Probation and House Arrest

Why Psy and the Innocence of the Muslims Guy Are Nothing Alike

This meme has been infecting my Facebook newsfeed lately, and I thought I'd reply. The facts are these... Nakoula Basseley Nakoula spent a lot of his life making drugs, evading taxes, and commiting bank fraud, all acts that landed him in various institutions over the years. Because of the last frau ... More >>

Texas Southern University Athletics: NCAA Calls Foul Once Again

The Texas Southern University Athletics Department was once again cited for infractions by the NCAA Tuesday and placed on five years probation, something which certainly has to leave both its supporters and detractors discouraged. As the NCAA report noted, TSU "either has been on probation or had v ... More >>

Revolve Dance: Nexus

Jason Blain Wagner: Pawned Laptop Full of Child Porn, Then Scoffed at Terms of Probation, Police Say

It's kind of amazing how regularly it happens -- a guy will pawn his laptop full of kiddy porn and then is amazed when the buyers somehow discover the disgusting footage and call the police. These days, surely everybody, especially devotees of child porn, must know that files are very hard to eras ... More >>

White People Problems

The parental rage of brownstone Brooklyn in Carnage.

Gerry Todd Greenwood: Drunk at Meeting with Probation Officer

Who knows why 34-year-old Gerry Todd Greenwood allegedly deemed it a good idea to get plastered last Friday morning? Maybe it was the spring air we've been enjoying. Maybe Thursday night never ended for the Jasper man. Or perhaps he just woke up that morning and fell victim to the seductive sentimen ... More >>

Juan & Bruno Gonzales: It's Not Cockfighting, It's "Sparring"

Just sparring, your honor​Note to D-bags who get caught cockfighting: telling the judge your blood-covered chickens were just "sparring" is not a slam-dunk defense.That's what Angelina County father and son Juan and Bruno Gonzales found out Wednesday when State District Judge Paul White found them ... More >>

Tom DeLay Gets Jail Time

The Hammer gets the slammer​Tom DeLay's sentence has been handed out, and it's not a slap on the wrist: He's going to prison for three years with no probation on the conspiracy charges. DeLay was also sentenced by judge Pat Priest to 10 years' probation on a money-laundering charge, according ... More >>

The Devil in DMX

Can the celebrated rapper get out of trouble long enough to top the charts again?

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 >>

Dr. Michael Brown & The Astros: What Gives?

You must be watching an Astros game...​If you're like me, you've always been bugged by those ads for The Brown Hand Center that are shown way too much during Houston Astros games. Maybe it's that whole Stepford family thing, or the way the wife looks terrified, or the girl talking about being dadd ... More >>

Purple Drank Goes Pro, Thanks To ESPN

​ESPN's Outside the Lines, the Emmy Award-winning investigative series that examines topical issues off the playing field, aired a feature over the weekend on Houston's very own rap mascot - purple drank - the dangerous mix of prescription codeine cough syrup and any range of mixers from Sprit ... More >>

USC Trojans: They're Different From 1980s SMU How, Exactly?

Snoop & Pete: BFFs​The Southern Methodist University football team was hit with NCAA sanctions on February 26, 1987 because of a slush-fund created to pay players. Seeing as how the Mustangs were a repeat offender -- they were already on probation for recruiting violations -- the NCAA le ... More >>

The Easy Way To Win A Bass Tournament: Stick A Lead Weight In The Belly Of Your Fish

​Wily criminal minds never sleep. Luckily for the forces of good and justice, neither do the dedicated men and women of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.Robby Rose, 45, a competitive fisherman from Garland, was playing (fishing?) in a bass tournament in Rockwall County last October. Appar ... More >>

Keep A Woman A Virtual Hostage For Six Years, Get Probation: Nice

​Back in July we told you about a Saudi national who had been arrested for lying on a visa application; his lie was that he told authorities he would be bringing in a woman to work for him around the house eight hours a day for $1,300 a month.Instead the feds say, he worked her for 14 hours a day, ... More >>

Remembering 1969, Part 2: The View from Brazil

Note: Part 1 is here. While anti-Vietnam protests escalated in both sides of the Atlantic , the scenario was quite different in Brazil: in March 1964, a military junta toppled democratically elected president João Goulart and installed a cruel dictatorship that stayed in power for two decades - in ... More >>

East Texas Teacher Claims Witch-Hunt Because He's Atheist, Pro-Obama

Photo by dcJohnBrookeland is a town of about 1,800, just north of Jasper. So it's small enough that when a teacher claims to have been railroaded out of a job because he's an atheist and an Obama-supporter, it doesn't take long for the rumors, trash-talk, wild accusations, and just plain weird ... More >>

Troubled Jail Inmate Arrested Again

Early this morning, Laura Howard was arrested with her boyfriend because they allegedly broke into a gas station and took cigarettes sometime last week. It's been about two weeks since we published a story about Howard, who was first arrested last year after a suicide attempt at her home and ended u ... More >>

T.I.: Paper Trail

ABC to Premier Dancing With The Guards

Ornery, Possibly Horny Brazoria Judge in Trouble

More Trouble for the Eldorado Tipster

Paging Doctor Brown. No, Not the Back to the Future Guy. The Wife-Beating, Coke-Snorting Hand Center Guy. Michael Brown. Yeah, That One.

Steve Hamilton

Edgar Award winner’s latest involves a date-at-your-own-risk scenario

After Oprah

Ted Poe got the spotlight for a shame-based sentencing -- the victim says it was a sham

The Killer Next Door

He left clues all over, but it still took investigators years to unmask the serial murderer in their midst

Firing Line

The new tough-talking probation director has ousted aides, but can he improve services?

A Hard-on for Numbers

The Chron tries to stay, uh, abreast of circulation counts

The Odd Couple

When a veteran juvenile probation supervisor took a teenage former detainee as her live-in companion, you'd have thought authorities would be interested. They weren't.

Best Local Girl Gone Bad

Socialite Sanam Soudavar

Sick Kids

For many mentally ill teenagers in Texas, the only way to get treatment is to get arrested.

Nature of the Beast

Plastic surgeon Billy Ringer has been sued ten times for malpractice. He's on probation for sexual misconduct. He sewed a needle into Colleen Guidy. But he's still in business -- cutting, vacuuming, rearranging and, it seems, injuring patients.

Killing Time

The case against him died from lack of evidence. But Texas still plans to execute Odell Barnes.

The Insider

Strange Association. The ties that bind former mayor Whitmire with a sex offender

Go Directly to Jail

Probation officer Terry Hunt thinks prison is the best answer for every offender

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