Grand Jury Indicts Eight Men for Crimes Against Children

Eight men were indicted by a Tom Green County grand jury this month on charges pertaining to crimes against children.

Of those, six were busted during a weeklong investigation conducted in December by the Texas Department of Public Safety and the SAPD’s Special Operations Section. An additional three were jailed after the operation, however they have not yet been indicted.

The remaining two indicted this month were men in their 20s accused of having sexual relations with teenage girls.

Below are the men indicted this month, and descriptions of their charges.

Thomas Miguel Cuellar

A 21-year-old male who picked up a 14-year-old runaway in Denton has been charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child sexual contact, after the girl’s grandfather filed a missing person’s report.

According to a complaint filed with the case, Thomas Miguel Cuellar drove from San Angelo to Denton on Friday, Dec. 5 and picked up the teenager from school. The two stayed the night in a motel that night in Denton, before driving on to Dallas the next day, where they spent the night in the car.

From Dallas, Cuellar drove the 14-year-old down to San Angelo, where they continued to live in the car at various locations, including Twin Buttes. When the girl’s grandfather received a call from the school that Monday stating she was not present, he filed a missing person’s report. The victim had told her grandfather she was staying the weekend at a friend’s house.

Denton police contacted  San Angelo police and notified them that they believed the girl might be living with Cuellar locally. When police showed up at Cuellar’s residence in the 700 block of Antonio St., the girl was with him in his bedroom.

Cuellar was arrested other charges and waived his rights while in custody, admitting that he knew the girl was 14 when he went to pick her up and confessing to having sexual relations from Denton to San Angelo on multiple occasions.

Cuellar is still in jail, and faces 2-20 years if convicted of any of the charges.

Joshua Gene Fulton

A relationship between a 23-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl came to an abrupt end on Feb. 11, when Joshua Gene Fulton was jailed for a second-degree felony charge of sexual assault of a child.

Court records indicate that the sexual assault took place on Oct. 17. Sources indicate that Fulton was involved in an intimate relationship for over five months, and that the teenage girl is currently pregnant with his child.

If convicted, Fulton could face 2-20 years in prison for the charge.

 

James Britton Hoy

A 50-year-old San Angelo man sent undercover DPS agents posing as a 14-year-old girl a picture of his penis on Dec. 12, asking via text message, “U want that”, before writing further sexually explicit messages.

“Hoy offered to make arrangements to pick up said [14-year-old] female and asked if said female would [give and receive oral sex],’” the complaint states.

When agents executed a search warrant on his residence the next day, they located a baggie containing .03 grams of meth on the floor in plain sight in one of the bedrooms. He was jailed for possession, online solicitation of a minor and for sale, distribution or display of harmful material to a minor.

He has been indicted on both the possession and the online solicitation charge.

 

Stephen Paul Marburger

A 40-year-old San Angelo man confessed he was planning on picking up a 14-year-old girl and taking her out to the lake for sex, after traveling to a pre-determined location set up by a TxDPS agent.

Stephen Paul Marburger had been sending sexually explicit messages to the agent online describing what he’d like to do when they met, the whole time under the impression that the agent was actually a teenage girl.

Marburger was arrested for online solicitation of a minor on Dec. 13 and posted a $30k surety bond that same day. He has been charge with third-degree felony online solicitation of a minor, however his charge has been enhanced to a second-degree felony due to a prior conviction. If convicted, he could face 2-20 years in prison.

David Keith Kiser

David Keith Kiser, 53, thought he was talking to a 14-year-old girl when he went online on Dec. 11 at approximately 8:21 p.m. and agreed to meet for sexual favors.

As the “girl”, who was really a TxDPS agent posing as a teenager online, told him she was 14, Kiser continued to send messages detailing the explicit sexual acts he wanted to perform on her when they met.

Agents set up a location to meet the online predator, and when he was taken into custody, Kiser admitted to having sent every text message and email, and stated that he knew the girl was 14 and his intention was to meet to engage in sexual intercourse.

Kiser was booked into the county jail on one count of online solicitation of a minor, a third-degree felony. He bonded out two days later.

If convicted, Kiser faces 2-10 confinement in prison.

David Ernest Garcia

On Dec. 12, 44-year-old David Ernest Garcia was picked up by the TxDPS and booked into the county jail on one count of online solicitation of a minor as part of a weeklong sting conducted by agents of the TxDPS and the SAPD’s Special Operations Section.

He remained in jail until Dec. 15, when he posted a $30k surety bond.

Terry Lynn Freeman

Terry Lynn Freeman, 44, was jailed for online solicitation of a minor on Dec. 8, as part of a weeklong sting conducted by agents of the TxDPS and the SAPD’s Special Operations Section.

Freeman remained in jail until Dec. 15, when he posted a $50k surety bond and was released. If convicted, he faces 2-10 years in prison.

David Keith Pullin

On Dec. 13, David Keith Pullin, 48, was booked into the Tom Green County Jail on one count of online solicitation of a minor under 14, as part of a weeklong sting conducted by agents of the TxDPS and the SAPD’s Special Operations Section.

Pullin bonded out the same day, posting a $30k surety bond. He was indicted in February for third-degree online solicitation of a minor, and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. He has no prior arrest record.