December 15, 2020
By: Dwayne Page
A Smithville woman who admitted to stealing roses from a grave has been cited for misdemeanor theft under $1,000.
39 year old Sherri Gunter of Jacobs Pillar Road will appear in General Sessions Court January 21.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on December 2 his office received a report that someone had stolen flowers from a grave at DeKalb Cemetery on Highway 56. The deceased had just been buried shortly before the theft and family members noticed the roses were gone and reported it.
During an investigation Gunter was questioned and she admitted to taking the roses from the grave.
32 year old Steffanie Renee Thomas of Crestview Drive, Smithville is charged with domestic assault. Her bond is $3,500.
Sheriff Ray said that on December 11 a deputy responded to Crestview Drive due to a physical domestic. Upon arrival the officer spoke with Thomas who said that she and her husband had been arguing and that she had slapped him in the face cutting his lip. After shoving him into the shower, he got up and grabbed Thomas by the throat before shoving her into a wall. Thomas again shoved her husband and he then grabbed her around the neck. Thomas was determined to have been the primary aggressor.