Texas police have arrested a 22-year-old man they say left a toddler inside his car while he went into a casino overnight. Angel Mendez has been charged with abandoning or endangering a child with intent to return, according to KVIA. Police did not say how long they believe the 14-month-old child was left alone in …
A Texas deputy was shot and killed early Sunday morning during a traffic stop in southwest Houston. According to KHOU, Corporal Charles Galloway pulled over a white, 4-door Toyota Avalon shortly before 1 a.m. The driver got out of the car and fired multiple shots at Galloway’s vehicle before jumping back in and driving away. …
An armed suspect claiming to have bombs has reportedly taken a rabbi and at least three others hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. A SWAT team had descended around the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue northeast of Fort Worth around 2 p.m. local time. No injuries have been reported thus far, …
San Antonio police on Tuesday arrested a woman on two counts of child endangerment two days after finding a pair of toddlers alone and restrained in a locked bedroom. Investigators said they were called to the home on Sunday afternoon by a woman who asked them for help checking on her grandchildren, KSAT reported. Firefighters …
A 14-year-old Kentucky boy with autism who disappeared before Christmas was found last week in Texas and returned to his family. On Monday, the Austin Police Department identified convicted sex offender Ronald Christopher Martin Jr, 47, as the suspect they believe abducted the boy, KXAN reported. Austin police said an officer on an unrelated call …
Authorities in Texas are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old high school track star found dead in a Baytown park Tuesday morning. Police said they found the body of Jania Tatum in the grass of Tejas Park — across the street from the apartment where she lived with her mother — just after 8 a.m., …
A North Carolina man wanted for sex crimes against minors is now wanted in Texas in connection with an Amber Alert issued for three of his five children. Jonathon Alexander Wright, 40, was traveling through Texas last week with his wife and children, when their car broke down in Medina County, WLOS reported. The family …
Update December 20: An AMBER Alert for a missing 14-year-old girl was cancelled on Monday after authorities said the girl was found. Fairview Police said Monday afternoon that Hayley Giandoni and a 13-year-old runaway were found in Balch Springs, KTVT reported. Police said the investigation had linked three other juvenile runaway girls, between the ages …
A former Houston police officer was arrested Friday afternoon for allegedly beating his ex-girlfriend and threatening her while she was holding their 1-year-old son. Ray Irvin, 41, was “relieved of duty” on December 2, less than two weeks after the incident took place, the Houston Police Department said. Court documents say that Irvin’s former girlfriend …
A Texas mother is mourning the loss of her teen daughter, whose body was found Wednesday along a road in Dallas with multiple gunshot wounds, KDFW-TV reports. “I am torn up inside because that was my baby,” the mother, Jessica Foster, told the television station. “But to know that someone took her from me is …
A south Texas father has been charged with murder in the death of his infant son following a car crash in which he was driving. Jeremy Daniel Rodriguez, 21, was also charged with evading arrest and unlawfully carrying a firearm. Harlingen Police said an officer attempted to stop a car Saturday night for a traffic …
A Texas woman has been charged with capital murder in the death of her newborn baby after initially telling a doctor who removed her placenta she didn’t remember giving birth. Police were called to Midland Memorial Hospital on November 30 after the doctor performed the surgery on 31-year-old Megan Cawley. He said the placenta was …
