Subject: Criminal Assault

• Prosecutors Dismiss Assault Charges in J Prince Gym Beating Case

  July 10, 2008

• DA to Tackle Family Violence

  July 14, 2008

• Lonesome Onry and Mean Extra: Billy Joe Shaver Indicted for Aggravated Assault

  September 19, 2008

• Indictments In A&M Assault Case

  October 3, 2008

• Man Allegedly Beaten by Jailor and Denied Tape of Incident

  October 7, 2008

• School Scam?

  Did a teacher fabricate a student assault to collect disability?

  April 27, 2000

• Alleged Aggie Assaulter Allegedly Assaults Again

  October 15, 2008

• Mutiny On The Iberville: The Most Thrilling Legal Opinion Of The Year

  October 21, 2008

• No Mercy

  November 10, 1994

• Harassment Suits Against The Harris County Sheriff's Department Live Again

  When Sean and Erik Ibarra sued attorney Lloyd Kelley in October over legal fees, one of the questions was what would happen to a separate civil-rights lawsuit with several plaintiffs, including the Ibarras and April Walker, against the sheriff's department and certain deputies.(The original suit, however, did accomplish one thing before the fee feud: it's what made Chuck Rosenthal's infamous e-mails public.)It took some time for Kelley to extract clients Walker and Lloyd Henderson from the origi

  January 8, 2009

• The Metro Ninjas Will Mess You Up

  Kumar Arya, a City of Houston engineer, was summoned to his department's downtown offices last summer to defend his rejection of a Metro site plan. He didn't think the design would work.Leaving the meeting, Arya decided to ride the Metro rail back to his office at 3300 Main St. He says he stepped off the train, was grabbed from behind and thrown to the ground, then the assailant ripped off some jewelry Arya was wearing. He was injured - a broken nose and cut-up face, with lacerations severe enou

  January 13, 2009

• Bad Trip to Kerrville

  June 15, 1995

• Attacker Suffers From Mental Illness, Antiquated Weaponry

  Apparently there was something going on in the nation's capital on Tuesday. We at Hair Balls were too full of cough syrup and Tylenol PM to remember what it was with any clarity (the entire Houston Press building is sick), but it must have been a big deal to overshadow what happened in Houston at the Texas Components building on San Jacinto.Julie Parker, 33, walked in around 8:21 a.m. and shot Armando Silva, 49, in the chest. With a bow and arrow. And you thought mornings at your office wer

  January 23, 2009

• No Time for Sergeants

  August 29, 1996

• Six Degrees of Dolcefino

  November 28, 1996

• Final Arguments Expected In Trial Of Galveston Girl Mistaken For Hooker

  Final arguments are expected to begin today in the criminal trail of Dymond Milburn, the 12-year-old Galveston resident who is accused of assaulting cops who tried to arrest her outside her home after mistaking her for a hooker.We first wrote about her here, in a story that rocketed around the web. Galveston police got a call that three white prostitutes were working Milburn's  neighborhood; the girl was outside her home dealing with a tripped breaker. Saying she was wearing provocative clo

  February 9, 2009

• The Sleaziness Of The Door-To-Door Magazine-Subscriptions Industry Continues

  On March 30, Grand Prairie police say, a magazine subscription salesman knocked on the door of a 78-year-old woman, raped her, poured rubbing alcohol on her chest, and set her on fire. The question right now is not "How did this happen?" but "When and where will it happen again?" Police quickly arrested Daniel Deshawn Neal, 23, who was awaiting trial on trespassing and burglary charges in Maryland. When Neal was arrested, he told Grand Prairie police he worked for a Washington, D.C.-based compan

  April 6, 2009

• Breaking: Bellaire Cop Who Shot Tolan Is Indicted

  A grand jury has indicted the Bellaire cop who shot Robert Tolan, the son of baseball player Bobby Tolan, in his driveway last year.Sgt. Jeffrey Cotton was indicted on a charge of Aggravated Assault by a Public Servant, a first-degree felony whose conviction carries a punishment of not less than five years' prison and a maximum of life, the DAs office announced.Tolan's family and legal reps are having a noon press conference; we'll let you know what they say.

  April 6, 2009

• Taking Aim

  Texas inmates fleeing the coop might as well pin targets on their backs, under a new prison policy.

  October 18, 2001

• Don't Mess with Garnet

  Can a top-ranked lawmaker control his inner demons?

  August 16, 2001

• The Killing

  It’s classic Kubrick in this heist film

  August 28, 2008

• What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know: Cataloguing Grief

  Magazine crews and their managers are no strangers to trouble

  July 17, 2008

• will.i.am, Songs About Girls

  CD Review

  November 1, 2007

• They Fought the Law

  In Rap, You're Nothing Without a Sheet

  August 2, 2007

• Slay Bells

  An X-mas mixtape from hell

  December 21, 2006

• Bad Checks

  Sure you can ferret out the slimeballs in our midst? Guess again if you're relying on standard background searches in Texas

  July 6, 2006

• Love Hurts

  Locked in a labyrinth of codependency, Lolly and Roger spend their days warily together

  June 10, 2004

• Oh, Oh, Donna...

  As his ex and Fort Bend cops find out, don't let this guy take out the trash

  February 7, 2002

• The Good Doctor

  January 24, 2002

• Super Vision

  By keeping a constant eye on its mentally ill clients, an ACT team heads off all sorts of troubles

  February 22, 2001

• Unnecessary Roughness

  Inmate Mark Knox claims Texas prison guards brutalized him. The ACLU fears that in an expanding and unwieldy TDCJ system Knox is far from alone.

  October 12, 2000

• News of the Weird

  March 25, 1999

• Yet Another Twisted Tale From BARC

  Photo by bf_photos​When BARC volunteer Nela Brown accused a kennel attendant with a long criminal history of punching a puppy June 9, she assumed the matter would be investigated and the man would be dealt with accordingly.  After all, when another volunteer, Shelby Kibodeaux, simply said he heard what sounded like animal abuse at the facility in January, BARC promptly punted the complaint to the Houston Police Department's Office of Inspector General. And in that case

  July 31, 2009

• BARC's Alleged Dog-Puncher Is Out Of A Job

  Murray Bailey, the BARC kennel attendant accused of punching a puppy in the head in June, is no longer working at the facility, Health and Human Services Spokeswoman Kathy Barton tells Hair Balls. We're waiting to hear if there's an official explanation, but Barton said Bailey was still on his probationary period and was therefore subject to at-will termination. A long-time BARC volunteer had accused Bailey, who spent much of the last 13 years in prison on aggravated assault convictions,&nb

  August 5, 2009

• The House by the Cemetery

  August 27, 2009

• TDCJ Inmate Wonders What's A Dude Gotta Do To Get His Wicca On In Prison

  ​Charles Roberts -- aka Alabama, aka Hell Boy (according to a lawsuit he filed from prison) -- was recently transferred to Huntsville from Edinburg after he claimed, via lawsuit, that the prison didn't allow him to practice his Wiccan religion. Michelle Lyons, the director of public information for the state's prison system, told Hair Balls, "He was not moved to Huntsville for any reason related to the lawsuit." She added that the Lopez Unit in Edinburg, where Roberts stayed for about two year

  September 10, 2009