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2012 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Supreme Cinderella-Like Dysfunction Reigns in Gay-Related Lufkin Sibling Steak-Knife Stabbing

  published Feb 08, 2012

  ​Family dysfunction and domestic disharmony are kind of our stocks-in-trade, but this sick twist on a Cinderella story out of Lufkin shocks even us in its callousness. According to KTRE, on F More >>

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  Patricia Aguilar: Juvenile Probation Officer Busted for Blowing Boot Camp Cadet

  published Feb 07, 2012

  ​For one delinquent Rio Grande Valley juvenile, a sentence to boot camp was transformed into a ticket to a dream hummer holiday. Somehow we don't think this was what the juvenile criminal just More >>

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  Randy Travis: Weird North Texas Drunk-In-Public Bust

  published Feb 06, 2012

  ​It may seem that we're talkin' foolish, but Randy Travis was arrested early this morning, allegedly drunk in a car parked in front of a Baptist church in the Denton County town of Sanger. (Tra More >>

• Jason Abbott: Leaves Cocaine in Walmart, Then Leads Cops to Own Door

  published Feb 06, 2012

  ​From the sound of it, Jason Michael Abbott might not be cut out for this whole cocaine thing. According to court documents reported by KTRE, Abbott, 27 and from Diboll, had some kind of issue More >>

• Three Charged in Another Midtown Barroom Beatdown

  published Feb 03, 2012

  ​Hard on the heels of another Midtown brawl, three young men have been charged with felony aggravated assault/serious bodily injury after a December 20 beatdown at Celtic Gardens on Louisiana St More >>

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  PasDoctor Geronimo: Planned Courthouse Lawn Tepee/Tent-Residence Birthday Orgy Halted by Lufkin Cops

  published Feb 03, 2012

  ​Sadly, PasDoctor Geronimo's hoped-for 12-plus woman birthday orgy in a custom-built "tepee/tent-residence" on the Angelina County Courthouse lawn -- starring Cameron Diaz -- did not take place More >>

• The PasDoctor Geronimo Manifesto: A Presidential Run and a Birthday "Tepee/Tent-Residence" Orgy, Starring Cameron Diaz

  published Feb 02, 2012

  ​Hair Balls' old friend PasDoctor Geronimo is back at it this week. This time around he's not in trouble with the law. Instead, the Lufkin man, whose "white man's name" is Douglas Paul McCoy, More >>

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  John Goodman: Polo Honcho Adopts Girlfriend

  published Feb 02, 2012

  ​There are Rich People Problems, and there are Rich People Solutions. Credit Houston-bred multimillionaire polo patron John Goodman, the subject of a 1998 Press feature, not to mention the all More >>

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  David Keith Allen: Recently Remarried Former Pastor Accused of Killing Wife in House Fire

  published Feb 02, 2012

  ​The very best preachers are consummate showmen, able to sell you on the sincerity of their message with the utmost aplomb. 49-year-old David Keith Allen, former pastor at the New Life Church o More >>

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  East Texas Army Couple Victimized By Brazen Meth Freaks

  published Feb 01, 2012

  ​Just before 10 a.m. yesterday, Army wife Holly Burbank got a shocking phone call. No, thankfully, it had nothing to do with her husband Sam -- he is now safely back in Texas after a tour of dut More >>

• Melissa Rendon and Sabrina Pierce: Jailed After Christmas-Morn Hammer Attack

  published Jan 31, 2012

  ​Two women from east Houston's trailer-riffic Cloverleaf section are behind bars after they allegedly used a hammer to separate a man from his wallet on Christmas Day. According to a criminal c More >>

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  John Edgar Birdwell: West U-Bred Ex-Con in Trouble Again, This Time for (Allegedly) Stealing Jewelry from Sleeping Date

  published Jan 31, 2012

  ​ Let this be a lesson to all you online daters out there...Always run a records check on the people you choose to bring home, and if their name turns up nothing at all via Google, be afraid. Ve More >>

• Bad Reputation: Beatdown at Midtown's Saint Dane's Leads to Warrants for Four, Including Midtown Club Co-Owner

  published Jan 30, 2012

  ​Police are seeking four men after a wee-hours brawl at Saint Dane's Icehouse last month, and when coupled with some Facebook research, the whole affair reads like nothing so much as some twiste More >>

• Abe Fiszer: Houston Fire Department Captain Resigns After Kiddy Porn Bust

  published Jan 27, 2012

  ​According to a criminal complaint on file in the Harris County Courthouse, Saul Abraham "Abe" Fiszer, an 18-year-veteran of the Houston Fire Department, had been struggling with pornography ad More >>

• Daniel P. Morgan: New Caney Navy Corpsman in Camp Pendleton Brig for High School Bomb Threat

  published Jan 27, 2012

  ​A Navy corpsman stationed at California's Camp Pendleton will be serving several more months in the base brig after he pleaded guilty in a court-martial to one charge of unauthorized absence an More >>

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  State Sues to Close Midtown Convenience Store; Is City Trying to De-Funk Midtownr

  published Jan 26, 2012

  Acting through the Harris County Attorney's Office, the State of Texas is suing the Fannin Food Mart and the property's landlord, Jae Kim. The state claims that the property is a public nuisance and More >>

• George Mitchell: Huge Bond for Man Accused of Stealing 11 Pregnancy Tests from CVS

  published Jan 26, 2012

  ​At first blush, even for East Texas, land of high bail, $404,277 seems like an exorbitant bond for a guy who was initially arrested for stealing 11 pregnancy tests from a Lufkin CVS. However, More >>

• Texas vs Florida

  published January 26, 2012

  Check out our interactive website of the crazy-ass crimes perpetrated... More >>

• Douglas Paul McCoy / Pas Doctor Geronimo: Lufkin Indian Outlaw and K-2 Fan Debuts New Name in Court

  published Jan 24, 2012

  ​ Lufkin's Douglas Paul McCoy seems hell-bent on setting the record for most appearances in Hair Balls crime stories. Late last week, he made an appearance in Angelina County Court that would ha More >>

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  Roger Rouland: Creepy Ex-Baylor Lecturer Cops to Kiddy Porn Charges, Awaits Sentencing

  published Jan 20, 2012

  ​As Bo Diddley once famously sang, you can't judge a book by lookin' at the cover. Except when you can, we would add, which certainly seems the case with Roger Rouland. The former Baylor lect More >>

• Randall Freeze: South Texas Town Planner Cleared of Alleged Murder-for-Hire Plot

  published Jan 20, 2012

  ​"If it wasn't so devastating on my client's life, it's almost comic." So said defense attorney Arnold Govella, whose client Randall Freeze was no-billed by a San Patricio County grand jury th More >>

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  Billie Ray Anspach: Mugshot Hall of Famer Jailed After Allegedly Threatening Six People with Knife

  published Jan 18, 2012

  ​A Copperas Caveman Cove man is behind bars after police there say he threatened four family members and two friends with a knife during a Sunday morning disturbance. Police responded to a call More >>

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  Dwayne Porter: Tries Walking Out of Corpus H-E-B in Crustacean-Stuffed Pants

  published Jan 18, 2012

  ​ You have to admire the more stylish of our low-end thieves. Late last year we brought you the story of a guy who went on a penniless high-end dining spree in and around downtown, culminating i More >>

• Cover Story: Another Cop Molests a Teen Explorer, Central Texas DA Claims

  published Jan 17, 2012

  ​ A month ago, the Houston Press brought you an in-depth story chronicling how cops nationwide have molested dozens of teenage police cadets who had enrolled in the Explorer Program, which is ch More >>

• John Earl Compton: Mugshot Hall of Famer at Heart of Two Suspicious House Fires

  published Jan 16, 2012

  ​Hell of a way for a retired firefighter to spend his golden years...Police in the East Texas town of Alto say that 65-year-old John Earl Compton torched two neighboring houses last month. He's More >>