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Texas man gets probation for menacing trooper, EMS

Cases involving forgery, rape, burglary heard in Delaware County court

By Patricia Breakey

The Daily Star Online (New York)

DELHI, Texas — A Texas man was sentenced Monday in Delaware County Court to three years of probation on charges that he threatened a state trooper and emergency medical services volunteers with a shotgun.

Delaware County Judge Carl Becker sentenced Nat Jay Torbeck, 49, of Euless, Texas, after Torbeck pleaded guilty to four charges of second-degree menacing.

Becker said Torbeck threatened Trooper Douglas Marschilok, Fred Gartelman, Patrice Delameter and John Schebesta with a shotgun July 11 at Torbeck’s home in Middletown.

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