Houston Police Department

The Houston City Council, by a vote of 13-4, passed a new policy resolution that appears to resolve the dispute with the State of Texas over ICE cooperation. Shortly before today’s 2-hour debate and vote, Houston ICE officials announced officers arrested 277 criminal aliens in the Houston area during the past two weeks.

Houston police officials say that a man was shot and killed by a police sergeant during an altercation resulting from a traffic stop on the city’s northwest side. Sources told Breitbart Texas that the man struck the officer with an object prior to the shooting.

A multi‑agency raid on a Southeast Houston apartment uncovered a heavily armed drug operation stocked with 40 pounds of meth, more than 100 pounds of marijuana, cocaine, 20 grams of fentanyl, and 17 firearms. Authorities credited the coordinated work of the Houston Police Department, Texas Department of Public Safety, and the DEA.

A Union Pacific railroad employee reported the discovery of a brush fire near a storage facility along an interstate highway in Houston. Firefighters responded and found the partially burned body of a man hanging by a rope from the overpass, police officials stated.

The discovery of sixteen deceased people found in Houston area bayous since January has sparked concerns from area residents that the deaths may be the work of a serial killer. Houston’s Mayor John Whitmire and the city’s police chief counter the argument, saying there is no evidence the deaths are connected.

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agents teamed up with police in Stafford, Texas, to raid a suspected illegal marijuana warehouse last week. During the raid, agents arrested 18 illegal aliens who were working illegally in the warehouse.

The Houston PD circulated a memo Friday telling officers they are prohibited from carrying the Sig Sauer P320.

Federal prosecutors unsealed a 29-count indictment for a drug trafficking scheme after 15 people were arrested in the Southern District of Texas. Those arrested included two illegal aliens from Mexico and Guatemala and a Mexican national with Legal Permanent Resident (LPR) status.

A janitor who worked in a Texas medical facility was sentenced this week to six years in prison after he spread sexually transmitted diseases by peeing in women’s water bottles. The man infected at least 13 women.

A 15-year-old boy in Houston, Texas, is accused of shooting his mother and sister on Saturday after eating a large quantity of marijuana edibles.

Five men with alleged ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua are under arrest after Texas state and local police found $1 million in drugs in a Houston apartment. In addition to the drugs, police seized 24 firearms.

Houston Police Department officials say they arrested the alleged killer of a woman and her two-year-old daughter. Police found the suspected killer sleeping on the couch, still wearing blood-stained clothes.

A 90-year-old Navy veteran was killed in front of his apartment complex by an unknown assailant who shot the man, stole his vehicle, and ran over the elderly man in Houston on Saturday. Police say they have yet to locate the assailant but found the man’s vehicle abandoned at another apartment complex several miles away. A search for the killer is currently underway.

A suspect who is reportedly transgender is accused of a horrific murder that happened on Woodridge Square Drive in Houston, Texas, on May 3.

A trio of young alleged bank robbers dubbed the “little rascals” has been arrested after their parents turned them in to the police.

Politicians and law enforcement figures in Houston are dealing with the massive blowback after an audit revealed that for at least eight years, authorities had “suspended” and not investigated more than 260,000 criminal cases. Officials say a lack of manpower

On February 26, the Houston Police Department released bodycam footage showing officers shoot and neutralize the February 11, Lakewood Church attacker.

A Harris County grand jury declined to file charges against a man who shot and killed a would-be robber in a Houston taqueria nearly one year ago. The man got the drop on the robber after throwing money on the ground as a distraction and then fired multiple shots leaving the robber dead.

A Houston woman allegedly hit a man with her car during a fatal collision while she was reportedly over the legal alcohol limit on April 19.

Swift fans raised over $100,000 in just one day for the family of a fan killed heading home from a concert by a suspected drunk driver.

Law enforcement teams raided an alleged auto-theft ring in Harris County and found more than two kilos of fentanyl, guns, vehicles, cash, and other drugs. The raid took place on the southwest side of Houston.

A man accused of shooting and killing a Houston-area tattoo parlor employee in December is believed to be hiding in a Texas border community. The murder suspect was reportedly out of prison on parole for the aggravated sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl at the time of the shooting.

A suspect is accused of violently robbing a woman in Houston, Texas, during a February 13 incident that left her paralyzed.

Police from Hitchcock, Texas, shot and killed a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old child. The 54-year-old man allegedly met the child through social media.

A woman residing illegally in the United States pleaded guilty this week before a federal judge to sex trafficking involving the use of force, fraud, or coercion of both adult and minor females. The victims were forced to perform commercial sex acts in a cantina in Houston.

HOUSTON, Texas — A customer at a taqueria on the southwest side of Houston shot and killed a would-be armed robber, according to video released by the Houston Police Department. The customer reportedly gathered the money taken by the robbery

An attacker in Houston, Texas, set fire to residences shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday morning, then shot and killed three people as they fled the flames.

A robbery suspect is dead after he shot a Missouri City, Texas, police officer in the face. The shooting incident took place following a police pursuit of a man suspected of a robbery that occured on the north side of Harris County (Houston).

A Houston mother and her boyfriend were charged in the death of her eight-year-old as well as injuries to the child’s twin after being arrested on Friday.

A woman was found deceased with a gunshot wound sitting in a car in Houston on Friday but detectives found no weapon at the scene.

Two suspects allegedly killed a man and shot his son Friday at a car wash in Houston, Texas, and police are asking for citizens’ help in the case.

On Monday night, UFC fighter Kevin Holland and his training partner, Patrick Robinson, joined with other customers at a Houston sushi restaurant to take down and subdue a man who entered the establishment with a gun and fired a round into the ceiling.

HOUSTON, Texas — A man shot and killed a Texas constable’s deputy with his own weapon during an altercation. The deputy was working an off-duty job at a local shopping mall.

The criminal alien accused in the murder of a Harris County Precinct 5 Constable’s deputy has been a fugitive for more than 25 years, Texas court records indicate. He is also reportedly wanted in El Salvador on a murder allegedly committed while on the run.

Law enforcement has launched a search for a suspect believed to have shot three Houston police officers on Thursday.

HOUSTON, Texas — An international manhunt led to the arrest of the man accused in the “savage execution” of a Harris County Constable’s deputy on Sunday morning. U.S. and Mexican law enforcement made the arrest in Mexico just across the border with Texas.