A Houston-area pediatric dentist drugged a teenage girl and fondled her, according to prosecutors. Joshua Robbins, a pediatric dentist, is charged with attempted indecency with a child. He used drugs from work to dose the drink of a friend's daughter, who was 16 at the time, and then touch her inappropriately. Robbins has surrendered his [...]
A small benzene spill was reported during the afternoon of Friday, July 15. The spill occurred around noon at the Vopak Terminal Deer Park. Roughly 500 gallons of benzene spilled on a tanker while the boat was moored at the terminal in Deer Park, Texas. Only a small bit of the benzene reached the water. [...]
Six teenagers from La Porte, Texas, have been arrested for their involvement in a violet home-invasion armed robbery. Police were dispatched to a La Porte home in the 800 block of Willow Creek Dr. shortly before 2 a.m. on June 23. Police were told that a group of men wearing masks kicked in the door [...]
The La Porte Police Department recently led a narcotics investigation that resulted in the arrest of two Deer Park teens and a 20-year-old man for alleged drug possession. Harris County Criminal Court records show that all three suspects are already facing felony charges related to other incidents. The investigation uncovered marijuana, a powerful sedative, and [...]
A Deer Park, Texas, officer is accused of assaulting a man who had been arrested for public intoxication on May 24. Charles Alston has been charged with misdemeanor assault after he allegedly punched Tobias Martinez, who had been arrested for public intoxication. Paramedics noted redness and swelling on Martinez's face but noted he did not [...]
Kenneth Johnson suffered brain damage as a result of a rock coming through his windshield on June 14, 2014. Two years later, he still has difficulty talking and walks with a cane. His case was one of the early cases in a string of more than 90 cases regarding rock throwing. Last week Austin police [...]
A Houston man recently was given life in prison for his ninth DWI conviction. According to reports, he's been getting DWI convictions since 1980. Donald Middleton, who is 56 years old, already had spent four separate times in prison as a result of his drunken driving. In May 2015 he was arrested and charged for [...]
A 15-year-old suspect has been charged in the death of a student from South Houston whose body was found in an abandoned apartment complex. The body of 15-year-old Karen Perez was found Tuesday by volunteers at the 1600 block of Avenue N near Shaver across the street from South Houston High School. Perez was last [...]
The family members of an army vet from California, whom they say was "troubled," says he was the shooter who killed one and injured several others in a shooting at a Houston auto shop. 25-year-old Dionisio Garza III of Rancho Cucamonga, California was identified by his family as being the man who shot and killed [...]
After four workers died in a toxic gas leak in November 2014 in La Porte, Texas, the Chronicle obtained the chemical inventories of more than 2,500 businesses in the Houston area. Chemical safety experts then ranked the potential of each facility to kill or injure people as well as to cause property or environmental damage. [...]