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CRIME & SAFETY
SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM MAKES MAJOR DRUG ARREST IN COLUMBUS
An accused drug dealer was taken off the streets after a raid by the Austin County Regional Special Response Team. The operation was the result of an ongoing narcotics investigation by the West Side Narcotics Task Force. The SRT executed arrest and search warrants on Monday at 11:45pm in Columbus.
WARRANT ARREST MADE ON HOUSTON MAN
A Houston man had a warrant arrest made on him Thursday. Brenham Police report that Thursday afternoon at 2:15, Officer Tina Bruno and Detective Andrea Guerra met with Don Lester Franklin, 59 of Houston, at the Brenham Police Department and placed him under arrest for two outstanding warrants for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. The warrants were issued stemming from an incident that took place in the 200 block of Riggs Street on June 15th. Officers responded to a disturbance involving a male subject, later identified as being Mr. Franklin, pointing a handgun at two people. No one was injured at the time of the incident.
TWO ACCIDENTS AMONG FOUR CALLS THURSDAY FOR BRENHAM DEPT.
The Brenham Fire Department was called out to a pair of accidents on Thursday. Shortly before 11:45 a.m., the department was dispatched to Highway 290 East and Blue Bell Road for a transportation incident. Units arrived on location to find a two-vehicle accident. After checking for injuries and fluids, they determined no one was hurt and no fluids were leaking. The department returned to service after the vehicles were moved from the highway.
Fire departments petition for Emergency Service District in Washington County
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Texas (KBTX) - The Chappell Hill and Meyersville Volunteer Fire Departments created a petition to propose an Emergency Service District on the ballot in November. According to the Chapple Hill Fire Department, ESDs are local political subdivisions of the state created through public elections that provide fire, rescue,...
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