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November 13, 2012
Chupacabras, Assault Rifles, and Busting Facebragging Hunters: True Texas Game Warden Adventures
Among crime blotters in the state, two of the best belong to the Lufkin Daily News and the Wise County Messenger. But those are both private sector news sources. Our favorite "socialist" crime blotter comes from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, whose periodic Game Warden Field Notes is must ... More >>
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October 18, 2012
Angela Buchanan: Posing As Gynecologist, She Tricks Woman Into Months of Sex and a Civil Union
We've heard some strange cases of online impersonation, but this one, as the Brits say, takes the biscuit. Last night Jessica Cooley of the Lufkin Daily News broke the story of Angela Buchanan, a 30-year-old woman evidently smitten with a 51-year-old lady. Buchanan and the woman had been messaging ... More >>
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June 8, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
May 23, 2012
ETX Family (Allegedly) Peddles Drugs Together and Goes to Jail Together
Three members representing as many generations of an Angelina County family are behind bars there after the local sheriff's office caught them peddling pills, authorities say. According to a Lufkin Daily News report, a six-months-long investigation culminated in a raid on a home in Zavalla and the ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
Natalie Johnson: Stiff Sentence for East Texas Mom Who Sexed Teen Boy
An Angelina County district court judge has brought the hammer down on a 33-year-old Diboll woman who was recently convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old boy. Despite a tearful apology and plea for forgiveness, judge Barry Bryan sentenced Natalie Johnson to 25 years in prison. According to the ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2012
Kelly Wilson: East Texas Jailer / Author Charged with Inmate Sex
Angelina County jailer and author Kelly Wilson has resigned her position and faces criminal charges after authorities in Lufkin alleged that she had a sexual relationship with an inmate. According to the Lufkin Daily News, the Angelina County Sheriff's Office got a tip that there was some illicit h ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2012
Justin McDonald and Zachary Bridges: Bad Fake Cops, Including Guyliner & Faux-Hawk
There has been a rash of fake cops in the Lufkin area of late, with two men finding lodgings in the Angelina County Jail after run-ins with their authentic counterparts. Per KTRE, Justin McDonald was jailed for violating the terms of his probation stemming from an incident 14 months ago. In Februar ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2012
Heather Ricks Terry and Mary Dorsey, Alleged Thieving Dental Workers: Thar's Gold in Them Thar Grills
A pair of Lufkin dental office workers have been arrested and charged with stealing gold meant for grills and fillings from their place of work. Authorities there say that Heather Ricks Terry, 30, and Mary Dorsey, 42, swiped about $5,000 of the precious metals from the Palmer and Ross Dental Group ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
PasDoctor Geronimo: Planned Courthouse Lawn Tepee/Tent-Residence Birthday Orgy Halted by Lufkin Cops
Sadly, PasDoctor Geronimo's hoped-for 12-plus woman birthday orgy in a custom-built "tepee/tent-residence" on the Angelina County Courthouse lawn -- starring Cameron Diaz -- did not take place yesterday. Jessica Cooley of the Lufkin Daily News was there for the dramatic confrontation. She reported ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2012
The PasDoctor Geronimo Manifesto: A Presidential Run and a Birthday "Tepee/Tent-Residence" Orgy, Starring Cameron Diaz
Jessica Cooley / Lufkin Daily NewsPasDoctor Geronimo has quite the bash planned tonight.Hair Balls' old friend PasDoctor Geronimo is back at it this week. This time around he's not in trouble with the law. Instead, the Lufkin man, whose "white man's name" is Douglas Paul McCoy, has filed a ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Douglas Paul McCoy / Pas Doctor Geronimo: Lufkin Indian Outlaw and K-2 Fan Debuts New Name in Court
Jessica Cooley / Lufkin Daily NewsPas Doctor Geronimo makes his courtroom debut under his new name while rocking his Walkman to Tim McGraw's "Indian Outlaw." Lufkin's Douglas Paul McCoy seems hell-bent on setting the record for most appearances in Hair Balls crime stories. Late last week, he ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2011
Douglas Paul McCoy: East Texas K-2 Fan Jailed Again; This Time For "Occupying" Lufkin
Angelina County JailDouglas Paul "Geronimo" McCoy: Against All AuthorityThree months ago, we brought you the saga of Douglas Paul McCoy, a 48-year-old Lufkinite who went to jail twice in two days, allegedly because of his love of (and antics while under the influence of) K-2, a synthetic mari ... More >>
News
November 17, 2011
Texas Tweakers
James "Bull" Durham burned down his mother's house while cooking meth. In Angelina County, the jail is full of guys like him..
Blogs
November 16, 2011
Cover Story: How James "Bull" Durham Became A Poster Boy for East Texas Meth
See our slideshow of James Durham's descent into meth hell. James "Bull" Durham, Lufkin's meth poster boy, popped his first shot of that devil's potion at the age of eleven -- he says it helped him get through his day-long shifts as an off-the-books catfish skinner. Even so, he says his lif ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2011
Justin Delane Nash: Accused of Second Sick Crime Against a Child in 17 Months
Phots by Angelina Count ySOJustin Nash's most recent mugshot...A girl's school journal entry has led to an arrest for an alleged sex crime. On September 23, a Lufkin schoolgirl handed in a journal to her teacher in which she had written, "I wish I had a better life. I got raped by Justin and ... More >>
News
October 6, 2011
PR Headline of the Day
Parker Afraid of Dick
Blogs
September 28, 2011
James Edwin Durham: One-Man Lufkin Crime Wave Finally Brought Down -- Featuring Musical Mugshot Slideshow
Check the musical slideshow of Durham's mugshots after the jump. It's been a rough year for James Edwin Durham. Since last November, the 39-year-old Lufkin man has allegedly burned his mother's house down while cooking meth, gotten shot in the ass, been charged with numerous felonies in several d ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2011
Feds Bring Down Hammer on Lufkin Meth Trade
In two distinct actions, federal authorities have indicted 17 East Texans on over 200 counts of crimes related to the crystal methamphetamine trade in and around Lufkin. You just might be hearing this song all over town this week: In the first action, the Lufkin Daily News has reported that a fed ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2011
David Allen Smith: Busted for Kiddy Porn after Wife Turns Geek Squad Loose on Computer
He doesn't look like he'd have kiddie porn at ALL.Marriage and a weakness for child porn. It's a combo that doesn't mix. The latest area man to find that out the hard way is 67-year-old David Allen Smith of Lufkin. Police there say Smith's vile stash came to light after his wife took thei ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2011
The Lufkin Daily News Police Blotter: Ten Highlights from the Last Year
Lots of news gems come from the Lufkin paper.We get a lot of stories here at Hair Balls from the Lufkin Daily News. Unlike so many of its fellow small-town East Texas newspapers, the editors and reporters have both a keen eye for mayhem and a dark, mordant sense of humor about it. That last ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2011
Jesus "Jesse" Gonzalez: Former HS Teacher Marries Student, Complicates Prosecution of Improper Relationship Case
Bad teachers abound in Texas.Recent weeks have seen a rash of cases involving high school teachers having sexual relationships with students past the age of consent. These cases differ from sexual assaults in that while they are second-degree felonies punishable by up to 20 years in prison, ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Illicit Cig Leads to Odd Lufkin Donnybrook
Wait, WHO called the cops?Yesterday's police report in the Lufkin Daily News led with an odd item, a month to the day after we reported another cigarette-related incidence of domestic mayhem in that Piney Woods metropolis. Apparently a woman and her live-in boyfriend got in a fight after she ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2011
Lufkin Couple Heads To Jail After Pregnant Woman Smokes Cig
Not the Lufkin woman, who we're sure doesn't have tatsAccording 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 >>
Blogs
April 28, 2011
Twitter Dumbness: Trent Cantrell, Former Lufkin City Planner, Resigns After Sour Tweets About Town
Even if you really, really hate the town whose government is signing your paychecks, you might want to keep those thoughts to yourself. If you absolutely must Tweet your opinions on the matter, only let your friends see 'em. Former Lufkin city planner Trent Cantrell didn't take those precautions, an ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2011
Another Alleged East Texas Trailer Park Gang Rape, This One Near Lufkin
Angelina CountyClinton "Bubba" Johnson Jr.: Friend says he bragged about inserting beer bottle into victim.While the nation and the world are recoiling in horror from the alleged Cleveland trailer park gang rape, a similarly depraved tale in the town of Hudson (just outside of Lufkin) has yet ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Juan & Bruno Gonzales: It's Not Cockfighting, It's "Sparring"
Just sparring, your honorNote 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 >>
Blogs
February 2, 2011
Joseph Michael Weeks: Teen "Male Whore Dog" in Trouble Again, for Doing What Male Whore Dogs Do
Joseph Michael Weeks: Lufkin's been warnedBack in July, hours before he allegedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl who was messed up on cough syrup, a Lufkin mother called Joseph Michael Weeks a "male whore dog." And now, while out on bond for that case, the 19-year-old has racked up two ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2011
Victor Ray Wortham: Loud Gum-Smacking Spurs Domestic Violence Complaint
Angelina County SOVictor Ray Wortham: Vicious attack over not muchLet's face it: sharing space with someone who smacks their gum can be damned annoying. Still, we think Lufkin's Victor Ray Wortham might have slightly overreacted when his wife's gum-popping allegedly spurred him on to a viciou ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
Jose Otilio Diaz Jr.: Apartment Maintenance Man Allegedly Goes From Creepy Masturbator to Attempted Rapist
Photo courtesy Angelina County JailJose Otilio Diaz: Runs into one badass womanAlthough he had only been on the job for a few weeks, Jose Otilio Diaz Jr. had not made many friends at the Lufkin apartment complex where he served as an assistant to the chief. According to an arrest report quote ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Ricardo Coulston: Blowjob In Kiddie Flick Lands Lufkin Teen In Jail
Ricardo Coulston REALLY enjoyed Mastermind, until the cops showed upWhen you think of movies that could inspire people to commit acts of public lewdness, Megamind, the new Will Ferrell-, Brad Pitt- and Tina Fey-voiced animated children's superhero flick doesn't immediately spring to mind. Bu ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
Trishana Broussard: Sex With Three East Texas Teens Nets Six Years' Prison
Trishana Broussard: If blowing underage boys in cemeteries is wrong, she don't wanna be rightA 37-year-old East Texas woman is going to prison after pleading no contest to engaging in oral sex with three teenaged boys. On Monday, Trishana "Mama Bear" Broussard was sentenced to a six-year se ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2010
Meth Fires Galore In Lufkin
Photos courtesy Angleina County SOGilbert Sayers: Would you rent a room to this guy?Man, Lufkin's got the crystal methamphetamine blues bad. Just as one high-profile meth lab fire case comes to a close, another one opens... We begin with the adventures of Gilbert Sanders and Charles Euper... ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
Jacob Thompson: $20 Gets You A Tat And Minor Surgery (Allegedly)
Jacob Thompson: The doctor is inNot many of us would confuse James "Jacob" Thompson with a medical doctor, but to an unidentified 16-year-old East Texas woman, the fact that the Groveton man was something of a tattoo artist was qualification enough for her to ask him to perform minor surger ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Rayond Wilson II: Three Life Sentences For East Texas Trailer Park Bloodbath
Photo courtesy Angelina County JailRaymond Wilson II Back in December, Hair Balls brought you the story of an East Texas trailer park murder spree that left two women and one man dead. Late last week the accused in the case -- 46-year-old Raymond Wilson II -- took a plea deal granting him three ... More >>
News
July 8, 2010
Lawn Mower Man
Kenneth Page followed his peculiar dream from Texas to Florida.
Blogs
April 14, 2010
Romance Blooms Out Of The Ashes Of A Lufkin Crime Of Passion
Paraphrasing Larry McMurtry, a woman's love is like the spring dew. It's just as likely to descend on a cowpie as an April wildflower.In the East Texas romance of Jennifer Doss and Christopher Guffey, we're leaning towards cowpie. You see, Guffey, an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2010
Which Classy Texas Congressman Shouted "Baby Killer" Last Night? (Updated)
Last night's historic health-care vote was an emotional event on both sides of the aisle. Only one side, however, showed the class it takes to yell "Baby Killer!!" at a colleague.And all signs point to a Texan doing the deed.Anti-abortion Democrat Bart Stupak got up to speak late in the evening, exp ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2009
Ever Been Fingerprinted? Well, You Might Just Be... I Dunno, Oh, SATAN!
Pam McLaurin is a teacher in Big Sandy ISD in Polk County in deep East Texas. The Texas Education Association has asked her to submit to a background check. McLaurin, who has taught for 20 years, has complied with every part of the check save for the mandatory fingerprinting, which she opposes on ... More >>
News
April 6, 2000
Reeling
Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So does the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.

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