Good morning, Houston. We just don't understand the entertainment juggernaut (or is it "juggernette?") that is Hannah Montana: Tickets to her Nov. 11 Toyota Center show sold out in five minutes Saturday, and now they're going for as much as $1,275 on eBay — granted, that's for a set of four tickets, but still, wow. The markup through eBay and ticket brokers has left some parents shelling out big bucks to give their kids...
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Well, here's something to be proud of: Houston's homicide rate is now the second-highest among large American cities, according to FBI figures released Monday. Keep in mind that this is the homicide rate we're talking about — Houston's was 18.2 per 100,000 residents last year, putting us second only to Philadelphia and ahead of Dallas (fifth place), which has had a higher homicide rate than Houston for each of the last 11 years. The numbers...
Police are still investigating a fatal shooting aboard a Metro bus yesterday that was apparently triggered by a passenger bumping into another passenger. It happened around 11:45 a.m. on the No. 82 bus as it was inbound on Westheimer near Royal Oaks Club Drive: "The suspect was on the bus making his way through the center aisle when he brushed up against the victim," HPD Capt. Dwayne Ready told KPRC. The two exchanged words, and...
A five-hour SWAT team standoff in Montrose early this morning finally ended just after 6 a.m. when the suspect, who had been holed up in a building at Montrose and Kipling, finally turned himself in. Police say the situation began just before midnight, when the suspect — 28-year-old Anthony Kroger — shot a woman in the cheek near the jawline; she drove herself to her home on West Gray and called the cops. When officers...
We rang in 2007 with a mixed message about Houston's crime rate: Though the homicide rate reached a 12-year high in 2006, instances of other crimes decreased last year. Today, thanks to KTRK's mystical Crime Tracker, we know a little more about exactly how those stats break down — and in short, things are better in the notorious Fondren/southwest district, but not so good on the east side. The Crime Tracker found that the Fondren...
Houstonist's grandmother once told us that certain unscrupulous people would stage automobile accidents to defraud insurance agencies out of money. So that's always been in the back of our mind — Grandma doesn't lie, after all – but we never heard of any real cases until we read the story of the 10 people who have been arrested in an elaborate staged-accident scheme. The group of suspects includes a doctor and two attorneys who helped...
The couple who called the cops the night of the infamous Two Gallants show at Walter's on Washington spoke to the Chronicle this weekend: Ryland and Scott Peveto, who own a Victorian shotgun house behind the club, say that the bass from Walter's is shaking their house — and their peace of mind. The Pevetos said when they bought the house a couple of years ago, noise wasn't much of an issue; now, though, the...
When you're investigating fatal car crashes and other crime scenes, we imagine the last thing you want is a camera that doesn't work — but that seems to be exactly what HPD is dealing with, according to a couple of news reports. The case in question is the death of Leon and Maureen Roberson, the elderly couple killed Oct. 18 when a speeding wrecker broadsided their car as they left Bible study at their northeast...
Despite recent gentrification in Montrose, many of the problems that have plagued the neighborhood for years — homelessness, drug use, prostitution — still remain. And despite residents' attempts to change things, Avondale still experiences incidents like the attempted bust by undercover cops that ended in gunfire Tuesday night. So what's ahead? Well, it's not clear. The foiled undercover bust was being conducted in response to a number of complaints about prostitution in Avondale, HPD Capt....
People in Acres Homes are claiming HPD has bungled its investigation into the murders of six young women in the area — a series of errors they say has left them afraid to leave their houses because they might be (a) killed or (b) harassed by a cop. Police should have told residents all along that there might be more than one person responsible for the murders, they say, and the cops should stop using the investigation as an excuse for intimidating the innocent.
Looks like HPD's crackdown of crime in and around southwest Houston apartment complexes is paying off — in the three weeks since the operation began, some number of people have been arrested and quite a bit of drugs has been seized. But thanks to local TV news, it's hard to tell just how many or how much. We do know that the sting targeted five apartment complexes on or near Fondren, Hillcroft and Gessner, plus...
Police have arrested a 15-year-old girl in the stabbing death of a teen boy Tuesday afternoon at a Montrose-area park. The victim, Gabriel Granillo, and two friends were attacked by 20 or 30 people at Ervan Chew Park in what police say was a gang attack; even though HPD said it believes the incident was an isolated incident, they're stepping up patrols in the area just in case. Meanwhile, more details are merging about the...
More than two dozen local middle and high school students were arrested today while protesting changes in U.S. immigration law. It happened on South Post Oak near Gasmer when police tried to round up about 80 students from Madison High School and Dowling Middle School. Some of the students ran into traffic, through construction sites and into an apartment complex, KPRC reported, and police ended up arresting 26 of them for breaking truancy laws. "We...
prostitution would take place. After all, these days it's getting harder to tell the hookers from the non-hookers. That's apparently the concern of some councilmembers:
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