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Blogs
January 24, 2013
Sashoun Denicholas Brown: Tries to Avoid Arrest by Hiding in a Plastic Children's Playhouse
When you are on the run from police, you have to think fast. There isn't time to sit around and make plans. First, you need to run. Second, you need to hide. It's a lot like hide and seek, but instead of being forced to be the seeker if caught, you go to jail where you play an altogether different v ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2012
Billy Wayne Ebarb: Short Jail Term for Latest Chapter in 30-Year Brotherly Feud
"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 Ebarb, and the latest manifestation of that decades-long irrationality was a doozy. In March of 2011, ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2012
Krystal Cook, East Texas Firebomber, Given Ten Years Probation
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 driver for 24-year-old Justin Benson who filled a bottle with flammable liquid, lit a fuse, and tosse ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2012
Halloween Party Plans Send Sister to Jail for Allegedly Slashing Sister
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 attempt at disciplining her by going to the kitchen and retrieving a knife.
Blogs
June 8, 2012
Alfonzo Dewayne Anthony: Second Exemplar of East Texas Tattoo Artistry to Hit Jails This Week
The fine art of East Texas tattoo artistry is rockin' it this week. Earlier, we brought you the story of Jonathan Thompson, the Trinity man in the Trinity jail with the tat suggesting that Trinity County constable Woody Wallace should suck his dick. And now, let's meet Lufkin's Alfonzo Anthony, a.k ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2012
ETX Family (Allegedly) Peddles Drugs Together and Goes to Jail Together
Three members representing as many generations of an Angelina County family are behind bars there after the local sheriff's office caught them peddling pills, authorities say. According to a Lufkin Daily News report, a six-months-long investigation culminated in a raid on a home in Zavalla and the ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012
Destiny Adams and Kimberly Pierce: Two East Texas Women On Cutting Edge Of "Keying Men's Trucks" Epidemic?
As the furrow-browed detectives say in all those bad cop dramas, "Looks like we've got a pattern here." Criminal mischief. Lots of it. And of the felony kind. Two East Texas women have been arrested on that charge in the last week, both of them for damaging the paint jobs of trucks with keys. We' ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2012
Kelly Wilson: East Texas Jailer / Author Charged with Inmate Sex
Angelina County jailer and author Kelly Wilson has resigned her position and faces criminal charges after authorities in Lufkin alleged that she had a sexual relationship with an inmate. According to the Lufkin Daily News, the Angelina County Sheriff's Office got a tip that there was some illicit h ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2012
Justin McDonald and Zachary Bridges: Bad Fake Cops, Including Guyliner & Faux-Hawk
There has been a rash of fake cops in the Lufkin area of late, with two men finding lodgings in the Angelina County Jail after run-ins with their authentic counterparts. Per KTRE, Justin McDonald was jailed for violating the terms of his probation stemming from an incident 14 months ago. In Februar ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Vanessa Clark: Second SIDS Death in a Year Leads To Child Endangerment Conviction
A Lufkin woman has been convicted of felony child endangerment after an infant died in her bed for the second time in a span of two calendar years. Yesterday afternoon an Angelina County jury handed down a guilty verdict against Vanessa Clark, 33, for her role in the death of her two-month-old son ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
Your "BMW In An East Texas Sinkhole" Photo Of The Day
This weekend's storms caused a little bit of road flooding around here, with the usual spots going underwater for a while. In East Texas, things got a little hairier. In Central, which is in Lufkin's Angelina County, a couple driving on FM 2021 near Highway 59 "felt the road about to give," KLTV re ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Supreme Cinderella-Like Dysfunction Reigns in Gay-Related Lufkin Sibling Steak-Knife Stabbing
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 evening 18-year-old Xavier Walker was berating his 17-year-old sister Shakira Walker because of her s ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
PasDoctor Geronimo: Planned Courthouse Lawn Tepee/Tent-Residence Birthday Orgy Halted by Lufkin Cops
Sadly, PasDoctor Geronimo's hoped-for 12-plus woman birthday orgy in a custom-built "tepee/tent-residence" on the Angelina County Courthouse lawn -- starring Cameron Diaz -- did not take place yesterday. Jessica Cooley of the Lufkin Daily News was there for the dramatic confrontation. She reported ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2012
The PasDoctor Geronimo Manifesto: A Presidential Run and a Birthday "Tepee/Tent-Residence" Orgy, Starring Cameron Diaz
Jessica Cooley / Lufkin Daily NewsPasDoctor Geronimo has quite the bash planned tonight.Hair Balls' old friend PasDoctor Geronimo is back at it this week. This time around he's not in trouble with the law. Instead, the Lufkin man, whose "white man's name" is Douglas Paul McCoy, has filed a ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2012
Douglas Paul McCoy / Pas Doctor Geronimo: Lufkin Indian Outlaw and K-2 Fan Debuts New Name in Court
Jessica Cooley / Lufkin Daily NewsPas Doctor Geronimo makes his courtroom debut under his new name while rocking his Walkman to Tim McGraw's "Indian Outlaw." Lufkin's Douglas Paul McCoy seems hell-bent on setting the record for most appearances in Hair Balls crime stories. Late last week, he ... More >>
News
January 5, 2012
The 2011 Houston Press Crimes of the Year
From a fake vampire to a getaway guy in a wheelchair, a defendant peeing in court to a cop-car backseat blow job, it's been a wild year.
News
December 29, 2011
The 2011 Houston Press Crimes of the Year
From a fake vampire to a getaway guy in a wheelchair, a defendant peeing in court to a cop-car backseat blow job, it's been a wild year.
Blogs
December 15, 2011
The Meth Singularity: Oklahoma Woman Tries to Cook Batch Inside Walmart
Booking photoAlisha Halfmoon: Streamlining an already lean and mean processIn last month's feature on meth in East Texas, veteran Angelina County speed freak James "Bull" Durham was positively exultant about the drug's ease of manufacture these days. Gone are the days whereby expert "chefs" n ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2011
Douglas Paul McCoy: East Texas K-2 Fan Jailed Again; This Time For "Occupying" Lufkin
Angelina County JailDouglas Paul "Geronimo" McCoy: Against All AuthorityThree months ago, we brought you the saga of Douglas Paul McCoy, a 48-year-old Lufkinite who went to jail twice in two days, allegedly because of his love of (and antics while under the influence of) K-2, a synthetic mari ... More >>
News
November 17, 2011
Texas Tweakers
James "Bull" Durham burned down his mother's house while cooking meth. In Angelina County, the jail is full of guys like him..
Blogs
November 17, 2011
Arthur Davis Brown, Speeding Down Highway, to 911: No, My Wife's Not in the Car, She's on the Car
The crazy world of Arthur Brown.Arthur Brown was living in Houston with his wife when they ran into some domestic trouble, so he took their kid and moved back to his home in Diboll. She followed, with her father, and they confronted him. Things happened, leading to this classic 911 exchange ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
Cover Story: How James "Bull" Durham Became A Poster Boy for East Texas Meth
See our slideshow of James Durham's descent into meth hell. James "Bull" Durham, Lufkin's meth poster boy, popped his first shot of that devil's potion at the age of eleven -- he says it helped him get through his day-long shifts as an off-the-books catfish skinner. Even so, he says his lif ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2011
Justin Delane Nash: Accused of Second Sick Crime Against a Child in 17 Months
Phots by Angelina Count ySOJustin Nash's most recent mugshot...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 life. I got raped by Justin and ... More >>
News
October 6, 2011
PR Headline of the Day
Parker Afraid of Dick
Blogs
September 28, 2011
James Edwin Durham: One-Man Lufkin Crime Wave Finally Brought Down -- Featuring Musical Mugshot Slideshow
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 house down while cooking meth, gotten shot in the ass, been charged with numerous felonies in several d ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2011
Gilmore Cox: Lufkin Man Gets 35 Years and 20 Years on Seperate Meth Charges
An unhappy Gilmore CoxGilmore Cox had a bad day in court on Wednesday. After pleading guilty last month to charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of transport chemicals with intent to manufacture, Angelina County district court judge Barry Bryan sentenced him to 35 yea ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2011
Melsar Bonilla and Cristian Granados: Lufkin Teens Lack Back-to-School Spirit, Allegedly Take Dump in Classroom
Photos Angelina Count y SOMelsar Bonilla rocking the hairTwo East Texas teens are in Angelina County Jail facing charges of criminal mischief after police say they vandalized a Lufkin Elementary School. Police there say conically-coiffed Melsar Bonilla, 17, and Cristian Granados, 19, are se ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
James Robert Monday's Manic Monday: East Texan Busted For Hauling Off Air-Water Machine from Store Parking Lot
James Robert Monday: Manic indeedIn the latest of our series of "Only in East Texas" crimes, an AARP-aged man by the name of Monday was busted on the day of the same name for -- get this -- stealing a convenience store's coin-operated air and water dispenser. Not the quarters in it, mind yo ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2011
"Driving While Taking Upskirt Pictures" Lands East Texas Pair in Pokey
Photos Angelina County JailApril Peeples in front of the cameras again.It sounds like May 17 was a busy day for Angelina County sheriff Kent Henson. While he was at the scene of a meth lab bust, his radio crackled with news of a burglary in progress nearby, so he hopped in his car and sped of ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2011
Terrell Rogers: Three-Pronged Effort To Hide Weed Ends In Felony Charge
Angelina County JailTerrell Rogers: How not to dispose of your weed evidenceSay what you will about Terrell Rogers of Angelina County, but you can't give him anything less than an A for effort. The heavily-inked 24-year-old was arrested after a traffic stop on Highway 59 just north of his ho ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
Bryan Fancher: Breaks Face of Good Samaritan Who Found Him Lying by East Texas Highway
Angelina CountyBryan Fancher: No help neededLast Friday afternoon, Duane and Delois Lout of Shelbyville were driving on Highway 103 East in rural Angelina County when they came upon an alarming sight: an apparently injured man lying in the road. Delois Lout stopped the car, and Duane, her 64 ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2011
Another Alleged East Texas Trailer Park Gang Rape, This One Near Lufkin
Angelina CountyClinton "Bubba" Johnson Jr.: Friend says he bragged about inserting beer bottle into victim.While the nation and the world are recoiling in horror from the alleged Cleveland trailer park gang rape, a similarly depraved tale in the town of Hudson (just outside of Lufkin) has yet ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
The Most Unbelievable East Texas Crime Ever
Photo courtesy The Dunbar CollectionDunbar: Was only a few dozen credits short of his GRE degree at arrestJust when we think we'd seen it all, there comes a story like this one... If the events described in an indictment unsealed in Angelina County Court today are true, it's one of the most ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Juan & Bruno Gonzales: It's Not Cockfighting, It's "Sparring"
Just sparring, your honorNote to D-bags who get caught cockfighting: telling the judge your blood-covered chickens were just "sparring" is not a slam-dunk defense.That's what Angelina County father and son Juan and Bruno Gonzales found out Wednesday when State District Judge Paul White found them ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2011
Miranda Phillips: Poses As Medical Pro in Attempt to Score Purple Drank
Miranda Phillips: Not a trained medical professionalAlthough Miranda Phillips claimed to be working for a doctor in Livingston, employees at the Lufkin Walmart's pharmacy thought something was fishy about her phoned-in request for a prescription last December. She told the pharmacist that s ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2011
Victor Ray Wortham: Loud Gum-Smacking Spurs Domestic Violence Complaint
Angelina County SOVictor Ray Wortham: Vicious attack over not muchLet's face it: sharing space with someone who smacks their gum can be damned annoying. Still, we think Lufkin's Victor Ray Wortham might have slightly overreacted when his wife's gum-popping allegedly spurred him on to a viciou ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
Jose Otilio Diaz Jr.: Apartment Maintenance Man Allegedly Goes From Creepy Masturbator to Attempted Rapist
Photo courtesy Angelina County JailJose Otilio Diaz: Runs into one badass womanAlthough he had only been on the job for a few weeks, Jose Otilio Diaz Jr. had not made many friends at the Lufkin apartment complex where he served as an assistant to the chief. According to an arrest report quote ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2010
Meth Fires Galore In Lufkin
Photos courtesy Angleina County SOGilbert Sayers: Would you rent a room to this guy?Man, Lufkin's got the crystal methamphetamine blues bad. Just as one high-profile meth lab fire case comes to a close, another one opens... We begin with the adventures of Gilbert Sanders and Charles Euper... ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
Jacob Thompson: $20 Gets You A Tat And Minor Surgery (Allegedly)
Jacob Thompson: The doctor is inNot many of us would confuse James "Jacob" Thompson with a medical doctor, but to an unidentified 16-year-old East Texas woman, the fact that the Groveton man was something of a tattoo artist was qualification enough for her to ask him to perform minor surger ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2010
Rayond Wilson II: Three Life Sentences For East Texas Trailer Park Bloodbath
Photo courtesy Angelina County JailRaymond Wilson II Back in December, Hair Balls brought you the story of an East Texas trailer park murder spree that left two women and one man dead. Late last week the accused in the case -- 46-year-old Raymond Wilson II -- took a plea deal granting him three ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2010
How Not To Pass A Forged Check
Photo courtesy Angelina County JailMarcus Tyrone Bolt: Plot is foiledWhile we are no experts on the subject, we'd bet it was safe to say that if you are trying to pass a forged check, you probably want to move quick, but not too quick, and not attract attention to yourself. You just want everyt ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2010
Ricky Penson: Please Enter Your Guilty Flea
Photo courtesy Angelina County SORicky Penson needs better escape routesJust like many a mother has warned, if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas. A Lufkin man recently learned that lesson, and what's more, he's sharing it with the police force of that honky-tonking little East Texa ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2010
Ernest Goes to Jail: Accused Trailer Park Child Molestor Gets In Trouble Before Trial
This Ernest: a lot less funny than the movie characterBack in July of last year, an 8-year-old girl who lived near 43-year-old Ernest May in a trailer park on the outskirts of Lufkin told her father that May had molested her. She later said that May had showed her his "wrong spot," and when she r ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2010
Michelle Thomas: Scissors-Wielding East Texas Woman Strikes Blow For Horny, Disappointed Women
Photo courtesy Angelina CountyYou better bring it strong if you're bedding Michelle ThomasTo look at the mugshot of 26-year-old Michelle Thomas, you might not think you were seeing someone who was facing a possible two- to 20-year prison sentence for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.Nope. ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2010
Piney Woods Penis Parade: Two Pervs In Court On Same Day For Public Masturbation
Courtesy of Angelina County JailClifton Earl ChessherWhat in tarnation is going on up in the Piney Woods? On the very same day this week, one fortysomething East Texas man was arrested after a woman said he masturbated at her car from the side of the highway, while not far from there, after ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2010
Romance Blooms Out Of The Ashes Of A Lufkin Crime Of Passion
Paraphrasing Larry McMurtry, a woman's love is like the spring dew. It's just as likely to descend on a cowpie as an April wildflower.In the East Texas romance of Jennifer Doss and Christopher Guffey, we're leaning towards cowpie. You see, Guffey, an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2009
Lufkin Love Quadrangle Ends In Tragedy: Three Dead, One In Custody After Trailer Park Bloodbath
Photo courtesy Angelina County JailMixing jealousy and alcohol is a bad idea. So is confessing a recent threesome with your roommates to your gun-toting, volatile ex. Those are but two of the lessons you could draw from a weekend triple homicide in a trailer park on the pinewood fringes of rough ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2009
Alleged Killer Nurse Has At Least One Defender
A nurse at the Lufkin Dialysis Center injected her patients with bleach, murdering five of them and injuring five more, according to an indictment released today from an Angelina County grand jury. Kimberly Saenz was arrested this week and charged with capital murder and five counts of aggrava ... More >>
News
January 17, 2008
Back from Iraq with Plenty of Problems
Paul Miles returned from Iraq needing help with the death in his head. He got prison.
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