Prosecutors say 20-year-old Rico Martinez wedged an entire pacifier so far down the 6-month-old's throat, first responders could not see it to remove it.
Twenty-five individuals are behind bars following a central Lubbock prostitution operation conducted by the Lubbock Police Department’s Special Operations Division, the Texas Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security Investigations.
A man who was facing murder charges in the death and disappearance of 79-year-old Celestino Rodriguez in 2019 is now being charged with capital murder by terroristic threat or other felony.
A suspect has surrendered to police after Lubbock police got a call about a suicidal subject walking into a wooded area with a firearm on 4th Street between Upland and Alcove on Saturday evening.
Federal prosecutors filed papers today that contain guilty pleas from two Borger women who entered the U.S. Capitol building during the January 6 confrontation between protestors and police.
While being interviewed by police, 47-year-old Casey Earl Bratcher admitted the abuse had continued from when the child was 11, saying he provided them with a cell phone to send explicit messages.
The Lubbock Police Department’s Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit, along with the Texas Anti-Gang Center, continues to ask for the public’s help in a drive-by shooting in September of 2021 that left one person dead and another person with moderate injuries.
When the dispatcher asked, “And he’s your boyfriend?” The woman responded, “He’s supposed to be, but you hurry up or I’m going to kill him. I’m going to f*****g kill him.
A Muleshoe man has pleaded guilty to the transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual conduct. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant, Jr. accepted the guilty plea on Monday.
A 28-year-old man is in the Lubbock County Detention Center, facing a DWI charge, after he crashed his pickup into a fence and house on Thursday afternoon.
Two Lubbock postal contractors have been sentenced to a combined seven years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of stolen mail, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Chad E. Meacham.
The joint criminal enforcement operation with the Texas Department of Public Safety and Garza County Sheriff’s Office resulted in 16 arrests for narcotics, possession of controlled substances, warrants, traffic-related offenses, and unlawfully carrying a firearm.
A Hobbs teacher was arrested Wednesday and charged with criminal sexual contact of a minor after two female students came forward with the allegations earlier this month.
A Lubbock man who was convicted in federal court for charges related to a 2015 aggravated robbery of a gun store in Lubbock has now been charged by a Lubbock County grand jury for a different aggravated robbery.
The Crime Victim Coalition of West Texas, in commemoration of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), April 24-30, 2022, is hosting an Awards Ceremony recognizing individuals and agencies who go above and beyond in serving victims of crime and raising awareness about crime victims’ issues and rights and introduce the community to the important resources and services available.
Court documents state the Department of Public Safety began investigating 57-year-old Steve Jerome Paul in August 2021, after a CyberTip was submitted by Yahoo, Inc. to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas says a 72-year-old El Paso man was found guilty of attempted bank robbery, after he was stopped by a bank employee and it was all caught on surveillance video.
Gene Garcia Solis, 48, was taken into custody on November 25, 2021, after a more than 30-hour SWAT standoff at Interstate 27 and Regis Street, near the National Guard Armory by the airport.
