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  • Texas Man Impersonated Police Officer To “Make People Drive Better”

    Texas Man Impersonated Police Officer To “Make People Drive Better”


    A Texas man has been arrested for impersonating a police officer after he attempted to pull someone over, New York Post reported.

    In Weatherford, a town about 50 miles west of Dallas, police were notified about a suspicious, blue pickup truck. A concerned citizen alerted authorities after a man, later identified as Luciano Amador Velazquez, attempted to pull them over with emergency lights. The victim claims that the 41-year-old had been following him closely for some time prior.

    “He further reported the driver of the truck was flashing emergency lights from inside the truck, while attempting to cut him off of the roadway and block his vehicle from leaving the area,” the Parker County Sheriff’s Office explained.

    When asked why he was impersonating police, Velasquez told them that he uses the blue and red emergency lights mounted on his dashboard to “make people drive better.” Despite his explanation, the faux cop was immediately placed into police custody.

    Velazquez is now facing charges of impersonating a public servant, and is being held at the Parker County Sheriff’s Office on a $15,000 bond.

  • Texas Woman Shot In Mouth By Stray Bullet While In Pizzeria Drive-Thru

    Texas Woman Shot In Mouth By Stray Bullet While In Pizzeria Drive-Thru

    A Houston woman is expected to survive her injuries after being hit in the mouth with a stray bullet while waiting in a drive-thru early Sunday morning, KHOU 11 reported.

    Houston police arrived to Parma Pizza, a local pizzeria, after receiving multiple reports about a shooting that occurred around 2 A.M., while an arrest was taking place. Two off-duty Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies, who were coincidentally working an extra job at the restaurant, detained two of the shooters. Three guns were recovered.

    A woman who sitting in the back of a vehicle was struck in the mouth by one of the stray bullets. Another of the bullets grazed a man that was in the same vehicle. The woman was immediately transported to a nearby hospital, and is predicted to fully recover.

  • Texas Man Responsible For Deporting Thousands Of People Discovers He’s Undocumented

    Texas Man Responsible For Deporting Thousands Of People Discovers He’s Undocumented

    A man living in San Benito, Texas learned that he was an undocumented immigrant after being responsible for the deportation of thousands of people, CNN reported.

    At the age of 49, Raul Rodriguez had been working for the US government at the border for almost two decades. As an employee for the US Customs and Border Protection, Rodriguez says he helped deport thousands of undocumented immigrants. After dedicating his life to CBP and building relationships with local law enforcement, he eventually found himself on the other end of the spectrum.

    In April of 2018, while filing a visa application for his brother, it was discovered that Rodriguez had been living in the United States illegally for the majority of his life. Originally born in Mexico, the birth certificate he had been using was fraudulent. Once confronted, Rodriguez’ father confessed that they were never US citizens.

    After the discovery Rodriguez’ entire life began to change. First, he lost his job. Then, his sense of identity.

    “Anything that I ever did revolved around law enforcement. I lost everything. . . That’s who I thought I was. That was my identity,” he explained. “They take that idea from you, you’re back at square one.”

    Even the friends he made in law enforcement, as well as those he served with in the US Navy, turned their backs on him. When spotted in public, people he knew for years refused to acknowledge him. “They abandoned me because they thought I was illegal,” he says.

    Nearly five years later, and Rodriguez continues to fight to stay within the country. If deported, he’d leave behind a wife and his 4 children.

    “All I was asking was, just treat me like everyone else. I served this country so many years. I think I deserve something- at least the chance to stay in it,” he says.

  • Video Shows Witness Chase Down Man Who Fatally Struck Texas Off-Duty Officer In Car Crash

    Video Shows Witness Chase Down Man Who Fatally Struck Texas Off-Duty Officer In Car Crash

    Newly released footage shows the jaw-dropping moments of an eyewitness running and capturing a man who had just fatally struck an off-duty Texas detective in a drunk-driving car crash, the NY Post reported. 

    The video, obtained by WFAA, Fox 4, and other outlines, shows the convicted killer Dylan Molina fleeing the fatal scene on foot. The crash occurred on Nov. 27, 2021, killing  Euless police Detective Alex Cervantes and injuring his wife and two kids who were also in the vehicle. 

    Thanks to the good Samaritan, Justin Gonzalez, who quickly sprung into action, chasing Molina down and pinning him to the ground until police arrived. Gonzalez is heard in the video screaming, 

    “Hey! Get your f— a– over here, motherf—er.”

    Gonzalez told the outlet

    “I don’t know why it had to happen that it did… But I knew he wasn’t going anywhere. I couldn’t let him go.” 

    Molina pleaded guilty in January to intoxication manslaughter and three counts of intoxication assault, according to the Fort-Worth Star Telegram. He was sentenced to

    “15 years on the manslaughter plea and 10 years each on the assault pleas with the sentences to run concurrently,”

    the newspaper reported.

    The bartender, Cala Richardson, who served Molina

    “eight double vodka cocktails,”

    the day of the fatal crash, was also arrested and charged with one count of sale to a certain person, a misdemeanor, according to police per the Star-Telegram. She could face up to a year in prison if convicted. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Parents Voice Concerns After Third Grader Finds Gun In Bathroom: “We Found Out Through The News A Month Later”

    Parents Voice Concerns After Third Grader Finds Gun In Bathroom: “We Found Out Through The News A Month Later”

    Parents in Rising Star, Texas are furious after learning that a 3rd grader found a gun in the bathroom through the news, a month after the incident occurred, The Hill reported.

    Last month, a nine-year-old student at Rising Star Elementary School went to the bathroom and discovered a firearm inside of a holster hanging from a stall. Without touching the weapon, the third grader notified a teacher, who reportedly told another student to verify his findings.

    “So the teacher asked another kid, my son, ‘Can you go see if it’s a real gun,’” said Giovanni Mata, who recently moved his family to the area from Uvalde after a mass shooting occurred at a local elementary school, where his son attended. “Why would you send a kid? Why not send someone else?”

    The firearm belonged to superintendent Robby Stuteville, who says that he and the school’s principal regularly open carry on the elementary school’s campus. He says that he had taken off the gun and placed it in a stall while using the restroom. It was found by a student 15 minutes later.

    Local law enforcement say that they weren’t aware of the incident until recently. Rising Star Police Chief Don Braly confirmed an active investigation began Wednesday. “When that investigation is concluded the information and the facts, not rumors, will be turned over to the district attorney’s office,” Braly said.

    Parents of the school student are enraged about being left in the dark about a firearm being found by a student. After learning about what had taken place, an emergency parents meeting was held.

    “We, as parents, had to find out about it through the news a month later,” one parent explained. “It only makes the school seem like they have something to hide.”

    No charges against Superintendent Stuteville have been filed, but the school county has announced that he has provided a letter of resignation.

  • Four Dead After Texas Man Commits Triple Murder And Sexual Assault Of 12-Year-Old Before Shooting Himself

    Four Dead After Texas Man Commits Triple Murder And Sexual Assault Of 12-Year-Old Before Shooting Himself

    Police officers responded to a call about the sexual assault of a child and the fatal shooting of three teenage girls in a Houston, Texas suburb, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez of the Galena Park Police Department said in a statement.

    At around 10:30 P.M., a 12-year-old girl reported that her mother’s boyfriend had shot her sisters and a friend, then sexually assaulted her. After the rape had occurred, the man told her to run. According to KHOU 11, the child then grabbed her 1-year-old niece and ran to a neighbor’s house for help.

    When officers from Galena Park Police Department arrived to the home, they found the bodies of the three teenage girls. In another room, the 38-year-old suspect was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The mother, who was in a relationship with the child rapist and shooter, was not home at the time of the sexual assault and shooting.

    Two of victims were the 12-year-old’s sisters: 13-year-old Melany Torres and 19-year-old Sayuri Gill. Sources say that Gill, the mother of the 1-year-old that was taken to a neighbor, was expecting her second child. The third victim was a friend of the family, a 14-year-old girl whose name has not yet been released.

    “It’s just a tragic situation,” Sheriff Gonzalez said. “It makes no sense. It’s all senseless and it’s very tragic, but our investigators will try to put all the pieces together, and our condolences go out to the victim’s families and everyone impacted by this and the entire city as well.”

  • Texas Man Arrested For Stealing Monkeys From Dallas Zoo Told Police He’d Do It Again

    Texas Man Arrested For Stealing Monkeys From Dallas Zoo Told Police He’d Do It Again


    On January 29th, two monkeys named Bella and Finn, kept at the Dallas Zoo, were stolen from their enclosure, ABC News reported. Before the animals were taken, a man had been questioning zookeepers how they cared for them, and what their routines were. They were unaware that it was in preparation for his plot to steal them.

    Police later released camera footage of the suspect to the public, and two women came forward, saying that they had seen the man from the photos leaving a vacant house near the church they attended. Inside the empty home, the missing mammals were found, along with multiple cats, pigeons, and feeder fish that he had taken from the zoo earlier that month.

    On Thursday, Davion Irvin was arrested for the animal theft. The 24-year-old then told police that on the night of the monkeys’ disappearance, he waited until dark, jumped a fence to enter the zoo, cut the metal mesh of the enclosure, and left with the two animals. He also confessed to attempting to steal Nova, a clouded leopard that had escaped January 13th, after he was able to break into her enclosure.

    Despite facing charges of animal cruelty and burglary, Irvin told investigators that if he were released, he’d continue to attempt to steal animals. According to police, his love for animals surpasses his love of freedom. Irvin currently remains jailed on a $25,000 bond.

  • Texas Science Lab Raised Over $225M To Bring Back Woolly Mammoths And Dodo Birds

    Texas Science Lab Raised Over $225M To Bring Back Woolly Mammoths And Dodo Birds

    Scientists are attempting to bring back the extinct species of the Dodo bird and the Woolly Mammoth according to Smithsonian Magazine. 

    Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company based in Austin, Texas, has spent over a year studying the recreation of the dodo, the woolly mammoth, and the Tasmanian tiger and has since raised $225 million for its efforts. 

    Colossal founder Ben Lamm told Vice,

    “I think this is an opportunity where, given the man-made nature of the extinction of the dodo, man could not only bring the dodo back but also fix what was done to parts of the ecosystem to reintroduce them.” 

    The flightless bird and the mammoth have been extinct for centuries due to natural phenomena like climate change, vegetation shortage, loss of their natural habit, and the role of human activity. However, scientist believe they have the tools to de-extinct the animals. Not quite like before but more of a

    duplication for that matter. Ben Lamm and his team of 40 scientists plan on

    “editing the genes from the Nicobar pigeon, the dodo’s closest living relative,”

    reports state.

    According to Beth Shapiro, the lead paleogeneticist at Colossal, the team have already successfully

    “sequenced”

    the extinct birds DNA by using their original gene codes. Next, they plan on removing the germ cells from an egg of a pigeon, alter the genes to make them more

    “dodo-like”

    then implant the cells back into a pigeon egg, Shapiro told CNN’s Katie Hunt. The new modifications are supposed to help the bird withstand today’s climate. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Bond Granted For Teenager Who Allegedly Beat And Strangled His Mom To Death, Put Her Body In Trunk, And Led Police on High-Speed Chase

    Bond Granted For Teenager Who Allegedly Beat And Strangled His Mom To Death, Put Her Body In Trunk, And Led Police on High-Speed Chase

    On Thursday, February 2nd, a Houston judge set a bond for a teenager that was arrested for strangling and beating his mother to death, and then traveling across the country with her corpse in her stolen car’s trunk, Law And Crime reported.

    In October of 2022, 17-year-old Tyler Roenz and 49-year-old Michelle Roenz were reported as missing after Tyler’s father discovered five teeth and a trail of blood leading to the master bedroom of his home. When he notified Houston police of his findings, he also reported that his wife’s 2011 Mazda 3 was missing.

    Soon after their disappearance, the missing Mazda was spotted in Nebraska. 15 minutes later, state troopers attempted to pull the vehicle over, which led to a high-speed pursuit. The Mazda traveled for nine miles at nearly 110 miles per hours before crashing into a tree. Tyler Roenz was transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition, and his mother was discovered in the vehicle’s trunk.

    Michelle Roenz’ cause of death was determined to be strangulation and blunt force trauma, but the reason for the attack remains unknown. The Harris County judge has set the defendant’s bond on the murder charge at $1,050,000.

    “The judge has made it clear that he’s not to have contact with his father or go near his father’s residence,” Harris County Assistant District Attorney Lisa Calligan explained. “If he gets out, has to be on 24-hour house arrest with an ankle monitor.”

  • Father Arrested For Allegedly Kidnapping His Son’s 15-Year-Old Girlfriend, Police Say

    Father Arrested For Allegedly Kidnapping His Son’s 15-Year-Old Girlfriend, Police Say

    A Texas father is accused of kidnapping his son’s 15-year-old girlfriend at gunpoint, Kens5 News reported. 

    Alexander McCormick, 35, was arrested Friday on charges of aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after police say he kidnapped his son’s 15-year-old girlfriend. 

    According to the news station, McCormick had been tailing a group of teens in his black Dodge Ram pickup truck before abruptly cutting them off in traffic. The teens told police that McCormick got out of the vehicle and pointed a gun at them demanding the 15-year-old girl

    “get out of the car.”

    The frightened young lady complied with McCormick, leaving in his car. Reports state that McCormick drove the teen to his residence where his son was waiting. Words were reportedly exchanged and the girl was then dropped off at a park. The young lady kept an open communication with friends throughout the entire ordeal, who then notified police of her whereabouts. 

    McCormick was arrested at the park. He is also on bond for another felony arrest for threatening young people who allegedly damaged his truck.  

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?