Police say Michael Kern, 18, was one of three men who attempted to rob a man at knifepoint Oct. 24 at an apartment complex in the 8700 block of Fredericksburg Road.
The victim said he was walking his dog when Kern and two others approached and repeatedly asked for the time, the affidavit says. One of the other men pulled a knife on the victim, who started running.
Investigators discovered Kern’s wallet on the ground next to a vehicle. The victim saw the photo and said, “That’s him,” identifying Kern.
SPRING, Texas—Paul Stuart drives down Gosling Road near Woodlands Parkway almost every day, but it’s not every day that he encounters a legendary beast. But Stuart says it happened, and it was so unbelievable that he immediately pulled out his video camera and began to record.
“When I rolled down the window and looked at it, it was very unusual,” he said. “Boys, that’s a chupacabra right there.”
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But what makes Stuart’s story unique is that chupacabra sightings usually happen in Mexico or other parts of Texas—not here in the Houston area.
“This rare sighting certainly resembles what other people report as being a chupacabra,” said Stuart.
Keith Crenshaw, an urban biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, said there is no such thing as a chupacabra. After viewing Stuart’s video, he said he knew exactly what the unusual animal was.
“It’s a coyote. It’s a coyote. No doubt,” said Crenshaw.
Crenshaw said the coyote had a very serious case of mange, and proper authorities need to be alerted.
The two guys on this show were some alleged cryptozoologist from San Antonio and a police profiler from somewhere else.Alan's right. That was a coyote, possibly a coyote/wolf mix, that the woman in Cuero found and was trying to insist that it might be a chupacabra. But of course no amount of DNA tests are ever going to convince someone who wants to believe in chupacabras to consider another possibility. So, we get guys like that on the History channel shows.
My first complaint: their conversations were obviously scripted. Either that, or they both have the most monotonous and un-modulated voices I have ever heard.
But the big complaint, and the one which made me turn it off and give up before even the 30-minute mark, was a blatant lie.
The so-called crypto guy was trying to show the police guy that some odd creatures may be out there, so he used some search engine (not Google) to hunt down the Cuero "chupacabra." He gave the police guy a brief synopsis of the case, and then said something like, "scientists still have not been able to determine what it was."
False. False false false false false.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Rosseau teaches middle school "science, keyboarding, and bible classes at a local Christian-based school. The affidavit states that a third teen reported she was asked by two other girls to join a 'secret society' call the "Order" which was based on the occult, magic, Freemasonry, and Christianity. The girl was told by the pair that to be a member of the society, she would have to be 'intimate' with the director, identified as Rosseau, in order to establish trust.
The girl said she met with Rosseau at the home of one of the other girls but refused to join the group. She was reportedly later told that Rosseau was receiving pressure from his superiors to have her submit to him.
Police were informed about the incidences after the girl got into an argument with classmates at school about revealing that Rosseau might be having sex with the two other girls. After police were told the girl had been in contact with Rosseau through computer chat room emails, police obtained permission from the girl's family to collect her home computer.
According to the arrest warrant affidavit, both of the other two girls initially denied having sex with Rosseau as well as the existence of the 'Order' when questioned by police. However, one of the girls later told her parents and police that she had been engaged in a sexual relationship with Rosseau for 10 months. She said she too had been recruited into the 'Order' by a friend and was told she should demonstrate her trust and strict adherence to the society by having sex with Rosseau. She told police that the friend who had recruited her had been having sex with Rosseau since 2007.
The three men, 73-year-old Lee Roy Tondre, 54-year-old Jose Terrasas, and 47-year-old Donald Allison, were arrested at the Twin Theatre in the 12,000 block of Fischer Road in Von Ormy after undercover deputies reportedly found them masturbating inside one of the theaters.
According to deputies, Terrases is the Reserve Chief Deputy Constable Precinct #2.
SAN ANTONIO -- Lupita Rocha is bracing for what she has to tell her brother when Pedro Gonzalez returns from out of town on Sunday. Six of his 14 beloved Angora rabbits were stabbed to death, according to San Antonio Police. A seventh will survive, but because of its other injuries, Rocha said a veterinarian has told her it is now paralyzed.
Rocha also said she was told that rabbit’s terrified prize-winning mate died of a heart attack.
“Who, who would do this?” said Rocha outside her brother’s mobile home in the 7600 block of W. Military Drive. “I can’t believe there are people out there who would brutally murder, I mean, stab them.”
One man fought more than traffic on his way to work Thursday.
He says he was driving his green Cadillac near Hwy. 90 and Military Dr. when someone started shooting at him.
Four bullets hit the car, and although shots grazed his head and chin, he kept right on driving to work.
The man says he didn't do anything to provoke the shooter.
Police don't have much to go on in the case. They do know that the accused gunman was driving a black Impala.
We spotted several birds, a dog and turtle behind the West Side building. We also saw where animals had clearly been killed and left outside.(from WOAI-TV; slideshow here)
When News 4 WOAI asked Jesse Mercado, the owner of Celia’s Bakery, about what was going on, he explained “this is part of the religion, you need to eat the animals, you need to eat it."
Mercado says the religion is called Yoruba, and it's similar to voodoo. When we were out there, he demonstrated some of the rituals that are part of his religion.
He told us he’s “capable to cure anybody with cancer, any disease."
Mercado practices in the building next to the bakery. And inside that building a cat head.
However, Mercado says, "I don't have nothing to do with cat."
(from KENS-5)Police say it started this weekend when they recovered a stolen trailer on W.W. White. Police contacted the owner, who is a professional race car driver. He asked if his racing car was still in the back of the trailer. It was not.
Police say through their investigation, they identified a person of interest. On Tuesday, the department flew its Eagle Helicopter to search for the car. It was located in the backyard of a house on Tucker.
The suspect had an outstanding warrant so he was immediately arrested. Police the suspect's mother also lives at the house, and gave consent to search. That's when detectives found an addition to the house in the back. Inside they said it was like a greenhouse for growing marijuana plants.
(from WOAI-TV)SAN ANTONIO - Police tell News 4 WOAI the driver of an SUV lost control and crashed into a home on Craig Street near downtown. The driver not only took out the porch, but a fire hydrant and a tree as well.
We're told he was arrested on an outstanding warrant, but will also face drunk driving charges for this crash.
SAN ANTONIO -- Students from a local hairstyling school handed out a special treat to visitors in Alamo Plaza on Wednesday ... free hugs.(from KSAT-12)
“I think they are a little freaked out like, 'Why are people out there giving hugs?'" said Angelica Martinez of Paul Mitchell The School said.
Martinez said the reason for the hugs was to promote niceness in the world.
SAN ANTONIO -- The Alamo may attract millions of Arizona visitors each year, but a little museum in Alamo Heights ranks higher than both of them when it comes to off-the-wall attractions.(from KSAT-12. video here.)
TripAdvisor.com, a popular online travel community, has just named Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum the Wackiest Attraction in America. The museum is located in Smith's garage.
SAN ANTONIO -- The San Antonio and Edgewood school districts are teaming up to keep eighth-graders in school.(from KSAT-12)
District officials said too many older middle school students are dropping out of high school and [are] then challenged with finding a decent-paying job.
A pair of unusual nicknames backfired on two burglary suspects who allegedly invaded a southeast-side home over the weekend, police say.(from KENS-5)
According to an arrest warrant, the victim recognized the suspects who beat, stabbed and stole electronics [sic. Poor electronics.] from his southeast side home early Friday morning. He said he knew the pair as "Kaos" and "Trix."
The victim had one of the suspect's phone numbers on Caller ID, police say. The other intruder had done house work for his father.
San Antonio police were able to use the nicknames and the phone number to arrest the two men on Sunday. Ernest "Kaos" Alcoser and Thomas "Trix" DeLeon were booked into the Bexar County Detention Center on burglary charges.
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An arrest warrant said the 25-year-old wanted a man in the 500 block of Kashmuir Place to buy a gun for him. According to the document, the victim refused. Police said two hours later, Alcoser and 27-year-old DeLeon broke into the victim's home. They reportedly attacked the man in his bed sometime after 2 a.m.
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According to the warrant, due to the victim's familiarity with the suspects, tracking them down was not difficult.
Janice Maier was taken to University Hospital, where KSAT 12 News learned that was in poor condition after suffering from head trauma where the man allegedly kicked her several times.(from KSAT-12)
Daniel Villareal, 22, is suspected of committing the beating.
Police said Villareal snuck into the Clare Bridge Homestyle Senior Living Facility through a back door early Saturday morning. According to police, he hid from security and then went into Maier’s room and began beating her.
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Villareal was arrested Saturday morning. He told police he was looking for a “lady to choke” because he was mad at life.
It happened just before 8 a.m. Friday at Huebner Rd. and USAA Blvd. A witness said Alyson Hahnel tried to pass a Chevy Blazer on Huebner and apparently lost control of her vehicle. She veered right onto rain-slick USAA Blvd., careened from the center median, and into some trees.(from WOAI-TV)
About an hour later, she was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital.
SAPD Officer Richard Casillas noted “[t]here was no visible damage inside [the vehicle] to indicate that the driver … suffered any injuries form the impact into the tree.”
1838OK, fine. You guys don't have to go home, now that we defeated your army. But you do have to get a good job and earn a decent living, dammit!
City Council issues decree requiring old soldiers of Santa Anna's disbanded army to either give proof of respectable occupation or leave the city.
(from the Express-News)San Antonio police are looking for a man who threw two smoke flares at a receptionist Thursday morning inside a downtown building that houses several Bexar County offices.
Employees in the three-story Heritage Plaza building in the 400 block of South Main Street were evacuated for about an hour after the 9:30 a.m. incident, said Arson Detective Jose Salame of the San Antonio Fire Department.
A receptionist for Elite Consulting, a service provider for Bexar County's adult probation department on the building's second floor, told authorities she heard the man pull the ignition strings on the smoke flares, but didn't see his face, according to county spokeswoman Laura Jesse.
...Authorities believe the man who threw the flares is a client of the service provider.
Salame said the suspect wrote “zero tolerance” on one of the flares.
The fight happened at a bus stop near the Shell gas station on Fair Avenue near IH-37 around 5:00 p.m. Wednesday.(from WOAI-TV)
Police say a man driving by saw someone he had fought with 6 months ago sitting at the bus stop. The man stopped, and the two got into a fight again. One of them pulled out a knife during the fight.
SAN ANTONIO – A man who said he was "sorry" and “…just trying to better himself” was arrested by police on Tuesday.(from WOAI-TV)
At 2:55 a.m., an alarm went off at the San Antonio Police and Fire Fund Building at 311 Roosevelt, just south of Downtown. Minutes later, Richard Thomas Alvarez was detained by officers investigating another nearby call.
Investigators say they found several items from the building on Alvarez. According to the police report, these included a laptop-computer bag, digital camera, and cell phone.
Police found a dead body outside a Cibolo home after getting reports of a sexual assault at the residence, officials say.(from KENS-5)
Police responded to a house in the 3800 block of Green Valley around 2 a.m. They found the dead body of a white male lying next to a truck. There were no apparent signs of trauma on his body.
Officials say the woman who reported the assault ran from the home where the body was found and called police from a neighbor's house. Police say she also reported shots fired during her call.
SWAT was called in to clear the home, and they did find a man inside the house. But while officials say that man is not a suspect, police are questioning him.
SAN ANTONIO -- Michael Robinson said he didn't think the turnaround at Badger Street and Cardiff Avenue was impassable because the water level wasn't over the guardrail. However, he was mistaken. Robinson's car stalled in high water Sunday afternoon after he attempted to drive through it.(from KSAT-12)
SAN ANTONIO -- Members of the San Antonio Police Department's Tactical Response Unit showed up at the Mink Ultra Club in the 900 block of Bitters Road Friday night and took 21-year-old Eric Daniel Dishong into custody.(from KSAT-12)
Police said Dishong was wanted for three different outstanding arrest warrants for theft of a firearm, burglary of a vehicle and theft under $50.
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Officers may have learned about Dishong's whereabouts Friday night through a posting he put on his Facebook page. The page mentioned an early birthday party he was having at the club.
Brian Keith Grunewald has been accused of robbing his own grandmother with a shotgun, deputies say.
According to an arrest warrant, the 33-year-old used the weapon to force the elderly woman to write him a $350 check last week. But the check did not turn into cash as he anticipated. Instead, it landed him behind bars on an aggravated robbery charge.
The warrant said Grunewald wanted money from his 77-year-old grandmother. He reportedly urged her to write him a check. The arrest document said when she refused, her grandson became irate.
According to Bexar County Sheriff's deputies, he continued to demand the check. Investigators said he went to his bedroom in the home he shares with the victim in the 8200 block of Gardner and got a shotgun.
