged solicitation of a minor online.

Other individuals were indicted by the grand jury Friday for alleged thefts, robberies or burglaries, including a Commerce man charged with a reported armed hold-up in June, and a Greenville man accused of breaking into the local Knights of Columbus Hall in August.

In all, the grand jury returned 53 indictments Friday, including 14 charges issued sealed pending the arrest of the person or persons named in the documents.

— Christopher Scott Fried, 29, West Tawakoni, received two indictments for injury to a child by an act, with family violence and with deadly weapon findings. Fried was alleged in the indictments of striking, hitting or throwing a female child on April 1 and again on April 29, with the actions in each case causing serious bodily or mental injuries to the child. Fried’s hands were alleged in the indictments to have been used a deadly weapons.

— Phillip Randall Gullett, 49, Quinlan, received one indictment with six counts of aggravated sexual of a child, 11 counts of sexual assault of a child, one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact and two counts of prohibited sexual contact. Gullett is alleged in the indictment of 20 separate acts with a female child of less than 17 years of age between April 17, 1999 and Nov. 8, 2008.

— Christopher Lee Crawford, 28, Mena, Ark., received one indictment for online solicitation of a minor. Crawford was alleged in the indictment to have contacted a minor female child in Hunt County via the Internet on four occasions between Feb. 22 and March 6, 2008. He was arrested on June 5 of this year.

— Eddie Charles Hines, 24, of Commerce, received one indictment for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Hines was alleged in the indictment to have used a handgun to threaten another man in June while attempting to steal money.

— John David Sampson, 21, of Greenville, received one indictment for burglary of a building. Sampson was alleged to have been one of three people to have broken into the Knights of Columbus Hall in Greenville on the night of Aug. 30 and to have stolen bottles of alcohol. Sampson and the two juveniles were reportedly found with the alcohol after the pickup Sampson was driving was pulled over by the Greenville Police Department shortly after the reported burglary.