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June - The Police News
8305 Stewart Rd. Lucky Lounge Galveston TX 409-744-5333 www.lucky-lounge.com Mon-Sat 10am-2am • Sun 12pm-2am THE POLICE NEWS Texas' Largest Police News Publication VOLUME VII, NUMBER 6 "I think my little girl is dead" By Marie Beth Jones The dispatcher on the 911 telephone at the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office received the call at 11:15 a.m. February 17, 1999. The man's voice was shaking as he begged, "Oh please! Oh God!" The caller was Donald Chapman, explaining he had left work and returned home that morning, after receiving a phone call from his wife Rita saying their two-and-a-half year old adopted daughter, Crystal Chapman, was dead. He had difficulty relating the situation to the dispatcher, Lori Rickert. Not only was he dealing with the horror of finding his daughter still and cold, he was also dealing with his wife, Rita Chapman, who Crystal Chapman was brandishing a 12-gauge shotgun threatening to kill herself. Rickert dispatched deputies to the Chapman’s mobile home on Wellborn Road in the Pearland area of Brazoria County, while she continued to talk with Donald Chapman keeping track with developments in the trailer house and radioing the deputies. At one point she told the responding officers she could hear the couple scuffling over the gun, and at another she heard him cry out that his wife had just kicked him between the legs as he tried to wrestle control of the weapon from her. "She keeps pushing me, trying to break my hold," he told the dispatcher. Urging him to hold on and to try to get his wife to talk to him, Rickert heard him ask about the little girl's condition. "Why is she like this, Rita? Rita, talk to me! Why is she like this?" As the first deputy, Investigator Henry Wright, arrived, the dispatcher's connection with Chapman went dead. Wright hurried to the door of the residence, where he heard scuffling inside. Finding the door unlocked, he burst inside, where the Chapmans were struggling over the gun. Wright realized the woman was trying to reach the trigger to fire the weapon, so he helped Chapman take it away from her. On a couch in the same room the little girl was I Think..Cont. on page 3 Dozer/Tractor Service MELCHOR DUMP TRUCK SERVICE Commercial & Residential Crushed Concrete * Asphalt Base * Sand Limestone Base * Fill Dirt * Mulch Rip Rap * Top Soil * Lawn Mix * Select Fill Haul-offs, House Pads, Ponds, Driveways, Demolition Mobile # 409-771-8426 Nextel # 142*84*14242 June 2010 Cop Killer Set To Die June 15th HUNSTVILLE - 58-year old David Lee Powell twice convicted of using an assault rifle to kill an Austin police officer during a traffic stop more than 30 years ago will face the executioner June 15th. Powell is scheduled to die for the 1978 slaying of Ralph Ablanedo, who was hit by 10 bullets from an AK-47. According to testimony, Powell also tossed a hand grenade at officers. He was arrested after the shootout and has been sent to death row three times, most recently in 1999. Before the shooting, Ablanedo had pulled over a car being driven by Powell’s girlfriend, Sheila Meinert, near downtown Austin because it did not have a rear license tag. Powell, who was wanted at the time on suspicion of theft and passing more than 100 bad checks in Austin , was a passenger. David Lee Powell According to testimony, drug use had led Powell to become so paranoid that he began carrying loaded weapons, including a .45-caliber pistol, an AK-47 and a grenade. Evidence showed that Ablanedo was shot with the AK-47 in semiautomatic mode as he walked toward the vehicle. According to testimony, the fallen officer tried to get up, and Powell opened fire again, switching the weapon to full automatic mode. Ablanedo, 26, was wearing a bulletproof vest, but it was not designed to handle that kind of firepower. After a shootout with other officers, Powell and Meinert were arrested in a nearby apartment complex parking lot. Meinert later testified that Powell gave her the grenade and told her to remove tape from it. She said she became hysterical and shoved it back to him. Powell’s first conviction was vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court and returned to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The state court reaffirmed the conviction and death sentence, and the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the sentence. He was retried and again given the death penalty in 1991. Although the high court had reversed only the sentence, Texas law at the time required a full retrial. The second sentence, however, was reversed by the state Court of Criminal Appeals because of improper jury instructions. Texas law had changed by then, and the third retrial was only for sentencing, which prompted the latest appeal. 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A tip led investigators to a squalid shack a quarter mile away. Somebody had called in a tip that Jonathan Green had been over there burning trash. He had a burn pile over there burning trash everyday since the little girl came up missing. It turned out their neighbor, Jonathan Green, had buried Christina’s body then dug up her remains and stored them inside the shack. On July, 19th Christina’s partially decomposed body was found by investigators searching Jonathan Green’s home. Her body was in a bag behind a THE POLICE NEWS Police News Publishing Co. LLC PO Box 5879 Galveston TX 77554 Editor & Publisher Breck Porter [email protected] sofa, after having apparently been removed from a shallow grave in Green’s backyard earlier that day. An autopsy revealed Christina had been raped and strangled to death. On July 15, 2002, a jury convicted Jonathan Green of the capital murder of Christina Neal during the course of committing or attempting to commit kidnapping or sexual assault. At the sentencing phase, at which the prosecution presented evidence of previous acts of violence by Green, the jury concluded that there was a reasonable probability that Jonathan Green would commit future acts of criminal violence constituting a threat to society, and that there was insufficient mitigating evidence to warrant a life sentence. He was sentenced to death. In an appeal filed in federal District Court in 2007, Green’s lawyers argued that he was suffering from a serious mental disorder and was “actively psychotic”, experiencing a variety of hallucinations as well as paranoia. The appeal stated that Jonathan Green was convinced that he would be set free if only his current lawyers would present a judge with certain papers in the possession of his former lawyers. The appeal continued that “Mr. Green be- • NO CREDIT CHECKGUARANTEED LOANS Art Director/Graphic Designer Diane Jolley [email protected] ON YOUR CLEAR CAR TITLE (Car must be licensed & running. We must be able to verify income & address) Printing Mirror Publishers, Inc [email protected] Copyright 2010 – All rights reserved Page - The Police News now director of Austin‘s Public Safety and Emergency Management agency, said he was relieved by the court’s decision. “The wheels of justice turn slow, but they are turning,” he said. “To me, it’s not final until the sentence is carried out.” LOANS up to $1200 Contributors Marie Beth Jones The Police News is published monthly in Galveston TX. To subscribe or inquire about your subscription call: 1-888-788-8967 Toll Free Cop Killer...Cont. from page 1 Body burned in a barrel Sales/Marketing Susanne Norman 713-293-2333 [email protected] Galveston News Office 409-762-NEWS Business Office 409-632-0042 Advertising/Distribution 409-632-0082 Nationwide Toll Free 1-888-788-8967 lieves that he is the victim of, or pawn in, some sort of game” involving guards and other prisoners on death row. In her decision in February 2008 Steven Scott Gaines upholding the death sentence, the US District Court Judge ruled that there was no categorical prohibition on the execution of people with mental illness under US law, and that the claim that Green was incompetent for execution (that he did not comprehend the reason for his punishment) could not be ruled upon until his execution was imminent. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later echoed this in its decision. In 2002, the US Supreme Court prohibited the execution of offenders with mental retardation. Jonathan Green’s 2007 appeal to the District Court asserted that he “exhibits clear signs of subnormal intelligence”, but that he had refused to submit to a psychological or neurological assessment. The appeal drew attention to evidence of possible mental retardation – his functional il- literacy and innumeracy, his inability to hold menial jobs, and the fact that “after his mother died he was unable to maintain a household. He lived in rank squalor and could not manage basic tasks including minimal tasks of maintaining personal hygiene”. The District Judge ruled against the claim. MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 26-year old Robert Ellis Hinton, II is lead to a holding cell in the Precinct Four Constable’s Office after being arrested in connection with the discovery of a woman’s incinerated body in a barrel. The body was discovered in a wooded area of East Montgomery County according to Constable Rowdy Hayden. POLICENEWSLINK.COM For late breaking police news! NO TITLE? We also offer: • SIGNATURE & STARTER LOANS • INCOME TAX SERVICE 2323 Broadway St, Galveston 409-765-5988 I Think...Cont. from page 1 lying motionless, unresponsive to what was going on around her. Wright was still struggling with Rita Chapman when Deputy Stuart Rice arrived at the scene. Rice helped Wright restrain the woman so he could handcuff her, but her combative behavior continued as they dragged her outside and put her in the back seat of a patrol car where she would be safe while they continued their investigation. Rice headed back into the mobile home, finding that the little girl had been dead long enough that her body was cold. Outside the woman continued to yell and struggle and slam her head against the car window. When a deputy opened the car door, she asked for a cigarette, becoming less aggressive once he gave it to her. More sheriff's deputies arrived and began their investigation into the events that led to the death of little Crystal Leann Chapman. Following the investigation Rita Chapman was charged with capital murder. The 41-year-old woman entered a not-guilty plea, and in January of 2000 a jury of nine men and three women was selected to hear her case in the courtroom of District Judge J. Ray Gayle III. Prosecutors decided not to seek the death penalty in the case, noting that if she were convicted of the lesser charge or murder, she would be required to serve at least 40 years in prison, without the possibility of parole. Crystal, who was described as a "normal, healthy and beautiful little girl," had been raised by the Chapmans since infancy. During opening statements in the trial, Rita Chapman sobbed and covered her ears as the prosecution told the jury she had beaten the little girl to death. Brazoria County District Attorney Jerri Yenne told the jurors that Crystal's body told the story of her brutal murder. As Yenne prepared to show photos of the child’s injuries, Chapman stood abruptly and ducked into a back room with her attorney to avoid seeing the pictures. In the defense's pre-trial statement, Katherine Scardino testified Chapman had been heavily medicated at the time of Crystal's death, and had "behaved strangely" both before and immediately afterward. Two days before Crystal's death, Rita suffered severe back pain and obtained three prescriptions to alleviate it, Scardino said. It would be up to the jury to determine whether Crystal was deliberately killed, Scardino said. Yenne noted, however, that a blood sample taken from Chapman indicated the levels of her prescriptions were within normal limits. Several Sheriff's deputies testified about Chapmans uncooperative and combative behavior at the scene. Mental health deputy Patrick Matocha said she told him that no one cared about her, they just cared about her worthless husband and the baby. Witnesses said that later in the day, when Rita was taken to a hospital to give a blood sample, it was necessary to hold her down in order to draw the blood. Lt. Steve Ricks described her actions at that time as uncooperative, belligerent, hostile, and angry. He said she was yelling and cursing. Both Hal Hawkins, a pathologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and Sparks Veasey, medical examiner at the UTMB testified about Crystal's head injuries and multiple bruises. The location and force of these injuries indicated her death was a homicide, they testified. Chapman sobbed at intervals during the trial. When the prosecution played the 911 tape of her husband's call to the sheriff's dispatcher, she screamed for prosecutors to turn off the tape in which he detailed finding the toddler's badly beaten body. Donald Chapman, married to the defendant for 25 years, said his wife had been hostile to him on the day before Crystal's death. He had stayed home from work that day and taken the child to the park to play. They returned home to find his wife still in bed, Chapman said, adding that she was sarcastic with the child and put her to bed as punishment for sucking her thumb. Later that evening he went to the store and when he returned home she was upset about the brand of cigarettes he had bought. He said his wife locked him out of the house and ignored his knocking, so he left and drove to work. At 10:30 the next morning, he received the call from her saying that Crystal was dead. Breaking into tears as he described seeing the child lying on her back in her crib and realized she was cold, he said he picked her up and ran into the living room, trying to give her CPR while dialing 911. During this time his wife covered her ears with her hands, but did not cry. He told the jury that after she ducked into a bedroom, she returned with a loaded shotgun, the end of the barrel in her mouth. He described his struggle to retrieve the gun and keep her from pulling the trigger. The Chapman’s two daughters, Emily Beard, 23, of Texas City, and Beth Hairston, 22, of Santa Fe both testified their mother had assaulted and thrown things at them when they were children. Although both said they still loved her, they said they would not trust her to watch their children. Describing instances in which Mrs. Chapman displayed anger toward Crystal, Hairston said that on one occasion Mrs. Chapman almost choked the girl by shoving scrambled eggs down her throat. The final witness for the prosecution was a former county jail inmate, who said Chapman had told her she hoped that if she was found guilty of Crystal's murder, she would serve only four or five years in jail. The defense called one character witness and two Houston doctors to the witness stand on Mrs. Chapman's behalf. Bill Webster, a former neighbor, said the defendant was a good mother to Crystal, and that they sometimes played outside. He said he had never seen bruises on the girl. Tom Gorsuch, a Houston psychologist, told the jury the defendant suffered from a mixed personality disorder and depression, had no close friends except family, and had an element of paranoia. Milton Williams, a Lake Jackson psychiatrist, said that from his review of Mrs. Chapman's medical records, it was possible the combination of medications she was taking could cause a person to become violent. While the jury was not in the courtroom, Mrs. Chapman criticized her court-appointed attorneys, Scardino and Jimmy Phillips Jr., for not having called more witnesses. "I don't work for you; you work for me," she told them. Phillips calmed her at that time, but at the end of the day, some six hours after the jury had gone home for the day, she sought to be allowed to speak in court, claiming that three witnesses had lied on the stand. Denying that request, Judge Gayle said that Mrs. Chapman "had an opportunity to testify and did not." Closing arguments were scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2000, one week after testimony began. Phillips told the jury that even though a child was dead that did not mean the defendant intentionally killed the little girl. "It doesn't fit." He said, because Crystal had "never been bruised like that before." Prosecutor Keith Allen contended that the bruises borne by the child indicated intent, however. As pictures of the child's bruised body were shown on a screen, he said that "every mark, every bruise … equals intent." The jury found Rita Chapman guilty of Crystal's capital murder after just two hours of deliberation. Yenne noted that although it was difficult to believe that someone would beat a 2 ½ year old child to death, she felt justice had been done with Chapman's conviction. Crystal's biological father read a statement saying that Mrs. Chapman "took away someone who can never be replaced." The last words Crystal said to him had been, "I love you, Daddy," he said. Judge Gayle called the killing "stupid and senseless" and added that he agreed with the jury's verdict. Both of Mrs. Chapman's biological daughters said they were satisfied with the verdict, even though they said they still love their mother. Today Rita Chapman is serving her life sentence in the Mountain View prison unit at Gatesville, Texas where she is identified as inmate number 902885. She will be eligible for her first parole hearing on February 17, 2039 when she is 81 years old. Marie Beth Jones is a published author and free lance writer based in Angleton, Texas and is a regular contributor to The Police News. The World’s Dumbest We've all heard jokes about the world's dumbest crooks, and the worlds dumbest this and that and the other but here's a real story you don't want to tell in a donut shop. In Corpus Christi , a kid who had just ridden his bicycle through a park called police to report a bunch of marijuana plants he spotted growing there. Without a moments hesitation a contingent of these civic-minded public servants dashed to the scene and gathered up 300-400 of these dastardly, mind altering plants that are destroying the very fiber of American life. 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Phone store robber disconnected DICKINSON - 29-year old Carlos Anthony Durant landed in jail in Dickinson charged with the armed robbery of a Verizon store. Durant hid out in Houston for awhile following the heist but was tracked down and arrested by a contingent of police from Dickinson, Precinct 8 Constable Jerry Fisher’s Office and a State Trooper. CAFE Open Monday – Saturday 6am-2pm 413 24th Street Galveston )%.",+(".'-. Open fOr BuSineSS WelcOMe Back! Page - The Police News School kids caught Police Golf tournain drug sting ment tallies $20 CLEVELAND - Pre- grand for United Way cinct 4 deputies in Montgomery County arrested Brandon Michael Marsh, 17, and Devin Thomas Giles, Brandon Michael 17, both of Cleveland Marsh on drug charges after following up on a tip that narcotics were sold from Giles’ residence in the 25600 block of Spruce Lane. 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Morning flight winners were (L-R) Houston Astros Kevin Bass, Attorney James Garza, Texas City Police Chief Robert Burby, and Mike Land, Texas City Mayor Pro-Tem. Winners of the afternoon flight pose with State District Judge Lonnie Cox of Galveston . (L to R) Tom Gongora of MexTex Construction, Oscar Melcham of Big O’s Golf Store, Judge Cox, Hector Gonzales or Child Protective Services and Josh Allred, Galveston Police Department. Jeff’s Cab Co. Service to all Houston Airports We accept most major credit cards 409-621-JEFF (5333) Pearland Police gifted with off-road vehicle Galveston officer re-elected in Blue Knights PEARLAND, TX - UV Country, a recreational utility vehicle dealer based in south Houston , recently donated a 2010 Kawasaki Teryx RUV to the Pearland Police Department. The Teryx was delivered with custom accessories including a winch, strobe headlights and police LED lights. The 4-wheel drive unit will serve the department in off-road enforcement operations such as patrol of bayous and undeveloped property as well as in search and rescue operations. Pearland Police Chief J.C. Doyle ac- cepted delivery of the unit from Shannon Tracy, president and owner of UV Country in a short ceremony in front of the Public Safety Building in Pearland. Man jailed in child rape Trooper drowns while fishing SANTA FE - 24year old Glen Wayne Norman of Santa Fe was arrested and charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child after Glen Wayne Norman a 14-year old girl’s mother told police she caught him forcing her daughter to perform sexual acts. Norman fled but was later found hiding in the closet of a Santa Fe home. The body of 50-year old Texas State Trooper Wesley Chenault, was recovered from Lake Travis near Burnet, Texas May 18th. Storms in the area are believed to have Wesley Chenault been a factor in his drowning. Witnesses say high waves and winds were taking place at Lake Travis at the time Chenault disappeared. Searchers found Chenault’s boat with the engine running near the dock from which he left to run his trotlines. Carpet Cleaning the "We clean Steven Scott Gaines GALVESTON - A veteran Galveston police officer has been re-elected to his third term as International Representative for the Rio Grande Conference of the Blue Knights Law Enforcement Motorcycle Organization. In his position Alvarez represents 1480 members, and 47 chapters in Texas, Arkansas, and Mexico . Lt. Alvarez was the founder and organizer of the Galveston County Chapter of the Blue Knights in 2004 designated Texas Chapter 31. He has served as Chapter President since then and is a 22 year veteran of the Galveston Police Department. Youth getting early start on criminal career FRIENDSWOOD - George Pendleton, 17, of Friendswood was charged with Felony Theft after police found him in possession of a vehicle that had been reported stolen. A woman told police her grandson might have taken the vehicle without per- George Pendleton mission. Police learned that the teen had called a family member earlier in the morning reporting that he had broken down on a highway nearby. Pendleton was already on probation for an Aggravated Assault that occurred in Friendswood in September. Heroin dealers busted FRIENDSWOOD Jeffery Wayne Cross, Jr., 25, and Jennifer Leigh Greenleaf, 45, both of Friendswood were arrested following their indictments on two counts of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribsession of Heroin. ute Heroin and Pos Cross was arrested while in municipal Jennifer Leigh Jeffery Wayne court in League City. Greenleaf was arrested Greenleaf Cross by DEA agents in Indianapolis, Indiana. 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TCLEOSE Peace Officer’s Certification required High School diploma or GED required Valid Texas driver’s license required5 years law enforcement experience preferred Ability to perform the essential functions of a police officer Bondable as required by Texas Education Code §37.08 (h) Ability to work well with youth and adults Full time officers will work a 225 day work calendar Salary Range: $31,104 - $47,376 Part-Time Auxiliary Police Officer Attention Reserve Officers: Are you tired or receiving zero compensation for your dedicated service? The Alvin ISD Police Department is also hiring paid part-time auxiliary (substitute) police officers for weekend, evening, night and special event duty. Same qualifications as a full-time police officer Required to work a minimum of 16 hrs per month Uniform provided by AISD PD Alvin ISD Police Department 2790 W. 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Open enrOllment $10.00 Discount Per Week/Per Child CALL OR STOP BY TODAY! • NCI Approved • State Licensed • Nurse On Duty 1212–13Th STReeT, GALveSTOn e URANT B DLIAiN RESTA I TA Closed Mondays Tues. – Fri.············Lunch Tues. – Thurs.······Dinner Fri. – Sat.·············Dinner Sunday··················Dinner 11 – 2 p.m. 5 – 10 p.m. 5 – 11 p.m. 5 – 10 p.m. See our Review at www.galvnews.com Page - The Police News Galveston County Galveston County Sheriff’s Office 409-766-2322 or 1-866-248-8477 GARNER, ANTHONY LAWRENCE B/M 12/18/1975 511/225 BLK/BRO LKA; HITCHCOCK FELONY EVADING ARREST HUTTO, JAMES JOSEPH W/M 02/28/1969 511/220 BRO/HAZ LKA; SANTA FE FELONY THEFT ASSAULT BODILY INJURY RETALIATION GLADNEY, IRENE LAVERNE B/F 07/20/1984 504/142 BLK/BRO LKA; TEXAS CITY POSSSSESSION COCAINE HOWARD, JOHN MICHAEL AKA; HOWARD, MIKE W/M 05/25/1981 509/155 BLN/BLU LKA; LEAGUE CITY POSS CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE BROWN, NATALIE WINDHAM B/F 12/21/1979 501/135 BRO/BRO LKA; GALVESTON INDICTMENT-FELONY THEFT GILBERT, MICHELLE RENEE AKA; BOURGEOIS, MICHELLE RENEE B/F 07/10/1981 506/125 BLK/BRO **CAUTION VIOLENT LKA; HITCHCOCK MTRP-ASSAULT PUBLIC SERVANT BECK, TARA JEAN W/F 02/18/1981 503/105 BLN/BLU LKA: BACLIFF **CAUTION DRUG ABUSER ABANDON ENDANGERING CHILD EPPS, DEREK ROCHARD B/M 01/06/1978 601/210 BLK/BRO TAT UPPER LEFT ARM LKA: LEAGUE CITY FELONY EVADING ARREST MUNOZ, LESLIE ANN AKA: FERNANDEZ, LESLIE ANN; FERNANDEZ, ASHLEY MARIE; ABELAR, ASHLEY W/F 07/10/1985 505/116 BLK/BRO LKA: GALVESTON MTRP/ROBBERY ROMO, ROBERT AKA: ROBBY, ROBERTO, G TOWN W/M 09/06/1981 508/165 BRO/BRO LKA: TEXAS CITY **CAUTION MAY BE ARMED THEFT OF FIREARM UNLAWFUL POSS FIREARM BY FELON • Hot Meals & Snacks Provided • Curriculum For All Ages 409-765-8493 ING s R ' E lla & CAT WANTED FUGITIVES Voted Best Italian Restaurant & Friendliest Service in Galveston Co. 31st & Avenue P Galveston 409-763-9036 SEX OFFENDERS-Galveston Co. 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Once parked on the side of the road, Jones ordered Hall out of the car, forced him to lie face-down in a grassy ditch and shot him twice in the back of the head. Jones left Hall in the ditch and rejoined the others at a nearby restaurant. The day after the slaying, Dallas authorities recovered Hall’s car, stripped of its tires, wheels, and stereo equipment near Fair Park in Dallas . Within a week of the killing and during the course of another stolen vehicle investigation, authorities recovered the weapon used to murder Hall. Five months later, as part of a separate investigation, one of Jones’ accomplices confessed to being involved in the Hall murder and implicated Jones. Jones was arrested and subsequently confessed. Jones blamed his accomplice, but he claimed he “accidentally” shot Hall once with the gun in self-defense. Jones also admitted that a car stereo and speakers found in his house belonged to Hall. At trial, a forensic document examiner testified that Jones had signed a pawn slip for the tires and rims from Hall’s car at a Dallas pawn shop. In addition to the capital murder, Jones actively participated in at least five other similar aggravated robberies. In each, armed with either a handgun, rifle, shotgun or some other weapon, Jones, along with one or more other individuals, confronted a victim in a public place and forcibly took the victim’s car. A surviving victim of at least one of these robberies was shot at several times, and another was sprayed with mace as he used a public pay phone. The cars that were eventually recovered had been destroyed or stripped of all their specialty equipment including the tires, rims, and stereos. During one of his car-jacking sprees, Jones and an accomplice kidnapped and killed 20-year-old Kindra Buckner. Jones and his accomplice drove the woman to a secluded spot, forced her to strip naked, searched the contents of her purse, and then shot her twice in the head. Fearing that she might have survived, Jones and his accomplice later returned to the scene and shot her in the face with a shotgun. They then burned the car to cover their tracks. The Buckner murder occurred five months after Jones car-jacked and killed Forest Hall. Cops on Top The Fifty Club of Galveston County presented Officer of The Year awards May 10th during the annual awards luncheon at the Moody Gardens Hotel. Year All Deputies who serve in the Galveston County Constables Offices for Outstanding Service in 2009 The departments and their selections were as follows: Constable Pam Matranga accepted a plaque honoring all Deputies of the Galveston County Constables Offices for their work on Sex Offenders, Gameroom/Vending and Warrant clean up programs. The Galveston Police Department; Officer James Emmerson, Officer of the Year The Galveston County Sheriff’s Department; Deputy Cassandra Jorgenson, Deputy of the Year Deputy Barney Jones, Corrections Deputy of the Year Lt. R. 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He now faces 242 counts of contempt in Harris County over $43K in unpaid child support. “There’s more than one way to go after them,” and she did. Badgley was arrested in Michigan and extradited back to Texas. Each year a few Galveston cops climb atop the Shipley Donut Shop on the city’s main drag and there they stay until donations totaling $300 each are collected from supporters and passerby’s. In May donations totaled $4002 in four hours. The money benefits Special Olympics. The La Marque Police Department; Officer Chris Kelemen, Officer of the Year VISIT US ON the WEB at www.PoliceNewsOnline.com WEBSTER - Webster police are looking for Johnnie Lee Frazier who they say has pawned equipment, including an air compressor and a paint sprayer that was stolen from a job site. Johnnie Lee Frazier has been charged Frazier with felony theft and he also has a warrant for his arrest on a motion to revoke his parole. 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