Early Morning Wichita Falls Shooting
July 31st, 2007
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Cities Try New Tactic Against Violent Gangs — Filing Civil Suits
July 30th, 2007
Fed up with deadly drive-by shootings, incessant drug dealing and graffiti, cities nationwide are doing something new to combat gangs: They’re suing them. via NBC5i.com
One Jailed In Connection With Vacant Motel Fire
July 29th, 2007
121 detained in federal operation targeting gangs
July 27th, 2007
“This operation was planned and executed with one fundamental target: to provide safety to the people in our community, removing violent street gang members from the streets”
A crime sweep targeting dozens of street gangs has netted 121 members this month, federal authorities say. via The Dallas Morning News
Busby gets 6 years
July 26th, 2007
“We have sent a strong precedent here in showing that the gang injunction will be enforced and it’s not going to be taken lightly”
A 20-year-old man in a green jail uniform stood at the front of the County Court at Law No. via Times Record News
Bowser takes stand in trial
July 25th, 2007
Testimony started Tuesday in the murder trial of Kelly Gene Payne, who’s accused of shooting Cecilia Maxine Bowser and killing her unborn child. via Times Record News
Texas Gang Raids Yield 121 Arrests
July 24th, 2007
“Working in close partnership with federal and local law enforcement agencies, we removed from our communities many fugitive criminals and violent street gang members”
DALLAS - Federal agents and local police have rounded up more than 100 members of street gangs in raids in North Texas cities, immigration officials announced Monday. via KSTP-TV Minneapolis
R U in Touch?
July 23rd, 2007
“It makes his business a little more productive”
Wichita Falls mother Tammy Martin rarely sees her teenagers talking on their cell phones anymore. via Times Record News
Trying to retake the streets
July 22nd, 2007
“The Four Trey is everywhere, and they can’t stop them. They can never stop them.”
FORT WORTH — From the front stoop of his furniture store, Ed Ziglar watches as his north-side neighborhood is overrun by gangs.
Buildings are tagged with gang symbols. Windshields are smashed. Kids take control of the streets at night.
‘I’ve been here 30 years, and I haven’t seen it controlled yet,’ said Ziglar, who was reluctant to speak because he feared retaliation. ‘The gangs got free will to roam the streets.’
In an attempt to take back the streets, the city persuaded state District Judge David Evans on Friday to sign an order creating a 3.6-square-mile safety zone, giving police more power to fight the Northcide Four Trey Gangsta Crips, a gang they say is terrorizing the neighborhood. Read more
Pool’s theft leads to pursuit, arrest
July 21st, 2007
“The vehicle went west on Kell, and crossed the center median, and exited going the wrong way at Kemp.”
A store’s call to report a stolen swimming pool led to a police chase of a stolen vehicle through Wichita Falls early Friday - a chase that ended with a crash and a pool of charges for a man and woman, … via Times Record News