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From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits...
Remember Dan Duncan, the founder of pipeline company Enterprise Products Partners and the richest man in Houston? He's in the news again today, but this time it isn't for his wealth. Instead, Duncan may face criminal charges connected with a 2002 hunting trip in Siberia; it seems Duncan shot and killed a moose and sheep from a helicopter during the trip, a practice that's illegal in Russia. And though no complaints or charges were filed...
More on Garrett William Mallot, the man who shot a fellow passenger to death aboard a Metro bus back in March: A grand jury decided Friday not to indict Mallot for the shooting because jurors determined it was done in self defense. Details were in short supply when the shooting took place — all that was reported was that Mallot was walking along the center aisle when he brushed up against the victim, Otis James...
Wal-Mart has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a suspected shoplifter who suffocated in August 2005 when a Wal-Mart employee chased him out of the Atascocita store and sat on him in the store's parking lot. Stacy Clay Driver, the suspect, was believed to have exchanged stolen goods for $94 worth of store credit on a gift certificate; a loss-prevention employee at the store chased Driver and sat on him as he lay face-down on the parking lot, which an examination found to have caused his death. "One or more people were on his body and he couldn't breathe," Brad Frye, an attorney for the family, said. "This was a senseless, senseless death."
Some developments in the murder of Tynesha Stewart, the 19-year-old Texas A&M student whose ex-boyfriend says he strangled her, dismembered her body and then incinerated the body parts on two barbecue grills outside his apartment: Harris County sheriff's investigators returned to confessed killer Timothy Wayne Shepherd's apartment to look for forensic evidence yesterday. According to KHOU, police removed some items from the apartment, including what seemed to be a roll of carpet, and they used...
Houstonist has often seen the signs pointing the way to Fulshear and wondered what was going on out there — and now we know: Alleged carport theft! Seems Fulshear Mayor James W. Roberts has been indicted on charges of theft, official oppression and attempted official oppression related to a pair of carports that were removed from a resident's property. According to reports, the city was trying to get rid of the carports as part of...
More on the deaths of Leon and Maurine Roberson, the couple who were killed Oct. 18 when a speeding wrecker driver broadsided their car: Assistant Harris County DA Warren Diepraam says the wrecker driver, Sergio Gonzalez, had cocaine in his system at the time of the crash. Gonzalez hit the Robersons' car as they left church in the 11800 block of Wallisville Road; according to reports, Gonzalez was going 20 or 25 mph above the...
Can it really have been a year since Victoria Osteen's airplane tantrum? How time flies! Fortunately, we won't have to go through the 2006 holiday season without more wacky on-board antics. Unfortunately, Mrs. Osteen isn't involved this time — instead, it's a guy names Nboru Akao, who is expected to appear in federal court today after making a jackass of himself on a flight yesterday.
Three men, one from College Station (we're holding off on the Aggie joke, and you should too), one from The Woodlands, and one from Needville, were indicted yesterday by a Montgomery County grand jury on charges of soliciting sex from teenagers on the internet.
Former TSU President Priscilla Slade's grand jury testimony won't be unsealed so Slade's ex-assistant can search it for inconsistencies, State District Judge Brock Thomas ruled Wednesday — though a grand jury will be able to review the testimony to see if Slade committed perjury. It's not clear just what inconsistencies prosecutors believe might be in the testimony, but prosecutor Donna Goode said last week that "there's enough concern on my part to go through the gyrations of filing the motion." Slade, of course, is accused of spending nearly $2 million in university funds on unauthorized personal expenses during her term as president.
Harris County prosecutor Donna Goode asked yesterday to have ex-TSU President Priscilla Slade's grand jury testimony unsealed so Slade's former assistant can review it for inconsistencies — though it's not clear just what the DA's office thinks Slade might have lied about. "I think there's enough concern on my part to go through the gyrations of filing the motion," Goode said.
So former Mayor Pro Tem Carol Alvarado testified before a grand jury yesterday about the City Hall payroll scandal involving four of her ex-employees who allegedly helped themselves to nearly $200,000 in unauthorized payraises and bonuses — and the panel may hand down indictments in the case as early as tomorrow. Alvarado appeared before the grand jury voluntarily; the four former mayor pro tem employees testified last week under subpoena.
Two of the four former mayor pro tem employees who were fired this spring, accused of giving themselves nearly $200,000 in unauthorized payraises and bonuses, testified before a grand jury yesterday — and though we don't know what happened in the grand jury session, prosecutors said the panel will consider bringing felony charges of tampering with a government record or theft by a public servant against the group. "We're trying to get this thing before...
We were sitting around this weekend wondering what happened to everyone's favorite city councilwoman — no, not that one; we're talking about Carol Alvarado, who stepped down as mayor pro-tem after it was discovered staffers in her pro-tem office took $143,000 in unauthorized pay bonuses. It's been quite a while since we heard anything in the pro-tem case, but now, finally, there's some news: The four dismissed pro-tem employees and Alvarado herself will testify before...
Looks like ex-TSU Priscilla Slade's spendy ways will continue haunting her for a while: Not only did the TSU regents fire her last month, but today, we found out that a Harris County grand jury has indicted Slade on two counts of criminally misusing university money for her own benefit.
Had you been hanging around ex-TSU President Priscilla Slade's ex-house yesterday, you would have had the chance to see just what a $9,000 couch and a $17,000 bed look like: Moving crews began removing Slade's infamous furniture from the house, clearing out for new owners who are expected to move in today.
In a fully expected move, the TSU Board of Regents voted unanimously to make President Priscilla Slade's firing official this morning in an appeal hearing Slade requested but didn't attend, as we discussed earlier.
So Houstonist doesn't know much about committing a crime, but we do know this: If you're running from the police, you don't want to end up in an ex-police chief's back yard. That's just what happened to a burglary suspect in southwest Houston this afternoon — and yeah, we bet he feels like an idiot.
Local TV stations are reoprting that Mayor Pro Tem Carol Alvarado has decided to temporarily step down from her position after the results of an investigation into illegal bonuses and raises her employees took were released today. "I intend to temporarily … step aside from the office of the mayor pro tem pending the outcome of the grand jury investigation," Alvarado said at a press conference this afternoon. Details of the report from the city's...
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