Good morning, Houston. Remember the city's smoking ban, which went into effect in September? Well, so does KPRC. The station checked around and found something that will shock you to your very core: Houstonians are still smoking in bars and restaurants! No, . One of the bars Channel 2 visited was Henry Hudson's Pub on the west side, where reporters found customers and the bartender smoking — and "we even bought a pack of cigarettes out of a machine inside the pub," according to reports. We're just as surprised as you are — and as City Councilwoman Carol Alvarado is. "To be breaking the law so blatantly, obviously these people have no concern, no care, no sensitivity," she said. And no Nicorette, it would seem. KPRC reports that two city smoking inspectors have followed up on 228 complaints since the ban went into effect, which have resulted in more than 60 warnings and four citations.
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Wednesday morning HPD raided the Silve Trading Post, a Houston building supply retailer known as "Little Home Depot." Although owner Bernie Gonzalez has maintained that everything about her business is legal, she is suspected of selling stolen materials and running the biggest dealer in the city's building supplies black market. When pressed on the issue, Gonzalez said that she believes the materials that are delivered to her and then sold aren't stolen, they're just leftovers.
Houstonist hasn't heard much from former TSU President Priscilla Slade in a couple of months, and we were beginning to worry that it might be a long time before we got to enjoy another story of public officials going on taxpayer-funded spending sprees. But it turns out we don't have to wait that long after all: According to KHOU, folks associated with the New Caney Fire District had a good, old-fashioned spend-a-thon — on the public's dime.
Five members of a Houston-area family were arrested yesterday morning in connection with a theft ring that stretched from here to eBay. Cindy Jahanian, her daughter Krystal, Nicholas Johanian, Elizabeth Espree and Valerie Baker are accused of a series of thefts that involved changing prices on items at retail stores, then selling the items for full price online — and police say the whole process was directed by Baraham Jahanian, the family patriarch, who is serving a 12-year jail sentence for theft.