Criminal Assault

Lone Star College Stabbings

Dylan Quick, 20, charged with aggravated assault.

Jailhouse Rock: When Artists Face Hard Time

Nothing earns an musician instant street cred quite like a night or two in the pokey. It's basically a rite of passage -- a guarantee that if you sign up for the public eye, you will, indeed, screw it up at least once in order to delight us with your antics. From the likes of good ol' boys like Mer ... More >>

Texas Crimes of the Year, 2012

As it turns out, Texans indulged in all seven of the deadly sins.

Multitasking 101: Beating Your Ex-Wife While Driving Impaired

Stephen Michael Place doesn't always get accused of driving while intoxicated, but when he does, he makes sure he gives it a special twist. I mean, why just drive smashed when you can multitask and beat your ex-wife at the same time? Harlingen police report answering a disturbance call on Saturday ... More >>

Gabriel Morales, 55, Bayou Body Count No. 142

A man walking home on the northwest side about 2 a.m. this morning was shot to death by an unknown assailant, Houston police say. Gabriel Morales, 55, was walking home along the 5800 block of West Tidwell about 1:50 a.m. when someone approached him, shot him and left him for dead on the sidewalk, p ... More >>

Dez Bryant's Mom Calls 9-1-1, Vows, "I'm Going to Put an End to It Today!" (w/ AUDIO)

"I think that Dez has a chance to make the kind of impact of people that have worn this jersey before." -- Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in 2010 after bestowing the #88 jersey on wide receiver Dez Bryant Cocaine possession. Drug paraphernalia. Various mysterious brushes with assault charges through th ... More >>

Glendon Bruening: Farm Worker Shoots Wad at Man Who Sexted His Wife

Who knew the wheat fields of the Panhandle were so rife with lust and passion? Call this story 50 Sheaves of Wheat. Per Connectamarillo.com, Ochiltree County sheriff Terry Bouchard said that 61-year-old Glendon Bruening was enraged when he found out that a fellow reaper had been texting lewd image ... More >>

Derrick Williams: Man Who Allegedly Shot Man in Wheelchair Turns Himself in

A man who sheriff's deputies say shot a man in a wheelchair from his car has turned himself in, the Harris County Sheriff's Office says. The HCSO says Derrick Williams, 24, stopped his Buick Roadmaster in the 400 block of Cypress Avenue Friday in far northwest Harris County and began talking to a m ... More >>

Ashley Rae Ortega, 26: Busted For Sexual Assault of 14-Year-Old Boy

A 26-year-old Killeen woman with ties to the Houston area has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy. According to KXXV, Ashley Rae Ortega is an acquaintance of the boy's family, and per KDHD, was staying with them at the time of the alleged assault, which police claim happened on ... More >>

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 >>

Miguel Angel Rangel Charged With Murdering Teen In Drive-By

Police arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a drive-by murder at a party hall in October. Miguel Angel Rangel has been charged with murder for the shooting of Luis Armando Rodriguez, 18, at the Royal Palace club on the far west side. Two other suspects are on the run. One, 18-year-old Ari ... More >>

Christie Loraine Marshall: Tries to Run Man Off Road While Both Have Kids in Their Cars

If you're so pissed about a dude that you follow him in a car, try to run him off the road and ram him when he stops, remember one thing: Take your kid along for the ride. That's what Christie Loraine Marshall, 32, did, according to cops and the Galveston County Daily News. They say Marshall got i ... More >>

HPD Officer Miles Dumas Flashed Bar Patrons, Beat Some Up, Cops Say

A Houston cop has been accused of flashing patrons of a Galveston bar and then getting in a tussle with some of them. Miles Stedman Dumas, 24, has been charged with indecent exposure and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and been relieved of duty pending an investigation, the Galveston County ... More >>

Billy Regenhard Punches His Way To An Impressive List Of Charges

It started as a domestic violence call, but by the time 22-year-old Billy Reganhard got through assaulting his girlfriend, neighbors and cops, he had racked up an impressive list of charges. Fox 26 reports that Fort Bend County Sheriff's deputies went to answer the call in Pecan Grove Tuesday after ... More >>

Victoria Garrick, Multi-Tasker: Stabs Boyfriend While Driving

Women, amirite? You're driving down the highway and look over and there's some dame doing 70 mph while putting on her makeup. Or stabbing someone. Victoria Garrick, 21, faces aggravated assault charges for an incident yesterday morning on the Gulf Freeway. She was driving a Kia Spectra with her t ... More >>

Damesha Traylor: Rare Woman on DPS Most Wanted List Is 5-4, 270 Pounds with a "Sexy D" Tattoo

It's been more than ten years since a woman has made the Texas Department of Safety's Ten Most Wanted List, but we don't think anyone is going to tell Damesha Roshun Traylor she doesn't deserve the honor. Traylor is a 5-4, 270-pound ball of "Sexy D," according to one of her tattoos. (The other says ... More >>

Bad Reputation: Beatdown At Midtown's Saint Dane's Leads to Warrants for Four, Including Midtown Club Co-Owner

FacebookAustin Perry Bauer: Allegedly slashed victim's face with key.​Police are seeking four men after a wee-hours brawl at Saint Dane's Icehouse last month, and when coupled with some Facebook research, the whole affair reads like nothing so much as some twisted hybrid of Entourage and A Clo ... More >>

Eric Dowlen: Cops Say He Assaulted Two Dudes With Pit Bull

FacebookEric Dowlen: A boy and his pit.​Nassau Bay cops say a man assaulted two neighbors with a deadly weapon -- namely, his pit bull terrier. According to a criminal complaint and published reports, 33-year-old Eric James Dowlen sicced the pit on a 21-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy with ... More >>

Bodacious G. Neal: Punches, Threatens and Shoots at Baby's Mother During Two Alleged Holiday Assaults

Talk about a guy who fails to live up to his name: If two criminal complaints are to be believed, as a beau, Bodacious Gerraud Neal is anything but. Police say that on Christmas Day, the 21-year-old Klein man argued with the mother of their baby as she was attempting to leave his parents' house, wh ... More >>

Cop Shoots Man During Denny's Altercation

An off-duty cop eating at Denny's shot a man who threatened him with a knife during an altercation, Houston police say. Officer J.C. Lopez, a six-year veteran, was with a group of family and friends when another group, including Clemente Vela, 32, got into an altercation with them, HPD says. Each g ... More >>

Kimberley Briggs: Police Say She Beat Sister at Mom's Funeral in Fight over Heirloom Jewels

Even in the best of times, the holidays can be a time of extreme stress. Add in the death of a parent, and you have the proverbial tinderbox of flammable emotions. One such firestorm came to a head yesterday in Kilgore, where local police say two sisters got into a catfight at their mother's funera ... More >>

Vanesa Blackshire: Hits Walmart Parking Space Poacher With Her SUV, Cops Say

Gregg County JailVanesa Blackshire: Parking space poachers will be punished severely.​A Longview woman apparently got the jump on bad Black Friday-like behavior the night before Thanksgiving. That's when police say she ran over a man in the parking lot of an area Walmart, all because of a disp ... More >>

Jeffrey Tomorris Wright : Escapes From Trunk To Tell Cops About Buying Coke With Counterfeit Bills

Sounds like quite a scene for Houston Police to roll up on last month... According to court records, on October 16, a squad car was dispatched to the scene of a disturbance with a weapon in the 4500 block of Yale, just north of Crosstimbers in Independence Heights. Just as they arrived, they saw 3 ... More >>

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 >>

National Illegal Immigrant Sting Nets Over 2,900 Convicted Criminals, 125 in Houston

On Wednesday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the results of its "Cross Check" enforcement operation targeting convicted criminals who are also illegal immigrants. The sting conducted in all 50 states netted 2,901 criminals, including 125 in the Houston area. The seven- ... More >>

Stuart James Huffman: Police Say Alleged Wife-Beater Was Caught Drunk Driving With Kids

Pearland PDStewart Huffman: Takes the kids along.​Coming on strong as both a Husband and Dad of the Year candidate is 41-year-old Stuart James Huffman. Police say that after returning to their Pearland McMansion from a bar, Huffman and his wife got into an argument around 3:45 a.m. Friday. T ... More >>

Chanin Christine Lindgren: Asks Cops to Aid Cover-Up of Felony Assault

Brazos County SOChanin Christine Lindgren: How not to be a defendant.​According to a police report summarized in the Bryan-College Station Eagle, Chanin Christine Lindgren was not happy when her on-and-off boyfriend refused to give her the cash she needed for a fix. Deploying faultless junky ... More >>

Andres Gonzales Assails Son-In-Law With Futile Twin Machete Attack

Nueces County JailAndres Gonzales: Machete man​The thought of our own father-in-law waiting for us with glassy eyes and bad intent in our carport armed with not one but two rusty old machetes is one of the more unlikely and alarming prospects we can envision, but that exact scenario just unfol ... More >>

Ray Lewis Predicts Crime-ageddon If There's No NFL

This is what society looks like without the NFL.​"Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game." -- Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis to ESPN's Sal Paolantonio Well, that's a new one. I've ... More >>

The 10 Hottest Women On The Texas Sex Offenders List

You probably would not be too surprised to learn that the vast majority of people in the Texas Department of Public Safety's sex offender list are male. And most are not good-looking. But there are females on there, too. Most of them are not good-looking, true, but who takes a good mugshot besides ... More >>

Lufkin Couple Heads To Jail After Pregnant Woman Smokes Cig

Not the Lufkin woman, who we're sure doesn't have tats​According to a police report summarized in the Lufkin Daily News, 33-year-old Roosevelt Lee Williams III called police out to discuss a Mother's Day altercation with 26-year-old mama-to-be Dominique Bryan that had just ended. He told pol ... More >>

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 garbage​Two 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 >>

Ronald Washington: Slices Woman With Machete, Douses Her With Gasoline, Then Gets Arrested When He Files a Report

HCSORonald Washington felt aggrieved.​If we take the Harris County Sheriff's Office at its word, then Ronald Washington got into a fight with the mother of his six-month-old baby, a fight that included swiping at her with a machete, dousing her with gasoline and driving off with the kid in the ... More >>

Davon Stewart: Beery Melee Among Deaf Friends Ends In Gnawed Ear, Injured Leg, Flight From Cops

Ears, they're not just for Mike Tyson anymore.​Relatively few of us get into fistfights as adults, or get run over by trucks. Fewer still of us bite off a chunk of someone's ear or flee the cops in a wheelchair. In the history of mankind, perhaps only Davon LeShannon Stewart has done all fou ... More >>

Morris Edwin Burnett: Reckless, Boozy Jerk Threatens Mom, Son He Almost Ran Over with Bronco

Nueces County SOMorris Burnett: The goatee is the new mullet​All along the Texas coast, the weather has been glorious, and Wednesday morning in Corpus, a 63-year-old mom and her 40-year-old son decided to take advantage by taking their dog for a walk on an isolated road near the beach. Accord ... More >>

Michael Brown, TV-Ad Doctor, Indicted for Felony Assault

Michael Brown the hand doctor, in trouble again​Our favorite dildo-lovin', coke-sniffin', license-losin', creepy-home-video-makin' ex-doctor, Michael Brown, has been indicted for felony assault by a Harris County grand jury.The January 25 indictment follows Brown's August 2010 arrest for ... More >>

Crystina Becerra: Penthouse Club Stripper Wanted After Putting Two Patrons In Hospital

A stripper can be a dangerous thing​In an altercation that put us in mind of Jerome Ponette, it all started with a squabble between two strippers over something one of them likely believed the other had stolen. Before it was all over, two men would be writhing in pain in the parking lot of a ... More >>

Texas Domestic Violence Centers: Unfortunately, They're Busier Than Ever

HAWC is always grateful for donations or volunteers​Business continues to boom, sadly, at Texas centers that deal with family violence, with more cases than ever and longer stays becoming necessary, according to a study released today. The Allstate Foundation surveyed 39 centers statewide and ... More >>

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Unidentified Male, Bayou Body Count No. 270

Carjacking death on the northeast side​A man was shot to death as his car was being stolen last night on the northeast side, Houston police say. The victim, whose name was not released, was confronted in the 6200 block of Sayers about 9 p.m. by an unknown assailant. The victim was shot, and t ... More >>

The Man Without a Past

Maybe life starts right now

Game Time: Roger Goodell To Decide If He Can Punish More Stupidity

This is why they pay Roger Goodell the big bucks. For a commissioner who quickly gained a reputation as a strict disciplinarian after taking over for Paul Tagliabue in August 2006 by throwing suspensions at his league's miscreants like so many nickels and dimes, the decision he makes regarding pun ... More >>

Man, That Was Going To Be One Laid-Back Jail Stint

​If you're going to be stuck in jail for a while because of a hit-and-run charge, you ought to enjoy the experience, right? That's certainly the philosophy Anna Sporleder of Friendswood follows. The 30-year-old woman was arrested on the old "failure to stop and give information" charge and wa ... More >>

Beef Vs. Chicken Battle Turns Violent In Valley Cafe

​When he sat down at his table at downtown Brownsville's El Rancho Alegre Café last Saturday night, all Esequiel Silva wanted was a plate of chicken milanesa enchiladas. Little did he know how just how much the Happy Ranch Cafe would fail to live up to its name.After taking a couple of bites, he ... More >>

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. ... More >>

Prosecutors Dismiss Assault Charges in J Prince Gym Beating Case

Oh, Oh, Donna...

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

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.

No Time for Sergeants

The Houston Police Department puts high-ranking cops out on the street