Email Author John Nova Lomax

2012 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• John Carl Arabie, Jr.: Judge Won't Let Murderer Wear Pimp Coat to Sentencing

  published Nov 16, 2012

  Yesterday a Waco jury sentenced John Carl Arabie Jr. to life in prison for the October 2011 killing of 74-year-old David Loyd Sanders. After insisting on appearing in shackles and black-and-white-str... More >>

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  The Bizarre Christian Sex Cult Death of Bethany Leidlein Deaton

  published Nov 15, 2012

  A young Arlington woman is dead and her husband along with several other members of her secretive prayer group are suspected of raping her, then killing her and trying to make it look like a suicide. ... More >>

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  Mad at Your Boyfriend's Eighth Grade Sonr Why Not Plant a Gun in His Backpack and Send Him to Schoolr

  published Nov 15, 2012

  A gun scare at a junior high school earlier this month apparently was not the brainstorm of a disturbed teen, but instead the twisted revenge scheme of his father's girlfriend. According to the Montg... More >>

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  Local Woman Poses as Teen Girl Online to Catch Alleged Facebook Predator

  published Nov 14, 2012

  Acccording to court documents, "Jessica," a 36-year-old Houston-area woman was creeped out by an acquaintance of hers, 26-year-old Daniel Riekstins of Webster. Jessica had heard that Riekstins's beh... More >>

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  Rick Perry Should Pee in a Cup if the Poor Have to for Benefits, State Rep Joe Deshotel Says

  published Nov 14, 2012

  Texas Senate Bill 11 aims to make drug-testing mandatory for all applicants to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. If applicants pee dirty, they would be ineligible to reapply for one... More >>

• Cover Story: Mine Fields: Injured Iraq / Afghanistan Contractors Fight to Get Compensated for War Wounds

  published Nov 14, 2012

  In the summer and fall of 2004, 58-year-old William Manning was working east of the Green Zone in Iraq. As a labor foreman, Manning, a marine Vietnam vet, was overseeing and escorting other civilian c... More >>

• Chupacabras, Assault Rifles, and Busting Facebragging Hunters: True Texas Game Warden Adventures

  published Nov 13, 2012

  Among crime blotters in the state, two of the best belong to the Lufkin Daily News and the Wise County Messenger. But those are both private sector news sources. Our favorite "socialist" crime blotte... More >>

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  Alleged Election Night Domestic Assault Has Local Attorney and Obama Fan Facing Felony Charge

  published Nov 12, 2012

  An alleged domestic assault on election night has a local defense attorney and marine Iraq vet facing a felony family violence charge. According to court records, David Christopher Hesse was drinking... More >>

• Pasadena Walmart Employee Swipes Customer's Debit Card, Uses It at Same Store

  published Nov 09, 2012

  Buddy Olvera might want to try some other career. This whole crime thing doesn't seem to be working out for the (now) former Walmart employee. Not even the Eye of Sauron takes in more than Walmart's ... More >>

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  Rockport Meth Trailer Yields Strong Ice; Pit Bull Killed in Raid

  published Nov 09, 2012

  A pit bull is dead and three people have been arrested after a police raid on a Rockport meth house. According to KIII-TV, police found more than $1,000 and eight grams of high-grade ice hidden in an... More >>

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  Oklahoma Po-Po Busts Three-Year-old Taking a Public Pee-Pee; Mom Fined Price of Used Car

  published Nov 08, 2012

  A Piedmont, Oklahoma cop caught a three-year-old boy peeing in his own front yard and brought down the hammer. The cop wrote little Dillan's mother Ashley Warden a citation for public urination, and t... More >>

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  Billy Wayne Ebarb: Short Jail Term for Latest Chapter in 30-Year Brotherly Feud

  published Nov 06, 2012

  "He and his brother have been fighting for 30 years. They don't talk to each other. They just act irrational." So said an Angelina County cop to KTRE. "He" in this case is 50-year-old Billy Wayne Eba... More >>

• Glitches Galore: Galveston County Parties Ask Judge to Keep Polls Open Late

  published Nov 06, 2012

  CLICK on the above chart and get up to the minute voting returns throughout today. Galveston County is one of five Texas jurisdictions to allow "voting centers," in which voters are allowed to cas... More >>

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  Multitasking 101: Beating Your Ex-Wife While Driving Impaired

  published Nov 06, 2012

  Stephen Michael Place doesn't always get accused of driving while intoxicated, but when he does, he makes sure he gives it a special twist. I mean, why just drive smashed when you can multitask and be... More >>

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  Five Exceptions to Straight Ticket Voting in Harris County

  published Nov 06, 2012

  In spite of several indisputably bad candidates on either side of the aisle, apparently tens of thousands of Harris County residents are still going to vote straight ticket. Maybe those people are ju... More >>

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  Things Walmart Frowns On: Trying to Pay $2 for a $228 TV

  published Nov 05, 2012

  Fans of the old BBC comedy Blackadder will remember Blackadder's humorously idiotic servant Baldrick and his evermore ridiculous "cunning plans." Baldrick's spirit lives on in an Abilene Walmart, whe... More >>

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  San Antonio Cops Suspended for Attempted Cover-Up of Drunken Cop, His Wrecked Truck, and the Porn and "Sexual Device" Inside

  published Nov 02, 2012

  A trio of San Antonio cops have been suspended and several more are under investigation for their roles in the cover-up of a police sergeant's allegedly drunken wreck of a city-owned truck. According... More >>

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  A Tale of Two Lances

  published Nov 02, 2012

  In November of 1970, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Lance Rentzel had it all. Back in college, at the University of Oklahoma, Rentzel had been a star running back. Under coach Bud Wilkinson, Rentzel n... More >>

• Krystal Cook, East Texas Firebomber, Given Ten Years Probation

  published Nov 01, 2012

  A 21-year-old Diboll woman arrested late last year in connection with the firebombing of a rural home was convicted and given ten years probation on Wednesday. Cook acted as the lookout and getaway d... More >>

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  Jan Merklin: Smooth-Talking Drifter and Ladies Man Swindled Woman Out of $200,000 in House-Flipping Scheme, Lawsuit Claims

  published Nov 01, 2012

  A Texas City woman claims in a civil lawsuit to have lost $200,000 to a man she met via e-mail who persuaded her to back him in a house-flipping venture. The suit, filed by attorney Russell Plackemei... More >>

• Michael Don Mitchell, Terrifying-Looking Drifter and Chronic Burglar, Foiled by Love of Chef Boyardee

  published Oct 31, 2012

  A freaky-looking Longview man faces a burglary charge after police found him with a reusable shopping bag, a fleece hoodie and about $87 he had allegedly taken from a nearby home on Monday. The homeo... More >>

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  Victoria Perez, Exotic Dancer, Half-Blinds Strip Club Patron with High-Heeled Shoe, Police Say

  published Oct 31, 2012

  A stripper was jailed and a man might lose his left eye after a huge Friday night melee at southeast Austin gentlemen's club Hot Bodies. According to KXAN, Austin police responded to a call about a d... More >>

• Bennie Ray Dupnik Jr., Infamous 1970s Port Aransas Murderer, Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide

  published Oct 30, 2012

  The paroled murderer of the owner of a famous, long-lived Texas Gulf Coast beer joint is dead, apparently at his own hand after killing his girlfriend in their Victoria apartment. 51-year-old Bennie... More >>

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  (UPDATED: Second Suit Filed) Cadillac Ranch Owner Stanley Marsh 3 Called Child Sex Predator in Lawsuit

  published Oct 30, 2012

  (Details on the second suit at the end of this post) For decades, those with an artistic bent have viewed quirky provocateur Stanley Marsh 3 and his Cadillac Ranch on the outskirts of Amarillo as one ... More >>

• Halloween Party Plans Send Sister to Jail for Allegedly Slashing Sister

  published Oct 29, 2012

  A 17-year-old Lufkin woman was jailed Friday night after a fracas erupted when her father forbade her from attending a Halloween party, police said. According to KTRE, Hernandez responded to dad's at... More >>