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May 9, 2011
Five Questions With Child Porn Prosecutors: Dealing With Stomach-Turning Evidence
How do you handle the subject of child porn at a cocktail party?Prosecuting those who produce or enjoy child pornography is a vitally important yet seemingly horrible job -- to do it, you must face looking at the evidence. In some cases it's "easy" -- some child-porn consumers are like baseb ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Victor Ramirez, 43, Bayou Body Count No. 60
HPDPedro Rodriguez: Wanted for murder.A northwest side man shot his three neighbors in an argument and killed one of them on May 2, Houston police said. He was charged with murder over the weekend and is on the run. Victor Ramirez, 43, was shot and killed in front of his home in the 7500 blo ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
Frank Ulysses "Frenchfry" Tiller: Texas Man Arrested for 1999 Murder of 83-Year-Old Man in Six-Dollar Robbery
"Frenchfry": Charged with killing an elderly man taking out the garbageTwo months ago, Illinois police used a fingerprint to arrest a man for the 1988 rape of a 12-year-old girl in Orange County, Texas. In another OC-related cold case, police in Orange County last week arrested Frank Ulysses ... More >>
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May 19, 2011
Dealing with Child Porn
Prosecutors talk about the evidence,
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May 24, 2011
Unidentified Homeless Man, Bayou Body Count No. 71
Found shot to death in the bayouHouston homicide detectives are asking the public's help in identifying a homeless man whose body was found in Buffalo Bayou downtown Saturday morning. The man had apparently suffered gunshot wounds, HPD said. The body was found near the 700 block of Franklin ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
Unidentified Man in His 20s, Bayou Body Count No. 72
Body found in a city park.Police discovered the body of a man reportedly stabbed to death in a park near downtown this morning. The man, who has not been identified, was in his 20s, police say. KPRC reports the man was stabbed to death. The body was found about 4 a.m. today in Emancipation ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Alicia Saldana Gonzalez, 36, Bayou Body Count No. 73
HPDJesus Gonzales: Charged with murderAn argument between a husband and wife ended when he stabbed her to death on the porch of their east side home Thursday night. The couple's three children were at home and might have witnessed the incident. Alicia Saldana Gonzalez, 36, was stabbed multip ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Unidentified Female, Bayou Body Count No. 77
Found dead in a carA woman was found shot to death in a car early this morning on the far southwest side of town, Houston police say. A man was walking his dog about 4 a.m. when he discovered the body in the 12200 block of Hodges and called 911. Police say the woman was shot at least twice. ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Nathan Eugene Davis, 44, Bayou Body Count No. 80
Cross-dresser found shot in headA man reportedly dressed in women's clothing was found shot to death near an apartment complex Dumpster this morning, police say. The victim, whose identity has not been released, had been shot in the head and left in a complex in the 13300 block of Northborou ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Family Sues to Get Attorney's Fees Back Because Their Lawyers Successfully Bribed the Judge
A friendly handshakeA Texas family that successfully settled a wrongful-death suit for big bucks is suing to get back $5.7 million in attorney's fees and expenses because the lawyers used part of that money to bribe the judge. Whatever it takes, right? Be happy with your winnings, right? App ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
David Aric Ladewig: Child Porn-Laden Laptop Doesn't Make It Through Customs At Bush
Ladewig apparently didn't think feds wouldn't mind his massive child porn stashDavid Aric Ladewig is an American citizen who lives and works in Cancun. On a return trip to the states, he brought along his laptop and an external hard drive. Which probably wasn't the brightest of ideas, becaus ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Mehmood Ghaznavi, 52, Bayou Body Count No. 96
Shootout in a northside jewelry storeA northside jewelry-store owner was shot and killed in a robbery attempt last night, Houston police say. Mehmood Ghaznavi, 52, was in his store, Java Gold, in the 5500 block of Yale about 8:15 last night when one or more males entered the store and attemp ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Double Jeopardy and Roger Clemens: More Than Just a Bad Ashley Judd Movie
Double Jeopardy: Not just a bad Ashley Judd movie.The Roger Clemens perjury trial finally started last week. Then just as soon as it got started, it was over as an angry judge called a mistrial because of prosecutorial stupidity. There's been a lot of discussion on whether these hearings sh ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Kevin Quintanilla, 16, Bayou Body Count No. 111
Dead at 16A 17-year-old male was shot to death about 2 a.m. today in Gulfton, Houston police say. The victim, whose name has not been released, was shot in the chest outside an apartment complex in 5800 block of Glenmont. (Update: Police have identified him as Kevin Quintanilla.) He was tak ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Kenneth Randle, Unluckiest Get-Away Driver Ever, Gets 11 Years Because His Pals Were A-Holes
Kenneth Randle: See ya in 2022A 23-year-old man who sat unarmed as the driver of a bank-robbery car has been sentenced to 11 years without parole mostly, it seems, because his colleagues were violent a-holes. During the $40,000 robbery last October, the three dudes he was working with physic ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
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 >>
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August 5, 2011
Pedro Rosales: Allegedly Tried to Convince Kid to Take The Rap for His Child Porn
Pedro Rosales: That must have been some other body.A Houston man caught with a computer full of child porn tried to convince "a juvenile family member" to take the rap for it, the U.S. Attorney's Office says. Pedro Rosales, 32, thought "that if the juvenile claimed the images/videos, the fam ... More >>
Film
August 11, 2011
Invasion of Piracy
Illegal downloading costs the film industry billions of dollars per year. But does the legal strategy designed to recoup this lost bounty amount to extortion?
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August 11, 2011
Seven MS-13 Gang Members Indicted Here
Three murders, the feds say.The U.S. Attorney's Office announced the unsealing of indictments for racketeering and murder against seven members of the notorious MS-13 gang, who have been arrested. The USAO says MS-13 is: a criminal organization in Houston that functioned as a unit engaged i ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Robert L. Hedrick: Pan Am's Big Comeback Likely Stalled With Its President's Child-Porn Indictment
A child-porn indictment qualifies as a wrench in the plansRobert L. Hedrick made a big splash last October, inviting former Pan Am employees back to Brownsville's original pan Am building to announce the creation of an airline with a similar name that had plans to fly routes from that city to ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
Messy Lawsuit Features Rival Crime Scene Clean-Up Companies
A dirty jobWho knew the crime scene/trauma clean-up business was so, um, cut-throat? If the allegations in a local civil court case are to believed, only rival drug lords conduct their business more ruthlessly. According to plaintiffs John DiGulio and K.P. Management, two area men and their ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
Alleged White Supremacists Beat Black Man, But DA Doesn't File Hate Crime Charge
FacebookCharles Cannon won't face hate-crime charges.In a crime that hearkened back to the skinhead days of the early '90s, or modern-day Dallas, four white men remain behind bars today charged with assaulting a black man at a downtown bus stop early Sunday morning. Police want the incident c ... More >>
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August 25, 2011
Sex Cures Teen Crime
UT study touts teen relationships
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September 2, 2011
Chevis Cooks, 31, Bayou Body Count No. 135
Two persons shot to death in their cars on the north side Thursday morning.A man was shot to death in his car in broad daylight on the northside Thursday, Houston police say. Chevis Cooks, 31, was shot in the 5500 block of Kashmere at about 11:30 a.m., HPD says. He was inside his vehicle at ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
That Stolen Renoir Is Probably Sitting In A Garage Somewhere
A problem, not a paintingA 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 >>
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October 13, 2011
James Walter Porter Jr.'s Child-Porn Haul: 10,000 Images, Hundreds of Magazines And An MP3 Player For His Post-Office Job
James Porter was a dedicated collectorFormer postal worker James Walter Porter Jr., 57, pleaded guilty today to one count of child-porn possession, the U.S. Attorney's Office says, but what a count it was. The Pasadena man had moved out of the house he was renting; the owners then went there ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Arturo Enrique Ochoa: Gets 50 Years For Luring Boys His Mom Was Caring For Into Child-Porn Videos
Arturo Enrique Ochoa: Going away for a long timeArturo Enrique Ochoa, 23, is going to federal prison for 50 years for using candy and video games to lure the young boys his mother was caring for into child-porn videos. Ochoa was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sim lake; he had ent ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Halley Catherine Shaw, 27, Bayou Body Count No. 158
Photo by HPDDaniel Palacios faces manslaughter chargesA teenager has been charged with manslaughter in the traffic death of a Texas Southern law student. Daniel Garcia Palacios, 17, was fleeing from police in a gray Buick LeSabre about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday when he ran a red light at the 4100 b ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Unidentified Male Stabbed To Death, 32, Bayou Body Count No. 160
A stabbing death at four in the morningA 32-year-old man was stabbed to death in northwest Houston early Sunday morning, police say. They say the man, whose name has not been released pending notification of his family, stopped at a parking lot at 700 West Mount Houston about 4 in the mornin ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Matthew David Johnson, 47, Bayou Body Count No. 162
Photo by HPDFreddie Clark Jr. faces murder chargesA man was shot to death in his westside apartment and an arrest has been made in the case, Houston police say. Matthew David Johnson, 47, was shot in the chest in his apartment in the 11700 block of Southlake Drive about noon Thursday, Octobe ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Jesus Enrique Hoffman, 38, Bayou Body Count No. 163
Shot to death in a vacant lot.A man was shot to death during an argument on the north side Sunday night, police say. Jesus Enrique Hoffman, 38, "had an argument with two unknown Hispanic males" in a vacant lot in the 8600 block of East Hardy about 8:40 p.m. last night, HPD says. "The argume ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Bennie E. Richardson IV: Says His Massive Child-Porn Stash "Relaxed Him"
Bennie E. Richardson IV liked to relaxBennie E. Richardson IV, a 40-year-old Pasadena man, has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for possessing and distributing child pornography. Looking at the porn was a form of relaxation, he told cops when he was arrested. Richardson was arre ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Abraham Moses Fisch: Made A Million Convincing Defendants He Could Bribe Their Cases Away, Feds Say
He knows peopleHouston criminal defense attorney Abraham Moses Fisch is facing a slew of federal charges this morning: conspiracy, obstruction of justice, money laundering, conspiracy to commit money laundering and failure to file tax returns, They all stem from what the U.S. Attorney's Off ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Heights Burglary Ring Busted
Don't brag on Facebook, kids
Film
November 3, 2011
High-rise Robbery
Stealing from the rich to...oh, whatever. Funny is the message in Tower Heist.
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November 21, 2011
Horace Jackson, 56, Bayou Body Count No. 179
Shot by a man with a "poofy" pony tail.A man was shot to death at his Third Ward home by a masked attacker, police say. Horace Jackson, 56, was killed shortly before midnight Saturday at his home in the 6200 block of Sherwood. He suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was found lying on th ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Ruben O. Agostadero, 15, Bayou Body Count No. 181; Third Teen Killed in a Week
Yet another teenager gunned down.A 15-year-old kid was killed in a southwest-side drive-by shooting Monday night, Houston police say. Both the victim, Ruben O. Agostadero, 15, and his companion, Raul Pillado, 16, suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Pillado is hospitalized in guarded condition. ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Christopher Clark Pollett: Guilty Child-Porn Plea from Kids' Nonprofit Worker
Christopher Clark Pollett, a former employee of well-respected kids-and-family nonprofit agency Neighborhood Centers, Inc., has entered a guilty plea to charges of owning a massive cache of child pornography. Pollett was arrested in January, while still an NCI employee, and charged with possession ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
Dominic Levar Brown a/k/a Money Clip D, 34, Bayou Body Count No. 184 (UPDATED)
Photo by Marco TorresMoney Clip D dies in nightclub shootingDominic Levar Brown, who as Money Clip D was a key assistant and friend to Houston rapper Trae, was shot and killed outside a southwest-side after-hours nightclub early Friday morning, police say. Brown, 34, was outside Breakers in ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Hands-On Experience
Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by police officers. Critics say the Boy Scouts, who oversee the program, should share the blame.
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December 2, 2011
DJ Christopher Lowe: Recruited Neighborhood Boys for Child Porn
DJ Christopher Lowe will be going away for a long time.A "stay-at-home dad" who often watched over neighborhood kids used them to produce child porn, federal prosecutors say. DJ Christopher Lowe, 37, pleaded guilty today to eight child-porn counts. Police discovered him through an investigat ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Carrie Kelly: Woman Gets Five Years for Child Porn
Carrie Kelly going away for five years.It's unusual for a woman to be arrested in a child-porn investigation, and when Brazoria County's Carrie Kelly was picked up last April, some commenters predicted the charges would soon be dropped. But Kelly entered a guilty plea for child-porn distribu ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
Patrick Simmons: Most-Wanted Bank Robber Turns Himself In
Patrick Simmons gives up.The suspected bank robber who was spotlighted by the FBI in a digital-billboard campaign turned himself in to authorities about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the feds say. Patrick Wayne Simmons, who was wanted in a string of eight Houston-area robberies of bank branches located ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Death Penalty Is Going Out of Style, New Report Says
Texas is still doing its partAmerica, you just ain't the criminal-killin' place you used to be. A new report from the Death Penalty Information Center says that for the first time since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, less than 100 executions took place in the U.S. There have bee ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Mark William Woerner: Urged Kids to Take His Child-Porn Collection to School
Share it with your school pals.Mark William Woerner, 55, is being sent to federal prison for a long, long time -- 80 years, in fact -- and with the evidence produced at his trial, not many people are going to question that. Among his highlights, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office: Posse ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30, Genetics Student & Activist Against The Iranian Government, Shot Near Galleria, Bayou Body Count No. 7
Woman shot in her callA 30-year-old molecular genetics technology student was shot and killed in the Galleria area early Monday. Gelareh Bagherzadeh was shot about 12:30 Monday morning in the 800 block of Augusta. police say. She was shot in her car and drove into a townhome garage. Media r ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Michael Ray Cooper, 28, Bayou Body Count No. 8
Shot to death by a visitorA man was shot to death in his Sunnyside home Sunday evening, police say. Michael Ray Cooper, 28, had a visitor to his home in the 3600 block of Bloomfield about noon Sunday. "At some point during the visit, the suspect shot and killed Cooper," HPD says. "After the ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Dougals Demmon: Former National Park Ranger Convicted Of Child Porn
Retired ranger, child-porn fanNational Park Rangers are an American icon, with their Smokey-bear hats, green uniforms, and eagerness to help everyone enjoy the great outdoors. And then there are the Park Rangers like Galveston's Douglas Demmon, who has entered a guilty plea on charges of dis ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
John "Steven" Stark: The FBI Defends Calling This Dude "Tall, Dark & Handsome"
Photos by FBIA dreamboat, according to the feds.De gustibus non est disputandum, as they say in Latin, which basically means some people's taste sucks but there's no sense arguing with them about it. But we had to take issue with the FBI declaring bank robber John "Steven" Stark, pictured ab ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Markayle D. Mosley, 22, Bayou Body Count No. 16
Gunned down in an apartment complex.A man was shot to death in an apartment complex near Hobby Airport Friday, police say. Markayle D. Mosley, 22, was shot about 5 p.m. in the Crestmont Village Apartments in the 5600 block of Selinsky, HPD says. Their official information is short and sweet ... More >>
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