FOUR ARRESTED AFTER BEATING, THREATENING TO KILL MAN IN RURAL GRIMES CO.

  

Four people have been charged in Grimes County with multiple felony offenses, in the midst of an assault and burglary case involving several agencies.

Shortly after 4:15 a.m. the morning of May 20^th, Grimes County Sheriff’s Deputies were sent out to a residence in the 12000 block of South Fork Lane in the Iola community.  The office received reports of multiple people involved in a physical altercation.

Investigators learned from witnesses that the victim had been brought to a pasture at the home, where they said he was stripped of his clothing, “intensely beaten” with firearms and threatened by someone holding a knife to his throat. Witnesses said the victim was forcibly put into a vehicle by his assaulters, who then left the location.

The suspects were located May 21^st in northeast Houston.  With help from Houston police, the suspects were arrested, who told investigators that the victim had burglarized one of the suspect’s home in College Station, one week before the incident.

The suspects attempted to lure the victim to an apartment to make a narcotics deal, then forced him into a vehicle and drove into rural Grimes County. The suspects were said to have beaten the victim, demanding information from him on the property previously stolen.

The victim was located by College Station police detectives, who said he had extensive head injuries.

Arrested were 22-year-old Carl Ray Holmes Jr. of Bryan, 21-year-old Sebastian Portales of Bryan, 21-year-old Chasiti Elizabeth Clark of Iola, and 18-year-old Naomi Lynn Durfee of Livingston. All were charged with Aggravated Robbery, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity, and Unlawful Restraint exposed with Serious Bodily Injury.

Clark and Durfee are still in custody, while Holmes and Portales are each out on bond on $85,000. The case is still under investigation.

Note: Not pictured is Portales, who bonded out of the Harris County Jail