Independent News Drop

KELI From Inkwell, this is the Amarillo News Drop. I'm Keli, with Hast.

HAST A man arrested here in Potter County on three child sex crime warrants. Jesse Mosqueda, forty-four, is in custody this afternoon. The Lubbock County Sheriff's Office brought him in on charges involving alleged crimes between 2017 and 2022. No bail information released yet, and Potter County District has the case.

KELI The counter on that: local outlets will likely lead with the arrest as a discrete event. The structural reality underneath is that child sex crimes carry long investigation trails — years between the alleged acts and the warrant. What you're seeing today is the end of that pipeline, not the beginning. Watch the next seventy-two hours for whether Potter County DA's office makes a public statement on the charges themselves — that'll tell us if there are multiple victims or if they're prepared to move fast. If radio and digital stay silent on motive or victim count, that's protective silence, not incomplete reporting.

HAST Smaller piece from Randall County: a man arrested Thursday after he was released from the county jail without turning in his uniform. Vance Hanson, charged with theft, a class C misdemeanor. Sheriff's office said video shows he left on October first without returning the county-issued uniform — same one he'd listed for sale on Facebook. That's a straightforward property case.

KELI Different front. The Texas Public Utility Commission is blocking public access to records on data center projects across the state. The Texas Minute reports the PUC is withholding energy-demand data tied to data center siting — that's power consumption, grid strain, and where the projects land. No formal public interest waiver has been announced. For the Panhandle, data centers mean high-capacity power draw and water. If the PUC is sealing those records, the region loses visibility into what's coming.

HAST Texas attorney general Ken Paxton used his state-funded security detail on nearly one thousand trips, costing millions in taxpayer money. The Tribune's analysis found his travel security footprint far exceeds his predecessor's and other state officials in comparable roles. No breakdown of which trips were official business versus personal is public yet. That's a continuing story on executive spending.

KELI Before we close, a history note. Hast.

HAST Forty years ago this week, The Phantom of the Opera opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in London and became the second longest-running musical in the city's history.

KELI That's the Amarillo News Drop. Full script and sources at inkwell.wiki/news/amarillo.

KELI Before we close, a word from Inkwell. Over at Gil's Intelligent Version there's a piece on what the original words of scripture actually say about the Trinity — before any translation decided for us.

HAST Six words, examined in Hebrew and Greek. It's at inkwell dot wiki, slash trinity.