Tarver is charged with misdemeanor false report to induce an emergency response, felony tampering or fabricating physical evidence and felony deadly conduct. He remains in the Burnet County Jail and has not had a bond set.

On Oct. 6, deputies arrived to Church at the Epicenter in Burnet after getting a brief 911 call, according to the Burnet County Sheriff’s Office. Upon arrival, deputies said a safety member told them two “suspicious” men were outside the church, and one had shown a rifle.

Jacob Wayne Tarver, 45, of Burnet County was taken into custody Monday by the sheriff's office after an investigation determined that Tarver had called 911 at 10:33 a.m. during a

A friend of the man accused of fabricating a story about armed suspects after firing shots near a Burnet County church is speaking out.

A shocking turn in the case of a Burnet County, Texas, church, where shots rang out on Sunday, has seen a member of the congregation's safety team arrested. The incident began after 45-year-old Jacob Wayne Tarver,