A Hubbard ISD school board member and Texarkana, Texas police officer, Zackary Gilley, has been arrested for two counts of sexual assault of a child and separate counts of indecency with a child by contact and indecency with a child by exposure.
The charges stem from the testimony of a teenage girl who rode on patrol with Officer Gilley as a part of the department’s Explorer program. The Explorer program is basically a mentorship program for young people ages 14 through 20 that might be interested in a career in law enforcement. It allows them to see what law enforcement officers do daily on the job and helps them make a decision on whether they want to be a police officer themselves one day.
The probable cause affidavit executed in the case and signed by District Judge John Tidwell states that the underage female, who was 15 at the time of the alleged assaults, gave sworn testimony of repeated inappropriate contact forced on her by Gilley while she rode along with him between January and November of 2024 as part of the program. She gave that testimony during an interview at the Texarkana Children’s Advocacy Center.
