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2 Dec 2020, 2:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Michael Barajas at the Texas Observer has a short profile of Fort Bend County's first black Sheriff since Reconstruction, who will take office in January. [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 2:48 pm by John Floyd
  In May 2006 the brothers shot and killed Roane County Deputy Bill Jones and his ride-along friend Mike Brown, a former law enforcement officer, when the two tried to serve an arrest warrant on the brothers at their farm near Kingston, Tennessee. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 3:18 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
 Though unrelated to the Customs service, the corruption angle provides an opportunity to link to a remarkable story from the Houston Chronicle about a Houston PD cop caught laundering cartel drug money: "Ex-HPD officer faces 25 years for running drug money." [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 5:26 am by Yosi Yahoudai
” Earlier, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said some Harris County deputies also work at the church as a part-time job. [read post]
11 Feb 2024, 11:50 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
” Earlier, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said some Harris County deputies also work at the church as a part-time job. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 9:32 am
Three men say Houston police and Fort Bend County sheriff's officers used dogs in a "junk science" lineup technique to prosecute them for crimes they did not commit - including capital murder. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 11:08 pm
...Sheriff Smith says he just wants a place to lock up murderers and rapists, this might help to provide that space. [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 10:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
From the Houston Chronicle:Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the current system reveals communication gaps between TDCJ and local law enforcement. [read post]
3 May 2010, 6:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Houston should be authorizing police officers to issue citations instead of making arrests for low-level, nonviolent misdemeanors. [read post]
24 Oct 2007, 2:04 am
Johnson describes in excruciating detail how he sold his website and systematically destroyed all evidence related to his business selling needles and rigs.The two agencies named that "David Johnson" worked for were the Sugar Land PD and the Harris County Sheriff's Office, but there's pretty strong evidence the problem is more widespread than just Mr. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 4:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Three were ruled homicides.The Chronicle identified at least 19 cases in which inmates died of illnesses that were either treatable or preventable, or in which delays in care, or staff misconduct, could have played a role in their deaths.Also:Over the past nine months, the Chronicle also reviewed more than 1,000 disciplinary reports provided by the Sheriff's Office and found 35 failures to complete cell checks, sometimes for inmates in solitary confinement. [read post]
19 Jun 2012, 8:02 am by Jeff Gamso
  The Times reports.Equipped with a search warrant and cadaver-sniffing dogs, deputies from the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office converged on a home on a narrow country road near Hardin — about an hour outside Houston — in search of a macabre crime scene. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 12:53 pm
What we're really talking about here is a small number of peopleâ€"the Harris County Sheriff's Office guesses that 750 or fewer people are in Harris County's jails for possession of trace amounts of controlled substances; there are a few people serving sentences of between six months and two years in State Jail as well for trace cases. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 1:36 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
More than 107,000 cases of misdemeanor marijuana cases have been handled in the past 10 years, officials said. ...At the sheriff's office, the new policy will save up to 12 hours of processing time per month for as many as 1,000 suspects, a move that will ease the workload on administrators and jailers who transfer and process inmates, officials said. [read post]
1 Oct 2019, 10:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I think it's more pernicious than that.Sheriffs and #cjreformOur pal Jessica Pishko published a New York Times op ed on Sheriff's offices, declaring "The problem of sheriffs is particularly acute in the South and Southwest, where the office has more power and was historically used to prop up white supremacy. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 6:25 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
The investigation leading to the charges was conducted by the FBI and Texas Rangers with the assistance of TDCJ-Office of Inspector General, Huntsville and Katy Police Departments and the Walker County Sheriff's Office. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 6:25 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
The investigation leading to the charges was conducted by the FBI and Texas Rangers with the assistance of TDCJ-Office of Inspector General, Huntsville and Katy Police Departments and the Walker County Sheriff's Office. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 5:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Mostly the responsibility falls to local judges, but both Houston PD and the Sheriff refuse to allow their officers to exercise authority granted by the Legislature in 2007 to give citations instead of arresting people for certain nonviolent Class B misdemeanors. [read post]