Email Author John Nova Lomax

2012 Stories by John Nova Lomax

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  Kevin Meyer, Harris County Sheriff's Deputy, Arrested At His Own Wedding; Fellow Deputy Also Charged in SPJST Hall Fracas (UPDATED: Charges Dropped)

  published Oct 02, 2012

  Updated: The charges against Meyer and Lock were dropped. Apparently Harris County Deputy Sheriff Kevin Meyer's Saturday night wedding reception was a doozy, because at some point, management at the ... More >>

• Alcohol Enemas: Texas Was "Butt-Chugging" Long Before Tennessee

  published Sep 28, 2012

  Showcasing the strange and wonderful thing that is the frat boy's creativity and imagination, several members of the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter at the University of Tennessee decided that sucking down boo... More >>

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  One Woman's Kroger Nightmare: Thanks to Staff, Wallet Trashed, Credit Cards Slashed, Driver's License MIA

  published Sep 27, 2012

  Bonnie Sheeren says she has shopped at the West 11th Street Kroger for 20 years. A former teacher at nearby Reagan High School, she knew many of the employees. It felt like home, less like a corporate... More >>

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  Amber Lynn Garcia: A Glamour Girl's Summertime Alleged Mugging Spree

  published Sep 26, 2012

  For the second time since July, a Hempstead Highway exotic dancer is facing felony aggravated robbery charges. According to a complaint filed September 20, 24-year-old Amber Lynn Garcia menaced a wom... More >>

• Texas Johnny Brown

  published June 14, 2012

  Immaculate. Tasteful. Classy as a bespoke suit with matching tie and handkerchief, and smooth as iced and aged Cuban rum. That’s Texas... More >>

• Brian DeAngelis, Texas A&M-Kingsville Athletic Director, Resigns in Walmart Upskirt Scandal

  published Sep 25, 2012

  After a mere 80 days on the job, 39-year-old Brian DeAngelis is no longer the athletic director at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville. According to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, last Sunday, whi... More >>

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  Misty Reneedawn Wofford: Forced Three-Year-Old to Perform for British Skype Perv, Police Say

  published Sep 21, 2012

  Working together, Interpol, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Webster police have busted a 24-year-old Hitchcock woman allegedly responsible for creating live child porn and transmitting it to a ... More >>

• Houston 101: Opium-Addled Hookers in Old Houston's Red Light District

  published Sep 21, 2012

  Drug busts on the Mexican border are nothing new. At the El Paso / Juarez crossing in 1910, the feds seized a huge shipment of Texas-bound opium, at least some of which was believed to be headed to Ho... More >>

• RIP Larry Joe Miggins, Grand Irish Texan and Vintage Baseball Player

  published Sep 19, 2012

  "It's for the love of the game that we all play," Larry Joe Miggins told me this past Cinco de Mayo. We were at a Pony League field out in Katy, where Miggins had just spent four or five hours under... More >>

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  29-95 Releases Another Dive Bar-Free List of Dive Bars

  published Sep 18, 2012

  Three years ago, the Houston Chronicle released a pretty much dive bar-free list of 20 dive bars, and now their scrappy little sibling 29-95 has inflicted a similarly hapless collection of ten of the ... More >>

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  Billy Fred Wray Jr.: East Texas Joker / Satan Lookalike Pleads Guilty to Beating Ex-Fiancee

  published Sep 18, 2012

  Unless you have a thing for ex-cons who look exactly like a combination of the Joker and Satan, it's hard to understand why someone would want to tie the knot with Billy Fred Wray Jr. Especially when ... More >>

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  Allegedly Penis-Devouring Piranha Relative Hauled Out of Texas River

  published Sep 17, 2012

  A pair of west Texas fisherman hauled in an authentic Jeremy Wade-certified river monster. According to the San Angelo Standard-Times, two area men were casting for catfish in the Concho River late l... More >>

• Creepy Kitty Cadaver Suggests Montrose Cat-Killer at Large (W/Sick Photos)

  published Sep 14, 2012

  Yesterday afternoon, along with his son, Paul Davis embarked on a Montrose-area bike ride / photo expedition. While they relaxed under the speading arms of a majestic live oak on Marshall Street just ... More >>

• William Duncan, East Texas Teacher, Busted Peddling Meth in Junior High Parking Lot, Police Say

  published Sep 13, 2012

  First there was a real-life Walter White busted allegedly selling meth in Alabama...And now we have the case of William Duncan, 43-year-old junior high science teacher in Cass County, Texas. Accordin... More >>

• Know Your Narco Saints: The Religious Iconography of the Drug Trade

  published Sep 12, 2012

  Santa Muerte, the newly-popular Grim Reaper-like Mexican folk saint, and subject of this week's cover story, is not the only object of supernatural devotion in the drug trade. Far from it. In fact, sh... More >>

• Cover Story: The Rise and Rise of Santa Muerte, with VIDEO

  published Sep 12, 2012

  It was sometime back in the early 2000s, or maybe even the late 1990s, that I started seeing them at the late beloved Dunlavy Fiesta: in the Hispanic aisle, alongside the colorful votive candles to Ou... More >>

• Shriya Patel: Husband She Was Accused of Torching in April Has Died

  published Sep 12, 2012

  Bimal Patel, the Austin man whose wife allegedly doused him in gasoline and set him on fire after promising him a romantic massage back in April, has died. Ever since the April 17 incident, Patel, 29,... More >>

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  Lluvia Paloma Rodriguez: Sister Sticks Nose Into Her Business, and She Bites It Off, Police Say

  published Sep 11, 2012

  After a long night in the clubs back in July, Ivon Rodriguez, her sister Lluvia and Lluvia's husband returned to a Spring Branch area apartment. There, according to an HPD affidavit, an altercation en... More >>

• Brian Culwell, Former Gold and Silver Buyers CEO, Sues Man for Calling Him a Rapist

  published Sep 11, 2012

  Brian Edgar Culwell, the subject of a Houston Press expose last year, is back in court. A frequent defendant in criminal cases over the years, Culwell, whose family operates the precious-metal buyers ... More >>

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  Did Elrod Rodriguez Trade Sex for Facebook Votes to get in Neopopstreetfunkr One Outraged Local Thinks So.

  published Sep 07, 2012

  The victory of Leanne "Elrod" Rodriguez in last month's Neopopstreetfunk Viewer's Choice competition at M Squared Gallery was not universally applauded. (Her win means her work will be included in the... More >>

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  Contessa Andrea Von Schmidt, Dwayne Gator Liggins: It's the Quarterly Strange (Accused) Criminal Name Report

  published Sep 04, 2012

  As we head into what passes for fall down here, it's high time we came up with another list of the strangest, funniest and most awesome names to pass through the Harris County Criminal Justice Center ... More >>

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  Lindsay Ann Grice: Accused Klein Meth Cook Advertises Business on LinkedIn, Faces Arson Charge After Friend Is Burned in Explosion

  published Aug 30, 2012

  New charges have been filed in connection with a Klein meth fire that sent one man to the hospital with critical injuries and two others to jail. Harris County Sheriff's deputies arrested Lindsay Ann... More >>

• Austin Ray Cobb: Naked, Eye-Shadowed Bryan Man Busted for Trashing Best Western

  published Aug 29, 2012

  Bad craziness in a Best Western has landed a Bryan man behind bars for the sixth time since December. Police were summoned to the hotel when a maid told management that a room rented by 22-year-old A... More >>

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  Sharon Anne Maxwell: Life Sentence for Shooting, Torching Body of Tenth Husband

  published Aug 28, 2012

  You might say that bottle-blond, blue-eyed Sharon Anne Maxwell was the dark belle of Ore City, Texas. Over the past couple of decades, the 44-year-old femme fatale had married ten men in the town of... More >>

• Crystal Marie Mosquera: Accused Shoplifter Planned Ice Cream, Beer and Cucumber Party, Police Say

  published Aug 27, 2012

  This week's entrant in the Crystal Crime Report is Crystal Marie Mosquera. College Station cops say they picked up the 19-year-old Thursday evening outside an area Walmart after she was seen placing n... More >>