South Carolina man sentenced to 5 years for harassment, terroristic threat<\/p>\n
Published 1:23 pm Monday, November 24, 2025<\/p>\n
Sentencing was handed down on November 17, 2025, by a Rusk County jury for a 37-year-old South Carolina man who tormented Rusk County dispatchers with threats, until his arrest and extradition in July of this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The jury was empaneled for the trial of\u00a0 Travis Andrew Halbert (CR25-262) in the 4th Judicial District Court of Rusk County, Texas, the\u00a0honorable David Hill presiding.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Halbert surprised everyone when at the last moment he changed his plea from \u201cnot guilty\u201d to \u201cguilty\u201d. He was charged with the felonious offense of terroristic threat, in that he placed over 70 telephone calls to the Rusk County Sheriff\u2019s Department over a three day period, some of those telephone calls specifically threatened the dispatchers answering the sheriff\u2019s phone, including their families. Another phone call threatened to \u201crain down hell-fire\u201d on the sheriff\u2019s office by firebombing the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The case was independently investigated by the Department of Public Safety\/Texas Ranger\u2019s Division. The case was prosecuted by the Rusk County District attorney, Micheal Jimerson and first assistant, Allen W. Ross.<\/p>\n
The jury assessed Mr. Halbert\u2019s punishment at five years incarceration in the\u00a0Texas Department of Criminal Justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The District Attorney would like to thank Sheriff John Wayne Valdez and his\u00a0staff for professionally handling this situation and also Texas Ranger Marlow for his\u00a0invaluable assistance in this investigation and prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Carolina man sentenced to 5 years for harassment, terroristic threat Published 1:23 pm Monday, November 24, 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-311430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}