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Sheriff's officials: Shooting death in Fabens drug-related
A 26-year-old Fabens man was shot to death in his home Tuesday night, deputies said.
Deputies found Alejandro Castro Jr. dead in the 400 block of Northwest I Avenue, Fabens, Texas, about 10 p.m., deputies said. According to a sheriff's report, Castro was shot multiple times, though it was not clear where he was wounded.
Castro's common-law wife and 4-year-old son were at the home when the shots were fired, sheriff's officials said. Sheriff's spokesman Jesse Tovar said the homicide is drug-related.
Girl says family forced her into prostitution
HOUSTON — A 14-year-old girl suspected of prostitution told police her mother and grandmother, both convicted prostitutes, forced her to sell her body to pay their living expenses, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Alicia Melchor, 33, and Elizabeth Buford, 55, were arrested Tuesday on charges of compelling prostitution after the girl led police to a motel room after they picked her up on Telephone Road, prosecutors said.
The girl's mother and grandmother each have several convictions for prostitution during the past 20 years.
Buford also was charged with possession of a small amount of heroin.
Police: Man molested girl in car while youngster's mom was driving
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Police arrested a Harlingen man Sunday on suspicion of molesting a 4-year-old girl in the back seat of a car while the girl’s mother was driving.
The mother of the 4-year-old had been driving down Padre Boulevard on Sunday after a day at the beach with her daughter and several friends, Island Police Chief Randy Smith said. The woman called police after she allegedly saw Danks fondling her daughter in the back seat of her car.
Smith said Danks was intoxicated at the time of the incident.
Father charged in east Houston beating death of son
HOUSTON - Police charged 34-year-old Alex McGowen Duncan with murder Sunday, accusing him of beating his 6-year-old to death because the boy would not fall asleep.
Duncan shared the one-room efficiency apartment with his girlfriend, 30-year-old Tammyra Sampson, and her 11-year-old daughter. Houston Police Department Homicide Division detective Sgt. Brian Harris said the beating continued until 3 a.m. with Sampson and her daughter witnessing the entire event.
Initially, Duncan, who has a history of drug charges dating to 1995, told police that the bruising was from attempting to revive the child from the seizure by slapping him and giving him chest thrusts.
Duncan is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. Sampson, who has a criminal history and history with Child Protective Services, has also been charged with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury by omission.
Man shook 5-year-old boy, pushed him into traffic in Grapevine
GRAPEVINE - A Fort Worth man was in custody Monday on charges that he violently shook his girlfriend's 5-year-old son on the side of a Grapevine highway and then pushed him into a lane of traffic.
Before Grapevine police arrived, the 22-year-old man is accused of punching his girlfriend and threatening to kill her in front of the boy.
Motorists told police that the man shook the boy violently, but the youngster managed to escape him. The man is then accused of pushing the boy into a lane of traffic. At about the same time, a vehicle crashed into the girlfriend's car which was in the middle of the highway, according to police reports. Authorities believe that the man had been drinking.
Grapevine man put baby's mouth on smoking bong
A 20-year-old Grapevine man was in jail Tuesday after police say he took a few puffs from a bong and then placed his 13-month-old son's mouth on it.
A witness told police that the man was sitting on his bed with his son on his lap. At some point, the man took a few puffs from the bong and then placed his son's mouth on it, according to what the witness told police. The man also let his son play with a bowl of marijuana, police said.
The man, Julio Cesar Garcia, was in the Grapevine Jail on suspicion of endangering a child, a state jail felony, and possession of marijuana. The toddler's mother, Brenda Duran, 19, also was behind bars on a charge that she was in the room and didn't do anything to stop the crime, Grapevine police said Tuesday.
Dallas man smoked marijuana in car as child sat strapped in seat
DALLAS -- A Dallas man faces charges he smoked marijuana in his car while his 3-year-old son was strapped in a car seat in the back, according to police documents.
About 7:30 p.m., the officers "observed a thick cloud of white smoke inside the passenger compartment of the vehicle" and could smell marijuana, the documents said.
Police also found marijuana in a baggie inside Murillo's car. He was arrested on charges of child endangerment and marijuana possession.
1 killed, 1 hurt in home invasion; 2 children present
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Deputies say four to five men opened fire on a family at a home on Sabine Brook Way late Sunday night, killing a mother, and wounding her mother-in-law.
Detectives said the motive appears to be robbery, but they're not allowed to elaborate much more beyond that. They are telling us that this may not be a random crime.
Late Sunday night, deputies say four or five gunmen kicked in the front door and opened fire on the two women. "The house was ransacked," Harris County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Ben Beall said.
Detectives said two children, ages 2 and 5, also were sleeping upstairs.
Man killed inside San Juan home; 2 children present
SAN JUAN -- Several hitmen killed a 21-year-old man in front of his wife and young son during an apparent drug-related home invasion Wednesday, police said.
At least three men barged into the home of Roberto “Bobby” Hinojosa, 21, about 1 a.m., looking for several pounds of marijuana police later found inside.
Hinojosa, 21, was in bed with his wife at the time, while their 3-year-old son was watching television in another room, said Lalo Hinojosa, the victim's 63-year-old father.
At least one of the gunshots appeared to have gone through the bedroom wall and through the front garage door.
Northeast El Pasoan arrested for DWI, children were in the car
EL PASO -- A 22-year-old Northeast El Paso woman was arrested Tuesday for driving while intoxicated with two children in the car, according to the El Paso County Sheriff.
Sheriff's deputies arrested Lynn Martell at about 9 p.m. at the 12500 block of Montana. Inside the tan car was a 4-month-old girl and a 2-year-old girl.
Martell remains at the El Paso County Detention Facility. In addition to the DUI, she is charged with abandoning and endangering a child.
Toddler boy found wandering street alone
SAN ANTONIO -- A toddler is found alone wandering a San Antonio street late Wednesday night. Police say the three-year-old and his one-year-old brother were left alone at a house while their babysitter went for a beer run.
Police arrived and tracked down the man who was supposed to be babysitting the two boys. Officers say he was drunk and belligerent. They arrested and charged him with public intoxication.
Police tell News 4 WOAI they also tried charging the man with endangering a child. However, a judge rejected the charge, claiming there was no proof the man was responsible for the children.
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