Governor Greg Abbott appointed Former Judge Greg Magee to be the Criminal District Attorney for San Jacinto County in East Texas. Magee will take office on Monday to fill the vacancy following the resignation of District Attorney Todd Dillon.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper died Monday night in a fiery crash on an East Texas farm road. The trooper was responding to a call for assistance from San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office deputies.
A Texas man who claimed his house was sprayed with racist graffiti is now facing charges of burning down his own home. Two men, including a family member, reportedly died in the fire, and another person was seriously injured.
Francisco Torres Oropeza pleaded not guilty in an East Texas court on Capital Murder charges related to the alleged murder of five Honduran migrants. The Hondurans, including a young child, lived next door to Oropeza at the time of the reported shooting deaths.
Nearly 200 residents of rural San Jacinto County, Texas, watched as the commissioners’ court declared a border-crisis state of disaster. Following a mass murder and cartel-connected marijuana grow house bust, county residents had seen firsthand, the impact of the border crisis on their community.
The “wife” of the four-time deported Mexican national accused of murdering five Honduran migrants in their home is also an immigration fugitive, according to federal immigration officials. The woman, now in the Montgomery County, Texas, jail on felony charges of helping accused murderer Francisco Oropesa evade arrest, is herself an immigration fugitive after being ordered removed from the U.S. for a second time.
The owner of a liquor store in East Texas shot and killed a man who broke into the building and was in the process of stealing merchandise, according to the local sheriff. Store security cameras captured the incident and was reviewed by law enforcement.
More than a thousand police officers, first responders, elected officials, and private citizens gathered on Thursday morning to honor the life of slain San Jacinto County Precinct 1 Constable’s Office Deputy Neil Adams. An angry customer in a Houston shopping mall shot and killed Adams on February 23 following an altercation over a credit card dispute.
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.
Elected officials in an East Texas community defiantly illuminated the crosses on their courthouse after an atheist organization told them to take them down. The move came after the county judge and commissioners voted unanimously to keep the four crosses on the county building.
