TEXARKANA, Texas–Bowie County sheriff’s deputies conducting a welfare check on Shady Pines Road earlier this month ended up arresting a man who was allegedly hiding behind a false wall in a closet with a backpack full of drugs.
Deputies were called to a residence in the 2600 block of Shady Pines in Texarkana, Texas, on Oct. 12 to check the welfare of a man who had not shown up to work, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Ricky Lynn Dodd, 49, was known to live at the same address but was not the man the deputies had been sent to check on. They were aware that Dodd had an active felony warrant out of Bowie County related to a 10-year probation he is serving for possession of a controlled substance…