Man, this is getting repetitive. While the Rockets will never be mistaken for the 06-07 Cincinnati Bengals, this certainly has been a productive off season for law enforcement personnel when Rockets players are around. The latest player to run into trouble with Johnny Law is recently-acquired forward Justin Reed, who was arrested last night in Jackson, Mississippi for misdemeanor marijuana possession. Reed played for the Minnesota Timberwolves last season, and was brought to Houston in...
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Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom...
While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a...
If only everyone were as frank as David McLemore, the La Marque man who was pulled over for driving erratically on the Gulf Freeway on Wednesday morning — well, honestly, we're not sure where we'd be. See, McLemore was weaving through traffic while rolling a joint, and when the police pulled him over, he told them so. It happened just before 7 a.m. Wednesday when Gilberto Villareal, a Galveston County sheriff's deputy, noticed McLemore's car...
Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by...
Good morning, Houston. Ever been to Podunk, Texas? You have if you've ever visited the east Houston neighborhood of Denver Harbor, which was affectionately called Podunk during the Great Depression because it was then far enough east to seem semi-rural. And as of yesterday, thanks to a state House resolution, Podunk is the Official Mythical Town of Texas. Grady got the resolution passed by gathering 700 signatures on a petition and persuading the area's...
So here's a hint if you're trying to get away with growing marijuana at home: Don't leave a lighted joint in your pocket when the police show up. We imagine 21-year-old John Dominguez has learned that lesson: He was arrested last week after allegedly fleeing an apartment where pot was being grown in a closet, and the joint in his pocket probably put a big dent in his plans to claim that he never touched...
Good morning, Houston. Seems like it's getting harder and harder to smuggle a ton of pot around these days — just ask the 37-year-old Houston man who was arrested at a Falfurrias border checkpoint Monday after agents found 2,537 pounds of marijuana in the tractor-trailer he was driving. A border patrol dog sniffed the stash out as agents were determining the man's citizenship: He turned out to be an American citizen, and the pot...
Good morning, Houston. If anyone out there's looking for a show idea to pitch to MTV, may we suggest The Real World: Monsatery? Based on the statements of Hugh Brian Fallon, a monk from Blanco, The Christ of the Hills monastery would fit right in with the Real World drama: Fallon told authorities that fellow monk Samuel Greene encouraged sex among the monks, offered people marijuana when they were having problems and faked tears...
Good morning, Houston. Are you registered to vote in the May 12 special election? If not, you'd better get on it: Harris County residents must deliver their registration applications to a county tax office by 4:45 p.m. today or have them postmarked before midnight tonight. Remember, if you don't vote, you give up your right to complain. And we will enforce that. >> New organs, a new life: Maria Mendez, a 14-year-old girl, is...
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...
In one of the strangest stories to come along in a while, a Humble man is accused of having beaten a Russian traveler to death at a New Jersey Turnpike service plaza yesterday — apparently a random attack that police say might have been motivated by religion. The basics are these: Shortly before 12:45 a.m. Thursday, Michail J. Makarenko, a 75-year-old Russian who emigrated to the U.S. 25 years ago, pulled over with his interpreter...
There was an unusual twist to the story of a potentially drug-related shooting in southeast Houston last night: As a man lay dying in an apartment complex parking lot, bystanders apparently stole a bunch of marijuana from the crime scene. The incident occurred at about 8:40 p.m. at an apartment complex in the 5600 block of Selinsky, just off MLK Boulevard; a witness told police she heard gunfire and looked out her window to see...
Have you ever noticed that your neighbor's house smells vaguely of marijuana? There could be a number of reasons for that: Cheech and Chong moved in next door, maybe, or the house next to yours was stuffed stem to stern with marijuana plants. That turned out to be the case in one Hyde Park home where police found an estimated 1,000 plants in a sophisticated forced-growing setup during a raid Friday. It seems neighbors had...
Good morning, Houston! Two, four, six, eight ... yeah, whatever, we weren't cheerleaders. But those of you who were (or those of you who are cheerleader fans — no more needs to be said about that) should be excited to know that Houston is one of the finalists to be home of the Cheerleader Hall of Fame. We're up against Ohio, Kentucky, California, Florida and another city in Texas for the Hall of Fame,...
Last week we told you about the elementary school kid who got in trouble for bringing a grenade to school — but it turns out he wasn't the week's only pint-sized miscreant: At another Houston elementary school Friday, an 8-year-old was found carrying cocaine. Seems life is tough in Houston's third-grade hallways. Authorities believe the Scott Elementary student brought the cocaine from his house, where police arrested two people: Eladio Moreno, the kid's father, who...
Not everyone had a loving day yesterday. The Courier of Montgomery County is reporting narcotics officers found marijuana stuffed inside a heart-shaped candy box in a South Montgomery County home yesterday. Inside the box, officers found a note that read, "I thought I'd get you something you'd really like." Bianca, the Montgomery County Special Investigation Unit's drug dog, sniffed out the find, said Deputy Tom Thompson. "Bianca alerted on the door and ran straight...
Sad news from Pearland: On Friday, a 73-year-old grandmother was beaten and stabbed to death by her grandson, who had just been released from jail a few hours earlier. According to a neighbor, 19-year-old James Sawyer suddenly flew into a violent rage and began beating and stabbing his grandmother, Evangelina Sawyer, to death Friday evening in her home on Garden Road. Sawyer's brother said he tried to stop the attack, but Sawyer began beating him...
Sometimes, birthdays just don't turn out like you expect them to. If you don't believe us, just ask Nathaniel Jackson, a Texas City man who turned 23 Saturday — and got busted by New Jersey police for having 17 pounds of pot in his hotel room. Fort Lee, N.J., police say they found Jackson and his girlfriend Kimberly Burns, 26, putting the marijuana into bags in their hotel room. It seems the pair let the...
Texas has lost a legend in Freddy Fender, who lost his battle with lung cancer this weekend at the age of 69, at his home in Corpus Christi, with his family by his side. Baldemar Huerta, now known to the world as Freddy Fender, was born in 1937 in San Benito, Texas in "The Valley", the son of migrant workers. He made his first radio appearance at the age of 10 in Harlingen. Regionally,...
Hope we're not killing your buzz, Cheech, but your going to have to continue waiting for Mr. Weed to arrive. The Houston Chronicle reported early yesterday evening that an 18-wheeler load of marijuana was seized near Victoria on Monday. The vehicle was pulled over after highway patrol spotted empty Cheetos bags on the dash a burnt out light on the license plate. A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed a payload of over two tons...
This just in: Houston might have inherited its crime problems of the past year from some hurricane evacuees This also just in: It's really hot outside! Meanwhile, HPD is rolling out a plan to rehire retired cops for part-time jobs to help make up for its staffing shortage Judge Sim Lake has ruled that it's OK for Ken Lay's lawyers to substitute Lay's estate for Lay himself in court proceedings, the first step to getting...
This week in stupid (OK, actually last week in stupid) we have the story of the Conroe woman who needed money to pay a traffic ticket, so she allegedly sold some crystal meth to a nearby man Thursday — while both of them were standing in line at a Montgomery County courthouse. Police say Deana Ayres, 25, sold ice methamphetamine to Charles "Bubba" Groze Jr., 40, of New Caney while she was waiting to talk...
If you're the type to get up in arms over New York City's ban on sous vide or Chicago's outlawing the sale of foie gras, you might want to make a reservation for dinner Thursday at Noé, the swank restaurant at the Omni Houston hotel. That night, chef Robert Gadsby will serve a seven-course "Outlaw Dinner" featuring a variety of ingredients and preparations that have been, or may soon be, banned: • Morels, mushrooms that...
>> World: British health food stores will sell tea spiced with hemp flower syrup and THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. "Iced Cannabis Tea" is also sold in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. >> Nation: Another crazy poll verifies something we never expected. This time, the U.S. is the No. 1 patriotic country out of 34. Venezuela comes in second. >> Texas: The Supreme Court's decision to uphold much of 2003's...
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...
If you've been reading Houstonist for a while, you know we can't resist a good car chase story (no, really). And this weekend, there was another one: It started Friday night when Humble police tried to pull a driver over, but he took off, leading cops on a 45-minute high-speed chase that crossed two counties. Police initially tried to pull the driver, 20-year-old Raffinee Johnson, over on old 1960 at about 8 p.m. Friday. When...
Time for the confusing news lead of the day: A Texas woman wanted in Florida on marijuana charges was jailed in Alabama after claiming to be an attorney for a man arrested on drug charges, part of what authorities said was a pattern of targeting Hispanic drug defendants and charging high fees. Bear with us while we try to sort this one out. The woman, 50-year-old Carmen Saldana Meyer, was charged with practicing law without...
A jury sentenced Robert Porteous to 37 years in prison today for shooting an off-duty HPD officer last January A construction crane toppled over in northeast Houston this morning, injuring two construction workers and killing one David Tuck, one of the teens involved in the beating of a Hispanic boy April 23 was involved in another beating of a Hispanic man in 2003; he also gave an interview to KTRK, saying he was high on...
The price of crude oil fell below $72 a barrel today on news that demand for gas is decrasing A Houston judge ordered a Houston physician not to call herself a doctor anymore today after sentencing Callie Hall Herpin to 10 years in jail for writing hundreds of unnecessary prescriptions A Humble woman is being chased out of her apartment by swarms of bees A Fort Bend student died from a gunshot wound he got...