A Karnes County grand jury indicted 33 individuals April 11 on an assortment of charges.

Four individuals were indicted on theft-related charges, five of the indictments were for assault, three individuals were indicted for sex-related crimes, and nine of the indictments handed down were drug-related.

Thethia Ann Lang, wife of Kenedy mayoral candidate Joe Lang, was indicted for evading arrest.

Kenedy police are alleging she left the scene of an incident in a vehicle and then failed to pull over when police tried to stop her March 13.

Lang had been involved in a verbal dispute with her son that evening. A complainant called the police department and an officer was dispatched to the location. Lang had left the scene, but then returned while an officer was gathering information, according to a police report on the incident.

"The officer then told her she needed to stay because he needed to get some more information from her. She proceeded to get in her vehicle and leave the scene," Kenedy Police Chief Duane DuBose said. "The officer had lights and sirens on and she failed to stop."

The grand jury also indicted Michael Janysek on charges of criminal mischief in relation to the March 2005 poisoning of cattle and other animals near property where he farmed.

Janysek was indicted on the same charges April 2 last year, but the legality of the indictment was disputed because it did not specify the owner of the poisoned cattle.

Authorities found several dead animals March 10, 2005, including four cows in a field along County Road 355 owned by the Schulz family. An investigation showed highly toxic wild hog bait laced with the poison "temik" was to blame.

County workers buried the corpses ten feet underground to ensure the poison didn’t spread further. Temik is a highly toxic agricultural poison that requires a federal and state license to purchase and apply and Janysek is alleged to have been one of the only two people in the county licensed to use the poison at the time of the incident.

Thirty-one individuals also were indicted April 11:

Timothy Rodriguez – assault against a public servant.

Willie Campbell – possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

Erick Cooke – burglary of a building.

Larry Hopkins, Jr. – aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Justin Janssen – burglary of a building.

Jeremy Vasquez – possession of a controlled substance (cocaine).

Elva Cortez – assault against a public servant.

Oscar Garcia – DWI, third offense.

Joseph Jacques – aggravated sexual assault.

Donald Johnson – possession of a controlled substance (cocaine).

Jimmy Martinez – possession with intent to deliver.

Matthew Mireles – aggravated assault.

Jesse Rodriguez – credit card abuse.

Rose Mary Rodriguez – possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver (cocaine).

Ramon Santos – possession of a controlled substance (cocaine).

Christi Valdez – possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver (cocaine).

Crystal Williams – aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Martha Duran – tampering with a government record.

Johnnie Deese, Jr. – DWI, third offense.

Adam Estrada, Jr. – DWI, third offense.

Guadalupe Juarez – DWI, third offense.

Helena Pena – possession of a controlled substance (hydrocodone).

Olga Salinas – DWI with a child.

Jonathan Zimmerman – evading arrest.

John Donaho – possession of a controlled substance.

Ray Martinez – aggravated robbery.

Santos C. Miranda – DWI, third offense.

Freddie Lee Bautista – indecency with a child.

Robert May – tampering with a witness.

Jesus Garcia, Jr. – indecency with a child.

Felix Salinas – burglary of a habitation.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice also presented several cases to the grand jury and obtained seven indictments for crimes alleged to have been committed in a penal institution.

Former correctional officer Adam Vega was indicted for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. The penalty group listed on the indictment for possession of the substance is between 4 grams and 200 grams.

An investigation led by the Karnes County Sheriff’s Department and two other law enforcement agencies worked to have undercover officers sell Vega the cocaine he allegedly agreed to smuggle to inmates inside the Connally Unit prison in Kenedy.

Facing first-degree felony charges, Vega could serve anywhere between 5 and 99 years if convicted.

Other TDCJ indictments handed down by the Karnes County grand jury were:

Tyson Stubbs – possession of a deadly weapon in a penal institution.

Victor Aguilar – possession of a deadly weapon in a penal institution.

Eric Range – two charges of sexual assault and one charge of aggravated sexual assault.

Jason Raney – assault on a public servant.

Timothy Longoria – official oppression.

Juan D. Garcia – possession of a prohibited item in a correctional facility.