Criminal Assault

La Mafia Lead Singer Assaulted Outside Local Bar

Accoding to the group's Facebook page, Oscar de la Rosa, lead singer of Houston-based Tejano stars La Mafia is recovering after an assault early Monday morning outside an unnamed Houston bar. This messsage was posted on La Mafia's page earlier today: Oscar De La Rosa was assaulted around 1:30 a.m. ... More >>

Ethiopian Political Head-Butting in Southwest Houston Spawns Lawsuit, Criminal Charge

An Ethiopian-American man handing out flyers for a memorial service for Ethiopia's recently deceased prime minister, Meles Zenawi, claims he was assaulted by a countryman who reviled the repressive leader, according to criminal and civil court documents. The victim and plaintiff, Tesfai Tsadik, is ... More >>

Alleged Election Night Domestic Assault Has Local Attorney and Obama Fan Facing Felony Charge

An alleged domestic assault on election night has a local defense attorney and marine Iraq vet facing a felony family violence charge. According to court records, David Christopher Hesse was drinking beer and watching election returns with his wife Sandra Hesse in their Clear Lake-area home on Nove ... More >>

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 >>

Francisco Sanchez, 53, Bayou Body Count No. 182

Police have a suspect in the case of a man who was punched to death in Fort Bend County and later died in a Houston hospital. Francisco Sanchez, 53, was punched by two men in his driveway about 8:30 p.m.September 27 in the 5300 block of Castlecreek Lane, witnesses told police. HPD says one of thos ... More >>

Shriya Patel: Husband She Was Accused of Torching in April Has Died

Bimal Patel, the Austin man whose wife allegedly doused him in gasoline and set him on fire after promising him a romantic massage back in, has died. Ever since the April 17 incident, Patel, 29, had been in a burns unit at San Antonio Military Medical Center. Doctors there confirmed that he passed a ... More >>

Lluvia Paloma Rodriguez: Sister Sticks Nose Into Her Business, and She Bites It Off, Police Say

After a long night in the clubs back in July, Ivon Rodriguez, her sister Lluvia and Lluvia's husband returned to a Spring Branch area apartment. There, according to an HPD affidavit, an altercation ensued, with Lluvia and her husband the initial combatants. Ivon attempted to intervene, but Lluvia d ... More >>

Angelo Miller: Alleged Door-To-Door Drug Salesman On Run After Residents Fight Back

Houston police are looking fora man on the run after a north Houston apartment-complex shootout triggered by drugs. Angelo Miller, 23, is charged with aggravated assault. HPD says Juan Espinosa, 35, has been been arrested in connection with the incident and faces two charges of aggravated assault w ... More >>

Darrick Shelton, Motorcylist Dead After Running From the Law

A 39-year-old man, wanted on an aggravated assault charge involving a family member, died this morning after running from the law enforcement personnel who came out to serve him his warrant. Members of the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Unit, led by the U.S. Marshal's Office, along with Harris County ... More >>

Two Men Take Roak to Court, Each Claiming Assaults on Premises of Upper Kirby Lounge

Roak, the former Upper Kirby funeral home turned trendy, South Beach-esque oontz-oontz lounge, was taken to court twice last month. Alleged assaults on the premises figure in both cases. On May 23, attorney J. Michael Moore asked for and was granted a temporary restraining order and a temporary inj ... More >>

Toshia McMurry: Clocked Hubby Eight Times With Cinder Block, Police Say

A Bryan woman was jailed for much of the weekend after she was arrested in connection with the brick-beating of her husband's head. According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle, after Bryan police arrived on the scene Friday, 22-year-old Toshia Lasha McMurray told them that her 40-year-old husband ... More >>

Garrick "Joker" Hastings: Ties Up Hooker, Beats Her, Sets Her on Fire

Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man who told friends he had beaten and burned a prostitute for ripping him off. Garrick "Joker" Hastings said the woman had robbed him of $6,000, so he had her kidnapped and taken to a Channelview trailer where he beat "the prostitute with a metal rod, tied her up ... More >>

Crystal Sugars: Not As Sweet As She Sounds, Allegedly

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 both her business partner in a bar and also her boyfriend, thus netting misdemeanor charges of assau ... More >>

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

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 are consistently as wonderful as those made by the police in Trinity, Texas. The people behind the ... More >>

Billie Ray Anspach: Mugshot Hall of Famer Jailed After Allegedly Threatening Six People with Knife

A Copperas Caveman Cove man is behind bars after police there say he threatened four family members and two friends with a knife during a Sunday morning disturbance. Police responded to a call about a fight at a ranch house on the outskirts of town, and there found the six victims waiting for them ... More >>

Raymond Lee Mazon: Shoots Three Outside A Midtown Club

Photo by HPDRaymond Mazon: Shooting pedestrians in Midtown​Houston police arrested Raymond Lee Mazon, 26 after they say he opened fire on three people after getting kicked out of a Midtown club early Sunday morning. Police say Mazon was ordered to leave Link Lounge at 2901 Fannin and walked a ... More >>

Ex-Hand Doctor Michael Brown's Assault Trial Begins Monday

Michael Brown: TV ad star is in the dock​Ex-hand surgeon and international dildo transporter Michael Brown is set to stand trial in Harris County District Court September 12 on a felony assault charge involving his wife, Rachel. Brown was indicted in January for an August 2010 incident in whi ... More >>

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 >>

Reece Daniel Gonzales, 24, Bayou Body Count No. 117

Either stabbed or shot to death.​A man was killed in southeast Houston early Sunday morning, and his assailant is on the run. Reece Daniel Gonzales, 24, was attacked in an apartment in the 8400 block of Winkler, Houston police say. He stumbled out of the place trying to escape; he was taken t ... More >>

Austin Men Jailed After Skateboard-Whipping Photographer for Mohawk Shot

This guy's hair is impervious to photography.​You'd think Johnathan Washburn would dig it when strangers snapped his picture. After all, his unusual triple-Mohawk hairstyle seems like little more than a 24-7 "look-at-me" adornment, or possibly even a cry for help. According to this American-S ... More >>

Derrick Anthony Lopez: Gets Into a Restuarant Fight, Shoots 8-Year-Old Girl

HPDDerrick Lopez: Drive-by shooting hits eight-year-old girl​A fight in a restaurant led to a drive-by shooting that left an eight-year-old girl critically injured, Houston police say. Derrick Anthony Lopez, 26, has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault with serious bodily injury ... More >>

Gregory Longoria Jr.: Allegedly One Sick, Sadistic Mother-Effer

Harris County SOGregory Longoria, alleged torturer​If the allegations contained in court papers are true, then Gregory Longoria Jr. is a very sick dude. Documents show he's been accused of sexually abusing his estranged wife by -- and this is only part of what he's alleged to have done -- usi ... More >>

Christopher Matthews: One Punch From Angry Husband Kills Popular Coach

HPDRonald Newman, charged with aggravated assault with serious bodily injury​Christopher Matthews, a popular girls' soccer coach in Spring Branch, was walking outside the LosTios restaurant on the far west side with a woman about 11 p.m. Friday. The woman's husband, Ronald Lee Newman, 51, saw ... More >>

Chase Langston Wiatt: Facebook Chronicles a Year of Alleged Petty (And Not-So-Petty) Crime

Chase Wiatt: Letting it all out on FB​Chase Langston Wiatt has had quite a run, but with his latest felony arrest, the 19-year-old Crosby resident's luck might just have run out. For the second time since June of 2009, Wiatt stands accused of assaulting someone with his car, and you would th ... 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 >>

Juggalo Hijinks

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Jason Merksamer: Houston Juggalo And Accused Robber Is Facebook Moron Of The Week

Jason Merksamer tells all on Facebook​It goes without saying that it's not a good idea to commit another violent felony -- specifically, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon -- while you are already on probation for a violent crime. And you would think it would also be inadvisable to broa ... More >>

A&M Cadets Get Four Years Probation in Assault

The case of Zach Corcoran and the Corps of Cadets finally comes to an end. ​The long and strange saga of Zach Corcoran and the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets came to a close today when Edward Helle and Steven Ramirez, the two cadets who beat up Corcoran, pled guilty to assault charges in a Brazos C ... More >>

Dennis Traylor, 44, Bayou Body Count No. 145

Stabbed by his nephew's friend​Charges have been filed in the case of a man stabbed on the south side on May 8, who lingered in the hospital before dying. Yvonne Coleman, 35, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the fatal stabbing of Dennis Traylor, 44. Traylor was stabbed ... More >>

Crystal Lynn Johnson: College Station Woman's Mayhem Does First Name Proud

Photos courtesy Brazos County SheriffAnother dangerous Crystal​Some time back we put forth the hypothesis that Crystal was the female equivalent of "Wayne" - the male criminal's favorite name.And as with Wayne-related mayhem, it's not just the quantity of Crystal-line mayhem, it's the quality. O ... More >>

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 Thomas​To 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 >>

A Jury Of Billy Joe Shaver's Peers

Jury selection began this morning in the aggravated assault trial of country legend Billy Joe Shaver, who was charged after he shot a man in the face outside of a Lorena bar in 2007. Shaver's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, maintains Shaver shot Billy Bryant Coker in self-defense. All Hair Balls knows is, ... More >>

Baseball Player Formally Charged With Assaulting Woodlands Man

Lance Broadway​Two minor-league baseball players charged with assaulting a Woodlands man at a Dallas club on New Year's Eve turned themselves into authorities February 19, and quickly bonded out.Lance Broadway, a minor-league pitcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization, and pal Cameron McGuire, ... More >>

If -- If -- Pastor Dixon Assaulted His Wife, It Was Somewhat Foretold

​We told you earlier today about prominent pastor James Dixon being charged with assault his wife after an incident in which police reports say he "threw her to the ground."The media reports caught the eye of longtime Metro critic Tom Bazan, who immediately thought of his own run-in with Dixon, wh ... More >>

A&M Assault Case and Abortion Super Center?

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The Aggie Assault Case Gets A Trial Date, Somewhat To The Surprise Of the Victim's Family

​A judge in Brazos County set a date -- June 21, 2010 -- for trial in the case of a Texas A&M student who was allegedly assaulted by two members of the Corps of Cadets, an incident the Houston Press wrote about in a January 2008 cover story, "Rotten to the Corps." The court date might not seem ... More >>

Uvaldo Gallardo, 18: Bayou Body Count Victim Number 1 For 2010

courtesy of HPDLeandro Lozano-Jiminez​Suspected New Year's Day killer Leandro Lozano-Jiminez is on the loose, and Houston police say he's armed and dangerous.It was only 56 minutes into 2010 when Lozano-Jiminez, 20, started arguing with Uvaldo Gallardo, 18, and his brother, Hugo Gallardo, 25, at 9 ... More >>

Yuletide Mayhem Round-Up: Bank Robbing Santas, Spouse-Throttling 'Round The Xmas Tree, And Wal-Mart Parking Lot Catfights

​'Twas the season to be jolly. Too bad these people didn't get the memo...First, there's this 60-year-old Missouri City woman who was charged with assault after a fight over a parking spot outside a Fort Bend County Wal-Mart. Fort Bend Now picks up the tale... According to reports, the victim was ... More >>

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 proba ... More >>

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 Kibode ... More >>

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 arre ... More >>

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 fiv ... More >>

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