Galveston County

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Steven Cox: This Close To Not Getting Busted With 30 Pounds of Weed

Steven Cox used to be a jailer for Galveston County, but left that job for the greener pastures of working for a Dollar General store. He's back in the jail business now, but on the other side of the bars. He was arrested for possession of 30 pounds of marijuana in a case where it sounds like he al ... More >>

James Dinkins: Justice of the Peace Charged With Hurricane Ike Fraud

A former longtime Justice of the Peace in Montgomery County has been charged with fraud in connection to receiving Hurrican ike relief funds, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. James W. Dinkins, 64, got $120,000 in relief funds by falsely claiming his primary residence was in Galveston County, p ... More >>

Jordy Tollett, Former "Mister Downtown," Charged With DWI, Again

Former Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau honcho Gerard Jay "Jordy" Tollett, currently the Pasadena Convention Center general manager, has had yet another alcohol-related setback. This time, it's a DWI bust, courtesy of the police in the sharp-dressed political wheeler-dealer's hometow ... More >>

A Wrong Turn

Once Galveston emergency personnel discovered the dead motorcyclist was "one of us," a Bellaire teenager's nightmare revved into overdrive.

Crystal Crime Report, 2011: It Really Is The Female Version of Wayne

As is well-known, when it come to crimes committed by men, Wayne is the name. Less well known but no less true is the fact that Crystal (including variant spellings) is the female equivalent. Oh yeah, she's a Crystal​We first put forth this hypothesis last March and furnished numerous example ... More >>

Robert Wayne Niffen: Carnie Fugitive Sex Offender Nabbed In Santa Fe

Santa Fe PDRobert Wayne Niffen: Carnie, alleged sex offender​Given two key facts, you could safely probably suppose that 52-year-old Robert Wayne Niffen was a miscreant of some sort. To wit: 1. His middle name is Wayne. 2. He is a carnie. And its Peace Officer 101 that all carnies with the ... More >>

Abandoned Baby's Blanket May Be Key To Finding TV-Obsessed Parents

Photo courtesy GCSOBaby Nicholas is doing a lot better after being abandoned​Do you know anyone who loves TV so much they'd buy a baby blanket designed to look like a remote control? Would that person be the kind of person who'd leave their newborn infant on a doorstep? Then Galveston County ... More >>

Clifford Lee Bradberry: Galveston County Man Really, Really Likes To Watch Surfing

Photo courtesy Galveston County SOClifford Bradbury: Surfin' USA​Apparently, Clifford Lee Bradberry deeply enjoys whacking off, and while there's nothing wrong with that per se, Bradberry insists on involving the public in his masturbatory shenanigans. Acting on a suspicious activity tip Sund ... More >>

Diane Burnett's Job Included Drinking, Smoking Weed And Having Sex, And She's Suing Over It

Welcome to the working week​Act now before this gets on Monster.com -- there's apparently a job out there that involves getting high, getting drunk and screwing.That's if you believe the allegations of one Diane Burnett, and she's filed a suit, so there's at least a chance it's true.Burnett said h ... More >>

Alexander Hill, Tattoo Customer: Tasered While Sleeping?

Free with every tattoo, a Tasering?​Alexander Hill says he just wanted a tattoo. Instead he got Tasered while he was sleeping, and then Tasered again for good measure.The claims are made in a lawsuit filed in Galveston County. Hill says he went into a Galveston tattoo parlor, and he and an employe ... More >>

Hurricane Rita, Five Years Later: What's Your Story?

As you sit in a bit of stalled traffic today or tomorrow, you can ease your annoyance a bit by remembering what was happening five years ago this week.Just weeks after Houstonians watched horrified as Hurricane Katrina pounded New Orleans and spawned jaw-dropping scenes of just how bad things can be ... More >>

Brandon Backe's Wedding-Brawl Saga Finally Ends

Brandon Backe, wedding party guest extraordinaire​Brandon Backe, the Galveston County pitcher who briefly stirred Astro hearts in their mid-decade glory days, has finally put an end to the wedding-braawl coda to his career.In October 2008, Backe and some pals were involved in a fight with cops at ... 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 >>

Galveston County Doesn't Want Prison Legal News In Its Jail

Thou shalt not read Prison Legal News​The folks at Prison Legal News are suing the Galveston County Jail, Sheriff Freddie Poor, and former Sheriff Gean Leonard, claiming the county is violating the monthly newsletter's First Amendment rights by refusing to deliver issues to incarcerated subscriber ... More >>

Hurricane Season: You Can Officially Assume The Worst

Let the worrying begin!​That weather disturbance out in the Atlantic is now considered unlikely to become Tropical Storm Alex. So we can all relax, right?No. The fact that we're even talking about a tropical disturbance there, at this point in the season, is oh so ominous, according to the experts ... More >>

Galveston Woman Loses Lower Lip In Drunken Seawall Donnybrook; Claims Clubgoers Ignored Her Distress

Courtesy Galveston County SOcutline​Loretta Pearl Ramos, 32, and her beau Carlos Alberto Hernandez-Munoz, 27, were tearing it up yesterday on the Seawall in Galveston when Hernandez-Munoz decided he wanted to kick things up a notch or two.Ramos later told police that Hernandez-Munoz was "extremely ... More >>

Hurricanes: Rice Says Ike Was Nothing

Just a fresh seabreeze compared to what could have been​Just in time for hurricane season, a group created in the wake of Ike has issued a report that should be entitled "The Bejesus, And Scaring It Out Of You."Remember Ike and how much that sucked? Destruction in Galveston, no electricity in Hous ... More >>

Pappas Files Lawsuit Against BP and Halliburton

The Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, engulfed in flames.Photo courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard​It was only a matter of time before the Gulf fishing industry -- whose entire livelihood has been threatened by the Gulf oil leak -- struck back at the organizations responsible for causing the m ... More >>

Matthew Ray Creel Finds A Very Ironic, And Unsuccessful, Place To Hide His Weed

Photo from KTRKLike rain on your wedding day, dude​Matthew Ray Creel, 21, was pulled over by a cop in Santa Fe last night for having a defective headlight.He was then arrested because, it turns out, he was driving with a suspended license.So the cops searched his car. And, according to KTRK, they ... More >>

Fake Nigerians Scamming Hispanics In Texas City

Photos courtesy GCSODaniel Johnson, not a Nigerian with cash-flow problems​Almost exactly five years ago, we were minding our own business at the Downtown Transit Center light rail stop one evening. A suave and well-dressed middle-aged black man came up to us and introduced himself and spun an out ... More >>

Anti-Hurricane Consortium To Hold First Meeting...Just in Time for Hurricane Season

​A mere 19 months after Hurricane Ike treated the upper Texas coast like its musical namesake used to treat Tina, the Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District is holding their first planning session: Galveston County is joined by Harris, Brazoria, Chambers, Jefferson and Orange c ... More >>

Violence, F-Bombs: Texas City Little League Is A Quentin Tarantino Movie

From now on, no one under 17 will be admitted to a Little League baseball game in Texas City unless accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.At least that's the way it should be, if recent events are any indication: A brawl between coaches that resulted in two arrests a couple of weeks ago, and no ... More >>

Real Life Scene From The Wire In Rural Santa Fe

Photo courtesy Santa Fe Police Grigg (left) and Bemrose​Remember that scene in season two of The Wire where Bubbles and his junko partner Johnny Weeks get caught pillaging a Baltimore ambo for needles and morphine?Apparently these two Santa Fe women did. They are alleged to have practically ... More >>

Bad Santa: Clear Lake Shores Saint Nick Accused Of Indecency With Child

​Last week 45-year-old Glenn Roy Klusendorf was Santa Claus at a Clear Lake Shores farmers market. This week, he is an inmate in Galveston County Jail, where he sits charged with indecency with a child, sexual contact and sexual exposure.Klusendforf, who was arrested at the Clear Lake Shores home ... More >>

Worst Impersonation Of A Police Officer, Ever

​The police pull you over because you're swerving "all over the road." Fair enough.But this wasn't your typical DWI. For one thing, the arrestee was riding a bicycle. For the other, he got charged not only with public intoxication, but with impersonating a police officer -- all because the thrift- ... More >>

An Abuse of Power?

Readers weigh in on mall cops and First Amendment rights.

Galveston's Flagship Hotel: Going Once, Going Twice.....

The Flagship Hotel, that iconic building on a pier in Galveston, seems to forever be endangered. It now looks like it's more endangered than ever.The strange, twisty tale of the now semi-battered building might be coming to a conclusion, the Galveston County Daily News reports. Landry's Restaurants, ... More >>

Brandon Backe Is A Free Man!! But He Still Can't Pitch, For Crying Out Loud

A Galveston County grand jury has refused to indict Houston Astros pitcher Brandon Backe on any charges stemming from what sounds like a fun wedding in the off-season that involved a brawl with cops. (As many good weddings do.)The Houston Chronicle reports the decision came today.Thirteen cops were ... More >>

WTF Is Up With All The Cursing Arrests In Galveston County?

Photo by GuerrettoBelieve it or not, a third person has been ticketed for cursing in public in Galveston County.First it was Kathryn Fridge, arrested for dropping an F-bomb in a La Marque Wal-Mart. Then it was the guy from Queens, ticketed for talking like a guy from Queens, in a Galveston diner.Now ... More >>

Searching for Hurricane Ike Victims

Some may never be found.

Comcast Didn't Mean To Sic A Collection Agency On Ike Victims

Some may never be found.

"Disgruntled" BP Workers Sue

Some may never be found.

Time Out, Mack

Rewarding bad behavior by underachievers

Six Feet Blunder

Bring out your dead -- and wait

Globe Theater

East meets West at the Houston Shakespeare Festival

The Last Word

They've fought for justice for nine years, but time is running out

Ruffled Feathers

The Audubon Society wants some killer birds to stay off its land

Hotel Envy

Greenspoint says it's just as good as the Galleria, darn it

The Breakfast Club

In Galveston, it's coffee, a newspaper and a blow job on the way to work

Bridging the Gap

Birders and the port are new buds seeking to block the proposed toll span at Bolivar

Wall Brawl Truce

A fragile détente settles over Kemah and Clear Lake Shores

Showdown at the Shore

Thrill to the battle of the boardwalk brawlers of Kemah versus the maulers of Clear Lake Shores. Sales-tax slugfests, counterpunches to kayo streets and a flurry of jabs have jolted city services in a municipal grudge match yet to end.

Tale of the Tape

KHOU gets defensive about airing a blurry spring break tape

A Yenne for Your Thoughts

Brazoria's D.A. raises privacy issues over DPS emissions tests

Raw Deal

Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. But is anyone listening?

Treated Like a Dog

Galveston County charged Roy Pike with cruelty to animals - and then let his chow die in custody

Night & Day

July 16 - 22, 1998

Changing the Channel

For years, homeowners, developers, environmentalists and the federal government have wrangled over a flood-control plan for Clear Creek. Now a compromise is in view -- but the creek's future is murkier than ever.

Besieged by the Bay

Beset by skyrocketing tax assessments and wary of encroaching development, property owners in San Leon-Bacliff wonder if their "poor man's Riviera" may soon go the way of other waterfront zones along Galveston Bay.