HARDIN COUNTY, Texas — A Lumberton man initially arrested in Jasper County is now being held in the Hardin County Jail, where he faces new felony kidnapping and assault charges tied to a separate case from 2024.

Remington Duvall Boykin, 26, was arrested Sunday, Aug. 31, in Jasper County after deputies say he assaulted a woman and injured a 3-month-old child in the Tiger Creek community. At that time, he was booked into the Jasper County Jail on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, injury to a child with criminal negligence, and interfering with an emergency request for assistance. He was also wanted out of Jefferson County on a felony warrant for tampering with a government record.

Boykin was initially in the Jasper County Jail, but has since been transferred to the Hard

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