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  Crime Report Section
I  CRIME STATS  I  INDICTMENTS  I

Man convicted for possessing
and passing counterfeit cash
A man arrested for passing counterfeit cash in Missouri City is convicted by a Fort Bend jury.
>FULL STORY



But officer, you gonna believe
me or your lying eyes?
A group of Richmond residents were party’n on the lawn when a disagreement turned into batting practice.
>FULL STORY

Fort Bend County man arrested
on Florida RICO charges
A high profile Fort Bend County resident has been arrested in Florida.  
>FULL STORY

Home invasion and restaurant
robbery keep police busy
Sugar Land Police were called to investigate a home invasion robbery in the Sugar Lakes subdivision this week.
>FULL STORY


Local, federal narcotics agents make
major currency seizure on U.S. 59
The Fort Bend Narcotics Task Force, in conjunction with Federal enforcement agents out of Houston, seize $410,641 of U.S. currency.
>FULL STORY

Alleged killer arrested in Mississippi
Lorenza Sam was arrested last week just days after he
allegedly murdered Sienna Plantation resident and
Sugar Land business owner Leesa Nascimento. 

>FULL STORY

Charges dismissed against
Richmond Police officer
Veteran Richmond Police officer Steve Eiteman is back at his
regular job after charges against him were dismissed last week.

>FULL STORY

Child predator sentenced
On July 13, 2010, Alfredo Zeno was sentenced by 240th District Court Judge Thomas R. Culver, III, to 15 years in prison on each of three counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child.
>FULL STORY

Talk about time and place
Last week The Star Queen was alerted by her Realtor that something was amiss at her little slice of taxpayer heaven in Missouri City.
>FULL STORY

Dumb and Dumber
Wednesday was an interesting, yet
very productive day for Sugar Land Police.

>FULL STORY


Capital Murder suspect surrenders
A Mississippi man walked into the Fort Bend County Jail last week and surrendered himself for his part in an Arkansas bank robbery and murder.
>FULL STORY

No amount of careful planning...
A woman being forced into a car in
Missouri City garnered a citizen’s attention.

>FULL STORY

Man sent to prison for drive by shooting
Fifteen years for two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon is what the jury assessed a Houston man for his part in a 2007 drive by shooting.
>FULL STORY

Rosenberg burglary suspects arrested
Tuesday night, July 6, 2010, at approximately 10:12pm, Rosenberg Police Officer Brian Baldwin was dispatched to 915 Cole Avenue, Rosenberg, in reference to a burglary in progress, on Tuesday, July 6.
>FULL STORY


Man takes plea deal for 48 years
A 35 yea old Rosenberg man took a plea deal for 48 years in prison after being indicted on numerous charges of abusing four different children over several years.
>FULL STORY

Burglars caught in act; one arrested`
Rosenberg police responded to a burglary of a storage building in progress early Thursday morning and nabbed one of the suspects after a brief foot chase.
>FULL STORY

When you call police, remember
it ain’t their first Rodeo!
Quite often police officers find themselves in the middle of family fights.
It can be one of the most dangerous aspects of an officer’s career.

>FULL STORY


Identity thieves busted;
five suspects arrested
Five suspects have been arrested for engaging in organized criminal activity stemming from the theft of personal banking information.
>FULL STORY

Twelve Fort Bend Co. residents
indicted for varied drug offenses
Sheriff’s spokesperson Terriann Carlson issued a statement and photos of 12 people who have been charged with varying levels of narcotics offenses.
>FULL STORY

An out of state custody
battle spills into Sugar Land
A Kentucky mother and her current husband were arrested after the biological father notified police that his ex-wife and their three underage children were at a home in Sugar Land.
>FULL STORY

Crash Dummy
A couple of weeks back a Mo City woman backed her land barge (a Chevy 8 passenger vehicle- you know)  into a brand new car in a Houston parking lot. 
>FULL STORY

Richmond man’s DWI
convictions land him in prison
Judge finally sentences man to prison after three DWI convictions and another DWI charge pending in Harris County.
>FULL STORY

Richmond police investigate
the death of local attorney
Richmond attorney Allan Van Slyke was found dead in his Richmond home Tuesday morning shortly after 10 a.m. 
>FULL STORY

Sugar Land Police arrest
teenager for evading arrest
Monday morning, June 21, about 9:30 a.m., Sugar Land police responded to a suspicious person call in the Riverbend North subdivision in the area of North Medio River Circle.
>FULL STORY


Four young teens face charges in three counties
Three southwest Fort Bend teens and a juvenile from West Columbia have been arrested and face burglary charges in Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Matagorda counties.
>FULL STORY

Back to shoot’n fish in a barrel
Some folks are so dumb ... it is painful!
>FULL STORY

Car burglars nabbed
An undercover surveillance team cruising Oyster Creek Park contacted patrol units after they witnessed a car burglary.
>FULL STORY

Richmond Police need help in
identifying alleged suspect
Richmond police are asking for the public’s help in identifying and bringing to justice the woman in the photograph who may be involved in a theft and forgery. 
>FULL STORY

Richmond police investigate
the death of local attorney
Richmond attorney Allan Van Slyke was found dead in his Richmond home Tuesday morning shortly after 10 a.m. 
>FULL STORY

Video available online of Amegy
Bank robbery by suspects
Sugar Land police are looking for two men who robbed the Amegy Bank, 14965 Southwest Freeway, on June 3, at 3:45 p.m.
>FULL STORY


Two snagged for illegal investment
Local, state, and federal agents participating in a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) initiative snagged two purported drug traffickers.
>FULL STORY

Bank robbed in Sugar Land
It wasn't business as usual for Amegy Bank, in the 14900 block of the Southwest Freeway, last Thursday, June 3.
>FULL STORY

When that little voice tells you,
“Don’t do it”--- pay attention!
No matter how frustrating the Repair Dude, who has arrived to fix your fridge can get, it’s never a good plan to play the guns and ammo at 10 paces game.
>FULL STORY

Sugar Land man kidnapped
Just minutes before 6 a.m., Wednesday morning, June 2, a Sugar Land man was out for his morning walk and regular stop at Shipley’s Donuts on Highway 6 near Williams Trace when he was attacked by three males in the 2100 block of First Crossing.
>FULL STORY


Two arrested by Richmond Police for drugs
A check on a criminal trespasser resulted in a pair of dope busts.
>FULL STORY

Victim gives chase; burglar nabbed by police
On Tuesday, May 25, Around 7:30pm, Sugar Land police were notified of a man yelling and running through the streets of the Creekshire subdivision.
>FULL STORY

Violent home invasion hits west Fort Bend Co.
An elderly woman was attacked in a violent home invasion robbery south of Rosenberg in west Fort Bend.
>FULL STORY

Smile you’re on candid camera
A Sugar Land burglar was caught on camera this week.
>FULL STORY


Rolling shootout weaves
through Fort Bend streets
Bank robberies have almost become commonplace in the Houston metropolitan area, yet the rolling shoot out that exploded on the streets of northeast Fort Bend County Saturday morning shocked even the most jaded.  
>FULL STORY

Boy robbed in park
Sugar Land police are investigating an aggravated robbery that occurred in a north side park last Friday.
>FULL STORY

Catalytic converters; a hot
item according to police
Missouri City police are warning residents that thieves are targeting catalytic converters.
>FULL STORY


Police nab suspect in bank robbery
Sugar Land police responded to a bank robbery and nabbed the suspect as he talked on his cell phone walking away from the bank.   
>FULL STORY

Does it go round in a circle?
In Richmond last Friday, according to local rain gauges, a down pour of  7.25 inches pelted the banks of the Brazos River, you know, the banks that run right beside the new Fort Bend County Justice Center and Courthous
>FULL STORY


Man arrested after shooting
Sunday night, just before 11 p.m., deputies were called to investigate a shooting in the 8600 block of Green Cedar Drive in the Mission Glen Estates, in fart northeast Fort Bend County.  
>FULL STORY

Three busted for felony
theft in northeast Fort Bend
Last Tuesday morning, about 2:38 a.m., sheriff’s deputies were called to investigate a burglary in progress in the 9500 block of Tolken Way in the Enclave subdivision off Gaines Road in northeast Fort Bend County.   
>FULL STORY

Home invasion robbery in Riverpark
Shortly before 10 p.m. last Friday night, a Riverpark man was ambushed at his back door.
>FULL STORY

Sugar Land police nab burglars
In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Sugar Land police responded to a suspected car burglary near Truslow Point and Amesbury Lane in the Englewood Place Estates neighborhood, off Lexington Boulevard, near Williams Trace. 
>FULL STORY

You snooze, you loose
A two month narcotics investigation culminated in the arrest of  Juanita Sandoval, 31, and Marcus Cantu, 38, both of Richmond. Sheriff’s spokesperson Terriann Carlson said the two month investigation targeted a couple who were distributing cocaine from their Richmond home. 
>FULL STORY

Shell station robbed
Narrow minded cops plunder the slumber of a man in Missouri City.   
>FULL STORY



Suspect sought in CVS robbery
Sugar Land police are looking for a woman who robbed CVS Pharmacy, 16515 Lexington Blvd., on April 17.  
>FULL STORY

Felony stupid strikes again
It was alive and well in Missouri city last week. As police tell, a former employee of a pizza joint on Highway 6 had concerns over his final paycheck. 
>FULL STORY

Jailer arrested for failure to
stop and give information
A Fort Bend County jailer was arrested last Friday after being involved in a traffic accident on his way to work.
>FULL STORY

Narcs nab traffickers
A two month narcotics investigation culminated in the arrest of  Juanita Sandoval, 31, and Marcus Cantu, 38, both of Richmond. Sheriff’s spokesperson Terriann Carlson said the two month investigation targeted a couple who were distributing cocaine from their Richmond home. 
>FULL STORY

Shell station robbed
In the wee hours of Sunday morning Sugar Land police responded to a robbery call and shortly thereafter had suspects in custody.  
>FULL STORY


Richmond Police Dept. searching
for identity of hit and run driver
The Richmond Police Department is asking the public for any information about a fatal hit and run accident last Saturday night in the 1600 block of Jackson Street, also known as US 90A. 
>FULL STORY

A shot in the dark
A Missouri City man was arrested for using deadly force to protect something that was no longer his.   
>FULL STORY

Parking lot Rodeo!
Missouri City police responded to a call Saturday, around 2 p.m. from Lowe’s improvement center in the 3800 block of Murphy Road after a call over a stolen purse morphed into a vehicular assault.  .
>FULL STORY


Convicted man walks
away from courthouse
A man convicted of manslaughter awaiting his punishment has left the courthouse and the sheriff’s fugitive warrant division is on the hunt. 
>FULL STORY

Attempted robbery by fork
A Sugar Land jogger was robbed by what police describe as a possible fork.
>FULL STORY

Road rage leads to homicide
Missouri City police arrest man for homicide after road rage incident. 
>FULL STORY


Here’s a story, bout a man named Bolar...
Who was busy fleecing the folks of Gretna, Louisiana out of their hard earned cash?
>FULL STORY

Richmond police asking for
help in solving Dec. murder
Shortly before midnight on December 30, 2009, Richmond police were called to an apartment at the Oak Lane apartment complex located at 806 Morton Street just blocks from the police department.
>FULL STORY

Accident at intersection of West Bellfort
and FM 1464 claims 1 life, injures 3
A Fort Bend man was killed and his son seriously injured after an on coming van ran a stop sign. 
>FULL STORY

Couple dressed in medical scrubs
invade Lakemont subdivison home
Another family in Fort Bend falls victim to home invasion robbers.
>FULL STORY

It’s a whole new math concept!
Since we can’t seem to find the money to keep teachers in the classroom, here’s the new math we residents of Fort Bend are facing. 
 
>FULL STORY

New Territory woman arrested;
charged with theft & fraud
TTexas Attorney General Greg Abbot’s investigators, as well as local law enforcement officers, have arrested a Fort Bend County woman for theft and fraud .>FULL STORY

Vandals destroy LA Fitness
center over the weekend
A pack of vandals nearly destroyed the LA Fitness center over the weekend.   >FULL STORY

Woman pistol whipped in area apt. parking lot
A woman was attacked and pistol whipped in her apartment parking lot.    >FULL STORY


Sugar Land PD arrests group
linked to string of burglaries
Sugar Land police arrested and charged four teens with one count of residential burglary and two counts of attempted residential burglary. Detectives are investigating the group’s participation in at least five additional burglaries.. 
>FULL STORY

Crime Stoppers Special Alert
Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers is offering up to $5000 for information which leads to the arrest and charges of the suspect(s) who were involved in an attempted abduction In Missouri City. 
>FULL STORY

Correction
"Violent Crimes Down in Sugar Land" appearing the March 24 issue of the "Fort Bend Star", the numbers for the violent crime were inadvertently inverted. >FULL STORY

Richmond man surrenders himself
The man Richmond police have been searching for after he allegedly sexually assaulted a child has turned himself in to authorities. .>FULL STORY

SLPD arrests 13 during Highway
Safety Enforcement Initiative
Sugar Land police arrested 13 people during a special drunk driving enforcement initiative from March 12-21.  >FULL STORY

Three held hostage during home robbery
Details remain sketchy, but Friday morning, March 26, shortly after 9 a.m., a home on Sandcroft in the new upscale neighborhood of Telfair, a family was held hostage by armed intruders who looted their home.   >FULL STORY

Maxed out in more ways than one
Texas, a whole ’nother country.  There is truth in advertising with that statement. Just ask a displaced New Orleans woman who sought refuge and work after hurricane Katrina. Um humm.  >FULL STORY


Richmond child assaulted; suspect sought
Richmond police are searching for a 19 year old man who has been accused of sexually assaulting a nine year old girl last Sunday. 
>FULL STORY

Violent crimes down in Sugar Land
The City of Sugar Land reports a violent crime decrease of 11 percent during 2009 and improved investigative clearance rates by 4.7 percent, according to the Sugar Land Police Department’s 2009 Annual Report. 
>FULL STORY

Working their way in our direction?
Two men identified as “Woman Wannabes” by the FBI are holding up Houston area banks.>FULL STORY

Sir, was that finger loaded?
While roll’n and patrol’n, Rosenberg police were notified of a Road Rage incident on US 59. >FULL STORY


Family fight ends with gun shot
Domestic dispute turns into an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon call after two Texas law enforcement officers disagree.
>FULL STORY

Talk About Wrong Turns!
Sugar Land police get to have all the fun. 
>FULL STORY


National broadcast
leads to Turner arrest
Fort Bend County watched as a nationwide search for Albert James Turner Jr. unfolded after he allegedly murdered his wife and mother-in law in their Rosenberg home. The crime was a grizzly domestic slaughter taking the life of his wife; his children’s mother, and her mother; the children’s grandmother. 
>FULL STORY

Missouri City home invasion turns homicide
Just minutes after midnight Missouri City Police were dispatched to an alarm call that resulted in a homicide investigation.
>FULL STORY

Fresno woman killed in accident
A Fresno woman was killed in a traffic accident early last Wednesday morning in Sugar Land.
>FULL STORY

Garage Door Opener?
Since when do burglars go look’n for attention?
>FULL STORY


Wanderlust?
Early last week an inmate from one of the prison units in Sugar Land, you know ... the ones along US 90A and Texas 99, walked over to a convenience store and returned. How conn-veen-ient!
>FULL STORY

Woman robbed at First Colony Mall
Saturday morning as the assistant manager of the Bath and Body Works of First Colony Mall was entering the building through the employee only access,  she was terrorized and robbed of the day’s cash bag.  
>FULL STORY

Breaking... local news
In the far eastside community of Teal Run, a small neighborhood within the subdivision is cowering from a menace. It seems one of the residents on a quiet cul-de-sac is a felon who likes to scream, threaten, harass and by in large, terrorize his neighbors.
>FULL STORY


Nosy neighbors
When you live in a small town, everybody knows your business. And when you’re in the dope business ... that ain’t so good for business. 
>FULL STORY

Sugar Land homeowner’s association thwarts crooks using high tech camera
Sugar Land police are crediting the arrest of two 20-year-old Houston men with the proactive measures taken...
>FULL STORY

Horse’n Around
We all know about things that fall off the back of the truck…but who’da ever thought a horse? Yep, that’s right, a horse.
>FULL STORY

Three charged with Burglary of
Motor Vehicles, Criminal Conspiracy
Sugar Land police arrested three men, including one in a wheelchair, believed responsible for a rash of vehicle burglaries throughout the region.
>FULL STORY

Woman robbed outside restaurant
A woman was robbed in the parking lot in the
First Colony Mall complex in Sugar Land.

>FULL STORY


Video captures crimes
in progress at movie theater
Public surveillance video has led to the arrest of several men at the AMC Theater and provided important evidence in a recent attack of a woman in her garage.
>FULL STORY

New Chief of Police joins Fort Bend ISD
Fort Bend Independent School District announced last week that a new Chief of Police had been named to fill the position left open by the retirement of the former chief.
>FULL STORY

Family held hostage in Sugar Land
Sugar Land family was robbed and held
hostage in their upscale neighborhood home.

>FULL STORY

Pop goes the weasel
Saturday night an off duty Sheriff’s deputy was working
security at the Sugar Land movie theater when he caught
a teenage boy walking the ticket line.

>FULL STORY



Missouri City city council
hears status report on crime

Missouri City council members heard a status report on the 2009 crime statistics that show crimes against citizens were down substantially.
>FULL STORY

Sugar Land woman robbed in driveway
A Sugar Land woman says she was followed home and robbed at gunpoint last Friday night about 10 p.m. Police say if you think you are being followed call 911 and do not go home.
>FULL STORY

Bailout
Seems Rosenberg police were dispatched to a bank robbery at the Capitol One on First Street - again. When they arrived, the mullet was still in the parking lot. Yep, he was bagged and tagged.
>FULL STORY


Task Force identifies suspect
before committing crime

A suspicious vehicle report on Jan. 6 led to the arrest a day later of a man who intended to burglarize vehicles.
>FULL STORY

March sentencing date set for
woman who stole over $160K
A Guy area women, who plead guilty last week to charges she stole over $160,000 from a Needville grocery store while an employee there, will be sentenced March 1, the Fort Bend District Attorney’s Office confirmed.
>FULL STORY

Do ya’ ever wonder if the crooks think
to themselves ... boy that was dumb?
When do ya’ think it is, when they are cuffed and stuffed? On the ride to the jail? Maybe when they’re sit’n in a cell? Maybe ... never?
>FULL STORY


Cool headed kidnapping
victim sends text message
to friend during incident
A cool-headed kidnapping victim managed to text a message to his friend while he was captive in the trunk of his vehicle, sheriff’s deputies say.
>FULL STORY

The Devil made me do it!
Can’t you hear him scream’n...The devil made me do it?
>FULL STORY

Resident robbed in Ashford Lakes Subdivision
Sugar Land police are looking for a man who robbed a
house in the 12000 block of Ashford Hollow on Dec. 23.

>FULL STORY

Two charged in First Colony Mall shooting
Demarkus Mccants, 21, of Fresno, and Edward Reed, Jr., 18, of Stafford, have been charged with aggravated assault for a shooting that occurred at the entrance to Dillards at First Colony Mall on Thursday, Dec. 31
>FULL STORY

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