According to this article, Kimberly McCarthy, the first woman scheduled to be executed in the U.S. since 2010—has been given a few extra months. She was just hours away from being lethally injected when State District Judge Larry Mitchell rescheduled her execution for April 3. This delay will allow lawyers time to determine if McCarthy’s guilt was improperly selected based…
A Houston-area recruiter was charged with multiple criminal counts of sex crimes on January 4th. Tech Sargent Jaime R. Rodriguez is alleged to have had sexual misconduct with at least 18 different women who were looking to join the military. Rodriguez is a 13 year veteran of the Air Force who received a court-martial at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, which…
Last year Bexar County D.A. Susan Reed “delivered a strong message” against driving while intoxicated, according to Kens5News. This included the implementation of a “no-refusal” policy in San Antonio, meaning that drivers who were suspected of drunk diving would no longer have the option of refusing a Breathalyzer test. According to the D.A.’s office, deaths caused by intoxication are down…
In July of 2011, half dozen former state employees were arrested by the FBI at gunpoint. They were charged with defrauding the Medicaid program. They used their positions in the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to use funds to their own benefit to the tune of at least $200,000. FBI Spokesperson Eric Vasys said, “This group of employees was…
Cornelio Garcia-Mata, 45, who was recently sentenced to life in prison for his eighth DWI conviction, now wants a new trial. His defense argued that valid defense objections and motions were improperly denied during his court proceedings. District Attorney Jennifer Tharp did not agree, however. In her opinion, Garcia-Mata’s harsh penalty was a sign of community intolerance for drunken driving.…
A Thanksgiving Day double murder shocked the small San Antonio suburb of Utopia, in which 80-year-old Juana Tweedy and her friend, 79-year-old Muriel Teed were murdered by Tweedy’s son-in-law, according to Kens5 News. The Uvalde County Sheriff Charles Mendeke told Kens5, that Tweedy “had filed an eviction notice on her son-in-law and her daughter who had been living in a house on…
Residents in Olmos Park “say they feel a sense of relief after police arrested three suspects in connection with a rash of home burglaries,” according to Kens5 News. All three arrested are facing felony burglary charges after being caught in the middle of burglarizing a home while one suspect waited in a Jeep outside. The Jeep matched the description of…
Two kids from Texas are suspected of being the masterminds behind a rash of bomb threats to colleges in Texas. Perhaps a modern “Bonnie and Clyde” situation, Dereon Jayronne Kelly and his girlfriend or ex,Brittany Henderson terrorized the campus’ of Texas A&M as well as Texas State University. Over the course of the last month, the two have sent emails…
According to My Fox DFW, the mothers of several children that died or were seriously injured finally got their day in court. The case of Jessica Tata and the February 2011 home daycare fire that led to her being indicted of 9 felony charges. Four of the nine charges are for murder. She is facing up to a life sentence…
After a week of conversations that kept getting more and more obscure, Glen Birdow drove to Forth Worth to check up on his brother. His brother, Derrick, was acting paranoid, but refused to go to a hospital. Derrick Birdow ended up leaving his house in Forth Worth, driving past of a number of churches, and eventually crashing his car into…