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Hearings set in CPS cases

Hearings are scheduled next week for three people indicted in connection with an investigation of the local Child Protective Services (CPS) office.
Brad Kellar

Hearings are scheduled next week for three people indicted in connection with an investigation of the local Child Protective Services (CPS) office.

Trials in the case are set later this month.

Pretrial hearings are scheduled Monday in the 354th District Court concerning the cases against Natalie Ausbie Reynolds and Rebekah Thonginh Ross and Thursday concerning the case against Laura Ard. The three were indicted by the Hunt County grand jury in September 2013 and all three individuals have entered not guilty pleas.

Jury selection is set for February 23.

Ard, of Rockwall, received one indictment for tampering with physical evidence. Reynolds, of Fate, received three indictments for official oppression and one indictment for tampering with/fabricating physical evidence. Ross, of Greenville, received four indictments for official oppression and one indictment for tampering with/fabricating physical evidence.

The charges allege all three acted together to use a false document in the investigation of the mother of slain Greenville teenager Alicia Moore and that Ross and Reynolds conducted unlawful searches and/or seizures in connection with CPS investigations.