Category Archives: Crime News

Texas Driver Responsibility Surcharge Nightmare: DPS Isn’t Following the New Law

Effective September 1, 2011, a new law went into effect here in Texas designed to help lots of folk convicted of a moving traffic violation, by changing the old law that required everyone who got a traffic ticket (including DWI) to pay a Driver Responsibility surcharge. For details, check out our post back in August…


Texas Jail Guard Convicted of Sneaking Hacksaw Blade to Inmate Inside Taco, Makes News Worldwide

A San Antonio jail guard named Alfred Casas, three years on the job, took his chances with a jury this week and ended up convicted yesterday of (1) two counts of bribery, and (2) one count of providing an inmate with escape elements. Each bribery count is a felony carrying a possible 2 to 20…


Psychic Had Liberty County Cops, Texas Rangers, FBI and Media Searching for Nonexistent Mass Grave Site But Won’t Be Arrested For Goose Chase

Last week, down in Hardin, Texas, dust was flying as cop cars driven by local police, county law enforcement and even the illustrious Texas Rangers and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were racing to Liberty County after word got out that a rural dwelling outside of town might house the bodies of dozens of missing…


Ex El Paso Medical Examiner’s Doctored Resume Gets Him Fired But Texas Medical Board Rules Dr. Paul Shrode Was Qualified For the Job

Dr. Paul Shrode was the Chief Medical Examiner for El Paso for five years, until he was fired in 2010 after a controversy arose about his background and whether or not the errors on his resume (discovered and reported by the local ABC television channel, ABC-7) meant that Dr. Shrode did not have the proper…


Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court Against 3 Texas Cops By Family of Jamaal Valentine

Federal District Judge Kenneth Hoyt of the United States District Court of the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, is presiding over a new lawsuit, just filed in the Galveston federal court as Case No. 3:11-cv-00229, by the loved ones of Jamaal Valentine (Angela Butler, Joslynn Terrell, and Crystal Truitt) for justice in the death…


Texas Border Danger: New Website Invites Your Video, EMails Documenting Lack of Law Enforcement in South Texas

The Department of Agriculture has put up a website, ProtectYourTexasBorder, where anyone is invited to upload photographs, videos, or email their own personal stories about how dangerous it really is down there near the border between Texas and Mexico. And by near the border, we mean anytime you get around 90 miles (or an hour…


Great Texas Warrant Round-Up 2011 Starts on March 5 – Take Care of Your Outstanding Warrant Now

Once again it’s time for Texas law enforcement to try and clean their desks of outstanding arrest warrants by holding the state-wide Great Texas Warrant Roundup.  This will be the 5th year that Texas has done this, and this year over 240 jurisdictions (counties, municipalities, etc.) are involved.  What is the Great Texas Warrant Roundup?  This…


Police Brutality Videos Released: Texas Police Beatings and the Public Outcry in Houston

Beatings by police officers are not new; the new twist to this old story is how modern technology is giving us all a bird’s eye view of what cops can, and will, do to victims unable to defend themselves against assaults that often cause serious injuries and even death.  We’ve posted information and videos about…


Texas Cops To Get Cameras on Their Heads: Now Will We See Even More Bad Acts than Dashcams Have Revealed?

Within the next 60 days, Austin police officers on foot and bike patrols will be participating in a national study on the effectiveness of having law enforcement wear little video cameras on their heads. That’s right: they will have little tiny web cabs on their caps or hats — or attached to their ears, like…


Brownsville DA Gets WorldWide Media Coverage 4 Using Facebook Profiles in Jury Selection Process

Armando Villalobos, Cameron County’s District Attorney, is making news all around the country and across the globe from his office down in Brownsville, Texas — all because Mr Villalobos has decided to use Facebook as part of his jury selection. That’s right:  the District Attorney has announced that prosecutors down in Brownsville are going to use Facebook pages…