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Jon Matthews off the air, indecency with child alleged
Ft. Bend/Southwest Sun ^
| October 28, 2003
| Seshadri Kumar
Posted on 10/29/2003 4:55:48 AM PST by 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.
TOPICS: Extended News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: danpatrick; jonmatthews; ksevradio
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To: camle
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?
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posted on
10/29/2003 2:50:52 PM PST
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
To: Allegra
So, when did you get Gilligan?I didn't have Gilligan until after these murders.
Oh, wait. . . that doesn't sound so good.
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posted on
10/29/2003 2:52:02 PM PST
by
Flyer
(You get more with a smile, a kind word and a gun than with a smile and a kind word)
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
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.
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posted on
10/29/2003 2:55:14 PM PST
by
Ron H.
(I'm a RLCTX.net Conservative)
To: Ron H.
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.
To: Allegra; Flyer
You were under a cover with a Texas Ranger?
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posted on
10/29/2003 5:30:39 PM PST
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(PEACE - Through Superior Firepower)
To: Dog Gone
<>I>but rarely attempts it.
Flyer better leave you alone ...... until you pay me those 144 beers you owe me.
66
posted on
10/29/2003 5:34:00 PM PST
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(PEACE - Through Superior Firepower)
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
It's 128 beers, dammit, and I'll hire Flyer to reinforce that point if you force me.
67
posted on
10/29/2003 5:46:59 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone; Flyer
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!!
68
posted on
10/29/2003 5:55:12 PM PST
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(PEACE - Through Superior Firepower)
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
I'm a dead man.
69
posted on
10/29/2003 5:57:36 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Flyer
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.
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posted on
10/29/2003 7:01:08 PM PST
by
dix
To: dix
Oh, that's just icky...... So, was it true?
To: Flyer
Is this story that occupies a central place in local Houston tv and print news?
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posted on
10/29/2003 8:25:36 PM PST
by
middie
To: middie
It was in the news for a couple of days when it first broke, but has since faded away.
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posted on
10/30/2003 12:53:04 AM PST
by
Flyer
(You get more with a smile, a kind word and a gun than with a smile and a kind word)
To: Aggie Mama
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.
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posted on
10/30/2003 7:47:51 AM PST
by
dix
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