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Arrest made after man found dead inside plastic storage container on Fort Worth road
A woman has been arrested after police said she stuffed a man's body inside of a plastic storage container and left it on the side of a road in northwest Fort Worth last month. Tisha Hulsey, 51, is charged with murder in the death of 52-year-old Dwight Hood, according to...
Woman, 70, holds employee at gunpoint for refund at Fort Worth restaurant: police
A woman is behind bars after Fort Worth police said she accused restaurant employees of taking her money and held one of them at gunpoint while demanding a refund. It happened on Thursday, June 27, at the Taqueria Mi Ranchito Mexican restaurant in Fort Worth. According to the Fort Worth...
Two 18-year-olds plead guilty to robbing USPS workers across DFW
DALLAS - Two 18-year-old men pleaded guilty to a string of robberies targeting postal workers all over the metroplex. The two men were tracked down back in April after committing a robbery at an apartment complex in Fort Worth. They were already on the radar of investigators due to cell...
Mexican national on new Texas 10 Most Wanted list for Illegal Immigrants captured in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH, Texas — A Mexican national listed on Texas' 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants was captured in Fort Worth on June 13, 2024, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).Victor Hugo Chox Gonzalez, a 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrant from Mexico, was apprehended by DPS Criminal Investigations Division Special Agents. Chox Gonzalez had been wanted for aggravated sexual assault of a child, indecency with a child by sexual contact, failure to identify/give false/fictitious information, and failure to identify as a fugitive.In April 2016, Chox Gonzalez was convicted in Tarrant County of driving while intoxicated with...
One Texas Business Scammer Could Be Involved in 19 Deaths, Police say
A woman already charged with the endangerment of one person and the murder of another may be connected to the deaths of up to 20 other individuals, police say. And it’s all in pursuit of the almighty dollar. The unlicensed Love & Caring for People LLC was founded by...
Police chase: Video shows wild pursuit from White Settlement to Fort Worth
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas - White Settlement police released dash and body camera video of a wild chase that ended in Fort Worth on Friday night. Police say license plate reading cameras detected a vehicle connected to a suspect with multiple felony warrants. When police attempted to pull the blue Hyundai...
Tarrant County sheriff fires officer indicted in jailhouse killing amid calls for resignation
FORT WORTH – Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn fired detention officer Rafael Moreno on Tuesday following Moreno's indictment in connection with the murder of a man who died while in custody – Anthony Johnson Jr. Meanwhile, Lt. Joel Garcia – who also was indicted for murder – is fighting to retain his job through a civil service appeal.The two were indicted on Friday. Waybourn had fired Moreno and Garcia in mid-May but later reinstated them because of termination process problems.According to the indictments, Johnson's death was caused when Moreno placed his knee in the inmate's back. Waybourn said the tactic is...
Victim's son arrested for JROTC instructor's murder
A murder victim's son is under arrest for shooting and killing his father, Fort Worth police say.Xavier Bass, 26, is in jail in Valdosta, Georgia, where he lives, more than 800 miles away from the crime scene. Police say Xavier Bass shot his father, 54-year-old Gene Bass, in the front yard of his home on Chesapeake Bay Drive on Friday afternoon. Surveillance cameras from the victim's home caught the entire incident, and a landscaping crew also witnessed what happened, police said.According to the affidavit, Xavier Bass pulled up in front of Gene Bass's home and approached his father with...
With "serial squatters" on the rise, a Tarrant County constable vows to send them to jail
NORTH TEXAS – It's early morning when Tarrant County deputy constables prepare to strike.Their target on this day is Shawndria Allen Graves."She's a known squatter in our area. This will be the third house in 2024 that we've had evictions on her for," said Detective Scott Powell.This time, though, deputies aren't evicting her. They're arresting her.It's a new approach Tarrant County Precinct 7 is taking, treating suspected squatters not like tenants who are unable to pay rent, but like criminals who never intended to.Powell first started looking into Graves last October when, he said, the precinct judge asked if he could...
Felony Warrant Suspect Arrested After High-Speed Chase Through White Settlement and Fort Worth
Escalating from a routine stop to a high-speed pursuit, officers from the White Settlement Police Department engaged in an intense chase with a felony warrant suspect last Friday night. According to the White Settlement Police Department, the situation quickly intensified when the suspect, upon noticing the police lights, opted to flee rather than surrender. In the ensuing chaos, Sgt. Blaustein's Tahoe became the unintended target of the suspect's desperation, rammed forcibly as the suspect sought to escape.
Repairman electrocuted to death while fixing AC unit at North Texas home, police say
An investigation is underway after a repairman was electrocuted to death while working on an air conditioning unit at a home in Tarrant County in late June. On Monday, June 24, police officers responded to a home in the 2900 block of Lakemont Drive in Flower Mound around 1:11 p.m. after reports of a person being found unconscious.
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