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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2
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February 2006
Get’n High, Got’im Dead Locking Up Our Kids?
By Breck Porter, Galveston County Police News ——
The product of a broken home, Steven
From the Cold Case Files of the
got involved with drugs by the time he was
Texas City Police Department
fourteen. It was typical of the stories we
Case Number 04-004508 – Murder
hear all too often when kids turn to drugs
May 9, 2004
and wind up in police custody or dead, as
Steven Kraus
was the case with Steven Kraus.
was no Saint.
In May of 2004 Steven was living with his
At a very young
mother in Houston and traveling to Texas
age he was a
City each day to his job at the Mainland
problem child,
Center Medical Center where he worked as
in and out of hot
a records clerk. According to his mother
water at school,
Steven actually held two part-time jobs at
that is, when he
20-year
old
Steven
Eric
Kraus
the hospital. He worked a half day for a
went to school.
lived life in the fast lane
He
was which lead to his death on temporary personnel service who contractdescribed as a the waters edge at the Texas ed with the hospital to do some of the
record keeping. When he completed four
“tough guy” by City Dike. (Courtesy Photo)
hours for that company he would then go
those who knew
him best. Steven wasn’t a bully and he didn’t on duty for the hospital itself doing the
go about looking for trouble, but if someone same work in the same office. He was
wanted a fight, Steven would
be quick to oblige them. He
ran with the tough crowd in
Texas City.
“He never even made it to
high school,” said a relative
that we interviewed for this
story. “He was in so much
trouble all the time that he
was put in BAC classes here
in Texas City,” they said.
“That’s were they put kids
after they were kicked out of Jessica Kraus Smith looks down upon the rock groins where
school.”
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so that he would get better pay and benefits. He had become good at his job and
finally in March the hospital employed him
on a full-time basis. According to his mother, Steven was thrilled and he set out on a
course of self improvement. “He was really trying to clean up his act and make a life
for himself,” said his mother.
At about 2 o’clock in the morning on
Sunday, May 9th of 2004, Texas City
Firefighters were dispatched to an alley in
the 700 block of 14th. When they arrived
they found a 1998 Toyota 4-Runner totally
engulfed in flames. When fire officials dis-
continued on page 4 (Kraus Murder)
— Not Always
By Breck Porter, GCPN Editor ——
Sitting across the table from a 15-year
old young man at the Galveston County
Juvenile Justice Center was like sitting
across the dinner table from my own
grandson. He was cute, sweet innocence
was not a violent offender and he was not
institutionalized. He was living at home,
a rural Galveston County community just a
short 15 miles from the facility. He had
been in trouble more that once at his
View of the Galveston County Juvenile Justice Center from Attwater Avenue near
Texas City. (GCPN Photo)
exuded from his appearance as well as his
speech and mannerism. A clean-cut,
neatly dressed young man sat with me for
over an hour one morning at the facility on
Attwater Avenue near Texas City, where
some of Galveston County’s most vicious
and cunning young criminals are housed.
Lieutenant Ron Tolbert in charge of
Special Programs at the center, warned
me right off, “You can’t be taken in by
these kids because many of them are
masters of deception and once they think
they have won your confidence they will
manipulate and use you to their own benefit.” I thought to myself, not unlike my
own grandchildren or my puppy for that
matter.
It is a different situation here. Some of
these kids are locked up in this facility as
violent criminals. They are thieves, sex
offenders, drug dealers, you name it.
The young man that
I spent an hour
with
ON THE SCENE with
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hometown school district where he had
been expelled and sent to the alternative
school for problem students. While in the
alternative school he was busted for selling prescription drugs.
Here was a young man who excelled in
Junior High School football, a running
back with lightning speed. He took care
of himself physically, working out and lifting weights. He looked fit and it would
seem that he had everything going for him
yet he confessed to stealing 175 prescription pills from a family member and selling
them on the streets. “I needed the
money,” he said. This young man falls
into the category of many juvenile offenders. They are where they are for one of
several reasons, poverty, broken homes,
alcohol or drug abuse in the home to mention a few. The youth that I was visiting
with fell into more than one of those. His
parents were divorced when he was
11-years old and a year later he
had his first run-in with police.
He lives with Mom and her
boyfriend. Dad lives in the
same community and the boy
visits with him every other weekend but
continued on page 11 (Locking Up Our Kids?)
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The Public’s Misconception
K Dumb Crooks K
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A burglar broke into an Oslo, Norway,
home one afternoon, and filled three large
suitcases with stuff. Then he phoned for a
taxi. When the cab arrived, he gave the
driver his card, with his name and
address on it, and asked to be driven
there. He was sorting through the loot
when there was a knock at the door. It was
the cops, come to arrest him. The bewildered crook’s only comment was, “I had
this planned perfectly. What went wrong?”
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By Scott Westerman – Portland, OR
After most police shootings, members of exist in our community.
the public often criticize that the officer
Should it bother us these critics are
could have or should have handled the sit- unfamiliar with the violent part of the comuation differently or better. What almost munity around them? I know some of you
every one of these critics fails to offer, are thinking, “But these are the people
though, is a viable alternative the officers who are trying to influence what happens
involved could have used instead. I was to me after a critical incident.” To me, the
recently talking with two officers from a answer is no. It shouldn’t bother us that
different precinct about a local shooting of they are unfamiliar or unaware, it should
a violently aggressive mentally unstable give you pride that we have so successfulwoman, and that’s when it dawned on me ly shielded them from a frightening part of
— we should be grateful that the citizens of reality. On the other hand, it does bother
the Portland Metro area feel that the offi- me a little, and it should bother them, that
cer should have handled the situation dif- they are speaking publicly about someferently. We, the officers who protect and thing they know very little about. That is
serve our area with the utmost profession- the nature of our society.
alism, should take comfort in the notion
I once asked why we don’t have an inforthat the people we serve really don’t have mation unit, either through the Public
a true understanding of what it is like to Information Officer or District Attorney’s
deal with a person who is trying to kill office that helps educate the public about
them. I realize that this is a drastically dif- these types of things. I was given several
ferent approach in perspective. Typically, reasons: one being money, the other being
when a person makes a comment like, “I lack of interest on the public’s part. The
think the officer should have done some- Citizen’s Academy is a good start. I think
thing different,” or “why did the officer it should be expanded to show those who
have to kill him/her when they could have are actively involved in our community the
just shot them in the leg,” we dismiss realities of the environment in which we
them as being unfamiliar with the dark work.
side of the world. But it is this very unfaOne of the few places the general public
miliarity that we should take comfort in. can learn about the situations we face
They are unfamiliar with the dark side of every day is when they serve on a jury. The
society, in part, because of us. The gener- city attorney’s office and district attorney’s
al public typically doesn’t have to deal office take the time to educate the juries
first-hand with the aggressive, violent ele- about procedure, policy, law, and most
ment within our community, in part, importantly, reality. This is done before
because the police are doing an outstand- any other testimony is presented.
ing job!
The jury is placed in an unfortunate situConsider this - The vast majority of peo- ation because they have to have their
ple in this community have never had sense of reality and safety shattered in
someone shoot the person standing right order to know what it really is like on the
next to them. They have never had some- street. When they are in the jury box, they
one charge at them in a full run with a big learn that on the street, things are differknife in both hands over their head intent ent than in an office building or hospital.
on plunging the knife into their heart. They Things are actually quite different from
don’t know that a person who is mentally what they had previously thought.
imbalanced can be as dangerous as a perThey learn that people have the ability to
son high on methamphetamine. They have kill in a fraction of a second. They learn
never had a person track them with a shot- that most of the less lethal items the
gun. They have likely never had someone police are authorized to carry have
casually walk up to them and pound on absolutely no effect on a subject who is so
their head until they were unconscious. out of their mind – be it from drugs, crimThey have never been the lone obstacle inal intent, or mental impairment – that
that stands between a criminal and his they are completely detached from reality.
freedom or a lifetime of incarceration.
They learn that when an officer has to
They don’t even know what a “tweaker” is. react, the officer has to react immediately
All of this causes me to think that we and that social experimentation is not an
should be glad that they don’t.
option. They learn that if an officer choosMost people have had very minimal es one of the less lethal options, and it
experience with mentally ill people. It doesn’t work, the officer could end up
might be a cousin who was never “quite dead. They also learn that the image of
right,” or the guy they saw on the side of police work that movies and TV create on
the street with tin foil on his head. But such issues as reaction times, placement
even those with more experience still may of shots, use of alternative tactics, simply
not know what it is like to deal with a vio- aren’t realistic. In the academy and in field
lent, mentally ill person, but they do still training, officers learn how things work in
the real world of policing. This is our reality, and unfortunately for those on the
juries, it becomes theirs too and they may
never feel as safe again.
So, when you hear a person commenting about how the police should have
done it differently, take pride in the fact
that they are unaware of the harsh realities of our community, in part, because of
the work you are doing in a world they
don’t even know exists.
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covered that the sporty SUV had been purposely torched they called police.
Within minutes police officer Allen Bjerke
arrived on the scene. He reported that the
Fire Department Captain at the scene had
discovered that the 4-Runner had been set
ablaze after being saturated with a flammable liquid accelerate. The Captain
pointed to a line of some type of oil based
liquid in front of the vehicle that was leading away from the vehicle to a nearby
garage. This apparently had allowed the
arsonist to ignite the fuel from a distance
away. The fire would travel the length of
the fuel to the 4-Runner, giving the arsonist
time to flee before it went up in flames.
After the fire was extinguished Officer
Bjerke ordered the burned vehicle
impounded and it was loaded on a wrecker. As the wrecker drove down 9th Avenue,
North with Bjerke following, the driver
stopped for a moment to secure a door on
the pickup that had not been tied securely. As Bjerke sat in his cruiser waiting, two
young men approached and asked if the
burned vehicle on the wrecker was Steven
Kraus’s and if Steven was all right. One of
the men asked Bjerke if he knew where
Kraus was and said that he had seen him
earlier that morning. The officer thought
that the man’s line of questioning was
strange because no one had mentioned
anything about anyone being injured or
that anyone had even been in or with the that hour of the morning, besides, the furburned vehicle. Both men seemed very ther from Steven’s friends he was, the betnervous and fidgety according to the offi- ter he liked it. He and Theresa loved
cer.
Steven, in fact were letting him spend
Wanting to learn more from
the two, the officer asked the
one who had identified himself
as Dave, if he knew how to get
in touch with this Steven Kraus
since he was so sure that it was
his car. Dave said that he didn’t know how to contact Kraus
but that he had been at a party
with him the previous evening
and had seen Kraus leave the
party with “some black guy.”
John, the man with Dave, had
little to say but Bjerke told them
both that if they made contact
with Kraus to have him call the
police station regarding the
burned 4-Runner. At that, the
officer and the tow-truck drove
away.
At about three o’clock in the Jessica Kraus Smith and a familiar cross which marks
morning Kenneth and Theresa the spot where Steven Kraus was beaten to death then
dragged to the rocks 100 feet away. (GCPN Photo)
Kraus were awakened by someone beating on the front door of their west weekends in their home after getting off
Texas City home. Kenneth went to the work at the hospital. Instead of driving
door and found Dave standing on his back home to Houston he would bring
porch asking about Steven and explaining clothes with him and stay in Texas City so
that he had seen Steven’s car burned and that he could run with his friends until
being towed by a wrecker. Kenneth was Sunday when he would return to his mothaggravated that he had been disturbed at er’s home in nearby Houston. Kenneth
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excited about and told him to “get lost and
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another man with Dave but Kenneth could
not tell who he was.
Awhile later at nearly four o’clock,
Officer Mark Moreno was on duty at the
front desk in the police station lobby when
two men came in and inquired about the
burned vehicle that had been recovered
and impounded by Office Bjerke. The men
identified themselves as Dave and John
and according to Moreno were both acting
strange and asking questions about the
vehicle and the registered owner who by
now had been determined to be Steven
Kraus. After learning that Officer Bjerke
had made the investigation, Moreno made
contact with him and learned that these
were the same two men who had
approached Bjerke and the wrecker driver
on 9th Street. Moreno told the men that
the burned car had been identified as
belonging to Steven Kraus but that he
knew nothing about where Kraus was or
how the car caught on fire.
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Dear Editor;
Thanks for letting the people of this area
know the police and citizens are working
together in controlling crime. We are not
overlooking little clues.
Your newspaper arrangements and color
pictures are put in a very attractive way. It
lets everyone know they, the criminals and
murderers, will be caught. The citizens
and police are pulling together to get them
off the streets.
We will get them. With the pictures on
page 14 showing their faces and putting
them on the execution gurney, lets them
know not to follow this path.
Sincerely many thanks,
Ms. LYT
Galveston
Dear Editor;
Monday evening, January 9th, about
4:30, in the north parking lot of the
Stewart Beach pavilion, a woman driving a
gold Chevy Trail Blazer license (license
number edited out) unleashed all 4 of her
dogs so that they were running free in the
parking lot. As I drove up, the littlest dog
ran out in front of my car, followed by a little toddler, while the woman was not
watching, busy with other dogs and child.
One of the dogs was initially muzzled,
but she removed the muzzle and the leash
and let her run free. That dog subsequently started chasing the other dogs
around, snarling and growling. When I
asked her if she realized the dogs needed
to be leashed, she told me to F- - - myself,
that this was a dog beach and I could just
go somewhere else.
She had 2 medium to large sized shepherd type dogs, a pug and a Chihuahua.
When I subsequently called the police,
because of the unleashed dogs, and especially the snarling, aggressive dog, I was
referred to animal control, given an incorrect phone number and informed “they
won’t come out anyway unless the dogs
are actually biting someone.”
Meanwhile, the woman, kids and dogs
proceeded down the beach, headed
north.
Today, I contacted Animal Control to file
a complaint, and was informed I needed
the person’s actual physical address. All I
have is her license plate number.
Please help me with this. I think it is
dangerous to have loose dogs running on
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Dear Editor;
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read
about a single complaint that turns into two
decisions by both the Galveston County
Criminal District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk’s
office as well as the Texas Attorney General
Greg Abbott’s office in regards to the consideration that a motorcycle poker run,
whether for charity or otherwise, is a form of
gambling and therefore illegal.
A SINGLE COMPLAINT?…Must be slow in
the capitol this week!
I’m sure that the decision these lawmakers made would apply to ANY poker run
regardless of means of transportation.
Most of these poker runs only benefited
the community and raised thousands of dollars for charitable causes. Even some police
that he was preparing his gear for some
early morning fishing. The fisherman told
the officer that as he was preparing his
gear to begin fishing he thought he heard
some gun shots and saw a car speed away
from a spot near him. After the car got
out of sight he walked over to the area of
the disturbance and discovered a man’s
body lying face down on the jagged, granite rocks which shore-up the levee. He
pointed out a pool of blood which became
a long, continuous trail of blood that lead
from the roadway down the grassy slope
about 100 feet to the sharp drop-off to the
rock groins where the body lay.
Moreno climbed down onto the rocks to
examine the body. It was a young, white
male about 20-years old, lying face down
on the rocks. His head and face was
smashed, his hair matted with blood, he
was wearing no shirt and his pants were
down below his buttocks. Among several
tattoos Moreno noticed on the body was a
large KRAUS across his back just below
the neck, stretching from shoulder to
shoulder. The name instantly stood out in
his mind as he flashed back to the name
being mentioned earlier in connection with
the car fire. Moreno radioed his dispatcher and confirmed the name of the registered owner of the burned Toyota. It was
Steven Eric Kraus. There was little doubt
now that the dead man, lying face down
on the rocks, was the owner of the burned
Toyota 4-Runner, Steven Kraus.
Soon there were at least ten police officers on the scene plus Galveston County
Medical Examiner Joe Howell. Homicide
Sergeant Bryan Goetschius took charge of
the investigation. Sergeant Curtiss Pope
made the scene to prepare for the
onslaught of media inquiries that were
sure to follow when word got out that there
had been a murder and arson in the city.
C.S.I. officers and Criminal Investigators
swarmed the area in search of clues.
Positive identification of the dead man
was made by Sergeant Goetschius from a
color photo furnish by Kraus’ older sister
and fire organizations and their members
were the beneficiaries of these runs. In fact,
the very poker run that prompted these
decisions was to benefit an injured police
officer…How sad.
Their demise, however, will not deter the
spirit of us local bikers who do much for not
only our own fellow bikers, but the community as well. We will find other ways to raise
that money, loud and proud. Rest assured
that we won’t stand idly by and let those
who do not appreciate and see the good in
our efforts determine how we can help. We
will write our local and state lawmakers and
voice our opinions on the matter. And we’ll
remember this on election day as well.
R. Fontenot
Friendswood, Texas
Jessica, the same photo that is shown with
this story. Jessica, for many years had
been sort of a surrogate mother to Steven.
She counseled him, consoled him and protected him through many of his scrapes
with the police and school authorities.
According to Jessica, who was five years
his senior, Steven was afraid of nothing or
no one. For one reason or another Steven
had clashed with a couple of the BA’s and
Steven had come out on top. The BA’s
were, and still are, a notorious gang of
street thugs in Texas City who call themselves the Brown Assassins. The story
goes that Steven “kicked some ass,”
which brought retaliation from the gang.
Soon after that clash Steven was attacked
by a swarm of BA gang members and suffered a severe beating which resulted in a
trip to the hospital emergency room for
some head and face repairs. The beating
didn’t seem to take any of the fire out of
Steven Kraus. He was soon back on the
streets just as tough and cocky as ever.
Jessica made the hospital trip with her
brother and nursed him through his brief
recovery. She was always there for him.
Even when he died she was the one that
got the call.
The 1998 Toyota 4-Runner of which
Steven was so proud had been his
father’s. Steven and Jessica’s father had
died eleven months previous to Steven’s
death, eleven months to the day. Their
father had passed away at the young age
of 48 on the prior July 9th, Steven died
May 9th. When their father died he left a
mortgage free home in Texas City, and the
1998 4-Runner which Jessica agreed to
give Steven. Having been his father’s car,
Steven was especially proud of it and treated it with tender care. The only remnants
remaining of the 4-Runner today are the
custom wheels which Jessica salvaged
and still has as a lasting reminder of her
dead brother.
The autopsy report revealed that Steven
Kraus died of blunt force trauma to his
head. He had been savagely and brutally
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About an hour and a half later they were
back at Dave’s house. It was about two
o’clock in the afternoon and Dave’s mother noticed that her son was driving
Steven’s car when they arrived. Charles
was riding in the front passenger seat
and Steven was in the back seat with
some girl. Dave went in the house for
just a minute then returned to the car
and they all drove off again. According
to the mother everyone seemed to be
sober and normal at that time.
The second time they returned to the
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continued from page 6 (Kraus Murder) the night at his aunt and uncle’s home in
beaten to death by at least two people who Texas City as he usually did on weekends.
also relieved him of some of his jewelry. On this particular morning he took his
Steven was a flashy dresser. Jewelry was overnight bag with him when he left which
part of his personality. But why did the his aunt thought was unusual because
killers take only some of his jewelry and normally he would stay until Sunday, leavnot all of it? Why didn’t they take his bill- ing his bag and clothes at their house
fold and his money? It sure would not while he ran with his buddies.
appear that robbery
was the motive for the
killing of Steven Kraus.
To get just a glimpse
of the day that lead up
to the murder of
Steven Kraus we
talked with friends, relatives, and acquaintances that knew him,
knew how he lived and
what made him tick.
Some had seen him on
that fateful day, others
had just heard through Texas City Homicide Sergeant B.T. Goetschius seeks killers
the street grapevine of Steven Eric Kraus. (GCPN Photo)
how Steven Kraus
According to Dave’s mother, the three
spent his last day. And we talked with
investigators who still want desperately to boys left her home about noon saying they
arrest the killer or killers. Some of them were going to “go riding around for
say the killers are on borrowed time and awhile.” It’s what they call “cruising”, just
probably are living on pins and needles driving around aimlessly, going nowhere,
doing nothing and looking for nothing or
wondering when their time will run out.
Saturday morning before his death, no one in particular. They just seem to
Steven and one of his running buddies stay in motion with no clear-cut destinaCharles showed up at Dave’s house about tion or objective, often winding up in cus10:30 in the morning. Steven had spent tody of the local constabulary.
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house was about five o’clock. Dave was
still driving, but this time Charles was in
the back seat by himself and Steven was
in the front passenger seat. There was
no girl and this time Steven was noticeably impaired. The mom said his speech
was slurred and he was not acting normal.
Within a few minutes Charles and
Steven left again and Charles was driving.
Dave stayed home, according to his
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his shirt off. Mom noticed a big red mark
on Steven’s chest. According to their
story, Charles and Steven had got into a
fight with two of the BA’s. From the looks
of the two, Steven had done most of the
fighting. At this, all three boys, Steven,
Dave and Charles, piled into Stevens 4Runner and they were off again. Again
Dave took the wheel and did the driving.
When Dave’s mother went to bed that
night at about 11:30, the boys had not
returned yet, but sometime between midnight and 12:30 Dave and Steven came
in, Charles was not with them. Steven
had his shirt back on and they were both
higher than a kite. When Steven decided
that he wanted to leave, an argument
ensued over the car keys. Steven wanted
to leave but Dave did not want to let him
drive and neither did Dave’s mom. In the
end Steven won out and left in his car.
About 2:30 the following morning
which was Mother’s Day Sunday, Juan
showed up at Dave’s house and shortly
after that is when the car fire episode
occurred within a block of Dave’s
house.
The question now is: Where did Steven
go when he left Dave’s house? What did
he do and who did he see between the
time he left Dave’s house at about 1
a.m. and 2 a.m. when his car was
reported on fire to the Fire Department?
It is known that Steven had been
drinking and eating Xanax, a tranquilizing pill, throughout the day. It was
reported that at times during the day he
was passed out in the backseat of his
car while Dave was doing the driving. It
is doubtful that when he was attacked
by his assailants that he had the capacity to defend himself and may have been
a victim of his own defenseless condition. In other words, someone killed him
because he was helpless. But who and
why? It seems that this time, getting
high got Steven Kraus dead.
Do you know anything about the murder of Steven Kraus? Have you heard
anything about this murder? Something
that you have heard or seen may seem
insignificant to you but may be the very
piece of information that police need to
solve the brutal murder of Steven Eric
Kraus. To speak with the investigators
call Sgt. B.T. Goetschius (409) 6435832 or (409) 643-5830 or Texas City
Crime Stoppers (409) 948 TIPS (8477.)
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features stories of unsolved crimes
each month, from the files of law
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strict paramilitary environment and a
detention center sergeant sits in each
classroom. They are marched from place
to place throughout the facility with hands
folded behind them. Not a word is spoken unless they are first addressed by the
Sergeant. Their whole world is controlled
and revolves around that Sergeant. Strict
discipline is the rule, something that was
sorely missing from their previous lives.
Classes are conducted under
the auspices of the Dickinson
Independent School District.
DISD teachers conduct the classes with a JJC Sergeant sitting
nearby. School credit is earned so
that the students do not fall
behind while away from their
home schools.
Lieutenant Ron Tolbert is the
perfect man to be charge of such
a program. A former U.S.
Marine with previous experience
in various areas of security, he
Lt. Ron Tolbert explains working with kids at the
has been at the Galveston County
JJV where he supervises Special Program and is
Juvenile Justice Center for seven
known as “LT” (GCPN Photo)
years. Tolbert is the epitome of
then he was expelled from school for fight- the old proverb, “Walk softly but carry a
ing and discovered to be armed with a big stick.” Soft spoken, polite, and a
knife. He says that he was jumped by pleasant personality, he says what he
three other students and the fight was means and means what he says. He is
over a girl. Whatever the reason, it result- known as “LT”, a short name abbreviation
ed in an appearance before a juvenile for Lieutenant. One wonders when visitcourt judge, and a sentence of one-year ing with him if anyone in the center actualprobation and daily trips to classes at the ly knows his real name. Were it not for the
county detention center where every move name tag over his pocket I may well have
is watched and every word is uttered only thought that his name was actually LT.
with permission from a watchful Sergeant. That is what everyone called him. LT has
During probation he reports for school the “the stuff” to be tough. After all he
classes every weekday at the juvenile jus- was a Marine. But talking with him, one
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continued from page 1 (Locking Up Our Kids?)
it is obvious that those visits are less than
memorable and probably not anticipated.
There is little money for child-raising or for
the things that children need or want.
Like so many kids from these circumstances, this boy discovered his own
method of fund raising, selling stolen
drugs.
At 12 years old the local police picked
him up for throwing rocks at passing cars,
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Editorial
I cannot imagine what life must have
been like for Kraig Jenkins. He had been
removed from the custody of his mother
for reasons of which we are not privy and
placed into the custody of his maternal
grandmother. Supposedly when these
custody changes take place it is to
remove the child from a dangerous or
unhealthy environment and place him or
her in another surrounding where the
child has a fair chance at life, a place to
be protected and nurtured while making
the trip from childhood to adulthood.
Unfortunately for Kraig Jenkins, life did
not work out that way. Kriag became a
victim like so many children that we see
and hear about on the nightly news.
Three days before Santa Claus came, 4year old Kraig died of asphyxia in the
Jamaica Beach apartment where he lived
with his grandmother and her ex-convict
boyfriend. His death was ruled homicide.
In case you are not clear on what a homicide is “Dictionary.Com“ defines it as,
“The killing of one person by another”
An ambulance and police were summoned to the apartment in the early
morning hours of December 22nd where
they found the grandmother administering CPR to Kraig. EMS personnel took
over but it was too late, Kraig Jenkins
was dead.
While Jamaica Beach Police were in the
apartment they discovered equipment
which was obviously being used to manufacture methamphetamines. The apartment was being used for what the cops
and the underworld call a “meth lab.”
Without getting into a lot detail, this drug
requires the use of several very dangerous chemicals that when combined and
“cooked” properly become a much
demanded product for drug dealers and
addicts. Each of the chemicals that are
used in the formula are capable of killing
a person individually, even before being
cooked into the final product.
Before the day was over, the body of
young Kraig Jenkins was taken to the
Galveston County Morgue and his grandmother and her boyfriend were taken to
the Galveston County Jail where they
remain in lieu of substantial bail bonds
requested by the District Attorney.
The first question that always comes to
my mind when I read or hear about an
infant death under these circumstances
is why did this baby die and who caused
it. In this case there may be more than
one reason.
First and foremost is that the grandmother, who was responsible for the welfare of this young life chose to shack-up
with a worthless drug dealer who has a
long criminal history, dating back to
1979. He has been convicted in Austin,
San Antonio, and San Marcos for everything from DWI to Possession of
Controlled Substances, to Manufacturing
Controlled Substances to Possession of
Marijuana to Aggravated Assault on a
Public Servant to Driving With an Invalid
Drivers License and at the time he was
arrested in Jamaica Beach on December
22nd, he was on parole from prison until
the year 2014.
Question: Do you know of anyone in
their right mind who would allow their
child to even be in the same town with
this character, much less live in the same
apartment? What sort of grandmother
would shack-up with a low-life, drug dealer of this caliber while she had custody of
minor children? Yes, children. Kraig’s 2year old little sister was also living in the
meth kitchen and could very well have
met with the same fate has her brother.
According to his conviction record, this
guy has spent about as much time in the
courtrooms and jailhouses of Texas as he
has cooking drugs. Reading his rap
sheet would leave one to draw no other
conclusion but that this guy is a career
criminal and when he was arrested in the
same room with a dead, four year old
boy, he should have been in the penitentiary and not on parole and not in
Jamaica Beach cooking drugs.
So, who killed Kraig Jenkins? Or maybe
I should say why did Kraig Jenkins die at
age four, just three days before
Christmas, while his Christmas stocking
was hung in anticipation of gifts and
candy canes and sugar plumbs?
Each of you who read this will come to
your own conclusions. Did the justice
system fail Kraig Jenkins by allowing this
known drug dealer to wander free on the
streets and ply his trade in a home where
babies lived? Where was CPS in all of
this mix? Why was Kraig Jenkins in the
custody of this grandmother who elected
to shack-up with this criminal? Was CPS
making visits to the apartment?
Hopefully a Galveston County Grand
Jury will bring both of these so-called
adults before a criminal court jury and
hopefully that jury will see that they
spend the rest of their Christmas’ watching for Santa Claus through the window
of the Crossbar Hotel in Huntsville,
Texas.
We should all be outraged that
tragedies like this occur, that circumstances and conditions are permitted to
go unchecked which allow children to be
subjected to criminals and to die while in
their custody. But our outrage will not
change the circumstance, nor will it solve
the problem of a lax justice system which
coddles criminals and makes deals with
continued on next page –(Editorial)
continued from page 11 (Locking Up Our Kids?)
can feel that he really cares about every
kid in the center. He cares that while in
his care they are safe, that they achieve,
that they learn and that they leave the
center honest and honorable citizens.
There are many valuable and unique
programs and services that make up the
overall operation of the juvenile justice
center, one being caseworker services
which provides supervision of juvenile
offenders. This section utilizes many
community resources to meeting the
needs of the juveniles and to carry out the
orders of the juvenile courts. Included is
the Operation Outreach, community service restitution, long term residential
placement, outpatient substance abuse
counseling, outpatient psychological
counseling, specialized outpatient sex
offender counseling, in-house drug and
alcohol testing and group education.
There are 18 officers who mostly handle
probation or deferred prosecution cases,
but also serve in other specialized positions.
The young man who we visited not only
must live by the rules during the daytime
while he is in classes at the center, his
probation officer schedules regular office
visits as well as meeting with his mother
at home. His level of supervision was
determined by his sanction level and his
degree of compliance. He was determined to be placed at sanction level four
requiring twelve months of intensive
supervision which generally consist of
weekly home and office visits. Progressive
sanction level four allows the Juvenile
Justice Department or the court to
choose between two programs: the child
remains at home and attends his local
school and receives maximum supervision by his officer, or he may be assigned
to the department’s About Face program,
a day program operated at the center.
This requires that he attend Operation
Outreach, perform community service
hours, attend some form of treatment or
education program and allow himself to
be drug tested. In some cases he may be
ordered to receive services at a long-term
residential treatment program in which he
and his parents participate.
The story of the Galveston County
Juvenile Justice Center is a long story.
There are many facets to the extensive
operation of the center and we plan to
return and report more on the work being
done there.
continued from previous page –(Editorial)
worker or anyone else who works in the
juvenile justice system will tell you,
today’s criminals are giving birth to
tomorrow’s criminals. Young people are
being influenced in the home by their
criminal parents, and in many cases the
parents are teaching their children the
art of criminality, how to be a good criminal. And the end is nowhere in sight.
them and reduces the charges against
them and gives them probation on top of
probation or small fines or 10-days in jail
for selling drugs. Our outrage will not
provide for more CPS workers so that
custodial parents and grandparents like
these can be weeded out and the children saved from the fate that befell young
Kraig Jenkins.
As any juvenile police officer or CPS
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Today I heard a Houston City
Councilman comment on radio station
950 KPRC, that more police officers are
needed to help bring down the homicide
crime rate in Houston, Texas. This is a
familiar refrain from politicians who
often use the issues of a high crime rate
and shortage of police officers as their
mantra for media attention.
In Dallas, Texas, last year there was a
call by some elected officials to increase
the number of Dallas police officers by
one hundred officers. The public
expects that there will be a sufficient
number of police officers to respond to
the calls by citizens. Additionally, police
executives and managers must properly
allocate the police officers within their
organizations to achieve the desired
level of public order and security.
As a veteran police officer and now an
upper level police manager, let me
share with you that there must be a certain minimum number of police officers
for any given geographic area. This
ensures that the public receives the necessary police protection and it also
helps to reduce the public’s fear of
crime perception. This is very important, especially to the law-abiding citizens.
Now, here is the key to the real need
for all law-abiding citizens and the victims of crime. Justice must be served.
Whenever a person or group of persons
violates the law, they must face the consequences of their anti-social destructive behavior that causes the disintegration of a peaceful and ordered society.
The citizens expect and deserve to be
safe and secure in their homes and their
communities.
The police officers are the front line
defenders of civil order and the
enforcers of the laws that keep us all
safe. Furthermore, police officers also
maintain our civilized society. As important as police officers are in the grand
scheme of our ordered and civilized
society, can you guess what the other
factor is that is equally as important?
The other factor is the court system in
our Criminal Justice System. You can
have an adequate number of police officers on the streets, but too often courts,
judges and juries, do not administer justice. The end result is that the offenders/violators of the laws do not face the
consequences of justice. The offenders
are too often released into our society to
once again prey on innocent victims
who expected the Criminal Justice
System to work for them and to protect
them from those in our society who
totally disregard the rights of law-abiding citizens.
More high quality professional police
officers are only one half of the need.
Shouldn’t we hold our elected representatives accountable?
(The author is a retired Houston
Police officer and currently a Captain
with the Harris County Constables
Office. He is a noted and respected
writer of articles and insights on law
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AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg
Abbott today reminded Texas consumers
and businesses that all receipts for goods
or services paid for with credit or debit
cards must now conceal all but the final
four digits of the card number.
Dec. 31, 2005, was the deadline for all
Texas retailers to comply with a law, enacted in 2003, that sought to reduce the
chances of identity theft by requiring retailers to print no more than the last four numbers of the card or the cards’ expiration
date on the receipt. Retailers with cash registers or other types of receipt-printing
machines that were installed before Aug.
31, 2003, were required to comply by Aug.
31, 2004. The Attorney General and local
prosecutors are responsible for enforcing
the law.
“Identity theft is a problem that threatens
every Texas consumer, and this commonsense measure helps reduce that threat,”
Attorney General Abbott said. “I appreciate
the efforts of Texas retailers to comply with
this law, and I am issuing this reminder to
any who have not yet done so that the deadline has now passed. I urge consumers to
check their receipts and notify my office if
they see noncompliance.”
Consumers who notice that a receipt generated after Dec. 31, 2005, contains more
than the last four digits of their credit or
debit card number should file a complaint
with the Attorney General. Complaints can
be filed on the Attorney General’s Web site
at <http://www.oag.state.tx.us> or by calling (800) 252-8011.
Violators are liable for a civil penalty of up
to $500 for each calendar month during
which a violation occurs.
The law, found in Section 35.58 of the
Texas Business and Commerce Code, also
requires entities that lease or sell cash registers or other receipt-printing machines to
notify the lessee or buyer of the law’s
requirements.
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Robert James Neville Jr. WM
Born: October 5, 1974
Education Level: 11th Grade,
Occupation: Laborer
Staley was convicted in the October
1989 murder of 35-year old Robert
Dorsey Read during the robbery of a Fort
Worth restaurant. Staley and two accomplices pulled semi-automatic weapons
after eating a meal at the Steak & Ale
Restaurant on Highway 80 West. The trio
rounded up thirty customers and six
employees and then demanded their billfolds. Staley then forced Read, the
restaurant’s General Manager, to open
the safe and deposit the day’s receipts in
a briefcase. Police were alerted by an
employee who managed to escape.
Officers surrounded the building and the
robbers took Read hostage, hijacked a
car and fled with police in pursuit. The
hostage was shot in the head, chest and
arm after being pulled inside the car by
Staley. All three were arrested after a
high-speed chase.
Co-defendants Brenda Kaye Rayburn
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Duke got life in prison for murder and
attempted murder with a deadly weapon.
Staley was 27-years old at the time of
the offense. If he is executed as scheduled on February 23, he will be 43-years
old.
On February 15, 1998, in Arlington,
Texas, Neville and co-defendant, Michael
Wayne Hall, kidnapped a 19-year old white
female and took her to a remote area
where they shot her seven times with a
.22 caliber pistol. Neville and Hall knew
the victim from work. The subjects fled
the scene and attempted to flee the country but were apprehended at the Mexican
border.
Co-defendant Michael Wayne Hall was
also sentenced to death
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years old. If he dies as scheduled on
February 8th, he will be 31-years old.
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Smith is also charged in the March 1992
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Houston.
At the time of the murder Smith was 18
years old. If he is executed as scheduled
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Most jail escapees don’t want to be
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Elk City, Oklahoma, was an exception. Serving time at a minimum
security jail, he walked off, went to
his ex-girlfriends home, vandalized it
and stole a gold bracelet. Then he
tried to walk back into the jail.
Guards weren’t buying his story that
he fell asleep in a nearby field, especially when they found the bracelet.
They did take him back into jail, but
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