Jon Matthews off the air, indecency with child alleged

Ft. Bend/Southwest Sun ^ | October 28, 2003 | Seshadri Kumar

[Ron H.]

Radio talk show host and Fort Bend Star columnist Jon Matthews is being investigated by the Sugar Land Police Department following a complaint from a Sugar Land family that Matthews behaved indecently with a child.

A source close to the family told Fort Bend/Southwest Sun that a complaint has been filed in reference to "inappropriate sexual behavior with a child by Mr. Matthews."

The Sugar Land Police Department would not elaborate on the complaint, but confirmed the investigation is in progress.

AM700 KSEV where Matthews, a Sugar Land resident, had a talk show in the mornings, did not air his show last Friday. The station's general manager Dan Patrick told this paper that he asked Matthews to go off the air pending the outcome of the investigation.

Following a media inquiry about the complaint, Patrick talked to Matthews. Patrick said Matthews understood the situation as he told him it would not be wise for him or for the station to have him continue the show during the investigation.

Asked about the investigation against Matthews, Fort Bend Star publisher B.K. Carter said she did not know anything about it.

"Whatever it is, I am with Jon until he is found guilty," Carter said, indicating she would stick with his column.

Responding to a request for the cover sheet on the case file under the public information statute, a Sugar Land Police Department official said the request would be forwarded to the attorney-general for an opinion.

Other than confirming that a complaint has been filed in the matter, nothing could be said at this time, the official said.

[gcruse]

evidence is no longer required to ruin somebody.

Hasn't been for a long time.

"Needless to say, the media coverage of the acquittal came nowhere near the volume devoted to the charges, the indictment, and the trial. At the close of the trial, [Reagan Labor Secretary]. Donovan turned to the prosecutor to ask that famous question, "What office do I go to to get my reputation back?""

By the way, the above was written by Robert Bork.  Sound familiar?

[Flyer]

So, when did you get Gilligan?

I didn't have Gilligan until after these murders.

Oh, wait. . . that doesn't sound so good.

[Ron H.]

Bev said NOTHING about Jon in her column this week, and Jon's was not printed.

I thought her play on her choice of words, ,, ,until he is found guilty ,,, was quite curious to say the least. Doesn't exactly exude confidence in Jon.

[GOPcapitalist]

Carter is a lying foul mouthed rum nosed piece of RINO trash so I wouldn't put much credibility in anything she says either way during this investigation. I'm hoping the DA will finally make up its mind and decide whether or not it is going to press charges. Only then will we know more on what this is really about.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

You were under a cover with a Texas Ranger?

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

<>I>but rarely attempts it.

Flyer better leave you alone ...... until you pay me those 144 beers you owe me.

[Dog Gone]

It's 128 beers, dammit, and I'll hire Flyer to reinforce that point if you force me.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

It's 128 beers, dammit, and I'll hire Flyer to reinforce that point if you force me.

Too late. Flyer told me he would collect the debt for 10% of the beer, thus he will prefer the higher count!!

[Dog Gone]

I'm a dead man.

[dix]

A young twenty-something African American gentleman alleged he had repeated sexual dalliances with Mr. Brandon at his residence in the Willowick Court Apartments located near the Highland Village Shopping Center in the shadow of Greenway Plaza. If memory serves there were also allegations of drugs provided in exchange for sexual favors.

[Aggie Mama]

Oh, that's just icky...... So, was it true?

[middie]

Is this story that occupies a central place in local Houston tv and print news?

[Flyer]

It was in the news for a couple of days when it first broke, but has since faded away.

[dix]

All of this happened years ago I think in the early to mid eighties, so my memory is a little fuzzy about all of the details. The headline was Brandon had a cocaine problem, but I think it became public because the young man was trying to blackmail him. There have been rumors for years in the local television community that Ed is gay. I have also heard the weather man on channel 2 is gay as well.