2/13/02 - Irving police shooting brings call for 'justice'
Irving police shooting brings call for 'justice' By MITCH MITCHELL Star-Telegram Staff Writer IRVING - The NAACP's Irving branch has made a formal complaint to Police Chief Lowell Cannaday about the Jan. 23 death of a Dallas man shot by police officers during a drug bust.
8/22/01 - HPD veteran charged with drunken driving
A veteran Houston police officer has been charged with drunken driving after a minor collision in his unmarked police vehicle. Jaime Verastigui, 44, a 23-year officer assigned to the vice division, is charged with driving while intoxicated-first offense.
Police officer charged with drunken driving
A Houston police lieutenant has been charged with drunken driving after allegedly wrecking a city vehicle.
4/3/01 - Policeman suspended three days without pay
Houston police Lt. Carlton E. Brown has been suspended for three days without pay for alleged violation of conduct and poor judgment.
4/3/01 - Second Police Officer Charged In Alleged Fraud Case
Officer Falsely Claimed Burglary
Former DPS Officer Target Of Investigation
Cincinnati streets calm ahead of young man's funeral
The streets of Cincinnati where violence had broken out throughout the week were calm today, the day a young black man killed a week ago by police is to be buried. Police plan to ensure security for today's funeral, but to do it from a distance.
Constable's office probed for time sheet padding
Prosecutors are investigating time sheet irregularities in Harris County Constable Perry Wooten's office that officials say led to "significant" overbilling of county and state taxpayers. Sources familiar with the case said the investigation involves the padding of time sheets so that Wooten's employees were able to bill the county, the state and a temporary employment agency for the same hours.
10/13/00 - Theft plot gets former lawman 10-year probation - By: Lisa Teachey
A former Harris County deputy constable was sentenced to 10 years probation Thursday for his role in plotting to rob a bowling alley where his wife once worked. After handing down the sentence, state District Judge Brian Rains berated Eddie George Breedlove.
9/30/00 - ACLU takes man's due-process lawsuit against county
By: Kelly Pedersen
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas announced Friday that it will help represent a Houston man in a federal lawsuit alleging that the Harris County criminal justice system deprives indigent defendants of their right to a fair trial. The lawsuit, filed in May, claims that Daniel King, 47, was systematically denied adequate legal representation after he was arrested in July 1998 and charged with failure to identify himself to a police officer, a Class B misdemeanor.
9/24/00 - COPS plan a bust overall for U.S. cities /Just 50,000 hired, exam shows - By: Michael Hedges, Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Houston's police department received $46 million in federal grants for 903 police slots under a highly publicized program to put 100,000 new officers on America's streets but hired about one-third of that number. Instead, the department used a little-reported loophole in the program, begun in 1994, to buy laptop computers and other equipment with federal money.
9/13/00 - Ex-officer pleads guilty (SEE CORRECTION) in drug case - By: Jo Ann Zuniga
A former Houston police officer pleaded guilty (SEE CORRECTION) Monday for his involvement with three other law enforcement officers who authorities say were dealing drugs. Timothy Solomon, 37, received 10 years probation and 90 days in the Harris County Jail for engaging in organized criminal activity, said prosecutor Mia Magness.
9/8/00 - Former HPD officer acquitted / Woman claimed a traffic stop last year led to sexual assault - By: Lisa Teachey
A former Houston police officer was acquitted Thursday of a charge that he sexually assaulted a woman after a traffic stop. George E. Collins, 34, who was a patrolman in southeast Houston, cried openly in state District Judge Ted Poe's courtroom when the jury returned with the verdict after 13 hours of deliberations.
8/27/00 - Mr. Holmes, please explain . . . By: RODULFO FIGUEROA
HARRIS County District Attorney Johnny Holmes and I have corresponded over the past month regarding the district attorney's office's handling of the cases of four Mexican nationals - Jamie Santiago, Pedro Oregon Navarro, Uvaldo Garcia Armendariz and Eulogio Perez Delgado - killed by the Houston Police Department. Holmes has responded to my inquiries, but I continue to believe that there are serious questions about the DA's office's treatment of each of these cases. The community as a whole should make up its mind about these issues, thus, I am writing this oped piece.
7/14/00 - Tapes show police punching, kicking
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - Police officers punched and kicked a drunken driving suspect during an arrest filmed from television news helicopters. Police had chased Marshall Dwight Studdard 's truck for 20 minutes in rush-hour traffic Wednesday through three Atlanta-area counties. The tapes show officers, with guns drawn, pulling Studdard, 34, from his truck, and the officers then kicking and punching him as he lay on the ground.
7/30/99 - Couple sue Harris County sheriff, claim libel over arrest - By: Eric Hanson
A Katy woman and her husband have filed a libel suit against Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas, claiming he damaged their reputations in a published letter saying the woman was intoxicated. Vonessa Beaird, 40, had been arrested in front of her house for driving while intoxicated, but the charge was later dismissed.