Burglary

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Two Out of Three

Main Street Theater's one-acts vary wildly

Hot Plate

Main Street Theater's one-acts vary wildly

News of the Weird

Main Street Theater's one-acts vary wildly

News of the Weird

Main Street Theater's one-acts vary wildly

News of the Weird

Main Street Theater's one-acts vary wildly

Rudolph Rides Again

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Stolen Thunder

Quick fixes for thieves, and long suffering for victims: When guitarists lose their vintage axes

Liars, Lovers and Lunatics

Alyson Hannigan’s Sapphic significant other from Buffy the Vampire Slayer also directs

Talky? You Bet!

Sheila Jackson Lee's verbosity leads to a jackpot

Tempting Teens

Does a police sting program make kids into too-easy targets?

Home Alone Again

Panic Room is a great movie -- if you've never seen one

Takedown

Two Rice students had everything going for them -- until their pranks progressed into hard-core crime

News of the Weird

Two Rice students had everything going for them -- until their pranks progressed into hard-core crime

Superthief

Joshua Paul Calhoun likes to take things...BIG things

Robbery At The Lone Star Saloon: What Is America Coming To?

Photo by Txrelichunter​Here at Hair Balls and the Houston Press, we really love the Lone Star Saloon. Really. That's why we hope that police take swift action and find the dirty, dirty bastard that stole 21 bottles of liquor from Lone Star last weekend. "I hope they catch the S.O.B.," Joe Lee Thom ... More >>

Boosted Booze and Marvin's Angels

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Bayou Body Count: Mistakes Equals Murders

​No one likes being punished for something they didn't do. Even more so when the punishment is a series of deadly bullet wounds. But that's exactly what happened to Quincey Taylor, Houston police say. A little more than three months ago, police got a call about a shooting that was happening ... More >>

The DA's Victims Rights Division Becomes A Victim Itself

​A year ago, the Houston Press looked into restitution in the state parole system and discovered that in 90 percent of the cases, victims never get all the money that was owed to them.While we can't vouch for the percentage, it looks like victims counting on the Harris County District Attorney's O ... More >>

Marcel Simpson, 19: Bayou Body Count No. 7

​If you try to take my shit, I can shoot your ass.This is the compact all Texans make with each other, whether they want to or not. It is both an unwritten cultural law and a general principle that can be upheld in a court of law.The notion may soon be put to the test, however, in the wake of an a ... More >>

Robert Crais: The First Rule

Actually, there's only one rule: Don't make Joe Pike mad

Six Canisters Of Radioactive Material Vanish From Truck's Toolbox In Valley Wal-Mart Heist

​A car burglar at the Wal-Mart in Alice swiped a little more than they bargained for last Friday. An unknown person broke into a pick-up truck belonging to ProTechnics, a Houston-based oil and gas exploration company. In the truck's toolbox the alleged thief found a clear plastic bag containi ... More >>

SugarHill Studios Burglarized Over The Weekend

6:08 p.m.: Updated to include list of stolen gear. Chris GraySugarHill Studios in 2008​ Legendary Houston recording complex SugarHill Studios, subject of the recent book House of Hits by local historian Dr. Roger Wood and studio co-owner/engineer Andy Bradley, was burglarized over the weeken ... More >>

A Case of the Vapours

Islands' Nick Thorburn tries to keep track of his bandmates and their aliases.

Bad Cop Lesson #248: Don't Rip Off The Non-Criminals

Should've taken pointers from this law enforcement expert.​Times must indeed be tough locally if Houston police are forced to seek "financial assistance" from the civilian population: A Houston police officer has been accused of stealing from drug suspects and those he pulled over in the line ... More >>

Joyce Espinosa: The Family That Lifts Together Sticks Together

Photo courtesy GCSOJoyce Espinoza is all about the family​And they say that not enough families are spending time together and sharing family activities...Last week, a 42-year-old Webster mom was arrested along with her two teenaged kids after the threesome walked out of a Friendswood HEB with $70 ... More >>

HPD Beating Video: Officials Really Don't Want You To See It

HPD video: Just waiting to break out big on the net​When word first broke that an alleged Houston police beatdown of a teenage had been videotaped, we speculated that law enforcement officials were dreading the day the video went viral. That day is coming closer, and officials are fighting tooth ... More >>

Leonard Campbell & Bobby Henry: 150 Montrose Burglaries In The Past Year

Photo courtesy HPDLeonard Campbell​Houston police have arrested two men they believe are responsible for up to 150 burglaries in the Montrose area in the past yearLeonard Campbell, 50, and Bobby Henry, 40, were both arrested this month. HPD says ampbell can be tied to 107 burglaries and Henry to 5 ... More >>

Texas Watchdog Offices Broken Into: Begin The Paranoia?

Photo courtesy Texas WatchdogAnyone know where G. Gordon Liddy was this weekend?​Texas Watchdog, the website that does a lot of digging into the spending of governments and politicians, was burglarized over the weekend. The offices in downtown Houston were ransacked and laptops taken, among o ... More >>

The 10 Worst Burglary Neighborhoods In Houston (For The Moment)

​What are the best neighborhoods to live in if you want to get burglarized? We've gathered 10 of the finest. We looked at the most recent crime stats for HPD beats, which means the month of October. HPD generally doesn't like "raw data comparisons between police beats" because the info can be ... More >>

Home Alone

​What are the best neighborhoods to live in if you want to get burglarized? We've gathered 10 of the finest. We looked at the most recent crime stats for HPD beats, which means the month of October. HPD generally doesn't like "raw data comparisons between police beats" because the info can be ... More >>

Jonathan Robert McMinn: Dude, Don't Go to Police HQ to Pick Up the Items You Stole

Jonathan McMinn: Maybe should have just written off his loot​Sometimes a man can take too much pride in his work. He feels he's earned his just rewards and he's going to get them. When the man in question has a common-sense quotient of a sugared-up tween, however, trouble may ensue. Jonathan ... More >>

Ten Houston Neighborhoods: The Crimes They Experience

Paging McGruff the Crime Dog​We've been plotting which neighborhoods in Houston lead in certain crime categories, but doing that doesn't really get you to the more well-known parts of town. So we decided to zero in on a few specific neighborhoods and see what crime's been going down in them. ... More >>

Auto Theft: 10 Best Houston Neighborhoods To Get Your Ride Stolen

​Houston can be a tough place to live without a car. So getting it stolen is a real bummer. And here are the 10 places where it's most likely to happen. We're not saying you need to avoid them, just be careful. The stats are from December, and as always, HPD cautions against comparing raw be ... More >>

That Long-Awaited HPD Beating Video Is Out

The video is out​KTRK has managed to get its hands on the long-awaited security footage that shows Houston police officers hitting and kicking a teenaged burglary suspect as he's in custody. From the initial reports by people who'd seen it when the incident happened last year, you might have ... More >>

16 City Employees Nabbed for Stealing City's Copper

HPDArthur Samuel, city employee and alleged copper thief​Sixteen city employees have been charged with stealing copper, because hey, it was there for the taking, we guess. Seven have been arrested so far, HPD says. Investigators got a tip that the workers were selling copper to Latino's Scra ... More >>

HPD: Crime Rate Down; Number of Cops Soon Will Be Too

Goin' down​On a day when KHOU reported as many as 181 cops may be laid off due to budget constraints, HPD announced that crime rates have dropped again in Houston. Total crime in the first quarter of 2011 dropped 14.2 percent from the first quarter of 2010, HPD said. Violent crime is down by ... More >>

Brian Ruston Linscomb: Calls Cops On Own Motel Party, Despite Being Wanted On Boatload of Warrants

Orange County SOBrian Linscomb: Pay no attention to the huge number of warrants, officer.​For a while there, it seemed like Brian Linscomb's Sunday evening Lufkin motel party was going off swimmingly. At least one woman and several unidentified men crammed into Linscomb's lodgings at the Angel ... More >>

HPD Crows Over Another Crime-Rate Drop

"Safest big city in America," chief says​The Houston Police Department is once again boasting of a noticeable drop in crimes, as reported to a national database. Comparing the first half of 2011 to the first half of 2010, murder is down 37.1 percent, robberies 20.8 percent and overall violent ... More >>

Free Break-In And Giant Dump With Your Heights Car Repair

Photo by Mandy OaklanderBobby Harting is sick of being burglarized and ignored.​Last week, Chris Lawless dropped his car off at Tech Auto Maintenance in the Heights for a repair. He stopped by the next day to find it fixed but picked clean of loose change, hundreds of CDs, and his limited-edit ... More >>

That Stolen Renoir Is Probably Sitting In A Garage Somewhere

A problem, not a painting​A Renoir painting was stolen from what we assume is a ritzy westside home earlier this month. So it's probably now hanging on the wall of a unfathomably rich mysterious Russian or Japanese financier, right? Nope. It's probably sitting in the burglar's garage, accord ... More >>

Heights Burglary Ring Smashed; Four Area Youths in Custody & Their Facebook Bragging Exposed

Phots by HPDNathaniel Cook: One of four arrested.​An alert area resident and diligent Central Patrol officers have taken in a quartet of Heights miscreants they say broke into four area homes on Tuesday. Police say Nathaniel Dean Cook, Octavius Demone Harris, Eli Marquis Ortiz and Everardo Se ... More >>

Heights Burglary Ring Busted

Don't brag on Facebook, kids

What The "Top 10 Stolen Vehicles" List Says About Houston

Stolen, by manly men​Every month Houston police put out a list of the most-often stolen vehicles, a list that defines what are either the most vulnerable or most desirable members of our automotive society. This month's is out....what does it tell us about Houston? 3. Our car thieves want yo ... More >>

Rogelio Martinez: Police Seeking Allegedly Unrepentant Habitual Burglar

Photo by HPDRogelio Martinez: Not bashful about his work​In recent months the near-northwest neighborhoods of the Heights, Timbergrove Manor, Oak Forest and Garden Oaks have been plagued with daylight home burglaries. Sadly, even after police have smashed one such ring of thieves, another cont ... More >>

Splendora Cops Seeking Two Butt-Dumb Burglars

Splendora Police DepartmentBurglary Suspect #1. Note pensive expression and rad neck-chain tat. ​ Have you seen these two men? Splendora cops would like to know. That's because they say these two geniuses swiped the digital camera on which these photos were taken (along with a laptop, TV and ... More >>

East Texas Grinches Steal $20,000 of Foster Kids' Christmas Presents

Come to think of it, not even this guy would approve of what these losers did​We spend a lot of time here wandering about in the pits of human depravity, but this one is about as depressing as it gets. Simply put, earlier this week, a thief or several thieves broke into the Longview storage f ... More >>

George Mitchell: Huge Bond for Man Accused of Stealing 11 Pregnancy Tests from CVS

Angelina County JailGeorge Mitchell: Unlikely to miss next court date.​At first blush, even for East Texas, land of high bail, $404,277 seems like an exorbitant bond for a guy who was initially arrested for stealing 11 pregnancy tests from a Lufkin CVS. However, that odd theft is not all 26-y ... More >>

Charlie The Dog Is Saved!

Cheer up, Charlie​We told you earlier about Wes Covington, a resident of northwest Harris County who was burglarized. Thieves made off with custom-made guitars -- one signed by Buddy Guy -- but, more importantly, Covington's dog Charlie went missing. Either the thieves took the Boxer, or the ... More >>