Remember the Alamo's desecration at the, er ... hands of Ozzy Osbourne? Who doesn't? In that infamous 1982 incident, the British heavy metal legend and future reality show star relieved himself upon the Alamo Cenotaph.
We're not sure if more strange things necessarily happen in Lufkin than in other small towns, but whoever is running the Lufkin Daily News’ police blotter has a great appreciation for the absurd.
The crime in Lufkin ranges from the very mundane to the very bizarre, and nearly each day the police blotter seems to contain a new gem. We’ve compiled our favorites from March below:
A tale of intrigue involving a murder for hire, gun running, and drug trafficking emerged from Laredo over the weekend.
According to a five-page federal criminal complaint that reads as if it were torn from pages of Breaking Bad, Laredo DEA agents posing as Los Zetas cartel members netted a former Army officer and two others in a sting operation. A fourth man, Jerome Corley, was shot and killed as DEA agents attempted to arrest him. Two others connected to the investigation were nabbed in South Carolina.
Although Michael Morton was formally exonerated last year of his wife’s murder and released from prison after nearly 25 years behind bars, he has made few public comments until now. On Sunday night, in a 60 Minutes exclusive, he spoke to CBS correspondent Lara Logan about his ordeal.
Further disturbing details began to trickle out about Trey Sesler, the Waller man accused of killing his parents and brother with a high-powered rifle.
During an eight-hour interview with Texas Rangers, Sesler confessed to killing his family and planning a Columbine-style attack on Waller High School, his alma mater, Waller Police Chief Phil Rehak and Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith said at a joint press conference on the case Thursday morning.
Trey Eric Sesler, 22, likes anime, movies, and guns, and he was arrested yesterday for killing his parents and his older brother with a high-powered rifle in their Waller home. Texas Rangers and a SWAT team caught him in the afternoon in Magnolia, north of Houston. He was sitting in his black Mustang.
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An unknown suspect left what were reportedly Molotov cocktails at the door of Democratic state senator Wendy Davis's Fort Worth office Tuesday afternoon, starting a small fire. It was extinguished without any injuries or major damage, but Steve Stoler of WFAA reported that Davis "believes it was meant to cause serious harm in her office."
R. Allen Stanford can now officially be called a Ponzi schemer, after a federal jury found him guilty of fraud Tuesday for orchestrating a multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme over two decades. He now faces a life sentence.
We're not sure if more strange things necessarily happen in Lufkin than in other small towns, but whoever is running the Lufkin Daily News’ police blotter has a great appreciation for the absurd.
The crime in Lufkin ranges from the very mundane to the very bizarre, and nearly each day the police blotter seems to contain a new gem. We’ve culled our favorites from February below:
Would you let your hair stylist play plastic surgeon on you? Well, some clients at Tyler's Queen Divas Hair Salon allowed Carmel Foster, the salon's owner, to allegedly inject an "unknown substance" into their butts and breasts.
"The injection was some sort of substance that supposedly enhanced buttocks and breast size," KYTX 19's Michele Reese reported.
