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 [...]
Pemex reported Monday of a tripped compressor in a catalytic cracking unit at its Deer Park refinery. The tripped compressor led to an excessive amount of gas emissions. Pemex reports that the emissions of sulfur dioxide started Sunday afternoon and lasted for about seven hours. The 340,000-barrel-per-day refinery was taken over by Pemex, Mexico's state-owned [...]
Suzie Ram says she was helping a customer along with her 11-year-old daughter when thieves entered her Pasadena convenience store. Ram's 18-year-old daughter was behind the register when armed thieves entered the convenience store and demanded to be handed a bag filled with $6,000. Once the thieves received the bag of cash, they thanked Ram [...]
Car mechanic Azael Sepulveda was allowed to open his new shop this week thanks to an agreement with the city of Pasadena. Sepulveda filed a lawsuit in December 2021 to allow his shop to open while his lawsuit challenging Pasadena's mandatory parking requirement was pending. Sepulveda has owned Oz Mechanics in Pasadena for several years, [...]
A veteran-owned and operated lawn care business says that its trailer and other equipment were stolen this week from their Pasadena storage unit. Chad Milner owns Lawn Vets and says that when he arrived Thursday morning at the Pasadena storage facility his equipment was gone. Pasadena Police have reviewed security footage, and they say that [...]
The Harris County District Attorney's Office remains undecided on pressing charges against a Jeep driver who targeted a Deer Park cyclist. Initially the office had stated that they would make a decision on the driver's arrest by April 22. The incident happened on April 13, and the driver is captured on camera targeting the Deer [...]
Police say that a group of suspected thieves has been arrested after they attempted to steal catalytic converters from the Cinemark Theatre parking lot in Pasadena. Authorities responded to calls about a group of thieves in the Cinemark Theatre parking lot in the 2100 block of Beltway 8. Police say that they found six catalytic [...]
A Pasadena police officer resigned a week after an off-duty crash into an HPD vehicle. Elias Vega rear-ended the HPD vehicle on April 14 on the frontage road south of Sam Houston Parkway. He's been charged with DWI as a result of the accident. As a result of the accident, both Vega and an officer [...]
A man accused of trying to lure several girls into his car in Deer Park and Pasadena was arrested in Lufkin Thursday and faced a judge Friday. Chase Brefczynski, 25, was charged with aggravated kidnapping, and his bond was set at $75,000. A personal bond was not approved due to potential safety concerns. Brefczynski is [...]
A man was killed Friday morning just before 6:00 a.m. as a vehicle struck him near the intersection of Spencer Highway and Federal Road. The driver of the vehicle that hit the man remained on the scene of the accident, and police do not believe that intoxication was involved. After the man was hit, he [...]