Subjects charged with Tampering with Evidence and Credit Card Abuse of the Elderly in Paris, TX

Paris Police Department Press Release. All are innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.

On January 11, 2025, Officers received a report of a lost and stolen credit card from a victim in the lobby of the department. The victim had allegedly dropped his wallet on the parking lot but had believed it was in his vehicle. Almost immediately the victim began receiving fraud alerts on his credit card as unknown suspects began using the cards. The owner and his spouse began attempting to deactivate the cards. Officers went to a local business where the card had been used and made contact with an employee who remembered the suspects and provided photographs of them from the camera system. They were identified as Tyler Dean Poarch (30); Adam Jeffrey Hurst (33); and Jeremy Travis Poarch (28). Information was received that the suspects had used the cards at the Choctaw Casino in Grant Oklahoma. The Police in that jurisdiction were notified to watch for the suspects. Later a witness called and advised they had seen the suspects entering the Paris Wal Mart. The three suspects were located by officers and detained. Some of the stolen property was recovered as well as further evidence including several types of illegal narcotics. All suspects were arrested and charged with Possession of Fentanyl, Possession of Oxycodone, Possession of Methamphetamine. Once in the back of the patrol unit, two of the suspects were observed taking pills that they had concealed on their persons and identified as Xanax. They were charged with Tampering with Evidence. Tyler Poarch and Adam Hurst were charged with Credit Card Abuse of the Elderly. All were booked without incident.