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On January 28, 2019, in the Pecan Park area in the East End district of Houston, [1] Houston Police Department (HPD) officers initiated a no-knock raid on a house, killing the two homeowners, a husband and wife: Dennis Wayne Tuttle and Rhogena Ann Nicholas. [2] They were aged 59 and 58, respectively. [3] Five HPD officers sustained injuries. [1]
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
Officer shot set to make a full recovery Officer S. Durfee with the Houston Police Department. Durfee was shot in his leg while responding to the scene of a home invasion on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.
Houston was founded by brothers Augustus and John Kirby Allen in 1836 and incorporated as a city in 1837. As the capital city of the Republic of Texas, it quickly grew, and so did the need for a cohesive law enforcement agency. The Houston Police Department was founded in 1841. The first HPD badge issued bore the number "1."
In one case, two men were arrested for operating a sex trafficking ring in the Houston area: Venezuelan national Pedro Gonzales and Brandon Andrews, a U.S. citizen and known sex trafficker with a ...
HOUSTON (AP) — Two men who were seen on surveillance footage with a 12-year-old girl before her body was found in a Houston creek earlier this week were arrested Thursday in her death, police said.
On November 14, 2007, Joe Horn, 61, spotted two men breaking into his next-door neighbor's home in Pasadena, Texas.He called 911 to summon police to the scene. While on the phone with emergency dispatch, Horn stated that he had the right to use deadly force to defend property, referring to a law (Texas Penal Code §§ 9.41, 9.42, and 9.43) which justified the use of deadly force to protect ...
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is seeking additional victims after a man was arrested for posing as a police officer during a racing event in the Memorial Area of Houston.