A more than 16-mile police chase ended in a crash that killed an innocent driver, and the 17-year-old involved has been charged with murder. The police chase started in Webster and ended in Pasadena Sunday morning. Sunday evening Christopher Evan Romero was arrested and charged with murder, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, felony evading [...]
A woman told police that she shot a man who approached her while she was sitting in her car in Pasadena. She says she was sitting in her car on South Houston Road just after midnight Wednesday when a man approached her. The woman says she felt threatened by the man's approach, so she shot [...]
Pasadena residents may have heard four bomb detonations last night. Pasadena police warned residents in advance of their Tuesday evening planned bomb exercise. The exercise was conducted August 23 around 6:30 p.m. at the Pasadena Police Range on Genoa Red Bluff Road near the Bayport North Industrial Park. Authorities warned residents and nearby businesses of [...]
A wrecker driver who helped save a deputy constable in a fiery crash in Pasadena has been honored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Richard Borgstrom was honored at the First Responders Support Team monthly meeting. Precinct 8 Deputy Constable Kiana LeMelle embraced Borgstrom and thanked him for saving her life. Borgstrom said that moments after [...]
Nearly two years after a six-week-old boy from Pasadena died, his father is being charged with murder. Xavier Darren Whitaker, 20, has been charged with murdering his newborn son. Authorities say that the infant had sustained multiple blunt force injuries. His father had claimed that the boy became unresponsive during a feeding. The injuries were [...]
Pasadena police say that a stranger kidnapped and raped an 8-year-old girl at knifepoint on July 15. Damien Lavon Johnson, 27, has been charged with super aggravated sexual assault of a child. He is being held on a $500,000 bond in Harris County Jail. Authorities say that the girl was playing with her sisters outside [...]
Three people were injured in a fiery crash in Pasadena Tuesday, one of whom is a deputy constable with Precinct 8. The accident occurred on Beltway 8 around 2:00 a.m. northbound at San Augustine Avenue. Pasadena police say that alcohol was not a factor in the crash. All parties involved have no life-threatening injuries, and [...]
A heat advisory is in place for southeast Texas until this evening. Temperatures could reach to up to 104 degrees F with the heat index reaching up to 109 degrees F. Some counties in the area are under a red flag warning, which means that the hot, dry, breezy conditions could lead to a fire [...]
Bobby Wolfe claimed he shot his girlfriend multiple times Monday morning because he thought she was an intruder. He has now been charged in connection with her death. Bobby Wolfe, 22, has been charged with manslaughter after telling Pasadena police that he shot his girlfriend Chrisheena Lamontrici because he thought she was an intruder. Lamontrici [...]
Floyd Mendoza, a Pasadena artist, is working with FIEL Houston to create a mural in honor of the victims of the Uvalde shooting. The mural features a photo of three children with a sign that reads "Keep Us Safe." The names of the 21 victims are written behind the children in the mural, which is [...]