A federal judge in Texas released a 49-year-old airline pilot charged with drug offenses on $50,000 bond after the man allegedly flew from Colombia to Houston with 62 bags of cocaine in his stomach. Officials said the pilot for a local regional airline was in uniform...
Year: 2014
2 Texas high school students accused of robbery
According to that someone visited Parkview Manor Nursing early the morning of May 16 and ordered employees to open a safe. It is claimed that the individual carried a BB gun. When police arrived, the individual reportedly fled. However, the person is believed to have...
Drug charge defense might depend on police dog
A narcotics task force operating in Texas has made a significant financial impact on groups and individuals committing drug offenses in the area. Officials reported that a task force composed of personnel drawn from local and federal law enforcement agencies seized...
Drug charge arrests in Texas
Deputies in Llano County arrested two men on two separate drug charges one day apart. The arrests occurred on May 3 and May 4. In the first case, a drug detection dog allegedly discovered 44 grams of what appeared to be methamphetamine after the people in a vehicle at...
Man turns himself in after Texas drug raid
A Graham man turned himself into law enforcement on May 1 following a drug trafficking sting in North Texas two days earlier, according to the Young County Sheriff's Office. Police said that the April 29 sting in the Dallas area involved arrest warrants for 30...
Texas crime labs delays cause at least 21 false convictions
Lab work at the Texas Department of Public Safety's 13 labs has suffered a recent slowdown. This surge is caused by a lab tech shortage, as well as recent no-refusal BAC operations, according to a representative for the agency. He also stated that drug test processing...
2 Texas residents facing drug charges
After a citizen called police to report a suspicious vehicle, two individuals were taken into custody in Anderson County on April 13. The pair were charged with drug offenses and public intoxication. An Anderson County sheriff's deputy received a call at 7:55 p.m....
Residential search leads to 25-year sentence on drug charge
Texas authorities report that a 41-year-old man was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison after he was convicted of various drug-related offenses. Due to the man's record of prior felony convictions, 25 years was the minimum sentence that his case would have allowed....
Rapper 2 Chainz faces drug charges
Entertainment fans in Houston are watching as rapper 2 Chainz faces drug charges for felony possession of a controlled substance stemming from an incident on June 11, 2013, at LAX when he was reportedly transporting codeine, one of the main ingredients in a homemade...
Man found driving wrong way on I-75 charged with drunk driving
A 37-year-old Texas man was taken into police custody on March 16 after he was accused of driving the wrong way on Interstate 45 while under the influence of alcohol. According to the report, the incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. near Texas 242. The man was allegedly...