Remember Pedro Espinoza-Escama, the man who police charged with helping his girlfriend sell her two teenage daughters into prostitution? Well, if you happen to run into him on the street, you really should call HPD: It seems someone accidentally released Espinoza-Escama from a city jail early Friday morning. Oops!
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An odd story from HPD headquarters: Early Sunday morning, officers shot and killed a woman who lunged at them inside the building's lobby. It happened just after 2 a.m., when 42-year-old Marnell Villarreal showed up at the HPD building at 1200 Travis wanting to talk to an investigator. According to KTRK, officers sent her away because she had brought a weapon into the building before. She paced outside for a while, then came back into...
If you were anywhere near downtown yesterday afternoon, chances are you noticed the scores of police cars and helicopters in the area — and if you checked out the news to see what was going on, chances are you found out it was a manhunt at the Exxon Mobil parking garage. The whole thing started at about 3 p.m. at UH-Downtown's Daly Street parking lot, where two men took a 1997 white Honda Civic at...
Today, KHOU takes a cursory look at the number of people arrested for drunk driving in Houston and finds that it has dropped significantly over the last couple of years — from 6,120 in 2004 to 4,737 last year to 3,709 so far in 2006. A drop of nearly 40 percent is good, right? Well, maybe not. Houston City Councilman Adrian Garcia says one of the reasons for the decline is there are fewer officers...
We guess all the attention HPD has been paying to the southwest part of town is paying off: According to KHOU, the crime rate in the area dropped 32.3 percent in August compared to last August, even as overall crime in Houston fell 18.1 percent comparing this August with last.
Details are starting to come out about HPD's new chase policy, which bars officers from chasing minor traffic offenders who refuse to stop and gives them the option of chasing major offenders, according to the Chronicle. If you didn't know there was a new policy, well, you're not alone: KHOU reports that it learned about the policy change when frustrated police officers began calling the station last night — there was apparently no official word...
A judge ordered today that Ashley Paige Benton, the 16-year-old girl accused of stabbing teen Gabriel Granillo to death at a Montrose-area park June 6, will remain in jail because her attorney believes she's in danger. Today's hearing was the second time Benton's lawyer, Rick DeToto, has said Benton has received death threats and could be at risk if she's released.
If you have an outstanding traffic warrant in Houston, do we have some good news for you: Now you're 3 percent less likely to get arrested for it, thanks to the new computer system at the municipal courts. Seems the computerized document handling system has a glitch that means 3 percent of traffic warrants called in by police officers can't be verified, which means police can't make the arrests. The situation is a "minor problem," Sgt. Nate McDuell told KTRK:
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