Email Author John Nova Lomax

2010 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• XXXL Bandit Strikes Again, Earns FBI Respek

  published Aug 25, 2010

  Earlier we brought you a tale of the biking brigands, two unrelated Huffy-rolling heisters breaking banks in far-flung suburbs around Greater Houston.Today we bring you the further adventures of their... More >>

• Angry Blue October Fan Appeals Our Ethics To Washington Post

  published Aug 25, 2010

  All these months later, and some Blue Meanies (as Blue October fans call themselves) won't let it go...Yesterday, in one of Washington Post feature writer Gene Weingarten's hosted chats, a reader want... More >>

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  Bike Bandits Plague Houston: FBI Seeking Duo Of Pedal-Powered Brigands

  published Aug 23, 2010

  At the outset, the situation couldn't have seemed more menacing. Right around the time they opened their doors this morning at the Capital One bank on Highway 6 North, a tall, lanky guy in dark clothe... More >>

• Ernest Goes to Jail: Accused Trailer Park Child Molestor Gets In Trouble Before Trial

  published Aug 20, 2010

  UPDATE: Ernest is going to jail for a very, very long time. After his conviction, the jury took a half-hour to decide on his punishment: life, twice: once each for indecency with a child by exposure a... More >>

• Five Reasons Your Facebook Friends Hate You

  published Aug 20, 2010

  It's true. Your Facebook friends all hate you. You don't know it, but most of them hid your sorry ass long ago. That's how it came to be that nobody ever likes or comments on anything you ever post. ... More >>

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  Justin Lewis: Katy Junior High Science Teacher Busted For Kiddy Porn

  published Aug 19, 2010

  A Katy seventh grade science teacher has been arrested for possessing and promoting child pornography, the FBI announced today. The cul-de-sac-land home of Justin Wallace Lewis, 40, was stormed yeste... More >>

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  Rio Grande Mud: Cops, Mayors and Judges Busted For Corruption, DWI And Whoring All Over Valley

  published Aug 18, 2010

  On moving to Miami during that city's Cocaine Cowboy heyday, a friend once described the place thusly: "You are nobody here until you are under indictment." As the frontline for the drug war has shif... More >>

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  The Reverend Randy Scott: More Details Emerge In Case Of Kinky Aggieland Pastor

  published Aug 12, 2010

  Yesterday we told you about Randy Scott, the Bryan-College Station Assembly of God pastor accused of coercing sexual acts from men he met under false pretenses on the Internet. (He allegedly posed as... More >>

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  Summertime Blues: MADD And Cops Gather To Threaten Drunk Drivers

  published Aug 12, 2010

  In what is now a time-honored pre-Labor Day Weekend/dog days of summer ritual, police and members of several anti-drunk driving advocacy groups gathered yesterday to stress what they claim is a multi... More >>

• Randy Scott: Bryan Pastor Accused Of Coercing BJs In Bizarre Perversion Of Chris Hansen's Stings

  published Aug 11, 2010

  rVery kinky crimes alert... Fifty-one-year-old Randy Scott, the pastor of Bryan's Bethel Temple Assembly of God was arrested here in Houston in connection with what is being portrayed in court docum... More >>

• Cat Mutilations In The Heights: A Sick Crime Wave From Last Summer Hits Hair Balls At Home

  published Aug 11, 2010

  rThis time last year, there was a gruesome series of cat-killings in the Heights/Timbergrove, River Oaks and Montrose. The cats were mutilated -- some eviscerated, others beheaded, still others quart... More >>

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  Larry Dressendorfer: Terrible Bike Bandit, Terrific Mugshot Poser

  published Aug 10, 2010

  Last Saturday, Richmond police officer Michael Hicks was dispatched to a high noon disturbance in the parking lot of Rosita's Bail Bonds downtown in Fort Bend's quaint old county seat. There they fou... More >>

• Notsuoh Hit With Lawsuit For Bizarre 2009 Falling Man Incident

  published Aug 09, 2010

  Last February Hair Balls reported on a bizarre pre-dawn incident at downtown nightclub/art space Notsuoh in which a highly intoxicated man allegedly fell out of one the upper floors of the building at... More >>

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  Brian Joseph Bentley: Giant Sex Offender Tries, Fails To Fly Under Radar

  published Aug 06, 2010

  Brian Joseph "Bubbers" Bentley is a big guy, and perhaps it's because he carries close to 400 pounds on his 6-foot frame that police tracked him down Sunday at Galveston County's Mainland Hospital, wh... More >>

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  Christie Laverne Hawkins: Bryan Woman Demands Dealer Upgrades On Stolen Truck

  published Aug 05, 2010

  Christie Laverne Hawkins might not be the brightest thief in College Station, but never let it be said that she suffers from a lack of nerve.Police in Aggieland says the 35-year-old Bryan resident not... More >>

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  Houston Slammed By European Travel Blog: We're Boooorrring

  published Aug 04, 2010

  Among world cities, in which category does Houston rank second only to Brussels, the capital of the European Unionr Tedium, at least according to the European Union-funded wiki blog OpenTravel. Ac... More >>

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  Dumb Counterfeiters Allegedly Strike Again: Garbage Men Crack Montgomery County Case

  published Aug 03, 2010

  Counterfeiting money is a real art. It's not easy reproducing all those watermarks, holograms, and color-changing inks, but some -- the real artists of the form, manage to do so. Others fail humor... More >>

• Pamela And Jack Wright: Houston's Pawn Stars

  published Jul 26, 2010

  We know we're a little late to the game, but Hair Balls recently became a fan of Pawn Stars, the History Channel's beer-gutted, blue-collar answer to PBS's effete, pinky-sipping Antiques Roadshow. (Wh... More >>

• Dan Shea: The Man Who Sued The Pope Not Mollified By Vatican's Latest Sex Abuse Plan

  published Jul 23, 2010

  "The Pope and the Vatican just can't stop showing their ass, can theyr"So asks Daniel Shea, the former Roman Catholic deacon turned plaintiff's lawyer who once hoped to put the Pope in a Houston court... More >>

• Coyotes In Montroser

  published Jul 20, 2010

  Back in January, we noted that wild predators -- bobcats and coyotes, specifically -- were becoming more of a problem in places like Bellaire and West University. In Bellaire, a woman used a motion-se... More >>

• Palma Garcia Marlen-Beatrice, 30, Bayou Body Count No. 181

  published Jul 19, 2010

  Back on May 13, 48-year-old Pedro Cueva-Ferman thought he had come up with the perfect way to get rid of his wife and get clean away with the crime, according to allegations in a probable cause warran... More >>

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  Joseph Michael Weeks: East Texan Accused Of Teen's Cough Syrup Sex Assault

  published Jul 16, 2010

  rAn 18-year-old man is behind bars in Lufkin after it was alleged that he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl who was incapacitated by a cough-syrup high.According to an arrest affidavit, th... More >>

• Nicole Ileen Murphy: Meth Stashed In Vadge Fails To Fool Persistent Cop

  published Jul 16, 2010

  A wee-hours traffic stop led to a slew of charges against a Montgomery County woman yesterday.Around 1 a.m.. Montgomery County Deputy J. Bergland was patrolling Newton Drive in New Caney when he spott... More >>

• Diana Davila Takes No Questions As She Resigns

  published Jul 15, 2010

  Diana Davila took no questions from reporters before or after resigning from the Houston school district board this afternoon.Instead she gave a somewhat rambling speech on her sudden decision, saying... More >>

• Bradley Prior: Don't Impersonate A Cop On The Jailhouse Phone

  published Jul 15, 2010

  Last Sunday, 21-year-old Bradley Pryor apparently forgot his Target card when he went shopping for memory cards and clothes in his native League City. Also his checkbook and cash, because he is allege... More >>