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2012 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• John Goodman Guilty Of Intoxication Manslaughter

  published Mar 23, 2012

  A South Florida jury took just six hours to convict Houston-bred bazillionaire air-conditioning heir / polo honcho John Goodman on a charge of intoxication manslaughter. The state claimed that Goodm... More >>

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  Moonshining On The Rise in East Texas

  published Mar 23, 2012

  For the second time this month, East Texas cops have broken up a moonshining operation. The latest case took place near Tyler, in tiny New Chapel Hill. Smith County Constables seized two stills belo... More >>

• Ryan Earl Whitton: Swipes Bar Tip Jar, Racks Up Felony DWI

  published Mar 22, 2012

  Looks like 24-year-old Ryan Earl Whitton was wearing his bad-idea jorts when he hit the bars of Bryan Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. Police there say Whitton swiped a tip jar off the bar ... More >>

• Elizabeth Proctor: Civil Suit Connected to Teacher Sex Case Dropped, for Now

  published Mar 21, 2012

  A civil lawsuit filed in connection to a case of teacher-student sex has been dropped, the Abilene Reporter-News has reported. Both the teacher in question and the Abilene Independent School District ... More >>

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  Edgar Dale Whitt: Serious Charges For Patriarch of One Very Creepy, Tragic and Disturbed West Texas Family

  published Mar 20, 2012

  The press release from Howard County Sheriff Stan Parker opens with a wholesome slice of Norman Rockwell Americana, with an officer responding to a report of a child riding his bike in the dark. When ... More >>

• Christopher Windham: Outdoes Larry Craig in Trying to Explain Men's Room Creepiness

  published Mar 20, 2012

  First there was the "wide stance" and now this.... A 57-year-old Trinity man said he was followed into a convenience store bathroom by 27-year-old employee Christopher Windham. The man said he stood ... More >>

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  Crystal Sugars: Not As Sweet As She Sounds, Allegedly

  published Mar 19, 2012

  Sure and begorra it sounds like it was quite the St Paddy's Day donnybrook for Crystal Angel Sugars. Police say in court documents that the 38-year-old Humble woman slugged two men, one of whom was ... More >>

• Cover Story: Chronic Back Pain One More Problem for Vets of Iraq & Afghanistan

  published Mar 14, 2012

  Tough-talking, Texas-bred Carroll McInroe was the Iraq / Afghanistan coordinator in the Veterans Administration's Spokane, Washington office from 2003 to 2008. It was his job to interview returnees fr... More >>

• Gilberto Montezano: Valley Cop Avoids Jail After Shaking Down Motorist For Beer

  published Mar 14, 2012

  For the third time since August, a cop in the Rio Grande Valley town of Edinburg has been terminated and faced criminal charges for varied forms of corruption. In the most recent case, in April of la... More >>

• Trinity, Texas: Home of the Best Mugshots in the Lone Star State

  published Mar 09, 2012

  Here at Hair Balls Crime Central, we gaze upon many a mugshot in our daily routine. After looking at thousands from dozens and dozens of jurisdictions, we can say beyond a shadow of a doubt than none ... More >>

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  Houston 101: Carrie Nation Comes to Town, Hatchet in Hand

  published Mar 09, 2012

  The Houston of 1905 was a two-fisted drinking town, with more than 50 saloons servicing a population of 58,000 people. It so happened that back in 1903, a man named Charles Crook opened one such es... More >>

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  Jordy Tollett, Former "Mister Downtown," Charged with DWI, Again

  published Mar 07, 2012

  Former Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau honcho Gerard Jay "Jordy" Tollett, currently the Pasadena Convention Center general manager, has had yet another alcohol-related setback. This t... More >>

• Lance Taylor: Accused of Biting Off Most of Roommate's Nose in Saturday Morning Fight

  published Mar 05, 2012

  A 24-year-old Trinity, Texas, man was arrested after turning the apartment he shared with his 18-year-old roommate into a scene from a zombie flick. Police there say that early on Saturday morning, ... More >>

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  The Old Meth-in-the-Vadge Trick: Two Trinity County Women Try to Pull It in Two Weeks

  published Mar 01, 2012

  A text-message sent to an undercover led to the arrest of two meth suspects at the gates of the Trinity, Texas, suburb called Hawg Heaven on Monday. Trinity County Constable Woody Wallace told KTRE t... More >>

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  Miles Michael Lacy: West U-Bred Former UH Linebacker Popped for Impersonating a Cop in BMW

  published Feb 28, 2012

  A West University Place man was arrested after pretending to be a cop on the Katy Freeway. Unfortunately for 22-year-old Miles Michael Lacy, one of the people he attempted to pull over was a real off-... More >>

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  Judge Samuel Kent WikiLeaked: Had Halliburton Conspiracy Theory About His Sex-Abuse Scandal

  published Feb 27, 2012

  Today, WikiLeaks released the first few hundred of what promise to be 5 million e-mails belonging to Austin-based global security think tank Stratfor. One concerns not one but two Houston-area shit ... More >>

• Daniel Huerta: Lufkin's Illegal Wee Hours Door-to-Door Poultry Peddler

  published Feb 27, 2012

  "Intoxicated male selling chickens door-to-door" is not the most common after-midnight call for police to field, even in a wild-and-woolly town like Lufkin, but according to KTRE, police there had jus... More >>

• Cover Story: Michael Berry, Former City Hall Boy Wonder

  published Feb 17, 2012

  Nine years ago, embattled right-wing radio host Michael Berry was a 32-year-old mayoral candidate. Tim Fleck wrote a feature on the fresh-faced city councilman and quixotic candidate (polling below 10... More >>

• Michael Berry: Time to Revisit Firehouse Saloon Incidentr

  published Feb 16, 2012

  The alleged TC's Show Bar incident that came to light today would not be conservative talker Michael Berry's first late-night bar parking lot misadventure. On December 22, 2007, just as his term on C... More >>

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  Gina Wilfong and Joseph Smith: Lovebirds Jailed on Valentine's Day After Faceboasting About Vandalizing Her Ex's Jeep

  published Feb 16, 2012

  Lordy lordy, when will these criminals ever learnr First, if you really must brag about your crimes, do it face to face, preferably somewhere you won't be overheard. Second, if you really, really m... More >>

• Ricardo Luna: Tries to Pay for Lap Dance with Crack; Assaults Cops on Way to Jail (Allegedly)

  published Feb 14, 2012

  Ricardo Luna had to wonder what this world is coming to. Not only did the stripper he attempted to pay with crack cocaine refuse that form of payment, but she also turned him in to management at Austi... More >>

• Taylor Burnham's Nude Ride: Allegedly Drunk Corpus Cowgirl Leads Cops On Chase Wearing Nothing But Cowboy Boots

  published Feb 14, 2012

  Police say a Corpus Christi woman was drunk when they arrested her early Saturday morning after a low-speed chase. At the time of her arrest, 18-year-old Taylor Burnham was wearing nothing but a pair ... More >>

• Supreme Cinderella-Like Dysfunction Reigns in Gay-Related Lufkin Sibling Steak-Knife Stabbing

  published Feb 08, 2012

  Family dysfunction and domestic disharmony are kind of our stocks-in-trade, but this sick twist on a Cinderella story out of Lufkin shocks even us in its callousness. According to KTRE, on Friday e... More >>

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  Patricia Aguilar: Juvenile Probation Officer Busted for Blowing Boot Camp Cadet

  published Feb 07, 2012

  For one delinquent Rio Grande Valley juvenile, a sentence to boot camp was transformed into a ticket to a dream hummer holiday. Somehow we don't think this was what the juvenile criminal justice sys... More >>

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  Randy Travis: Weird North Texas Drunk-In-Public Bust

  published Feb 06, 2012

  It may seem that we're talkin' foolish, but Randy Travis was arrested early this morning, allegedly drunk in a car parked in front of a Baptist church in the Denton County town of Sanger. (Travis rep... More >>