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Harris County Sheriff's Office

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Running on Empty: Robbery Suspects Busted When Getaway Car Runs Out of Gas

    In the recent critically acclaimed movie Drive, dreamy heartthrob Ryan Gosling plays a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. He has some simple rules that the crooks hiring him must follow. For example, there is a very narrow window of time when Gosling's character will remain on the sc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Gurjeet Singh: Sets Self on Fire While on Run from Law

    Burns over 90 percent of his body.​A 29-year-old charged last month in Harris County with the aggravated assault of a family member was taken to a San Antonio burn unit yesterday after he apparently stripped nude, doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. Police in the Central Tex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Forced to Listen to Rush Limbaugh: Five Reasons This Woman Should Be Thankful

    As first reported in the Houston Chronicle, Bridgett Nickerson Boyd is suing Harris County and a county sheriff's deputy for, among other things, forcing her to listen to Rush Limbaugh after an arrest. Now, among the "other things" is that she was arrested for driving on the shoulder of the road, c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Rhys Hickey: Habitual Beer Thief Allegedly Breaks Ex-Wife's Face, Chokes Son

    "The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems"​Way back in May of 2005, Rhys Hickey was already divorced from his ex-wife, the mother of their son. That was when he threatened her life. Two years after that, he was convicted for that offense and given a month in jail. His wife took ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Houston Musician Mean Gene Kelton Killed In Car Accident

    Mean Gene Kelton & the Die Hards on Facebook​Longtime Houston musician "Mean" Gene Kelton, whose band the Die Hards has been a fixture at biker rallies and ice houses around the area for almost 20 years, was killed in a car accident Tuesday evening. The following update was posted on Kelton's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Willie D Gets A Year And A Day In Federal Pen For Wire Fraud

    ​Former Geto Boy Willie D, aka William Dennis, has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison on wire fraud charges, the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of Texas announced today. Judge Gray Miller also ordered Willie D to pay nearly $200,000 in restitution to the buy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Sheriff Adrian Garcia Helps Feds Trumpet Stats On Illegal-Alien Removals

    Photo by Austin MillerSheriff Adrian Garcia, hyping the Obama administration​The Immigration & Customs Enforcement department brought in some help for today's announcement in Washington about how great they're doing removing illegal aliens: Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia.Garcia appeared w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    John Karrer: Did Facebook Postings Foretell Alleged Drunken Vehicular Assault Spree

    Grand Theft Auto: Tumbleweed, Texas?​Houstonian John Karrer was amped last Friday about the upcoming debut of Dexter, Showtime's award-winning series about a serial killer. "More Killing Please!!!" he enthused on the wall of his Facebook page. "Best show ever...Sunday night it is going down!!!" he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Unidentified Woman, Bayou Body Count No. 39

    ​Who knows, maybe Michael Bryant could've gotten away with it.He stashed the body under water, not an awful move, and then he could've just walked away.But no. He had to go and turn himself in.Good job ... seriously.At about 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Bryant and his brother drove over to the Houston Polic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    November 26, 2009

    Meat of the Matter

    Readers disagree with Robb Walsh's review of Killen's

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2009

    Bayou Body Count: Who Says Mothers And Daughters Can't Work Together?

    ​It's not often that Bayou Body Count kicks off with a story that doesn't include a dead body, but then again, it's not often that we see a story about a mother-daughter team allegedly trying to hire an assassin to kill their husband/father.Needless to say, then, but Mr. David Shamp does not seem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Bayou Body Count: A Police Shooting Over An Open Beer

    ​There is something to be said about the importance of solid doors, strong locks and a secure home. Think not? Well, the carnage over the past several days may change your mind.It was Friday evening, about 7 p.m., when 18-year-old Jubelle Serano was taking care of her 6-year-old sister at their ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Bayou Body Count: Dead Bodies In Cars, A New Trend

    ​At 3 a.m. this morning, a Harris County Sheriff's deputy was prowling the streets around Bammel North Houston and State Highway 249 looking to nail some drug dealers. Driving along, suddenly he thought he saw a deal going down. The deputy followed a suspicious car for a while, but when he tried ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Council Hears About More BARC Stuff, This Time Some Nasty Divorce Allegations

    ​It seems a day can't go by without some drama regarding the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care. Today's edition involves a 2006 allegation of abuse against BARC Interim Bureau Chief Gerry Fusco made by his then-wife. The Harris County Sheriff's Office report was posted on an online animal- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Bayou Body Count: Don't Mess With The Step-Father

    ​They say there's nothing so powerful as a father's love. Well, Leroy Lewis, Jr. is making a pretty good case for step-fathers, too. He may even go to prison for trying to prove it. Lewis, 32, is charged with murder for allegedly shooting his step-daughter's boyfriend in defense of her, accordin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Bayou Body County: Bloody Weekend In Houston Town

    ​It was around 2:30 a.m. Sunday when Mayra Renteria called the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Her estranged husband, Tomas Carreon, had just walked into her parents home on the 19400 block of Tree Orchard Drive, where Renteria was staying, and began shooting. He killed her mother, Marina Schaerer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    Houston's Own Professor Gates Incident, Except With Homeless People

    ​It is not against the law to feed the homeless. Nor does this require a permit. Deputy T. McGilbray of the Harris County Sheriff's Office was apparently unaware of this during his patrol on July 19, when he interrupted a local church group's weekly Sunday afternoon homeless outreach in James ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    Aftermath: The Krayolas at Cactus Music

    Photos by Chris Gray The coolest band in Houston this weekend couldn't find a club or venue to play. Not at night, anyway - San Antonio's the Krayolas did manage to play Dan Electro's during Saturday afternoon's live broadcast of KPFT's Joe's Roadhouse, and Cactus Music an hour or two thereafter. If ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Bayou Body Count: Shootout On The North Side

    David Samuel Sepeda, 24, had decided to spend Saturday afternoon with his 13-year-old younger brother. They were washing Sepeda's car at the Apache Springs Apartment at 400 North Vista, not far from Bush International Airport, when suddenly they noticed that two African-American men watching the ... More >>

  • News

    April 9, 2009

    The DWI Bride and Houston's Love for Rush

    Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    The Drunk Bride & The Jail: The Continuing Saga From Someone Who Hates Publicity

    So it's your wedding night. Your new hubby is driving you from the reception to your hotel. You get stopped. He gets charged with DWI, and you get charged with public intoxication. You're wearing your wedding dress in a courtroom and a photog snaps your picture. Suddenly you're the face of the "Marc ... More >>

  • News

    January 8, 2009

    Restitution, Mental Illness, DNA Evidence, Oysters and White People

    So it's your wedding night. Your new hubby is driving you from the reception to your hotel. You get stopped. He gets charged with DWI, and you get charged with public intoxication. You're wearing your wedding dress in a courtroom and a photog snaps your picture. Suddenly you're the face of the "Marc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Last Legacy Of Sheriff Tommy Thomas: A Wrongful Death Lawsuit

    Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas is leaving office in a few weeks, thanks to the voters, but his legacy will live on, thanks to a lawsuit filed over a jailhouse death.Daniel Goldberg recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the department in state district court on behalf of the parents of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Web Extra: Video Interview with Laura Howard from "How to Save a Life"

    Laura Howard, a teenage girl diagnosed as bipolar and obsessive compulsive, attempted suicide during spring of last year, and the Harris County Sheriff's Office responded to the call. The deputies could have taken Howard to the county's NeuroPsychiatric Center, designed for mentally ill suspects as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Sikh Family Claims Harassment By Sheriff's Deputies

    A Sikh family in Houston, backed by a national organization, is crying foul over how they were treated by deputies of the Harris County Sheriff's Office.Kawaljeet Kaur tells Hair Balls that her family phoned 911 after discovering their home was burglarized November 26; things went downhill quickly f ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    The 99-Cent Dog Store

    It's low-rent, but legal

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008
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    September 3, 2008
  • News

    March 20, 2008
  • Blogs

    February 15, 2008

    Chuck Rosenthal Resigns

    Rumors surround Montrose church

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2007

    Marvin Zindler, 1921-2007

    Rumors surround Montrose church

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    Junior High Kid Goes Big-Time, Zero Tolerance

    She's glad her 15 minutes are up

  • News

    May 3, 2007

    Coming Up Empty

    This six-year battle for a strip club reads like a Monty Python joke — complete with dead parrots

  • News

    April 13, 2006

    Baby, Please Don't Go

    It's not too late to keep the Hammer

  • News

    November 11, 2004

    Black and White

    Good ol’ boys prosper at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Many African-Americans don’t.

  • News

    June 10, 2004

    No PAL of Mine

    The doors indeed will close on a respected program

  • News

    April 29, 2004

    Collision Course

    A lawsuit challenges deputies who shoot fleeing drivers

  • Music

    June 1, 2000

    Metal Help

    The late William "Tray" Folliard, the Hard Rock, and stories from 'round town

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Black and White Only

    County jail counts strip Hispanics of their ethnicity

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    Letters

    County jail counts strip Hispanics of their ethnicity

  • News

    April 17, 1997

    The Insider

    County jail counts strip Hispanics of their ethnicity

  • News

    October 17, 1996

    The Victim's Victims

    Four years after his daughter's murder, Bob Carreiro crusades to bring criminals to justice and peace to lives wrecked by crime. But to the family who shared his tragedy, he shows no mercy.

  • News

    June 13, 1996

    Into the Den of Stockmania

    The truth about my alleged "invasion" of the Friendswood congressman's one-stop political sweatshop and homestead

  • News

    March 7, 1996

    Security Risk

    Was there something else behind the sheriff's forbidding off-duty work at abortion clinics?

  • News

    July 6, 1995

    Diagnosis

    After being drugged, hypnotized and bound by restraints, the patients of Judith Peterson say they came to believe they had multiple personalities or had belonged to satanic cults. So, apparently, did their therapist.

  • News

    March 30, 1995

    All the Law Enforcement You Can Afford

    Harris County has abdicated a basic responsibility of government: to provide for the public safety of all. Instead, those who have get and those who don't get the leftovers.

  • News

    January 12, 1995

    Killer Behind the Badge

    Susan White complained to friends and authorities about Deputy Joseph Kent McGowen, but nobody listened. Then he killed her.

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