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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Man faces charges after allegedly secretly recording woman during sex

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A woman says she was videotaped having sex with a man in motel rooms without her knowledge, but that wasn't the end of the incident.

The woman told police that on July 27 she went to a bar with a friend and met Le Q. Hung, and then had sex with him at a motel. According to court documents, Hung allegedly recorded the encounter without the victim's consent.

The woman told police that Hung has been using the video to coerce her into continuing a sexual relationship with him for the past two months, under the pretext that he would distribute copies of the video to her husband and co-workers if she refused.

The woman says she tried to break things off with Hung, but he reportedly showed up at her workplace, followed her home and allegedly threatened to assault her husband if she refuses to see him.

The victim said that on one occasion she went to Hung's home in an effort to retrieve all the videos Hung allegedly had of them having sex in motels, and he demanded sex from her. When she refused, she says he pulled a gun on her and threatened to kill her, her child and husband and then shoot himself if she didn't have sex with him.

Court documents state that after the incident the woman pretended everything was alright and she managed to recover some videos and call the police to make a report.

Hung, 41, is charged with improper photography/visual recording and aggravated assault of a family member.

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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Man faces charges after girl says he dragged her into his apartment, then hit her

Gutu Abebe, 27, is charged with enticing a child, and assaulting a public servant. (Gutu Abebe)

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A southwest Houston man faces several charges after a girl says he dragged her into his apartment, then hit her.

Police say Gutu Abebe grabbed the 10-year-old girl off her bike and pulled her into his apartment on Saturday. The girl says Abebe slapped her when she would not take off her pants.

The girl says she started screaming, then Abebe pushed her out a window. Her mother found her.

When officers arrived, they found Abebe in a closet in the apartment. He's also accused of biting and spitting at police during the arrest.

Abebe, 27, is charged with enticing a child, and assaulting a public servant. He's now jailed without bond.

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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Man faces charges after bomb threat hoax

NEW CANEY, TX (KTRK) -- A man was arrested Wednesday night after he called the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office claiming he placed a bomb under a vehicle at the East Montgomery County Annex in New Caney and was about to detonate it.

Just after 11pm, Troy Don Tindall, 20, of New Caney called the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office non-emergency line. Tindall told a call taker his first name and then stated he earlier placed a "chemical based bomb with shrapnel" beneath a Precinct 4 Constable's Office patrol vehicle parked at the annex. Tindall said he could see the vehicle and had a detonator, according to authorities.

A perimeter was established and the entire annex building was evacuated, officials with the Precinct 4 Constable's Office said. The annex contains multiple law enforcement offices, whose officers are in and out throughout the night, including the Precinct 4 Constable's Office, Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and the Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol. Members of the county's custodial staff are also on duty at the annex overnight and the East Montgomery County Jail facility is staffed by the Sheriff's Office 24 hours a day and serves as a holding facility for inmates awaiting transfer to the main jail in Conroe.

Shortly after the perimeter was established and the evacuation was completed, Precinct 4 deputies noticed a white male, who turned out to be Tindall, walking east on McCleskey Road, which is near the annex. When deputies approached Tindall, he ran, at first continuing east on McClesky, then heading north into a wooded area. Precinct 4 deputies then pursued Tindall on foot, as Tindall yelled to them saying he had warrants. The foot pursuit lasted about 100 yards before one of the deputies apprehended Tindall. After his arrest, Tindall admitted making the bomb threat.

There was no bomb.

Troy Tindall is charged with false alarm or report of emergency (state jail felony) and evading arrest/detention (class B misdemeanor).

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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Mother faces murder charges in baby daughter's death

CUT AND SHOOT, TX (KTRK) -- A mother accused of being drunk during a car crash that killed her baby is now charged with murder.

Ashli Heil, 28, was initially charged with intoxication manslaughter for the April accident in Cut and Shoot. Prosecutors say Heil was legally intoxicated, speeding, lost control and crashed her SUV into a tree, instantly killing her 8-month-old daughter.

Heil is now charged with first degree felony murder, which carries a possible life sentence if she's convicted.

Prosecutor Warren Diepraam says he hopes the seriousness of the charge sends a message that the Montgomery County District Attorney's office takes crimes against children seriously because children are truly innocent victims, deserving of our strongest protection.

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Friday, April 27, 2012

METRO faces public backlash over counter-terror intitiave

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- METRO is promising to get to the bottom of what happened when its own police department invited TSA to stare down bus passengers two weeks ago.

METRO first said it would search passengers' bags, then said that didn't happen. Now, METRO says it never will.

The METRO counter-terrorism exercise didn't round up any terrorists. Instead, 81 officers arrested 14 people, predominantly alleged prostitutes and dope smokers. More problematic for METRO is that it seemed to anger and confuse some of the agency's riders who weren't eager to have their bags searched.

"There are an awful lot of assets out here," METRO police chief Victor Rodriguez told Eyewitness News on April 13.

Two weeks after METRO made a big deal about bringing TSA to bus stops for a counter-terrorism exercise, dozens of angry citizens came to tell METRO to keep TSA away.

"We are here to loudly condemn METRO's recent violations of the United States constitution," Houston lawyer Robert Fickman said.

"You've gone one step too far by bringing the TSA into our house," another concerned resident said.

"In my opinion, the METRO board doesn't get it," said another.

On April 13, the METRO Police Department invited TSA to be a part of its bus-safe exercise. METRO said then and repeated for days afterwards there would be random searches of bus and train passengers' bags.

"To get inside my bag, it's my personal items. I am not going to let you in my bag unless you have a warrant," concerned resident Keith Francis said.

After an uproar, METRO says it never did any bag searches and never intended to, that the official METRO blog saying so was just a mistake.

"There was never an intention to do bag searches," METRO President and Chairman George Grenias said.

But for METRO rider Derrick Broze, it's not enough.

"I don't feel that by purchasing a ticket or riding a bus, I have to forfeit my constitutional rights to my protections and be subject to search or seizure," Broze said.

A friend of Broze took pictures of the bus-safe exercise that he says show TSA agents and METRO police asking riders where they're going as they get off the bus and how often they ride that route.

"METRO and TSA were going onto the buses and questioning people about their normal routes and their normal behavior, and it just kind of creates an atmosphere of fear," Broze said.

There aren't any photos of searches and METRO says none were done. After Thursday's showdown, the METRO chairman said it will stay that way so long as he is chairman.

"It's not going to happen while I am chairman -- putting in place random searches and seizures. We're going to get to the bottom of this and we'll have a lot more dialogue," Garcia said.

The METRO police chief told us last week he hoped to repeat the exercise within the next few weeks. No such promise was made on Thursday.

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Notorious attacker faces charge of failing to register as sex offender

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Twenty-two years ago, Pam Lychner became a crime victim, but she refused to be just a victim. She started on a mission that changed Houston and even federal laws. Well now, her attacker has been arrested again and it has to do with that crime from 1990.

William David Kelley, you could say, inspired the creation of a crime victim's group by committing crimes.

He was arrested this week and is now back behind bars. He was nabbed by the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force and the sheriff's sex offender tracking squad for failure to update his address in the sex offender registry. He may never be off law enforcement's radar, and one of his victims is the reason why.

Kelley was a twice convicted sex offender when he targeted victim No. 3, a young wife and mother named Pam Lychner. She was a Realtor showing a Houston home when Kelley showed up. He choked her and tried to kidnap her, but he never counted on her husband being upstairs. We spoke to Joe Lychner by phone Friday night.

"When he was released after serving his time, I thought, well it won't be very long before he's back inside again," Joe Lychner said.

Andy Kahan was in his first few months as a victim's advocate when he met the Lychners. Kelley had been sentenced to 20 years for attempted kidnapping. He was up for parole within two years.

"And as Pam put it best, that is enough, I'm no longer cowering to this guy and I'm going to come out blazing and the rest was history," Kahan said.

From that, the Justice for All movement was born. It was founded by Pam Lychner. Her work ended the state's mandatory prison release policy and elevated the cause of crime victims' rights. The Pam Lychner Sexual Offender Tracking and Identification Act of 1996, which established the National Sex Offender Registry that the FBI uses to track certain sex offenders, also is named in her honor.

Sixteen years ago, she and her two young daughters were killed in a TWA flight explosion near New York. But her work lives on, and certainly less than two years after his release from prison, Kelley is still feeling the impact of that. He's back in jail.

"What do you think Pam would be saying?" we asked Joe Lychner.

"I think she would be saying, 'I told you so,'" he said.

And in her honor....

"And we'll be done there keeping an eye on him again, and once again the eyes of Harris County, the eyes of Houston and the eyes of Texas will be on William David Kelley," Kahan said.

Kelley was required to register as a sex offender with the sheriff's office every 90 days, but hadn't done so since May 2011. Failure to do so is considered a felony crime. Kelley is being held in the county jail without bond.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Man awaiting trial faces new charge of endangering child

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A man already awaiting trial on a charge of aggravated assault of a public servant is facing a new charge of endangering a child.

According to court documents, on January 16 Matthew James Wolski tried to walk out of a Walmart on Fry in west Houston with a shopping cart full of items and made no attempt to pay for them. His 3-year-old child was sitting in the cart as well. Three loss prevention officers confronted Wolski when he then allegedly pushed away the officers, grabbed his child and ran.

Wolski, 22, threw his child into the backseat of his vehicle without properly restraining the child and sped away at a high rate of speed, court documents state.

The case Wolski is awaiting trial for happened in July 2011 when police responded to a report of a man, later identified as Wolski, stalking a woman in her car in the parking lot of a Walmart on Kuykendahl. When deputies arrived and approached Wolski, they say he tried to run over one of them with his car. Deputies fired shots at his car, but he got away.

He eventually crashed into some construction barrels, then ran into the woods and led deputies on a chase. Deputies later found him wounded and dehydrated in the bed of a dump truck.

Since that incident, court records show Wolski was charged with credit card abuse in August 2011. He also was charged with theft for allegedly stealing a cell phone from a person on January 8, 2012. His criminal record goes back further including convictions for indecent exposure, receiving stolen property and drug possession.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

Man faces new allegations of stealing from elderly

Christopher Shawn Oliver, 34, is charged with felony theft from the elderly in connection to a December 21 break-in at the home of a Spring couple.

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Detectives have arrested a man on accusations he broke into the Spring-area home of an elderly couple, stole the homeowner's jewelry and sold it to a nearby pawn shop.

Christopher Shawn Oliver, 34, is charged with felony theft from the elderly, according to Harris County Pct. 4 Constable's Office.

Detectives say on December 21, Oliver broke into a home in the 3500 block of Nutwood Lane while the 89-year-old homeowner was at a doctor's office. When the elderly woman returned home later that day, she noticed several pieces of jewelry, including her 68-year-old wedding ring, were missing from her jewelry box.

Detectives determined someone had pried open the front door of the elderly couple's home. Investigators then tracked down three of the jewelry items, which had been sold to a pawn shop in the 1700 block of Spring Cypress Road within an hour of the break-in. The value of the three recovered items is estimated to be worth $6,000.00 to $8,000.00.

Investigators identified the suspect as Oliver, who is currently on parole for robbery. He was arrested and transported to the Harris County Jail, where he is being held under a $10,000.00 bond.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Family faces eviction with rent increase

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A Houston family is facing eviction because of a surprising rent increase.

Ella Rochelle said she feels penalized because her sons are in college and have jobs, and the higher household income means she'll have to pay more rent.

Whether it's fair or not, officials with the Houston Housing Authority said they have to follow the law.

But doing so means hardship for one family.

"What I'm really concerned is my rent -- $1,300. I cannot afford that," Rochelle said.

Right now, Rochelle pays $639 a month to live in public housing. That rent is about to double because of income earned by her sons, who are in college, she said.

"Because they're trying to go to school and pay for their school, that's what they're trying to do," Rochelle said.

Rochelle and her four sons live at Allen Parkway Village. Three sons are in college and one is still in middle school. APV is operated by the Houston Housing Authority. HHA says tenants agree by law to pay 30 percent of their income towards rent.

A prepared statement by HHA went on to say that the housing authority works very hard to help residents reach their potential, but ultimately it is up to each family to manage their budget.

That's not helpful to Rochelle, who says she wants her sons to keep working and going to college, leaving her with tough decisions to make.

"I normally have to pawn stuff," she said.

According to HHA, income earned by full-time students is excluded from rent calculations. But income from part-time students is included.

Rochelle has one son that goes to school and works part-time.

No matter what happens, with three sons in college, she is proud of what they've been able to accomplish

"Because I want to see them get a good education so they can get out. You know, and have their own life," she said.

Rochelle's new lease with the higher rent would start next week. One solution is to try to find another place for her son with the part-time job to live, but Rochelle doesn't want to split up her family.

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Man shot by officer outside funeral home faces aggravated assault charges

Jerome Barrera Jr., 25, faces aggravated assault charges.

SOUTH HOUSTON, TX (KTRK) -- A suspect shot by an off-duty police officer faces aggravated assault charges.

SkyEye 13 HD was over the scene outside a South Houston funeral home last month. Investigators say officers working security spotted Jerome Barrera, Jr. pointing a gun at people in the 1500 block of Houston Boulevard. Barrera refused to drop the gun and turned towards the officers. That's when one officer opened fire.

Barrera, 25, was hit in the chest and taken to the hospital.

He has a prior conviction of delivery of a controlled substance back in 2007.

Bond has been set at $50,000 on the aggravated assault charge.

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Woman faces 10 years in illegal immigrant case

JACKSON, MI -- A woman convicted in Mississippi for harboring illegal immigrants from China, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India and Mexico faces up to 10 years in prison when she's sentenced July 12.

Court records said Sheren Nguyen was transporting nine illegal immigrants in a Chevy Suburban when it was pulled over on Interstate 55 in Pike County on Dec. 15, 2010.

Nguyen told authorities she is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Vietnam. She had a Houston, Texas, driver's license and was apparently bound for Atlanta with the illegal immigrants.

She pleaded guilty March 31. She faces up to 10 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Teen accused of killing his classmate faces judge

KATY, TX (KTRK) -- The teenager accused in the shooting death of local high school student faced a judge and the father of the girl he's accused of killing.

The accused killer facing a murder charge stood before a judge Monday morning. Alexander Olivieri is charged in the murder of 17-year-old Bridgett Frisbie. Investigators say he shot her in the head and left her body in a wooded area near Katy. She was laid to rest this weekend and her father was there as Olivieri faced those charges.

At about 10am, Olivieri stood before the judge, calmly, but without the smirk many people saw in his mug shot photo.

Prosecutors say in retaliation Olivieri killed his 17-year-old classmate because she was telling others about a drive-by shooting he may have been involved in.

Bridgett's father Bob Frisbie has been coping with the tragic loss of his daughter, but he says to see the justice system working eases his pain.

"It's good to see justice being done," Frisbie said. "I tell you, a couple of days in jail has wiped that smirk off of his face. A few more would really help."

"The motive that we believe was for the killing was because the complainant had knowledge of this drive-by that the defendant was involved in," prosecutor Amanda Skillern said.

Prosecutors would not go into specifics about the drive-by shooting, but they do say they intend to follow this case to the fullest extent of the law.

For the elder Frisbie, he admits wading through the court system will be hard, but he believes today's court appearance is the right beginning.

"It gave me faith that the system would go forward. They have him, he's handcuffed, he's here and justice will prevail," Frisbie said.

Olivieri has not yet entered a plea.

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