SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio man was behind bars Friday night after police said they found nearly a half-ton of marijuana inside his home.(from KSAT-12)
Police say 39-year-old Dean Dubowik stashed 862 pounds of marijuana in his garage on the city's West side.
More than 900 Veterans Affairs nurses may be asked to return as much as eight years worth of pay raises after federal auditors determined that they were given those raises by mistake.(from the Express-News)In a letter to nurses dated April 19, Marie Weldon, director of the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, said officials will help the 920 affected nurses apply for waivers so they won't have to pay the money back, but that there are no guarantees.
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The letter said the pay problems were discovered in a records review that led to a more comprehensive audit; and that it affects registered nurses' pay dating to October 2002, and that of licensed vocational nurses since August 2008. The mistake affects 800 RNs and 120 LVNs.
The raises were given in an attempt to stay competitive in the nursing job market, Weldon said.
Audit results identified that since October 2002 for RN’s and August 2008 for LVN’s, a large number of these employees received additional steps or higher rates of pay in order to retain individuals on specific units or wards. There is no provision in VA policy to authorize additional steps or higher rates of pay for retention purposes, therefore, the actions must be corrected. In addition, other actions were identified that require correction. The required corrective actions will place employees at the appropriate grade, step and salary rate had the errors not occurred. Unfortunately in many cases this creates a salary overpayment for the affected employees. [emphases added]Why is the South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) demanding the raises be given back? This doesn't sound like the nurses are at fault, yet they are the ones that will suffer if the system goes through with this! Some higher-up screwed up, and the nurses end up screwed! If the raises were truly given in order for the STVHCS to remain competitive, then what the hell do the bureaucrats think this will do to employee morale once the "actions [are] corrected"?
If you received an overpayment in salary, you will receive a bill of collection and subsequently a waiver request that you will utilize to request a waiver of the salary overpayment. After you sign the waiver, your waiver request will be sent to the Waivers and Compromise Committee for final review. [emphases added]Oh, boy. A committee. I hope they've got lots of copies of those waivers. I predict about 920 will get filled out.
SAN ANTONIO -- Police say a Child Protective Service worker was fired after allegations of attempted sexual assault on someone he was supposed to protect emerged.(from KSAT-12)
San Antonio police Sgt. Chris Benavides said the allegations stem back to April 15, when Universal City police picked up a 14-year-old girl for a teen curfew violation.
"It was determined that she had been a runaway from CPS custody," said Benavides. "So, CPS was called back out. The CPS employee picked up our victim, transported her to a motel and attempted to have sex with the teen."
However, State Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) said he's calling for a review of the policies at the department.The thing is, the employee passed all the relevant background checks. If the allegations are true ("Police said the caseworker has not been arrested, and as of Monday evening, no charges had been filed."), then this may have been his first transgression. If so, there ain't gonna be no new policy that can change what happened.
"I am going to ask the department to outline what their policies and procedures are for a worker who is in that situation and make sure that we have as airtight as possible policies and procedures to keep this from happening again," said Castro.
A man's SUV suddenly accelerated and then smashed into a home on the west side, finally coming to rest inside the living room.(from KENS-5)
The accident happened just after 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon on Woodfield, near Seguin Road. Investigators say the driver of the SUV lost control while heading down the residential street, then hopped the curb and drove into the home.
(from KENS-5)The uproar surrounding Arizona’s new immigration law is echoing across the country and now, right here in San Antonio. Tomorrow, hundreds will hit the streets in protest and some are taking it even further.
Ana Palacios owner of La Playa Seafood Restaurant on Poplar and 24th says she is going to close her business down during the march.
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Several other Mexican restaurants told KENS 5 they will also be shutting down for a few hours during the protest.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- The state of Texas has temporarily halted a request to register a trademark of "The Alamo."(from WOAI-TV)
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas is seeking trademark rights to create a line of official Alamo merchandise. The group has cared for the state-owned Alamo since 1905.
A 30-day period to oppose the trademark ended this week. But on Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the state's request for a 90-day extension.
(from WOAI-TV)SAN ANTONIO - A bizarre wreck occurred around just after midnight Saturday on the West Side. Witnesses reported to police that they saw Juan Del Rio driving recklessly along Culebra Road. Police tell News 4 WOAI Del Rio drove his SUV into a witnesses' car, and then crashed into the police substation.
Del Rio told officers two men stabbed him in the leg several times prior to the crash, and he was coming to the police station for help. He was taken to University Hospital.
SAN ANTONIO -- News 4 WOAI has been highlighting different ways to donate money or your time to the Susan G Komen San Antonio Race for the Cure. Now's there's another way to help...while you sleep.(from WOAI-TV)
It's called Sleep In for the Cure. It's an alternative way to give to the race without coming out and fighting the crowds.
"This program has been around for a couple of years," explained Kimberly Hinze of Race for the Cure. "We've done it. But it's really taking off because people don't want to fight the traffic. They've got a lot going on in their lives, and we respect that."
Hours after a purported mummified chupacabra was stolen Wednesday from a booth at Market Square — whose entrepreneur owners were charging money for a peek at it — the thing mysteriously appeared outside a local rock radio station early next morning.(from the Express-News)
But by the time the mythical beast was repatriated, booth owners David Walker and Brian Stevens had already shelled out around $100 to borrow a replacement mummified chupacabra from California. So for only $1, Fiesta-goers now have the rare opportunity to see two chupacabra corpses for the price of one.
“We're pretty happy,” Stevens said. “This is the only time that we've ever had two.”
Steve Hahn, of KISS-FM's “Lisle & Hahn” morning show, said he nearly tripped over a Target bag containing the stolen creature around 8 a.m. A note inside the bag said, “To Lisle and Hahn, from Market Square,” he said.
“It looked like an overcooked wrinkled turkey with fur and big teeth,” Hahn said.
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At 9:30 a.m., the sergeant, who was wearing plain clothes and a badge around his neck, saw a 32-year-old man confronting another man at a Shell gas station at South Laredo and South Alamo with a gun, [San Antonio Police Chief Bill] McManus said.(from KSAT-12)
The sergeant called for backup and followed the man, who was pointing the gun at passing drivers near Guadalupe and South Laredo, McManus said.
The sergeant then got out of his unmarked car, identified himself as a police officer and told the man to show his hands, McManus said.
The man reached into his pocket and told the officer, "I (expletive) got something for you," McManus said.
The officer, fearing for his life, thought the man was reaching for a gun and shot him once in the side, McManus said. The man was taken to a hospital with a non-life-threatening wound.
The gun turned out to be a water gun, McManus said.
A San Antonio police officer accused of using a city computer to glean a woman's personal information and then staging an emergency response to her house has been fired after an investigation revealed he boasted about other women on his patrol car terminal and pulled their personal data as well, according to Police Department records.(from the Express-News)After 14 years on the force with no suspensions, Officer Gabriel Villarreal, 43, was indefinitely suspended last week, a punishment tantamount to being fired.
A second patrolman, 10-year veteran Officer Keith Floyd, 41, was found to have exchanged “crude, suggestive (and) disparaging” remarks about women with Villarreal via his patrol car terminal and was suspended Friday for 15 days without pay, police records state.
Assistant City Attorney Robert Reyna said another officer faces a possible 30-day suspension in connection with the same case.
The violations involve at least seven women and occurred through October, November and December 2009, according to the city's findings, which allege the following:
For “personal” reasons, Villarreal researched the criminal history of an apartment manager in his patrol district. In conversations via car terminals, Villarreal and another officer referred to the woman by “nicknames for her breasts.”
Villarreal and another officer also held an “extended” electronic conversation about two other women in which “a comment is passed back and forth about whether (Villarreal) ‘knocked' or ‘knocked it out,' referring to sex.”
(from KENS-5)Family members looking for a missing relative made a disturbing find Friday morning.
They went searching for a missing man, seen last weekend, but instead, they found a man's body propped up against a tree and surrounded by beer cans.
The accident happened around 2:00 a.m. Friday at a home on the 14900 block of Gate View Drive in the Regency Park subdivision off of Huebner Road.(from WOAI-TV)
The homeowner, Joe Galloway, said he woke up after what he thought was thunder shook the house. He got dressed and went outside after hearing voices and found a SUV sitting in his side yard and debris all over the lawn.
Galloway told News 4 WOAI one of his neighbors witnessed the accident. That neighbor said the driver of the car was traveling at a high rate of speed and swerved to avoid a parked car. The SUV went through a fence, hit his storage shed, and finally crashed into a tree.
San Antonio police say a man had just donated blood when he crashed into an empty bank building.(from KENS-5)
He's okay and no one was hurt.
"He took out three walls and then took out some furniture and broke all the glass and the door frames," said Officer Albert Huizar.
Fiesta officials said they could not recall an opening day kickoff ever being swamped by rain. But after a mid-afternoon scramble, they rescheduled it for noon Friday in Gateway Plaza, adjacent to Farmer's Market where West Commerce Street crosses under Interstate 35.
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The opener known as Fiesta Fiesta had been set to run from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Alamo Plaza. Organizers also canceled Tejano Explosion, which was scheduled to take place at Cattleman's Square Thursday evening.
A passer-by spotted a man who apparently hanged himself from a tree limb at the Southwest School of Art & Craft downtown Thursday morning.
The man, who appears to be in his 40s, is believed to have committed suicide sometime between Wednesday night and 7:20 a.m. Thursday, when someone flagged down a nearby San Antonio Fire Department lieutenant, according to police. ...
The man was found on the opening day of Fiesta, just as workers began setting up stands in the parking lot of the school, which is the site of this weekend's Fiesta Arts Fair.
The driver of a city garbage truck is being credited for saving a woman's life Thursday morning when he woke her up by knocking on her door after seeing smoke billowing out of her South Town home, officials said.(All stories are from the Express-News)
“I was driving by and I saw smoke, so I pulled over to see if anyone was home,” said Juan Fuentes, a senior equipment operator for the city of San Antonio's solid waste management department. “I didn't see anyone else around, so I didn't know if anyone had called 911.”
He called his supervisor, who called 911, and then started to bang on the door.
SAN ANTONIO - A police substation was evacuated after a scare over a suspicious white powder. It turns out it was just candy.(from WOAI-TV)
Hazmat crews were called out to the Prue Road Police Substation on the Northwest Side after a Star Furniture employee brought in the suspicious envelope. It came from one of their vendors.
Police say someone was probably just eating candy when stuffing envelopes during a mass mailing.
(from the Express-News)Rey Feo Scholarship, Inc. last week sent a cease and desist letter to the Humane Society of San Antonio, commanding it immediately stop its impending coronation and parading of El Rey Fido in Fiesta 2010, according to both organizations.
Citing a federally trademarked name, the group is seeking to dethrone the royal pooch.
“They just felt that people would not understand and get El Rey Feo and El Rey Fido confused,” said Cathy McCoy, spokeswoman for the Humane Society, sounding somewhat confused herself about the committee’s concern.
Tom Sandoval, president of the Rey Feo Scholarship Committee, a group run by LULAC Council No. 2, said its board of directors just is trying to protect its trademark.
The scholarship committee registered “Rey Feo,” or “ugly king,” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2005.
“I’m a dog lover, always have been,” Sandoval said. “Our problem is we’ve asked them to consider using the word King Fido. We thought that would be right. They could have a King Fido and a Queen Fido.”
A VIA bus driver throws a punch at a passenger and is allowed to keep his job.(from KENS-5)
VIA says that’s because the passenger, Lonnie Torrance, provoked the fight.
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“You never hit anyone for any reason,” said [rider Lonnie] Torrance. “Sure I was crazy. I don't know what that was that I threw at him. I don't know if that was real or what I remember is real. I was out of it. It's really, really strange."
SAN ANTONIO -- A mother of four, who left her children to go dancing, was arrested Tuesday night.(from KSAT-12)
Melissa Franco, 30, has been charged with four counts of abandoning a child, police said.
According to court documents, Franco left her four children, all under the age of 15, to go dancing Monday night, telling them to go to their neighbor's house.
Franco[] apparently never checked with the neighbor.
Officers were sent to her home after reports of a 2-year-old wandering around the area.
(from WOAI-TV)According to the police report, homeowner Scott Henderson was in his garage when he heard a loud pop. He opened his garage door and saw someone stealing stuff from his truck. That's when he confronted the burglar, and was stabbed.
Another homeowner came out with a gun and helped detain the burglar until police arrived.
We talked with other neighbors who tell us the burglar robbed several of them, taking mainly tools out of cars.
The woman at first did not recognize the uniformed San Antonio police officer who rang her doorbell at 8:30 a.m., rousing her from bed, she says.(from the Express-News)
The cop was responding to a 911 hang-up call, he told her. Was everything OK?
She told him she had not called 911. Nor had her husband, as the officer suggested — the woman was not married.
The cop's face suddenly brightened: He said he had met her just the day before. He had purchased from her hundreds of dollars in shaving supplies at The Art of Shaving, an upscale boutique at The Shops at La Cantera. She had given him her card.
The woman agreed this was a coincidence. But two days later, she began to doubt such a cosmic wrinkle and decided to contact the Police Department's internal affairs department.
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The woman, who asked not to be identified, said police told her [Officer Gabriel] Villarreal had used a city computer to track her down. He then staged an emergency response to her address, according to the woman and a police source who requested anonymity.
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“I think he asked to come in,” she said. “He came into my house. I let him in to see there was no emergency.”
The officer then pointed out that the woman had sold him shaving supplies the previous day.
“I said, ‘What a coincidence! You're here!'” she said. “I didn't get it.”
Small talk ensued.
“He wouldn't leave, and he wouldn't leave,” she said. “It kind of felt weird in my home.”
The officer left after about 20 minutes. A friend later urged her to report the incident.
Not long after she called the Police Department, someone returned to the shop.
It was the officer's wife, the woman said — there to return the shaving supplies.
Readings of [oak pollen] have been showing up in the amounts of 8,000 to 14,000 grains per cubic meter.(from KSAT-12)
It can be an annoyance even if you aren't allergic to it.
"It gets all over the place," said Dr. Paul Ratner, allergist at Sylvana Research. "It's all over the cars. It's all over the sidewalk, all over everything."
The season usually starts in early March and ends in late April, peaking from mid-March to early April. Ratner said that it's probably the number two allergen in the region, next to Mountain Cedar pollen.
"For people who have oak allergy, it's a long season," said Ratner. "Six weeks is a long time for a tree to pollinate. Most trees pollinate two or three weeks."
(from the Express-News)A man spent his birthday in Bexar County Jail after he was suspected of shooting a man he found involved in a sexual act in his garage over the weekend.
William Moore, who turned 72 on Sunday, is being held on one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A judge set bail at $50,000.
San Antonio police said Moore reportedly awoke around 2 a.m. Saturday to noises coming from his garage in the 6800 block of Blue Ash Drive. He opened the garage and discovered a woman engaged in oral sex with Todd Harrison, 38, according to a police department incident report.
Moore allows Harrison to visit a woman who lives in his garage until midnight, but police said Harrison was unwelcome when Moore found the couple romantically involved.
1944(from San Antonio Remembers)
Harry S. McGlinchey, student at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center, was named "No. 1" solider [sic] of the area. His serial number: 11111111. His enlistment date: 11-1.
(from KENS-5)A taxi cab driver unintentionally became the getaway car driver for a man who had just burglarized an east-side home.
Police say the burglar stole $2000 worth of electronics, including a 42-inch plasma screen television, from Uriah Caldera’s home on Cooper St. before calling a Yellow Cab to pick him up and drop him off a few blocks away.
...Police were able to contact the cab driver who told them where the [sic] dropped the suspect off, but a search of the area found nothing.
(from the Express-News)MEXICO CITY — Police were searching for two prison guards and 40 prisoners who disappeared after a pre-dawn jailbreak Thursday in the Mexican city of Matamoros across the border from Brownsville.
...The [federal attorney general's] office said all the prisoners who escaped had been charged under federal law but were being held at the state institution. Five were serving sentences following convictions and 35 were on trial. The statement did not specify the offenses, but drug trafficking is the among the most common federal charges.
State leaders in Mexico have complained in the past that they do not have facilities secure enough to accommodate more serious, federally charged prisoners.
Last year guards stood by as more than 50 prisoners walked out of another jail in northern Mexico.
(from KENS-5)An official in the Northside Independent School District says the bus driver was choking on a drink of water and lost control of the bus.
It crashed into a retaining wall and then a tree.
No students were on the bus at the time.
A volunteer firefighter was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly made multiple false calls for fires and traffic accidents in Southwest Bexar County, officials said.
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[Quinton] Arnold, a member of the Jarret Volunteer Fire Department in Von Ormy, allegedly placed four unfounded calls for service earlier this month, an arrest warrant affidavit states. He was using a disconnected cellular phone to make the calls from the fire station and was even part of the emergency crews that responded to the scene, the affidavit states.
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Arnold has a criminal history of making false alarm calls, according to the affidavit. While he was a volunteer firefighter at another Bexar County department, he confessed to making a bomb threat to a middle school from the fire station's phone, the affidavit states. [emphases added]
SAN ANTONIO -- Captain Tejdeep Sighn Rattan is a Sikh, a religion with its roots India [sic], and he's the first Sikh officer to complete U.S. Army basic training in more than two decades.(from KSAT-12)
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As a Sikh, Rattan is required to keep his hair uncut, including his beard and he must also wear a turban.
Both of those religious requirements were in violation of a ban on conspicuous religious articles of faith adopted back in 1981.
Last April, Rattan submitted a request to the Army asking that he be allowed to wear his turban and keep his beard while serving. In December, the Army granted his request.
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio man is in the hospital Sunday afternoon after falling through the ceiling of a north side business. Police tell News 4 WOAI the man was trying to break into Don’s Gun Shop on the 3700 block of Loop 410 NW.(from WOAI-TV)
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"It appears our suspect went through an air conditioning duct and fell through. He was knocked unconscious," said Matt Porter, spokesman for San Antonio Police Department.
(from KENS-5)Two San Antonio police officers have been placed on suspension and facing some serious allegations.
Christopher Martinez, is accused of a long list of misconduct. Most recently, he is accused of having sex with a woman in the back of his patrol car while he was on duty.
Martinez is also accused of conducting personal errands, and ignoring some calls altogether while on duty last month.
He has been put on suspension.
A complaint was also filed against 39-year-old Craig Nash, a six-year veteran of the police force.
Nash has been accused of sexually assaulting a transgendered person while on duty.
He was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio woman was in jail on a charge of robbery on Tuesday and police said she used her 12-year-old son to pull it off.(from KSAT-12)
Police said Chantay Washington, 28, had her son steal $600 from a neighbor's wallet while she held a handful of the victim's hair.
The boy then allegedly kept a $100 bill for himself and handed his mother the other $500.
A Bexar County Sheriff's Office spokesperson told News 4 WOAI a neighbor spotted two young women in a pickup truck outside an elderly woman's home and called one of the woman's relatives. Knowing that the elderly woman was not at home and that no one else should be there, the relative quickly drove over to check it out. When he arrived, he saw a young woman going through items inside a Chevrolet Suburban owned by his relative and confronted her. The woman then ran inside the home, and the man followed her. Once inside, the man discovered a second woman who appeared to be searching the house for valuables.(from WOAI-TV)
The man, who is in his late 50's, got into a scuffle with both of the women, and one of the women hit him in the head with a crowbar. The man used a hammer to defend himself and hit one of the women in the head with it. The two women then grabbed his truck keys and took off in their pickup truck, leaving the man unable to follow them.
"We have trash, feces and filth intermixed with this ladies belongings," said Matt Bennett with Wildlife Rescue.(from KSAT-12)
Bennett, along with dozens of volunteers from the community, Animal Care Services, even veterinarians, spent the day Sunday cleaning up the woman's house and catching nearly 40 cats.
Bennett said, unlike most cases they come across where people are hoarding animals, this woman was thankful for the help.
"Typical scenario, some may call hoarders, they aren't really receptive to help. But this lady actually reached out to us and she understands she has a problem and wanted some help," said Bennett.
People living in a West Side community contacted News 4 WOAI about a giant hole in their neighborhood that has been 'under repair' for more than a month.Really? The hole is 20 feet deep?
When I went to check it out, I found a hole about 30 feet wide and 20 feet deep on Rivas Street, just off Calaveras. I was told it is a San Antonio Water System project and that SAWS officials hired a contractor to fix a sewer pipe that burst.
SAN ANTONIO -- A walk in Brackenridge Park took a frightening turn for a local 20-year-old San Antonio woman, who said she slipped into the San Antonio river [sic] at a popular spot at the park and nearly drowned.First person who should learn the lesson is:
She said she wants her accident to be a lesson for everyone, including the city of San Antonio.
[Alyssa] Suarez said she feared for her life after falling into the river while walking on the vehicular bridge, ...It's built for vehicles, not humans. First clue that you should be careful.
"I pulled her right out here beyond the sticks," said [Brandon] Johnson, pointing to the area where he said his girlfriend fell in.If the roadway is so flooded that you cannot tell what you are stepping on, then perhaps you should rethink your actions and refrain from stepping out there unless you have a really good reason to. Like saving the life of someone else who's fallen into the river.
Both he and Suarez said they thought she was stepping on the street, but instead it was sticks and debris.
After gulping a mouthful of river water, Suarez said she was caught up in an undertow.OK, I've never actually tasted sewage water that I can remember. I've smelled it, but I haven't tasted it. But I might say that I knew what it tasted like if I was playing up a situation for the cameras.
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She said the river tasted like sewage water.
Originally Suarez said she [sic] there were no warning signs posted at the vehicular bridge but later admitted she spotted two signs on each end of the bridge when she returned to the bridge a few days later.
Suarez said in the past she has seen children on the bridge and insisted the two signs are not enough. She also stressed the need for the city to make sure the bridge is clean from thick debris.I stress the need for people to be aware of their surroundings and to be careful around low water crossings.
Police said the driver, a man in his 30s, and his young son were heading South on Zarzamora Road when he lost control of the truck.(from KSAT-12)
He first slammed into a barber shop, then hit a power pole, which came crashing down into the street, police said. He finally wrecked into a nail salon, where his truck came to a stop.
"(It) scared the devil out of the barber and his client," said property owner Joe Gonzalez, who arrived shortly after the accident. "Good thing he wasn't shaving him at the moment. He might have cut his neck off."
Ah, Casey. Tell us about yourself.Smoking marijuana can get you fired, but some employees are finding new ways of getting high without it showing up on a drug test.
”Mojo” is the name for a synthetic herbal incense, and it is becoming a popular -- but pricey -- alternative to marijuana.
Mojo isn't even a drug. It can be found at area head shops, corner gas stations and even pharmacies. It comes in a small package, but it packs a punch. And that high has attracted hard core drug users like Casey Nunez.
Casey, consider your habits hidden no more. Unless, of course, your boss never watches KENS-5. Or reads the KENS-5 website.Nunez admits he used to be an everyday marijuana user, but now he gets stoned on mojo. "It has a very similar feel to marijuana when you are under the influence of it," he said.
Faux pot lacks the chemical THC, and that attracts users like Nunez who smoke it for the buzz -- and to keep his habits hidden from his boss. "[M]y job requires drug testing," Nunez said. "That's why I don't smoke weed."
Officers from several agencies chased a driver north of Pearsall up Interstate 35, across Frio County. It ended near Poteet in Atascosa County. Investigators say that man, Juan Carlos Tijerina, sped through the two counties with suspected illegal immigrants in the trunk. At times, speeds reached 100 miles per hour. Tijerina was tased after officials say he put up a fight. Tijerina tells us he was kidnapped and the driver of the car ran away. [So he kept driving? --ed.](from KABB-29)
"I have a murder charge that I've been fighting since 2009, aggravated assault on the elderly," said Tijerina. "The Atascosa cops have been real bad with me. I've been thinking they're picking the charges up on purposes." [Certainly more than one purpose, I'm sure. --ed.]
Tijerina is accused of killing a man in Pleasanton in 2009. Tonight, he's facing several new charges.
SAN ANTONIO -- Police responded to a call for a shooting victim in the 15000 block of Branding Iron on the North side. They arrived just after midnight Sunday morning and found 27-year-old Jason Allen with a gunshot wound to the leg.(from WOAI-TV)
Allen told police he had been drinking at another house when he was shot.
"He went outside and was urinating on a vehicle. We believe the owner of the vehicle came out and confronted our victim,” said Officer Matt Porter spokesperson for the San Antonio Police Department.
Allen told police “They got mad. I said sorry but they shot me.”
SAN ANTONIO -- Former San Antonio Spurs guard Alvin Robertson was arrested in Arkansas by law enforcement authorities Friday in connection with a human trafficking case, according to San Antonio Sheriff's Department [sic] spokesman Ino Badillo.(from KSAT-12)
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Robertson faces charges of sexual performance by a child, trafficking of persons under 18 for prostitution and sexual assault of a child.
SAN ANTONIO -- What began as an investigation into a blocked sewer line turned into a rescue mission of sorts.(from KSAT-12)
A turtle stuck [sic] in a pipe in the ally [sic] behind a home on Allendale Drive, near South General McMullen Drive.
Crews sent a video line down the sewer line to see what was blocking it and found a turtle wedged in the line.
Crews then had to dig the pipe up to get the turtle out.
"She is a red-eared slider and ... we're going to take her and release her back into the wild where she'll hopefully live a long, happy life," said San Antonio Water Systems spokeswoman Sarah Gatewood.And the great big wild area they released the turtle into? Woodlawn Lake. Not exactly the back country over there.
James Hokett is from Alaska and works at Frankfurter Express. On Tuesday he made a bet that it wouldn't snow in San Antonio. When the flakes started falling he knew he was going to have to walk down St. Mary’s Street wearing just a crown, cape and boxer shorts.(from WOAI-TV)
If all goes as planned, shoplifters or someone driving with an invalid driver's license wouldn't have to go to jail. Instead, they would get slapped with a citation and a court date.(from KSAT-12)
"They are non-violent offenses," [Bexar County Sheriff Amadeo] Ortiz said. "They are not a threat to the community, so I think it is a waste of time to bring them in. They're going to be released anyway."
It's all part of the "Cite and Release" program.
Ortiz said just citing those thousands of small-time violators would save manpower, tax payers' money and ease jail overcrowding.
District attorney spokesman Cliff Herberg said that while it is a program proposed by the Sheriff's Department, it is not supported by Susan Reed. She believes it would be too easy for someone to give a false ID. Also, he said she does not support the program because it does not involve checking people for warrants, which could get wanted persons off the streets.Meanwhile, we're trying to run out any sexiness that might be on display in this town. Oh, but, by all means, shoplift away. Just make sure you pay your fine.
(from the Express-News)A Sheila McNeil supporter who runs a youth football program sent a text message last week urging parents to vote for the Commissioners Court hopeful in exchange for a $125 credit on their children's football enrollment fees, according to multiple sources.
Fred Davis, 35, founder of Youth Advancement Initiative, a nonprofit organization with five youth football leagues and a cheerleading program, sent the offer Friday, according to three former East Side City Council members: Mario Salas, John Sanders and McNeil, the hopeful whom Davis sought to help.
In the text message, Davis told parents with children enrolled in his program that if they went to the Claude Black Center over the weekend and cast their vote for McNeil, one of two hopefuls challenging incumbent Commissioner Tommy Adkisson in the Democratic primary, he would reward them with a $125 enrollment credit. It's unclear how he would've determined whether the parents voted for McNeil.
(from the Express-News)The crash occurred around 8 p.m. in the 1700 block of North Elmendorf near Culebra Road on the city's West Side.
San Antonio police officers at the scene said the driver of the white, four-door car fled on foot after he lost control and hit the house. A family was inside but only the woman sitting on the couch suffered minor injuries.
Residents of the home at the corner of Misty Bluff and Falling Water Parkway said they woke up to the sound of a crash and walked out to find a pickup in their kitchen.(from KSAT-12)
But the driver didn't stay long.
"I went outside to see if he's ok and I hear them tell me he's trying to leave, split," said renter Trey Christy. "And before you know it, I couldn't get the license plate."
Christy said his first thought was for his dogs, whose house was in the path of the truck. Christy said the dogs are OK, as are the other residents. But it's the house that's a mess.
How many people have to die before we fix this? As Bob Dylan wrote, “The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.”
How many pointless laws do we need to pass in this state before we finally have had enough? As William Shakespeare wrote, "Et tu, Bruté?"
How many reporters need to be jailed before we start enacting shield laws to protect them and their sources? As Gerard Manely Hopkins wrote, "It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil / Crushed."
How much deeper can our national deficit go? As Lewis Carroll wrote, "One, two! One, two! and through and through / The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!"
The shooting happened around 1:40 p.m. at 6600 Country View near Abe Lincoln and Pembroke Road.(from WOAI-TV)
According to police, two competing lawn care workers were arguing when one of them pulled out a gun and shot the other in the leg.
“We were parking in the parking lot and we saw a bank robber leave the bank, running down the sidewalk with a Treasury Department lady chasing after him with a gun,” explained Charles Icke who witnessed the chase.(from WOAI-TV)
The robbery happened at the Broadway Bank at 281 and Bitters. The man walked into the bank, showed a gun and robbed the place. Police say he left with just under $8,000.
But witnesses didn't let him get away. They jumped into their cars and followed him, giving police a detailed description and his location.
"We need to improve education, so we need jobs first," said [Farouk] Shami. "There are jobs. All we need to do is fill those jobs. We need infrastructure, new highways and parks and bridges, so there is work."(from KSAT-12)
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Shami promised to create 100,000 new jobs if elected in the first two years. If he doesn't, he said he will pay the state of Texas $10 million.
Many of the students he spoke to [at Northwest Vista College] said they like what Shami had to say.
"Right now, we are hurting because of the lack of jobs," said David Ilamas.
"What he is doing is a pretty good job with jobs," said Guy Ciancia. "Right now, (there are) not many jobs in Texas or in the U.S. I think he'll do a good job as governor."
Shami also spoke to students about immigration reform and his support for same-sex marriages. He also defended comments he made about white workers in his factory, comments some have called racist.
"'Lots of white people want to be supervisors. They don't want to work on the assembly line.' That's what I said," Shami said. "What is racist about that? These are the facts."
SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio teenager is arrested after plotting an attack at his high school. San Antonio police arrested the 16 year old after he bragged on an online gaming system about his plan to shoot students at Marshall High School.(from WOAI-TV)
The Marshall High School student was playing XBOX 360 Live, a gaming system that allows players to talk live with other players from across the world. San Antonio police say the teen was telling a stranger in Canada details about how he planned to shoot a pregnant girl at school and shoot his best friend in the face.
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News 4 WOAI contacted Northside Independent School District officials and they tell us San Antonio police notified Marshall High School administration. SAPD officers met with both the principal and the student before arresting the teen. School officials say during that meeting, the boy said what he did was “a stupid mistake”. School officials also tell News 4 WOAI that they believe the boy is “remorseful” and that there was “no serious threat”. The student has been suspended from the school indefinitely.
According to a news release, the driver was driving recklessly with his son sitting on his lap when the SUV jumped the curb and struck the front portion of a home in the 100 block of Morales Court in the Villa Serena Community in New Braunfels at 8:50 p.m.
"All of a sudden, he made like a right turn, and he went straight into the house," said Rosie Bernal, a neighbor, who witnessed the crash. “It sounded terrible. We thought he was probably dead.”
Moments later, the driver fled on foot and left the child behind at the scene, the news release said. The child and the residents inside the home were not injured.
Inside the apartment, San Antonio police, along with the U.S. Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, found marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines, as well as a semiautomatic revolver and a knife, authorities said. [emphasis added]
