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Harris District Attorney

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Maria Garcia Delao: Molested Sleeping 13-Year-Old Girl, Cops Say

    Police say a 13-year-old girl awoke one night last spring to find Maria Garcia Delao, 27, fondling her. The girl was a relative of Delao's boyfriend and was spending a night last May in her apartment when the alleged attack occurred. The girl told her mother about the incident in October, court do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Ruggles Waitstaff Stages Walk-Out, Alleging Non-Payment of Tips: UPDATE

    Photo by Ed T.Ruggles owner and chef Bruce Molzan lost 60 percent of his staff Saturday night.​Update: Bruce Molzan says that he has "three auditors" and a new manager going through files and payroll records as of today, admitting that Ruggles does owe the waitstaff back wages. "It's about $14 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Ruggles Waitstaff Walks Out Over Allegedly Getting Stiffed on Tips

    Photo by Ed T.Ruggles owner and chef Bruce Molzan lost 60 percent of his staff Saturday night.​Saturday night at Ruggles was busy. There were nearly 200 customers packing the restaurant at Westheimer and Montrose, with a skeleton crew of only five waiters out of a normal ten-man crew. And at 7 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Yohance McClane, 30, Bayou Body Count No. 180

    The Harris County District Attorney's office will decide whether to present charges to a grand jury in the death of Yohance McClane, 30, who was stabbed to death by his girlfriend, police say. McClane died at his apartment in the 16100 block of Vickery on the northside about 12:40 a.m. Monday, HPD ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    HPD Sting Snags HBU Cop with Coke

    A three-year veteran of the Houston Baptist University police force has been fired and now faces first-degree felony drug charges after the Houston Police Department caught him in a sting operation yesterday. According to the Harris County District Attorney's office, HPD had received a tip that an ... More >>

  • News

    September 22, 2011

    The Peddler

    Both in and out of prison, Brian Culwell has spent his life selling people baubles, trinkets and jewels. Now he's buying your gold and silver.

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Joe Roach, Former Council Member, Dies at 49

    Joe Roach​Joe Roach, the former Houston city councilman known as much for his dwarfism as being a politician, lawyer and TV analyst, has died after a brief illness, KTRK is reporting. The station says Roach, 49, had been hospitalized for a month with an undisclosed illness. He had been a cit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Luciano Rosales: Strips 88-Year-Old Widow Of $1.3 Million, Blows It On Online Dating, Ballet

    Luciano Rosales will have to neglect his online matches if he's found guilty.​Ten years ago, a 77-year-old widow named Nola Grimes buried her son -- her last living blood relative. So when Luciano Rosales -- a 50-year-old employee of Grimes's business Cash Money, reported KHOU -- approached he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Jessica Tata: Now She's Facing Murder Charges

    HCSOJessica Tata faces a longer sentence​The stakes have been raised against Jessica Tata, the owner of the daycare center where four children died in a fire. Previously charged with manslaughter, now Tata faces murder charges after court filings yesterday by the Harris County District Attorn ... More >>

  • News

    March 17, 2011

    Heights Art Heist Update

    Lawyers loom, tempers flare

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Michael Medina: Sheriff's Deputy Kills Man Who Stole His Taser

    Gun beats Taser​A 37-year-old man was shot and killed by a Harris County Sheriff's Deputy during a struggle in an apartment complex on the east side of the county, HCSO officials say. Deputy Michael Medina, an eight-year HCSO veteran, was responding to a disturbance call at a complex in the 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Michael Brown: Wife's Divorce Attorney Claims the Hand Doctor Tried to Hire a Hit Man to Kill Her

    Michael Brown facing more allegations​Former hand surgeon Michael Brown tried to hire a hit man to kill his wife, his wife's lawyer told a Harris County Family Court judge Thursday. In a heated meeting in front of Judge Jim York, David Brown (no relation) said he had received a tip from the H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    The Great Heights Art Heist: The Aftermath

    An attorney says he'll help artists​Developments continue in the case of H Gallery, the Heights art gallery we featured last week that is alleged to have been ripping off artists for the past several years. Last Saturday, H director Heidi Powell-Prera showed up at the Heights' First Saturday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Jason Woytek: Public Servant Accused Of Stealing Dozens Of MHMRA Laptops

    Jason Woytek was a true Pawn Star​If you believe what Jason Woytek has written about himself on the Internet, you'd think he was a man of many and varied achievements: a man of God, a top salesman, budding author, an Eagle Scout and an elite former soldier. Woytek claims to have been an Army s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Crips & Bloods: DA Gets Her Civil Injunction Against Them

    First injunction granted in gang fight​The Harris County District Attorney's office announced last month they would be seeking civil injunctions against gang members operating near a northeast side apartment complex, and late this afternoon a judge granted the first such one in Harris County. ... More >>

  • News

    November 25, 2010

    2010 Turkeys of the Year

    Metro chief Frank Wilson is our biggest gobbler.

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Bill Satterwhite: Three (Alleged) Strikes And You're Out Of The Fake Lawyerin' Game

    Photo HCSO via Fox 26Bill Satterwhite just has a hankering to lawyer​For the third time, former attorney William Everett Satterwhite has been caught practicing law without a license. This time the penalty for the 66-year-old disbarred lawyer could be life in prison. According to court records, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Unidentified Male, Bayou Body Count No. 238

    A stabbing death, but maybe no charges​A man was stabbed to death Sunday afternoon in a southwest side apartment, police say.The victim and another man were arguing in an apartment and the fight escalated into a stabbing about 1:20 p.m. in the 6400 block of Bankside, police say. The victim, whose ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    No Refusal DWI Crackdowns: Every Weekend For The Next Three Years

    Because you're mine, you walk the line​Every holiday weekend, it seems, the Harris County District Attorney's office puts out a release touting a "No Refusal Weekend," where law-enforcement sets up locations targeting drunk drivers.Normally, DWI suspects who refuse to take a Breathalyzer (as attor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Carol Vance: Former DA Cancels Book-Signing Appearance; Death-Penalty Foes Claim Victory

    Carol Vance ducks out of an appearance​Carol Vance, a former longtime Harris County District Attorney, canceled an an appearance last week at Murder by the Book to promote his biography Boomtown DA.The store said simply the cancellation was "due to extenuating circumstances," but death-penalty foe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Michael Anthony Green: Wrongly Imprisoned For 27 Years, But Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting For Restitution

    Michael Anthony Green deserves to get paid, but he'll have to wait in line. ​The case of Michael Anthony Green has been in the news lately, because Green served 27 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. The district attorney's office sent out a press release yesterday taking credit for Green ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Juan Tejeda & Jorge Magdeleno: After Living Quietly For 16 Years, Arrested On Murder Charges

    Sixteen years later, caught​Another week, another cold-case arrest in Houston.This time it was two men who had been on the run since participating in a gang murder back in 1994, officials say.Jorge Carlos Tejeda, 33 and Jorge Tejeda Magdeleno, 35, were quietly arrested July 7, Tejeda at the tire s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Orlando Castano: New Bribery Bust In Bogus DPS License Scheme

    Photo courtesy DPS Orlando Castano, sex offender and (alleged) dealer in fake driver's licenses​There has been a new arrest in the Department of Public Safety bribery case. Last week administrative DPS clerk Gracie Gutierrez was arrested and charged with bribery for accepting cash for a fake licen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Unidentified Male, Bayou Body Count No. 167

    No charges filed at this point​A man was found stabbed to death in a Third Ward garage apartment Sunday; the man with whom he was arguing was questioned but not charged.Police responded to a disturbance call in the 5900 block of Grace about 12:10 a.m. Sunday and found a man stabbed in the torso. H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Lance Reyna: An Arrest, But No Hate-Crime Charges

    An easier prosecution without a hate crime angle, prosecutors say​Authorities have made an arrest in the assault of a gay-rights leader who was attacked on the central campus of Houston Community College, but no hate-crime charges will be filed.HCC student Terrance Calhoun, 22, was charged in the ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2010

    Crash Reports

    Running a red light and killing someone does not automatically mean you're in trouble in Harris County.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    13-Year-Old Can't Be A Prostitute Because She Can't Consent To Sex, Attorneys Argue

    ​The Texas Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a case involving the Harris County District Attorney's prosecution of a 13-year-old girl for prostitution. Attorneys for the girl, called "B.W." in the proceedings, say that, because a minor cannot consent to sex, B.W. should not have been ... More >>

  • News

    June 25, 2009

    ID Theft

    Someone gets your social, ruins your credit, upends your life. And gets away free and clear.

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Faulty Lab Report May Buy Death Row Inmate New Trial

    It's good news for death row inmate Charles Raby - and more bad news for Joseph Chu. The former Houston crime lab analyst has taken a beating in the Michael Bromwich reports, which determined that, among other things, the lab had manipulated results to help with convictions. And it seems that in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Surprise, Surprise: Yet Another Delay In 15-Year-Old DNA Case

    Attorney Sarah FrazierBack in January Hair Balls brought you the saga of the seemingly endless DNA case of convicted grandma-killer Charles Raby. He's been on Death Row since 1994, and the DNA challenge has been going on for more than six years. Today's scheduled ruling was pushed back yet again.&nb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Good News: Helpful DNA Evidence. Bad News: Her Client May Still Die

    Defense attorney Sarah Frazier got the DNA results she wanted. They might even win her tomorrow's hearing. But her client could still be put to death. Frazier has fought for years to introduce new DNA testing to the case of Charles Raby, who was convicted almost 15 years ago of murdering a grandmoth ... More >>

  • News

    November 27, 2008

    Turkeys of the Year

    DA Chuck Rosenthal flies off with top honors

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Election Night Parties -- Where To Watch

    DA Chuck Rosenthal flies off with top honors

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2008

    The DA Office's Exodus: And So It Begins

    DA Chuck Rosenthal flies off with top honors

  • News

    April 17, 2008

    Death Threats and TAKS Tests

    Some TAKS tests are murder

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2008
  • Music

    October 19, 2006

    Ask Another Mexican

    Free SPM (oh, and buy his new CD)

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    Kiss and Tell

    Critics want the diocese to explain why this Roman Catholic priest is still celebrating Mass

  • News

    April 17, 2003

    High Scores

    Students are using drugs illegally not to party down, but to get better marks on exams

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    Mercenary or Media Martyr?

    A self-proclaimed journalist has had a paying job -- private eye

  • News

    January 6, 2000

    The Insider

    The Talented Mr. Stockman. A defeated politician resurrects himself in Seventh District heaven with a stash of campaign cash

  • News

    December 16, 1999

    The Insider

    Political Goodfellows Editor: Gabe and Gary get new toys; Lee and Mario cry in their stockings

  • News

    August 19, 1999

    Get The Goods On All The Bads

    We Snitch on HOUSNITCH! What's really behind City Hall's whistle-blower Web page?

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Letters

    We Snitch on HOUSNITCH! What's really behind City Hall's whistle-blower Web page?

  • News

    June 26, 1997

    Pain for the Prosecution

    Assistant district attorney Kristen Pain sent criminals to jail -- and then went to jail herself.

  • News

    August 29, 1996

    No Time for Sergeants

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

  • News

    February 9, 1995

    Re-Hanging the Judge

    An angry grand juror says Lupe Salinas is a victim of kangaroo court justice

  • 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.

  • News

    January 5, 1995

    The Case of the Missing Case

    What good is a review committee that doesn't get to review?

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