Email Author John Nova Lomax

2011 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Craig Seldin: Attorney Jailed After Temp Tapes Him Jacking Off

  published Nov 07, 2011

  One evening in the summer of last year, "Simone" was washing the dishes in her Memorial-area condo. When she glanced up, she was presented with a shocking sight: a man, one she'd often seen walking pa... More >>

• Jeremy Myhres: Genius Turns Simple Beer Wahoo Mission into Felony

  published Nov 02, 2011

  According to Nacogdoches cops, 25-year-old Jeremy Myhres walked into an area Chevron Monday night, picked up an unspecified quantity of bottled beer and attempted to leave without paying. When the c... More >>

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  Connie Shaukat: Fugitive at Center of Two Home Invasions; Three Bullet Wounds Didn't Stop Her from Wedding While on Lam

  published Nov 02, 2011

  Okay, this is a weird one. A really weird one, involving accusations of parents smoking weed with children, divorce and remarriage, divided families, indestructible young women, hand grenades, garden ... More >>

• Tony Giannakis: A Mad Check-Walker's Reign of Terror Possibly Brought to Close

  published Nov 01, 2011

  Antonis (or possibly Antonio) Lee Giannakis appears to like fine food. Unfortunately for local restaurants and himself, it looks like he doesn't like to pay for it. On September 20, Giannakis, 47, ap... More >>

• Mark Douglas Robison: MIT Alum Had Kiddy Porn on Computer, Cops Say

  published Oct 27, 2011

  After a raid on his home yesterday, Harris County Precinct 4 Constables have arrested 59-year-old Mark Robison and charged him with three counts of possession of child pornography. According to his ... More >>

• Ike Kievit: Asks for Fight on Facebook, Later Gets One and Goes to Jail

  published Oct 26, 2011

  Back in late May, Rockport tattoo artist Ike Kievit posted this on his Facebook wall: im spent and at my wits end if you know me and are up for a good fistfight tonite with no grudge reguardless of ... More >>

• Heights Burglary Ring Smashed; Four Area Youths in Custody & Their Facebook Bragging Exposed

  published Oct 21, 2011

  An alert area resident and diligent Central Patrol officers have taken in a quartet of Heights miscreants they say broke into four area homes on Tuesday. Police say Nathaniel Dean Cook, Octavius Demo... More >>

• Crystal Crime Report, 2011: It Really Is the Female Version of Wayne

  published Oct 20, 2011

  As is well-known, when it comes to crimes committed by men, Wayne is the name. Less well known but no less true is the fact that Crystal (including variant spellings) is the female equivalent. We fir... More >>

• Justin Delane Nash: Accused of Second Sick Crime Against a Child in 17 Months

  published Oct 19, 2011

  A girl's school journal entry has led to an arrest for an alleged sex crime. On September 23, a Lufkin schoolgirl handed in a journal to her teacher in which she had written, "I wish I had a better l... More >>

• Gary Robert Watson, Bentley-Driving Alleged Heights-Area Coke Dealer, Goes Down in Target Parking Lot Bust

  published Oct 19, 2011

  Up until September 16, Gary Robert Watson was living pretty large. He had the swanky condo in the Sawyer Heights development overlooking the Heights Target. Every day he drove a 2006 Bentley into the ... More >>

• Texas Invaded By SoCal Pimps

  published Oct 18, 2011

  Maybe it's the meltdown of the California economy. Maybe they heard about Rick Perry's alleged Texas miracle. Whatever the reason, the Lone Star State appears to be undergoing a plague of transplanted... More >>

• Robert Flores: Former Montrose Resident Busted for 2000 Rape

  published Oct 10, 2011

  DNA evidence and a photo array have cracked a horrific 11-year-old rape case, police say. In the wee hours of March 21, 2000, a local woman had just returned home from visiting her brother in the hos... More >>

• Lloyd Wayne Byrd: East Texan Arrested After Mooning SPCA During Raid

  published Oct 07, 2011

  Lloyd Wayne Byrd had 27 dogs on his ramshackle property in rural Rains County. He says he kept the dogs for the express purpose of annoying his neighbors. "That ain't fair to the dogs," neighbor Sam ... More >>

• Benito Apolinar: Like His Sad Facebook Updates, Or Else

  published Oct 06, 2011

  It's been a sad few weeks for Benito Apolinar. First, he and his wife Dolores separated after 15 years of marriage, and she took the kids from their home in Pecos, Texas, and moved them across the sta... More >>

• Dustin "Young Spliff" Aleman: College Station Teen's Diabolical Criminal Scheme Foiled By Lunch Lady

  published Oct 05, 2011

  A College Station teen was arrested yesterday after he attempted to pass off two counterfeit bills in the cafeteria of A&M Consolidated High School. According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle, poli... More >>

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  Eddie and Sharon Nichols: Prominent East Texas Cop/Pastor and Wife Charged with Sex Crime

  published Oct 04, 2011

  Authorities in the east Texas town of Marshall say a local cop / pastor and his wife, an assistant clerk in the county clerk's office, committed indecency with a child by contact. Huey Edwards "Eddi... More >>

• The Scene of A Fantastic Metro Crash: Conveniently, Near Lawyers' Offices

  published Oct 04, 2011

  At around 9 a.m., a dump truck headed eastbound on Capitol was struck by a southbound MetroRail train. The truck was knocked up on the sidewalk, where it came to rest very near the door to Ziggy's del... More >>

• Camera Holden, Kinte Garner: Dealing the Bright Blue & Pink Meth, Cops Say

  published Oct 04, 2011

  Police in northeast Texas have arrested two men and seized three pounds of unusual meth. Last Friday, police in the town of Canton in Van Zandt County noticed 30-year-old Camera Holden driving errati... More >>

• HPD Sting Snags HBU Cop with Coke

  published Sep 30, 2011

  A three-year veteran of the Houston Baptist University police force has been fired and now faces first-degree felony drug charges after the Houston Police Department caught him in a sting operation ye... More >>

• Eric Paul Morgan: Veteran Houston Robber / Thief Comes to Grief in Navasota

  published Sep 30, 2011

  After a short multi-county crime spree, including an armed home invasion in Lufkin and a bank robbery in Navasota, Eric Paul Morgan sits in the Grimes County Jail. He's already been charged with bank ... More >>

• Romanian-Sounding Family Charged in $1.6M Gandhi District Gold Heist

  published Sep 29, 2011

  Police are seeking four family members in connection with a brazen September 4 heist at an Indian-American jewelry store on Hillcroft. Police say Ion Miclescu, Ileana Miclescu, Mirela Miclescu and Con... More >>

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  James Edwin Durham: One-Man Lufkin Crime Wave Finally Brought Down -- Featuring Musical Mugshot Slideshow

  published Sep 28, 2011

  Check the musical slideshow of Durham's mugshots after the jump. It's been a rough year for James Edwin Durham. Since last November, the 39-year-old Lufkin man has allegedly burned his mother's hou... More >>

• Matthew Wayne Fuller: Police Say He Forced Six-Year-Old Girl to Watch Sex Tape

  published Sep 27, 2011

  If, as has been suggested, Lufkin is the weird-crime "Florida of Texas," then the Lufkin-adjacent hamlets of Etoile, Huntington and, last but not least, Zavalla are the "Floridas of Lufkin." Guys lik... More >>

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  Dick Moves: Houston's Street Art Community Fires Back at Obnoxious Campaign Signs

  published Sep 27, 2011

  If you've been living in Houston these last few months, unless you have a singular case of tunnel vision or are literally visually impaired, you are all too aware of the "Dick for Houston" campaign. ... More >>

• She-Male Porn Pics Come to Fore in Valley Cop Election

  published Sep 27, 2011

  A South Texas county constable election turned smutty last week when one candidate texted his opponent several graphic images of "she-male porn." Cameron County Precinct 4 Constable Robert Lopez was ... More >>