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4 Aug 2013, 12:40 pm by Bill Marler
The following counties have reported Cyclospora infection: Brazoria, Collin, Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Ellis, Fort Bend, Guadalupe, Harris, Henderson, Hidalgo, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Montague, Parker, Potter, Smith, Tarrant, Tom Green, Travis, Victoria and Williamson, Wise. [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 1:52 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
There could easily be thousands of cases overturned based on this one lab analyst's misconduct by the time we're done.Deja vu on drug task force misconductAs many as 75 drug cases may be dismissed in Hidalgo County because of recent misconduct charges against key members of their multi-agency drug task force. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 10:38 am by Ruby Powers
A Hidalgo County district court granted the State’s request and issued permanent and temporary injunctions against the following four defendants: • Veronica G. [read post]
31 May 2013, 7:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Snitching works both waysThe Texas Observer has the story of an Hidalgo County Sheriff's deputy wearing a wire to uncover a major South Texas corruption scandal. [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 7:18 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For the purposes of defining "drylabbing," I respectfully disagree.A useful table in the draft report breaks out the counties with cases Salvador worked on, demonstrating that most of them were relatively concentrated.More than 250 cases: Montgomery, Galveston, Fort Bend, Harris, and Liberty101-250 cases: Brazoria, Chambers, Grimes, Hardin, Jasper, Matagorda, Polk, Walker, Waller, Wharton10-100 cases: Austin, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, San Jacinto, Trinity, Tyler, WashingtonLess than 10… [read post]
18 Feb 2013, 1:21 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Stop me if you've heard this before:"Since 2003 we have paid out 11.2 million dollars to outsource our inmates to the private corrections corporations, we are making millionaires out of them," said [Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe] Trevino.And money to pay that bill comes directly out of tax payers wallets. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 10:30 am by Michael Lowe
Down in Hidalgo County, they’ve been looking for Gustavo Cruz-Lozano as one of the men involved in making death threats against Sheriff Trevino since back in October 2012. [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 4:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In addition, the percentage of new placements to probation that are classified as medium or maximum risk to re-offend is increasing, meaning CSCDs must continue to target resources and treatment programming toward the offenders most at risk to re-offend.In the 2012-2013 biennium, 85 counties reported using some sort of progressive sanction model in their local probation programming (see p. 23). [read post]
21 Jan 2013, 9:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The big outlier among them, though, was McLennan County, where for reasons this writer fails to fully understand, alleged parole violators made up 13.2% of the county jail population, compared to 7.6% in Hidalgo County, 7.9% in Ector County, 4.8% in Parker County, 5.6% in Walker, and 5.1% in Webb. [read post]
9 Jan 2013, 11:05 am by Michael Lowe
Hidalgo County is an Important County in Texas – With a History of Police Corruption You know the place:  Hidalgo County sets right on the Texas-Mexico border, home to the city of Edinburg, and it’s far from a tiny backwater community:  Hidalgo is the 8th most populated county in the State of Texas and it’s also considered to be one of the fastest-growing counties in the country. [read post]
6 Jan 2013, 10:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas drug task force shutting down The Hidalgo County Sheriff is shutting down the county-level drug task force (discussed here) that recently saw four officers, including the Sheriff's son, indicted on corruption charges. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 5:08 pm by Barry Barnett
Planned Parenthood Ass'n of Hidalgo County, Texas, Inc. v. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 5:08 pm by Barry Barnett
Planned Parenthood Ass'n of Hidalgo County, Texas, Inc. v. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 9:27 am by Sergio Leal
In fact, news outlets in the Hidalgo County area have already reported many such scams. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 2:10 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
" A prosecutor from Hidalgo County concurred with Edmonds, but wondered what happens between now and then:It appears that we now have a capital murder offense for which both punishments under the Penal Code, a death sentence and LWOP, have now been held unconstitutional when the defendant was 17 or younger at the time of offense commission. [read post]