Two arrested in Leander sex sting

By SCOTT COLEMAN
Four Points News

Two men were arrested at a public park in Leander this month during separate incidents set up by police to catch online child predators.

According to official documents, Johnny Cummings of Round Rock was arrested and charged with soliciting a minor online for sex on July 18 when he arrived at a sports field in Leander expecting to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

Police had corresponded with Cummings, 44, over a period of several weeks, during which Cummings allegedly sent numerous sexually explicit messages. According to the affidavit, Cummings admitted to sexually explicit correspondence with a person he beleived to be a 14-year-old girl.

Johnny Cummings

Jason Ray Scott

Police also arrested 33-year-old Jason Ray Scott of Winnsboro, which is a small town located East of Dallas, on July 25 on the same charges. Police records indicate the same officers were involved in Scott’s arrest, and that the same sting operation was used to ensnare the second man. Continue reading →

July 31 2013 Issue

Local Dance Institute dancers win national titles

Dance Institute Performance Academy and Street Heat won national titles again.

At Stage One Nationals in Arlington, Tex. early this month, Street Heat Hip Hop team took the National Championship for Beta and Dance Institute Performance Academy took the national title for Passage.

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3M supports road to Vandegrift, local lawmakers support its safety

By RICH KEITH
Four Points News

Leander Independent School District received a copy of an official letter recently supporting their cause for an access road to Vandegrift High School according to the Four Points Traffic Committee.

The letter, dated June 27, was written by executives from 3M and whose property adjoins the area in question and was directed to members of the Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan Coordinating Committee. This committee is headed by the mayor and several commissioners.

“Leander ISD is in receipt of a letter from 3M to Commissioner Daugherty and Mayor Leffingwell supporting our plans and advising no other solution exists,” the FPTC said in a statement.

“This was an important endorsement to receive and the Traffic Committee thanks 3M for supporting our plans and being our partner.”

The FPTC is “committed to protecting our community, our students, and our environment” by planning and building a secondary access road from Vandegrift HS and Four Points MS campus to the intersection of River Place Boulevard and Four Points Drive.

The committee says the access road would divert some of the 6,000 trips a day from RM 2222 and McNeil Drive and provide essential emergency access and a secondary evacuation route.