Email Author John Nova Lomax

2011 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Lawrence Daniel: Expects Reward for Stolen Compressor, Goes to Jail Instead

  published Sep 26, 2011

  If you're gonna attempt a low-grade redneck ransom plot, you might want to make sure you don't have any felony warrants out first. That's what 45-year-old Lawrence Daniel of Corpus Christi found out ... More >>

• Three Houston Cops Accused of Eating Evidence in May Pot Case

  published Sep 26, 2011

  Man, the Houston Police Department is starting to seem less like a police force and more like the world's biggest frat party these days. Hard on the heels of the dismissal of one veteran cop for drivi... More >>

• Dinesh Shah on Trial Again: Assault Victim on Stand, Says Shah Controlled Mind, Beat Him and Blew Him

  published Sep 22, 2011

  Dinesh Kumar Shah, the violent con-man featured in two Houston Press cover stories from this summer, is currently on trial again. This time around, he's in criminal court answering to allegations that... More >>

• Cover Story: Did You Know the Fastest-Growing Gold- and Silver-Buying Company in Texas Is Run by a Three-time Felonr

  published Sep 21, 2011

  Less than a month ago, Inc.com ranked Houston-based Gold and Silver Buyers, Inc. as the eighth-fastest growing company in America. Since 2008, the company has grown from one storefront in the Copperfi... More >>

• Tommie Ragsdale: Loneliness Compels East Texas Woman to Set Five Fires

  published Sep 20, 2011

  Last week, Tommie Slaughter Ragsdale's life was pretty gosh-darned exciting. The 46-year-old Trinity woman was working in a command center as firefighters in Trinity County battled a huge inferno in t... More >>

• Ken Scripa: Massage Therapist Accused of Sexually Assaulting Client

  published Sep 19, 2011

  A Washington Avenue massage therapist sexually assaulted one of his clients early last month, according to a probable cause affidavit. Police say a woman told them that 53-year-old Kenneth Scripa gre... More >>

• Clarence Leroy Teel: Cops Raid Hospital Room, Find Well-Stocked Illicit Pharmacy

  published Sep 19, 2011

  According to court records, it all started on August 14 when a nurse at Methodist Willowbrook Hospital noticed that the patient in room 6412 was leaving a few syringes around. That struck her as odd, ... More >>

• Larry Gene Martin: Parents of Fat Old Preacher's 12-Year-Old Rape Victim Arrested

  published Sep 16, 2011

  Back in January, Bible-thumping Palestine, Texas was rocked by a shocking allegation against an elderly pastor who has been in the pulpit for over 50 years. Anderson County authorities claimed that... More >>

• Gilmore Cox: Lufkin Man Gets 35 Years and 20 Years on Separate Meth Charges

  published Sep 15, 2011

  Gilmore Cox had a bad day in court on Wednesday. After he pled guilty last month to charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of transport chemicals with intent to manufacture, An... More >>

• Cops Raid Northwest Side Barber Shop, Find Stupefying Quantity and Variety of Drugs

  published Sep 05, 2011

  My oh my, the Goodfellaz Master Barber Shop certainly did live up to its gangster-iffic name, if a court document Hair Balls obtained is to be believed. On August 4, a gang/narcotics investigation cu... More >>

• Luis Andres Cardona: Pawned Video Camera with Child Rape Tape Still in It

  published Sep 02, 2011

  Apparently at some point this spring, Luis Andres Cardona ran even shorter on cash than human decency, if that's possible. But how else is there to explain the fact that he pawned a video camera with ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  25 Signs That You Aren't From Houston

  published Sep 01, 2011

  Earlier this week Arturo Valdes was pulled over for speeding down the West Loop feeder road in the City of Bellaire. After finding "irregularities" with his registration (probably something other than... More >>

• Douglas Paul McCoy: Lufkin Man Jailed Twice in Two Days Over K-2

  published Sep 01, 2011

  We can tell you firsthand, that K-2 can be a monster... Two Angelina County deputies also found that out Monday afternoon after they responded to a welfare check on FM 1475. There they found 48-year-... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Are Houston Highways Patrolled by a Freelance Freeway Angelr

  published Aug 31, 2011

  One day in 1997, then 25-year-old Russel Gonzalez was speeding down the Southwest Freeway near the Summit when near-disaster struck -- he ran over a piston or something and his tire blew out. Gonzal... More >>

• Amanda Nabers, 25, Accused of Sexing Up 13-Year-Old While Leaving Own Kids Unattended

  published Aug 30, 2011

  A 25-year-old San Antonio woman is behind bars because police say she left her kids to fend for themselves while she had several sexual trysts with a 13-year-old neighbor boy. According to an arrest ... More >>

• Donna Gene Hack: Allegedly Caught Stealing UFC Shirts, Dust-Off Spray From Lufkin Wal-Mart and Driving Drunk with Child in Car

  published Aug 30, 2011

  While the good people of Lufkin were at home showering or eating breakfast and getting ready for church, Donna Gene Hack was allegedly up to no good down at the Walmart. Around 7 a.m. on Sunday, pol... More >>

• Paging Alanis Morissette: Lufkin Couple Joins List of Great Ironic Criminals (and Accused Criminals)

  published Aug 29, 2011

  Unlike the rain at Alanis Morissette's wedding day, this really was ironic... According to the Lufkin Daily News, police there have arrested a couple on charges of assault-family violence after a cop... More >>

• Cat Murders Again Plaguing Northwest Houston

  published Aug 26, 2011

  At least one and possibly two different cat murderers are operating on the city's northwest side. In a grisly reprise of several other similar killings in the Timbergrove area, one of which affected ... More >>

• Raven "Sugar Bear" Giacone: Lufkin Woman Busted for Posing As Lawyer; Met "Client" at McDonald's

  published Aug 26, 2011

  It all started earlier this summer when a Lufkin woman met 30-year-old Kimberly Raven Giacone at a local McDonald's. The woman had a problem. Her son was in prison and she wanted to get him transferre... More >>

• New Trend in Pill Dealing: Using the Homeless As Mules

  published Aug 25, 2011

  Did you ever wonder how someone could make a living peddling Xanax or hydrocodoner Sure, it seems easy to sell a pill here or there, but if you want to get into the longer green, you need to be able t... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  William Bass: Lufkin Man Accused of Molesting Teen After Forcing Him to Watch Him Masturbate to Porn

  published Aug 24, 2011

  Lufkin police have arrested a 55-year-old man who they say sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy after forcing him to watch porn. The boy told his mother about the assault on August 15. Police say the... More >>

• Montrose Thief Grabs Bag of Sex Toys; Owner Really Wants Them Back

  published Aug 24, 2011

  Dan Fergus spotted this poster today and uploaded his picture of it to Facebook. We have a number of questions for the creator of the poster, to wit: You really want to get these things back from wh... More >>

• Texan Couple on Real Housewives of New Jersey on Bond for Arson

  published Aug 24, 2011

  Shortly after their big debut on the Real Housewives of New Jersey, it has come to light that John Madison Holmes and his wife Jodi Sue might not get to enjoy whatever fruits their measure of fame mig... More >>

• Natalie Johnson and Jordan Lane: Sex With Teens Lands Two More East Texas Women in Hot Water

  published Aug 23, 2011

  What is going on with these rapacious Texas women and their alleged attractions to teenage boysr Two more -- one in Southeast Texas and the other in the northeastern corner of the state -- are facin... More >>

• Nolan Ryan's Five Greatest Off-Field TV Appearances

  published Aug 22, 2011

  On this date in 1989, Nolan Ryan whiffed Rickey Henderson to become the first and still the only man to rack up 5,000 strikeouts. With the Astros wheezing towards the finish line in their worst seaso... More >>