Houston Police Officer Charged with Intoxicated Assault

Houston, Texas

a veteran officer with the Houston Police Department has been arrested in Brenham following a two-vehicle accident that left three people injured.

Officer Mark Richard Hutchins, who has been employed by HPD since December 2007, was charged with intoxicated assault with a vehicle.

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Corpus Christi Officer Arrested For Assault

Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi Police responded to a fight in progress call around 1:30 Tuesday morning on the 55-hundred block of Leopard. Once there, officers found two men who had been injured.

The victims have been identified as 27 year old Victor Gonzalez and 28 year old Rodolfo Trevino. Trevino refused treatment at the scene. Gonzalez was transported to the hospital with a head injury and is currently in the Intensive Care Unit at Christus Spohn Memorial.

Two people were taken in for questioning. Luis Rodriguez and 31 year old Ryan Amador were both arrested.

40 year old Trevino is a Corpus Christi police officer. He has been charged with Aggravated Assault and Assault. According to police, Rodriguez who is assigned to the Uniform Division was off duty at the time of the arrest.

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Diboll Cop Resigns: Stopped Elderly Man on the Way to Hospital, Holding at Gunpoint

Diboll, Texas

Diboll police officer Grant Jones has resigned amid a flurry of debate surrounding a controversial traffic stop last week.

The stop in question occurred on July 27 as Tracey Lott was driving his friend, Johnny Hodge, to a hospital when he was pursued by Diboll Police into Lufkin city limits. Lott pulled over at the intersection of U.S. 59 and College Street, where Jones used his pistol to shatter the windshield.

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Humble Police Officer Indicted for Excessive Force

Humble, Texas

A seven-year veteran with the Humble Police Department was issued a misdemeanor indictment by a Harris County grand jury for official oppression July 20.

Officer Frank Saye was accused of the use of unnecessary force during an arrest in a written complaint received by the Humble Police Department in April. The complaint was immediately investigated by Humble PD Internal Affairs and was found to be sustained.

Humble Police Chief Gary Warman terminated Officer Saye from his position in May.

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Hundreds of FBI Agents Under Investigation by DOJ for Cheating In Test On Civil Rights & Surveillance Laws - Posted Here Due To FBI Branches In Texas

Across The United States

FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, discussing an embarrassing investigation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans.

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Dallas Police Officer Accused of Second On-duty Sexual Assault

Dallas, Texas

About a month after being fired, a second victim has come forward.

A Dallas police officer who was fired in June after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman while on duty was arrested Tuesday and accused of a second on-duty sexual assault.

Assistant Police Chief Vince Golbeck said Tuesday that a second woman came forward to accuse Jeffrey Damon Thorn after she and her family saw news coverage of Thorn's firing.

In the June case, Thorn allegedly threatened to take the woman to jail unless she performed a sex act in his marked squad car, a conversation that was recorded by his in-car audio system.

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Women Blame County for Ex-Sheriff's Abuse

July 26, 2010

Wichita Falls, Texas

The former sheriff of Montague County used his position to demand "blow jobs" and other sexual favors from female inmates and other women whose relatives or husbands were entangled with the law, three alleged victims claim in Federal Court.

The women say the county failed to stop or prevent former Sheriff William B. "Bill" Keating from "coercing, intimidating, and threatening" women who relied on him to deliver justice.

Two of the three alleged victims, Lashana Dykes and Dawnita Knight, say they were repeatedly targeted for sexual assault and harassment by Keating. The third plaintiff, Shelley Lemon, says Keating made several inappropriate sexual propositions after he let her severely disabled husband off on a probation violation.

Keating allegedly visited Lemon's home after a warrant was issued for her husband, who had recently suffered two severe strokes that left him "confused" and "child-like."

Lemon says she offered Keating a cup of tea, which he declined, stating, "what I really need is a good piece of ass." He then "demanded that Lemon 'owed him a favor' in return for his efforts in getting the warrant lifted and explicitly stated that he thought he was entitled to a 'blow job,'" the lawsuit states.

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Note: William B. Keating plead guilty to civil rights violations in January of 2009. He has since passed away.

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