Dane Schiller
Houston Chronicle
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Life Flight: Saving lives for four decades
At a time when Houston didn't even have an official ambulance system, the idea of medical helicopters swooping into urban mayhem and whisking away patients fighting for their lives might have seemed impossible. [...] Army veteran and trauma surgeon Dr. James "Red" Duke knew military helicopters saved lives on the battlefields of Korea and Vietnam, and he wanted to bolster survival rates by… → Read More
Federal judge orders state to release details on inmate deaths from heat
A federal judge Wednesday ordered the Texas prison system to disclose the number of heat-related deaths among inmates statewide since 1990, sharply questioning why its lawyers had not provided the information sooner. → Read More
Officials on alert for Election Day terrorist activity
Voters in Texas and across the country will head to the polls Tuesday amid a heightened terrorism alert that will mean increased law enforcement presence in public places, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Through its official communication channel on the Internet, the terrorist group known as ISIS has called on Muslims in the United States to refuse to participate in the… → Read More
Statistic shows possible hole in gun background checks
Federal prosecutors nationwide, between 2004 and 2015, charged an average of 32 people a year with knowing they were forbidden from owning a gun but still trying to sneak past a background check, the Office of Inspector General report released this week shows. Inspector General Michael Horowitz notes that in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, in which 20 students and… → Read More
Gunman behind SW Houston strip mall shootings has died, police say
Several people have been shot and injured by a shooter in Southwest Houston. → Read More
Twelve arrested in organized crime sweep at bingo hall
Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson Friday announced a massive sweep into an alleged gambling and organized crime ring involving bingo. → Read More
Twelve arrested in organized crime sweep at bingo hall
Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson Friday announced a massive sweep into an alleged gambling and organized crime ring involving bingo. → Read More
Texas 'Santa Claus' gets 15 years for child porn
A Texas man who worked as Santa Claus was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for distribution of child pornography. → Read More
Infamous Houston brothel in national spotlight with episode of CNN's 'The Hunt With John Walsh'
An infamous Houston sex trafficking case, in which sex slaves were forced to engage in prostitution with tens of thousands of clients at an East End brothel, will be featured Sunday on "The Hunt With John Walsh." → Read More
12 things you need to know about the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, one of the most feared prison gangs in the Lone Star State, is in chaos thanks to a massive federal sweep that has wreaked havoc on the criminal organization. → Read More
Feds seize 5 tons of pot in load of mangoes at South Texas border
U.S. border inspectors used a giant X-ray machine to find more than five tons of pot with a street value of more than $2 million stashed in a truckload of mangoes headed into the United States through South Texas. The drugs were packaged into 19,584 mango-shaped bundles and weighed 10,566 pounds, according to Customs and Border Protection officials. → Read More
Ex-Houston cop sentenced for providing armor, guns, insider info to Zetas cartel
A disgraced former Houston policeman was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his badge to provide guns, body armor and sensitive law enforcement information to criminals connected to the Zetas drug-cartel. → Read More
Suspect in stabbing of 11-year-old fled police a day earlier
The day before he allegedly stabbed an 11-year-old boy to death, Che Calhoun is accused of breaking away from METRO police who tased him twice. → Read More
12 key unanswered questions Waco biker case
Here are a dozen key questions that remain unanswered a year after 177 bikers were arrested at the Twin Peaks in Waco for a deadly clash that authorities contend was rooted in a turf war between the Bandidos and Cossacks motorcycle clubs. → Read More
Father and son arrested as ATF conducts raid in NW Harris County
A man and his son were taken into custody on narcotics charges as federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives served a warrant early Tuesday morning in northwest Harris County. → Read More
Cartel godfather to be freed from U.S. prison
A Mexican drug cartel godfather, known for his own personal tragedies including the murder of his wife and children, is due to soon be released from a U.S. prison. → Read More
Feds say ex-con used Easy-Off oven cleaner to make bogus money
It could be said that Thomas DeLeon was making Easy Money. The Secret Service contends the man who was recently arrested in the South Texas town of Driscoll had sheets of counterfeit U.S. dollars in his sport-utility vehicle, and that he admitted he'd made them by using Easy-Off oven cleaner. → Read More
The Rooster gets 40 years for sex trafficking
A notorious sex trafficker known for forcing women to work as prostitutes at Houston brothels, and tattooing his victims to show he owned them, is headed to a U.S. prison for 40 years. Gerardo "El Gallo" Salazar faces up to 40 years as part of a plea agreement in which he admitted to his crimes in exchange for avoiding a life sentence. → Read More
Ex -Packers player accused of role in Texas-Georgia drug ring
Former Green Bay Packer running back Christopher Darkins was arrested in his native Houston on federal charges he was allegedly part of a drug-trafficking ring that reached from Texas to California and Georgia. → Read More
Notorious brothel madam gets life in sex-trafficking case
Beyond the locked doors and boarded windows of three dilapidated buildings cobbled together in Houston's East End is a maze of hidden passageways and stairwells leading to dank chambers where women and teenage girls were forced to work as sex slaves. On Wednesday, the madam and boss of the brothel, 70-year-old Hortencia "Tencha" Medeles, was sentenced to life in federal prison for her role as… → Read More