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John Nova Lomax

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The Five Most Sex Offender-Riddled Zip Codes In Houston

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 29, 2010

We'll get to our list of the five zip codes with the most sex offenders in Houston, but first let's discuss other areas of note. Outside of one of the zips in the list that follows, the area with the most sex offenders inside the loop is zip code 77009,...
Dulce Nava-Cardenas: Sells $150 Sex To 16-Year-Old Boy

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 28, 2010

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, well, plenty of creatures were stirring in the house in this story... ... Police in Edinburg say that in the wee hours of December 24, a Valley dad walked in on his 16-year-old son and Dulce Liliana Nava-Cardenas, the 35-year-old...
Crystina Becerra: Penthouse Club Stripper Wanted After Putting Two Patrons In Hospital

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 27, 2010

In an altercation that put us in mind of Jerome Ponette, it all started with a squabble between two strippers over something one of them likely believed the other had stolen. Before it was all over, two men would be writhing in pain in the parking lot of a Southwest...
Rudy Erik Candia: Facebook, Lunar Eclipse Used To Woo 12-Year-old West U Boy. (Allegedly)

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 27, 2010

Late on the night of December 20, 12-year-old Alex (not his real name) asked his dad if he could go meet a friend and watch the lunar eclipse from the parking lot of a Med Center oil-change joint. His dad told him no. The West U family was leaving town...
The Ten Oddest Crimes Of 2010, Southeast Texas Style

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 24, 2010

Hard as it may be to believe, the criminal element of Southeast Texas did dumb and weird things in 2010, continuing a tradition that dates back to the creation of Southeast Texas. Here are ten of the oddest and dumbest: 10. Two former EMS employees in Santa Fe were arrested...
The 12 Best Mugshots Of 2010

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 23, 2010

Here's a dozen of the creepiest, funniest, fugliest, and weirdest mugshots of 2010. Enjoy them, but know this: there but the grace of God and a too-wild night could go you. 12. Randolph Caldwell...
The 20 Best Names Of 2010's Accused Criminals

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 22, 2010

Here's a selection of the ten best male and ten best female names we found in many months' worth of trolling Harris County arrest records. A couple of disclaimers in order: Not all, indeed not necessarily any, of these people were convicted of a crime. Additionally, the crimes they are...
Jason Woytek: Public Servant Accused Of Stealing Dozens Of MHMRA Laptops

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 16, 2010

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 sniper who...
Yvette Morales: Dupes Grad Student Into Thinking She Is Ailing, Lovelorn Anchorwoman

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 14, 2010

Despite being smitten with Kingsville TV reporter Katia Uriarte, her suitor just couldn't take any more. The unidentified Texas A&M-Kingsville grad student penned a sorrowful break-up e-mail and sent it to her Facebook inbox.While he was still in love with her, he wrote, he simply could not afford to keep...
Jason Merksamer: Houston Juggalo And Accused Robber Is Facebook Moron Of The Week

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 13, 2010

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 broadcast still more crimes on your...
Ricardo Coulston: Blowjob In Kiddie Flick Lands Lufkin Teen In Jail

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 10, 2010

When 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. But a Lufkin couple -- 18-year-old Ricardo Coulston and an unnamed juvenile female -- apparently were...
WikiLeaks: DynCorp Responds To Dancing Boys Scandal

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 9, 2010

In the wake of our story about DynCorp's ill-fated Afghan dance party, DynCorp's vice president of communications Ashley Vanarsdall Burke has sent in an official response. The company says that there was no truth to the allegation made in the headline "Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan...
Manuel Lopez-Mendoza: Guilty In Brazen Attempted Heist Of Giant Pink Bunny

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 9, 2010

Thieves around the world are often noted for their sleight of hand, their ability to conceal what is not theirs and spirit it away to a place of safe-keeping undetected. Some are true masters of the art. Fifty-year-old Manuel Lopez-Mendoza of the East Texas town of Diboll is not one...
Kristin Diane Massey: Vain, Chameleon-Like Sex Offender Jailed Again In Odd Heist

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 7, 2010

For Kristin Diane Massey, the convicted sex offender we wrote about this fall after she was accused of wiggling out of the back of a police car, there's good news and bad news. And some more bad news. The good news is that the State dropped the charges of escape...
WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 7, 2010

Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police. While the company is officially based in the DC area, most of its business is managed on a satellite campus at Alliance Airport north of Fort Worth. And if one...
Dr. Tomifumi Onishi: Three Cases Of Woman-Beating Filed Against ~~MD Anderson~~ Doc In Eight Months (UPDATED)

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 3, 2010

UPDATE: Charges against Dr. Onishi were dropped on December 17. According to one court document, the reason for the dismissal is "the interest of justice." When asked to elaborate, Dr. Onishi's attorney declined to explain the DA's reasoning any further. Apparently Tomifumi Onishi is having a little trouble getting the...
Johnny Perales: Porn On Work Laptop Lands Corpus Asst. City Manager In Hot Water

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 3, 2010

We coastal Texan men are apparently a randy, lonely lot. Even as Galveston cops plucked the Seawall Spanker -- a publicly masturbating surfing aficionado -- from his car on the edge of the Gulf, another case of [presumably] jacking off in a manner unbecoming of a gentleman emerges from Corpus...
Clifford Lee Bradberry: Galveston County Man Really, Really Likes To Watch Surfing

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 2, 2010

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 Sunday, Galveston Police allegedly found the chubby 33-year-old Texas City man parked on Seawall Boulevard near 61st...
Qian Feng: Poisoning Dogs Alleged Hobby Of Jackson Hill Man

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 1, 2010

The Heights / Timbergrove cat mutilations we covered last summer remain unsolved, but Houston police believe they have busted the culprit in a string of dog poisonings in the Jackson Hill area. And we have an alert, tech-savvy citizen to thank for the bust... Qian Feng was arrested yesterday after...
Cover Story: K2 Ban Comes As Our Story Goes To Press, And We Are Kinda Happy

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 1, 2010

I have to say, I kind of wondered when the Drug Enforcement Agency was going to crack down on K-2 and other THC-simulating substances. What's more, although I am pretty Libertarian when it comes to drugs, I was relieved. It was easy to predict the DEA ban for the simple...
Trishana Broussard: Sex With Three East Texas Teens Nets Six Years' Prison

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 1, 2010

A 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 sentence on each of the three counts of sexual assault on a child. According to previous published...
Dennis DeAcetis: Brazoria County Man Loses Houses In Divorce, Sues Everybody Again And Again

By John Nova Lomax
Dec 1, 2010

When Marianne Whitley and Dennis DeAcetis got divorced in 2003, Whitley got the house. Or at least she thought she did, with good reason. After all, it was so ruled by the judge in their divorce case, and DeAcetis had not disputed the property settlement. But according to an opinion...

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