Category archives for: Crime

Operation Safe Light – The sales pitch

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Coming to a corner near you! By LeaAnne Klentzman The city of Sugar Land has announced some new intersections that are slated for traffic enforcement cameras.  Although this is a space generally reserved for Dumb Criminals – if captured by the camera – you won’t be a criminal just dumb! According to  Assistant City Manager [...]

Multi-county financial fraud network busted here last week

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By LeaAnne Klentzman Last week local, federal, and state agents were able to take down a financial fraud ring that has been working across the Houston metropolitan area for years. Interestingly, all of the suspects in this most recent bust were Cuban nationals, much like a similar bust in 2011. According to Sheriff Troy Nehls [...]

Crime Stoppers looking to pay

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By LeaAnne Klentzman In the morning hours of March 8, about 9:15 a.m., sheriff’s deputies responded to a burglary call at the Discount Lube and Tire in the 8400 block of Homeward Way near the intersection of New Territory Boulevard and the Grand Parkway/Texas 99. According to Sheriff’s spokesman Bob Haenel, the store manager told [...]

Move it or lose it!

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By LeaAnne Klentzman It has happened again, yet another man has stepped in front of, or in this case behind, a moving vehicle operated by ….a wife! Yes Sir, seems that vehicles operated by wives, especially those who are hacked off… are more likely to result in criminal charges than vehicles operated by neighbors just [...]

Double death scene believed to be murder and suicide

By LeaAnne Klentzman Early Monday morning Fort Bend County Sheriff’s 911 operators received a call from a man who said I need to report a murder; he then disconnected the line. Call takers tried frantically to reestablish the call, there was no answer.  Scant minutes later patrol deputies arrived at the address provided by the [...]

Birds of a feather should flock together

By LeaAnne Klentzman A Missouri City man, convicted last year of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), has now been sentenced. Illegal possession of a bald eagle; a federal game violation, has cost Missouri City resident Sam Mathew, 53, a fine of $15,000 and three years of federal probation. According to federal authorities, this [...]

Former sheriff’s detective indicted

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By LeaAnne Klentzman Almost five months after the fatal motorcycle accident that claimed the life of one Fort Bend sheriff’s detective, another detective has been indicted for Intoxicated Manslaughter W/Vehicle in her death. Back in late October, 2012 Fort Bend County Detectives Moses Perez and Shelley Nicodemus were involved in an off duty motorcycle accident [...]

Stabbing suspect surrenders himself in police department lobby

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By LeaAnne Klentzman The Richmond police were called to investigate a stabbing Wednesday evening about 6:35. According to Richmond police spokesman Master Sergeant Lowell Neinast a neighbor heard an argument just outside his home. He told police when he got outside he saw Dexter Brown, 25, leaving the area and Roy Anthony, 50, laying on [...]

Bringing a knife to a gun fight

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By LeaAnne Klentzman Sometimes kids are so stupid it hurts. Such was the case in Rosenberg. According to police a teenager was suspected of shoplifting. When he was confronted by store personnel, he grabbed a knife from a store rack and threatened the employees. Was it mentioned…this was during school hours? So much for compulsory [...]

Grow houses busted in Mission Bend

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By LeaAnne Klentzman Narcotics agents with the Fort Bend County Narcotics Task Force uncovered two marijuana growing operations in the Mission Bend subdivision, said Sheriff’s spokesman Bob Haenel. Haenel said, “During the past month, Task Force agents conducted an investigation of two related indoor marijuana grow operations at one residence located in the 7700 block [...]

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