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30 Mar 8:00 am
An El Paso County sheriff's detective faces several charges
after a police pursuit and confrontation in February. According to this Associated Press news report, the major crimes detective at the
sheriff's department was subdued by a shot with a sponge round and a police dog on Feb. 28. The
detective faces two counts of felony menacing, prohibited use of a weapon, vehicular eluding, resisting arrest, ...
7 Sep, 2007 4:19 am
... and uninsured drivers because of new surcharges, and 2) filling up the county jail with the 11% who have traffic warrants. Does that make
anyone safer? Of course not ... legal reason to pry. Checking drivers' license and insurance is just an excuse. Instead police want to look
inside the car for weapons or drugs, see if the driver smells ... insurance will have done nothing wrong. Indeed, in a real sense it's the El
Paso Police Department that's in error. While on the
subject, it's always a good time ...
4 Sep, 2007 1:49 am
... in custody. FBI officials believe there could be more victims. Former Jacksonville Police Department Officer Larry Pugh was convicted of sexually assaulting women in custody and ... a deputy. They each face up to 10 years in prison. Former Rusk
County Sheriff's Investigator Michael Wayne Davis pleaded guilty in July of this year ... Texas' large cities except Dallas and El Paso. As currently written, Texas civil service code for police and
firefighters dramatically reduces accountability for officers ...
7 Aug, 2008 5:53 pm
... has proposed boosting trooper pay 9-14% to keep them competitive with big-city departments. That would be a significant increase, assuming it can make it through the
legislative appropriations process, but ... Dallas: $71,273 • San Antonio: $61,764 • Harris County: $58,052 • Houston: $56,893 •
El Paso: $55,612 • Texas DPS: $57,733 Source: ... troopers gig no longer looks like a step up
employment-wise from local Texas police departments. If state troopers can't retain employees at those salary levels, ...
28 Dec, 2007 1:04 pm
... He's not some seedy pervert." The argument failed to sway a Franklin County Municipal Court jury that found Garrison guilty of public
indecency last month. ... appeal the verdict on the grounds that the jury wasn't instructed on the definition of entrapment. Other police
departments across the country have dangled other temptations, from big-screen plasma ... have been reported. Another sting operation that made headlines involved police in El Paso, Texas, and U.S. Marshals sending out messages to wanted
...
28 Dec, 2007 2:00 pm
... He's not some seedy pervert." The argument failed to sway a Franklin County Municipal Court jury that found Garrison guilty of public
indecency last month. ... appeal the verdict on the grounds that the jury wasn't instructed on the definition of entrapment. Other police
departments across the country have dangled other temptations, from big-screen plasma ... have been reported. Another sting operation that made headlines involved police in El Paso, Texas, and U.S. Marshals sending out messages to wanted
...
6 Jul, 2007 2:07 am
... requiring the use of drug courts in counties with more than 200,000 residents. That includes Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, El Paso, Hidalgo, Collin, Denton, ... because they can't pay their debts. Earlier this year, Texas police departments held a statewide warrant roundup for people with outstanding Class C misdemeanors ... labor would be a more humbling and beneficial
punishment. * * * If you live in a county where officials are proposing new jail building, I'd strongly encourage you to take ...
2 Nov, 2008 7:46 am
... districts that have already been rejected by voters in tax rollback elections. In Dallas County, a $747 million package to build a new
Parkland Memorial Hospital is among the largest ... manageable. El Paso, for example, reduced the
time defendants wait in jail pretrial by 18 days by introducing a direct filing system. Tyler's police department and ... voters into rejecting the jail, again. Perhaps after voters reject the Smith County Commissioners
fourth jail proposal in three years, they'll finally get ...
4 Jul 1:29 am
... results were allegedly taking bribes to alter documents in two separate county departments. Last fall, in Bexar County (San Antonio) accusations arose regarding low-level graft ... San Antonio Housing Authority and the El
Paso District Clerk, a newly elected El Paso District
Judge, other El Paso county and school district officials,
... to protect illegal gambling operations, a habit that also took down the Laredo chief of police based on similar charges. Some of those
accused may turn out to not be ...
24 Jan 5:51 am
... Community Based Program. ... Average spending per participant was $2,647." "Denton County developed a new program called the TARMAC Program
(Take Action, Re-Integrate ... Texas to provide services. ... Average spending per participant was $1,531." "El Paso County expanded their existing Serious Habitual Offender Comprehensive Action Program ... officers, two field
compliance officers (certified detention officers), and three El Paso Police Officers. ... Average spending per participant was $2,083" "Harris ...
22 Aug, 2007 8:30 am
... deserve Grits readers attention: Investigator calls for HPD crime lab special master With problems continuing to surface at the Houston Police Department Crime lab, investigator Michael Bromwich told a joint legislative committee that the agency needed
a " ... writing recently about bribery I should point out coverage of a simmering payola scandal in El Paso County involving the commissioners court. A commissioner and the county judge's chief of staff have already been indicted. Prison warden dies ...
10 Jul, 2008 10:20 am
... Officials fear new meth epidemic after record setting bust," June 28), police recently captured a 211 pound shipment of meth heading north
from Mexico through the ... Mike Maples, director of mental health and substance abuse services at the Texas Department of State Health
Services. Texas currently provides treatment to between 3 percent ... demand for narcotics that fuels cartel violence in Juarez and across Mexico, El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza said in a phone interview.
Drug abuse ...
7 Nov, 2008 8:59 am
... well! All someone has to do is press *57 to put a trace on the call, then contact the local police to find out the lady who is doing this,
then arrest her. And again with this news channel, they mention NEWSCHANNEL 13 a ton of times. 11/07/2008 By Tak Landrock - t.landrock@krdo.com EL PASO COUNTY - The call sounds official, "This is Terry Wagner with the
El Paso County Sheriff's Department, and... To see the rest of the article, visit the Sex Offender Issues blog | Copyright (C) 2008 ...
9 Dec, 2007 4:30 pm
... being told he could not spend the night. Authorities said no one had been captured in the earlier slayings in Arvada, which is a suburb in Colorado's capital city. . . .
El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa told news agency AFP
there was "one gunman down" and " ... Hamline University in Minneapolis in 1990, where she still holds a school record. She worked for the Minneapolis police department before moving to Colorado. From "Former MPD Officer Is Guard Who Shot Colo. Gunman" (wcco. ...
10 Dec, 2007 7:22 pm
I hope we hear about this "truthfulness issue" for which Jeanne Assam was fired from the Minneapolis Police Department probably nearly a decade ago so it does not mar her heroic ... "truthfulness issue" in this article: "Guard who shot Colorado gunman had been fired
from Minneapolis police."] Note (added December 11, 2007, 10:00 AM Mountain): "Unarmed hero ... : "Security Guard Did Not Kill New Life
Gunman." From the article: "The El Paso County Coroner has
ruled Matthew Murray's death a suicide." More ...
5 Jun, 2008 3:26 pm
... University of Texas Criminal Defense Clinic Pat Johnson, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Lab James McLaughlin,
executive director of the Texas Police Chiefs Association Dallas County District Attorney Craig
Watkins El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza
State Rep. Jim McReynolds, D-Lufkin Gary Udashen, Dallas criminal defense attorney State District Judge Sid Harle of San Antonio Jim Bethke, ...
9 Oct, 2008 10:39 am
... faces a strong Democratic challenger and suffers from what the Houston Chronicle called "the most troublesome year for the sheriff's department under his watch." I'm in the Anybody-But-Thomas camp on this one. The Harris DA's race features former Houston police chief Clarence Bradford vs. a ... received only sparse news coverage (that I've seen) so far. Unlike some other Texas counties, El Paso's jail problems aren't the only dominant issue, though still an important one, ...
6 Oct, 2008 6:24 pm
... begins ("Juarez's drug bloodbath rarely spills over into neighboring El Paso," Oct. 4): Ciudad
Juarez, Mexico's sprawling industrial city ... and its existence on the other." North of the river, John Lanahan, a retired chief of the El
Paso police homicide division, said the drug gangsters "pretty much toe the mark ... years that he
was chief of the department. Many more stories of corruption could be added to that list, starting with the head of the FBI field office in
El Paso earlier this decade losing ...
24 Feb, 2008 12:13 pm
... in subsequent civil suits, which were settled by the city and county with no admission of wrongdoing, said some of the blame lies with Mr.
Ochoa. Some also lies with the Police Department "for having an understaffed homicide department that relied too heavily on ... criminal mastermind. Still, no one ever suspected him in the DePriest killing. Shortly after the murder, he was
arrested in El Paso for carrying a weapon, which is illegal for ex-felons. The gun was the one used
to kill Ms. DePriest, but ...
8 Jan, 2008 6:45 am
... confessed to stabbing her lover • In aftermath of a botched rape case, Madison, WI police department issues new guidelines calling on its officer to use deception only as a last ... him and his co-defendant James Thompson (who falsely confessed) •
Cook County, IL. prosecutors, in trial of Juan Luna for the murders of seven people in a Brown's ... coerced him into falsely confessing •
Historic conference in El Paso, TX, sponsored by University of Texas El-Paso and Ohio University, gathers together over ...
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