Murder for hire suspect back in jail again on harassment charges

A Corbin man, who is accused of trying to hire a hit man through an Internet message board nearly two years ago, is back behind bars over allegations that could violate his bond conditions in both his criminal solicitation to commit murder case and his separate hindering prosecution or apprehension case.

The allegations were made in an arrest warrant for harassing communications taken out against Tristan Hall by his now ex-girlfriend Crystal Reeves.

Williamsburg Police Officer Arron Peace arrested Hall, 31, at 5:04 p.m. Monday serving him with an arrest warrant for harassing communications.

Hall was booked into the Whitley County Detention Center at 6:28 p.m. Monday. Currently there is no bond set in his latest case.

Reeves took out the arrest warrant, which was signed by District Judge Cathy Prewitt late Monday morning.

In the warrant, Reeves alleged that between Jan. 19 – 22, Hall sent her harassing messages.

Reeves alleged that after Hall was released from jail on Jan. 19, he e-mailed her, and later wrote her again on Jan. 21 in another e-mail, according to the arrest warrant.

One of Hall’s many bond conditions call for him not to use a computer while he is free on bond.

After Jan. 21 Reeves alleged that Hall started calling her phone telling everything about her, such as knowing exactly what she was doing and who she was dating, the warrant alleged.

He allegedly called Reeves several times on Jan. 22 and told her she could come over and do her work at his residence and that he had a computer hidden there, the warrant stated.

Reeves works from home on a computer, according to the warrant.

Reeves claimed in the warrant to have two voice mails from Hall on her phone and that Hall even tried calling her grandfather’s house.

During the last phone call, Reeves alleged that Hall told her if she didn’t come spend the night that he was going to press charges against her and send nude pictures of her to her current boyfriend, according to the warrant.

Hall was released from the Whitley County Detention Center on Jan. 12 on a $250,000 cash bond, which covered his felony case for criminal solicitation to commit murder and his misdemeanor case for hindering prosecution or apprehension.

Hall had been jailed for about one month at that point after a judge changed his bond conditions.

The attempted murder solicitation case stems from a Jan. 10, 2013, incident where Hall allegedly advertised on the popular website Topix that he would pay someone $5,000 cash for the murder of Melissa Jones Davis and the concealment of her body.
The hindering prosecution charge stems from a June 24 incident when police came to the Hall’s grandmother’s house, where he was staying, to serve him with an arrest warrant for intimidating a participant in the legal process.

During this process, Hall allegedly told Williamsburg police he hadn’t seen Reeves in three or four months, and shortly thereafter police found her hiding in a closet in the residence.

Both Hall and Reeves were charged with intimidating a participant in the legal process over alleged phone calls to the office of the prosecutor in his criminal solicitation to commit murder case.

The charges were later dropped because police didn’t present them to a grand jury within 60 days of Hall and Reeves arrest.
Williamsburg Police Chief Wayne Bird said that he still plans to present the case to a Whitley County Grand Jury after the special prosecutor sets up a date to do so.

Currently there is no trial date set in the criminal solicitation to commit murder case.

A Feb. 2 suppression hearing has been set in Hall’s hindering prosecutor or apprehension case.

During Hall’s last appearance in Whitley District Court, Special Judge Skip Hammons warned Hall that he better abide by his bond conditions once he was released from custody.

"Make no mistake sir, if there is any violation of these bond conditions whatsoever, not only will I put you back in jail but I will likely forfeit this bond," Hammons warned.