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Crime
Former Brazoria County Deputy Kevin Tippit has been indicted and arrested on a first-degree felony charge in connection with the fatal shooting of 18-year-old John Mendoza Jr. in Lake Jackson.
Former Sweeny Fire Chief Timothy Dale Webb Sr. will remain in custody after a Brazoria County judge denied bond on two counts and set a combined $450,000 bond on four others.
An Angleton man is being held in the Brazoria County Jail without bond after authorities say he was indicted on 18 felony counts involving alleged sexual offenses against children.
Four officers were injured Thursday after a fire call at a multi-residential unit in Freeport led to a struggle with a man wanted on outstanding warrants, police said.
A Houston man was taken into custody after authorities said he led deputies on a pursuit through Lake Jackson neighborhoods before running from a vehicle at Bess Brannen Elementary School.
James Elmore, a suspect tied to the decades-old Texas Killing Fields investigation, is facing two new felony charges after authorities searched his Bacliff property.
Two former Sweeny Fire and Rescue chiefs, a father and son, are facing serious child sex-crime charges, while another former volunteer firefighter has also been charged in a related investigation.