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New charge leveled at man convicted of tampering in connection Sheryia Grant disappearance

Allen Lamont Sutton Jr., 29, of Overton was being held Thursday in the Rusk County Jail on $750,000 bond attached to a charge of solicitation to commit capital murder, online records show.

Credit: Gregg County judicial records

RUSK COUNTY, Texas — Kilgore police have leveled a murder solicitation charge against a man who previously was convicted of evidence tampering in the 2016 disappearance of Sheryia Grant.

Allen Lamont Sutton Jr., 29, of Overton was being held Thursday in the Rusk County Jail on $750,000 bond attached to a charge of solicitation to commit capital murder, online records show.

A jury previously handed Sutton a 10-year sentence, the maximum, on a charge of tampering with physical evidence in relation to the crime, Rusk County District Attorney Micheal Jimerson wrote in a public statement last week.

Kilgore PD is searching for 20-year-old Sheryia Grant after she went missing. (Photo: Kilgore PD)

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