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VOLUME 111, NUMBER 1
FIRST IN AMERICA: SINCE 2004
MAY 2006
Fool Me Once, Shame on You Police Have “Person of Interest”
Try It Again, You’re Busted in ’71 Double Murder
Breck Porter/The Police News
Galveston Police whose job it is to keep up
with these offenders.
Soon thereafter The Police News also
began getting calls. Slawson does not
even live in Galveston, callers reported.
He lives in League City and he operates a
real estate business from his home on
Sugarwood in the Meadow Bend sub-divi-
This is the true story of a local sex
offender who tried every angle, told
every lie, violated law after law, in his
effort to fool the police and beat the system, only to wind up in jail facing a
prison term that he had managed to
avoid for years.
ast year, in August,
on our monthly sex
offender page, we ran a
mug shot with biographical sketch of Darren Lee
Slawson. It was our routine monthly selection of
convicted sex offenders
which we highlight each
month in our effort to let
our readers know who
these offenders are and
where they say they are
living. We are accus- A handcuffed Darren Lee Slawson is escorted to a waiting
tomed to getting feed- squad car as TV reporter Stephen Dean questions him.
back from readers on
(Police News photo)
many things that we do. Our Fugitive Page
sion. Real estate business? League City?
is very successful and helps bring about
Then why did he register as a sex offender
the arrest of dozens of those dodging and
in Galveston? We decided to find out.
hiding from the law. But Slawson was difThe Police News and Galveston Crime
ferent. His appearance brought about an
Stoppers, first reported this information to
unbelievable response and resulted in an
Galveston Police authorities. Let us
extensive investigation by dozens of lawexplain here that the Galveston Police
men, media teams and Galveston Crime
Department, at one time, had as many as
Stoppers.
170 registered sex offenders on it’s books.
Shortly after Slawson’s appearance in
It also has one, part-time, civilian employThe Police News, Crime Stoppers of
ee who has the job of keeping up with
Galveston began getting tips from anonythese offenders, an impossible job. Boyd
mous sources reporting, among other
Swindale is the man with that job. He is a
things, that Slawson did not live at the
retired police officer who hired out to the
address given in The Police News. In fact,
GPD to handle sex offender registrations
he did not even live in the same city as
working Thursdays and Fridays only. By
reported in The Police News.
comparison, the League City Police
We were contacted by Crime Stoppers to
Department, a city with a larger populaconfirm that the address we had given for
tion than Galveston, with 43 registered sex
Slawson was indeed correct, 3913 First
offenders, has a full-time, certified police
Street in Galveston. To be sure, we
officer in charge of supervising sex offendchecked with the Galveston Police
ers. But as they say, that’s another story.
Department and on the sex offender data
Darren Lee Slawson was convicted in
base of the Texas Department of Public
1991 when he was 26-years old, of the
Safety. We were right. When Slawson regsexual assault of a 14-year old girl in
istered with the GPD he gave his home
Harris County. He was arrested by
address as 3913 First Street in Galveston.
Constable’s in Precinct-5 and later given
But guess what? He didn’t live there. He
continued on page 20 (Sex Offender)
had never lived there. He lied to the
Breck Porter/The Police News
Galveston Police Detective says
A
that he is investigating a man currently in prison on a murder charge in
connection with the 1971 abduction and
murders of Maria Johnson and Debbie
Ackerman, both 15. The two Ball High
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Maria
Johnson
Debbie
Ackerman
School students disappeared from
Galveston Mall on November 15, 1971
and were later found floating in Turner’s
Bayou in Texas City. Their hands and
feet were bound and they were partially
clad. Both had been killed by a gunshot
in the head.
The person of interest is 67-year old
Edward Harold Bell, now serving a 70year prison sentence in the Jester Prison
Unit at Richmond, Texas.
According to Detective Fred Paige,
Bell’s trip to the penitentiary began on
August 24, 1978 in Pasadena. As four
children were playing near an intersection on Oak Street, Bell, driving a red
and white GMC pickup truck, stopped at
the intersection, got out of the truck, and
approached the children nude from his
waist down. He was 45 at the time. The
children included two girls 10-14 years
old.
Across the street, neighbor Dorothy
Lang, had been watching the children
play and saw Bell as he got out of the
pickup and walked towards the children
exposing himself. Lang called to her
son, Larry Gibbins, who was mowing the
grass. Upon hearing his mother, 27-year
old Gibbins told his mother to call
the police and he ran to
confront Bell. The two men
met at the door of Bell’s
truck at the same time
and Gibbins succeeded
in grabbing the keys
from the ignition. He planned to hold
Bell at bay until police arrived, but Bell
retrieved a .22 caliber pistol from the
truck and started firing at Gibbins. As
Gibbins tried to flee, Bell continued
shooting, hitting Gibbins five times
before he fell.
Lang watched as her son was gunned
down in the street and with the line still
open on her cell phone, ran to the aid of
Gibbins. She got between Bell and
Gibbins yelling at Bell, “Leave, the police
are coming, the police are coming!”
Bell replied that he could not leave
because Gibbins had the keys to his
truck. In desperation, Lang retrieved the
keys from her son, lying motionless on
the ground, and threw them to Bell. The
shooter went to his truck, pulled out an
M-1 Carbine rifle, returned to where
Gibbins was lying and fired one shot
between his eyes killing him. He was
arrested later by Pasadena Motorcycle
Officers after he crashed his truck into a
house.
Following his arrest, Bell posted
$150,000 bail bond and disappeared.
He was later discovered living in
Panama and was extradited back to
Texas where he was convicted of murder
and four counts of Indecency With A
Child for which he received an additional 10-year sentence.
Bell was living in Dayton, Texas, but
had a business in Galveston, a surf and
dive shop at 5700 Avenue S. He was
also running supply boats to offshore oil
rigs and was considered an astute businessman.
Early on in the business, Bell spent little time in the shop, his partner doing
most of the work. The partner soon
became disenchanted with the way the
partnership was working out and left the
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business, forcing Bell to devote most of
his time and attention there.
Detective Paige says that during that
period in 1971, Debbie Ackerman and
Maria Johnson frequented Doug’s Surf &
Dive Shop on Avenue S, and were seen
there just prior to their disappearance.
“We’re investigating linkage between the
two dead girls and other girls murdered
during this time frame in Galveston
County,” said Paige.
There is also a white van involved in
the investigation. Paige told The Police
News, “For whatever reason back then
they were putting so much emphasis on
a green truck as a suspect vehicle. They
were always talking about a green truck.
Apparently there was a pedophile running around in a green truck in the same
time frame and the news picked up on
that green truck. I believe that if they
had put a white van in the paper they
would have got his ass,” said the detective.
The last time Ackerman and Johnson
were seen alive, they were willingly getting into a white van across the street
from the Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream
Shoppe on 4th Street. Edward Howard
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Bell, who the girls probably knew from
the surf shop, had previously been
arrested while driving a white van.
“We’ve got some circumstantial evidence,” says Detective Paige. “We can
link him. When we look at all these
other cases involving young girls in the
Galveston County area, I can make a
good argument and put our guy in the
area. I’m talking about Alvin, Dickinson,
Galveston, Southwest Houston and
Pasadena. This guy could be could be
one of those guys we read about,” he
concluded.
Paige appealed to anyone who may
have snapped pictures of Doug’s Surf &
Dive Shop at 5700 Avenue S, between
1971-73, to contact him, especially if the
picture reveals a white van parked there.
We encourage our readers who may
remember the surf shop or may have
gone there in the old days, 35 years ago,
or who may be in possession of some
old, inherited photographs, or who may
have known or met Edward Howard Bell,
to also contact Paige. It is never too late
to prosecute for murder.
The direct phone line to the desk of
Detective Paige is 409-797-3762.
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While the 52-year-old police chief is not
too happy with spending up to 11 hours a
day and a couple of weekends each month
away from his wife, Irene, and six children,
he does find time for high-powered play. He
was scheduling a sky dive for his son’s 18th
birthday.
“That started out as a joke – he’s the
youngest and he wants to outdo his sisters,”
he said. But beside himself and his son, 12
other people had confirmed jumps with the
chief in Rosharon.
Photos and cards from his children line
his office shelves and speaking from behind
a desk with an angel standing over a police
officer who is kneeling down to speak to a
child, he said that like most police departments narcotics and related crime is the
biggest issue facing Dickinson. But he
explained that’s where the similarity ends.
“There are some awesome people here,”
said Morales, who has been with the
Dickinson PD for 11 years come October.
“They don’t have the mentality of my job is
to put handcuffs on people and write people
citations and throw them in jail.”
Dickinson Mayor Julie Masters said
Morales is doing a great job as police chief.
“He’s really involved in the department
and participated in the Child Safety Fair,”
Masters said. “Officers were also in the
CHAMPS program, which is reading and
mentoring to junior high and high school
kids. I’d say that he saved a few of them
from going down the wrong path.”
Masters said Morales is a good role model
for his staff and worked hard to get officers
back in school, reading and mentoring to
students, which provided a the police
department’s positive side to the students.
Robbery and assault have seen modest
decreases in Dickinson since 2001, with
235 assaults reported in 2004 and 190
reported in 2005, according to the FBI’s
Unified Crime Reports (UCI). The statistics
show 136 burglaries in 2001, 130 in 2002,
117 in 2003, 108 in 2004, and 121 reported in 2005. Rape reported over the five-year
period show 13 in 2001 and 10 in 2005.
Likewise, motor vehicle thefts reported in
2002, totaled 61 and 34 were reported in
2005.
So, Dickinson does not have a typical
police department but the men and women
employed there share a common dedication
to community and its people. Morales says
it’s mind-boggling.
“I’ve got men who work with the police
department that can walk out of here today
and walk right into the ministry,” Morales
said. “I’ve got some that do ministry work. I
know other departments have these kinds of
people too. But these guys are genuine –
they really try to help people. They’re just a
lot closer to the community.”
Area residents often tell Morales something one of his officer’s has done for them,
not excluding contributions of food, clothes
or cold cash.
“It’s not something that they go bragging
about,” he said. “I find out from somebody
else. I can’t believe it.”
The idea moved the chief so much that he
started awarding uncirculated silver dollars
to officers who helped out in the community. Among Dickinson police the silver dollars
are called “Ronnie Dollars.”
Serving about 21,000 people, the 31 fulltime officers, two reserve officers, four parttime officers, four part time jailers, seven
full-time dispatchers, three part-time dispatchers, and two clerks of the Dickinson
Police Department are in a facility built
three years ago at 400 Liggio Road just two
blocks east of Highway 3. Morales calls it a
blessing from residents.
“We’ve outgrown it but I don’t hear anyone complaining,” Morales said. “We’ve put
up a storage building out back and the
Citizens Academy Alumni Association is putting up another building.”
Attrition and losing personnel to better
paying cities became a drag on the
Dickinson department. Morales said he
couldn’t even remember their names they
were rotating out so fast after they had been
trained.
Six years ago the officer’s association
went for a pay referendum. Even with the
mayor and council solidly opposing the
measure, “the citizens voted 2-1 to give us
a 20 percent raise six years ago and that
stopped it (attrition).”
“We’re not where League City is and we’re
not where Friendswood is but we’re above
LaMarque,” he said, referring to the police
pay scale. “We’re a little bit above the
mean.”
Morales’ toughest problem goes back a
long time and is a result of how the city
fathers mapped out the area.
Galveston County Sheriff Gean Leonard
explained that the Sheriff’s office has jurisdiction throughout Galveston County, but municipalities have primary responsibility for patrol
services in the unincorporated areas.
“Therefore, we share resources with all
municipalities whose city limits border the
unincorporated areas — Dickinson being a
unique one in that there are areas where, literally, one side of the street is city and the
other, county,” Leonard added. “Our agencies cooperate in a very efficient manner in
terms of response to calls for service, to the
mutual benefit of the taxpayer.”
“We have an area that we are responsible
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for that I call our community,” Morales said.
“Most of our schools are on the edge of town
– we have two inside the city limits.”
Hughes Road School for instance is situated right on the city limits. He explained that
all of the traffic on Hughes Road is inside
the Dickinson city limits.
“We have to deal with all the traffic,”
Morales said. “When you go down Hughes
Road during school times, all these cars are
backed up on Hughes Road in our city limits. The school is actually in Texas City.”
Using McCree Ford as an example,
Morales said: “Their cash register is in the
city limits of League City, everything else is
in Dickinson.”
“If they get a car burglarized or something
like that, we have to go take the report but
we don’t get the tax revenue for any of that,”
he added. “We have to deal with the crime.”
“In the Moore’s Edition, they talk about all
the crack and crime,” said Morales. “You can
spit to our city limits from the Shamrock (gas
station) where they’ve had killings and all this.
People look at this as our community and we
respond to those calls.”
“We’re the first ones there,” he added.
“There’s no way the county can beat us
there, there’s no way League City could beat
us there.”
Highway 3 splits the area — Dickinson is
on the west side and the county is on the
east side. According to the UCR crime statistics, there were no murders in 2001 and
2002. In 2003, there were two murders
reported, and 2004 and 2005 each had one
reported murder.
“The last murder that happened over
there happened in the county – it began in
the city but escalated in the county,”
Morales said. “We’re still a part of that. We
have to deal with that. Our detectives found
the car so, it’s our manpower.”
The issues go beyond an arrest or a confiscation because the staff members
involved also have to go to court, which can
be a week of time as well as other related
activities that take time away from officers
patrolling Dickinson streets.
“It’s those kinds of issues that can drain a
department,” the chief said.
He explained traffic is related to the many
subdivisions that are being built around
Dickinson.
“They’re all actually in the city limits of
League City but they’re closer to
Dickinson,” Morales said. “For example
Dove Meadows – I grew up there — they
have Dickinson telephone numbers,
Dickinson mailing addresses, but it’s in
League City. League City came in and
grabbed all that. Their kids go to Dickinson
schools, they shop Dickinson everything is
Dickinson we get absolutely zero revenues
from that.”
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winners of it’s annual writing competition during the PSWA convention in
Las Vegas in March.
Second place in news article writing
was awarded to Breck Porter, Editor
of the Galveston County Police News
for his story of the murder of
Galveston Police Officer Bennie Elrod
who was shot and killed with his own
service revolver in the GPD Booking
Office in 1948. Porter’s article was
also published on the Police News
website and the national law enforcement website The Family Badge
<http://familybadge.org/> . From
the website it was picked up by at
least two newspapers and one magazine.
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The Choking Game —
ost children have no clue how
M
dangerous this activity is. Most
parents have no clue that kids are doing
this until someone in their lives dies or is
damaged by it. Schools seem oblivious to
it though it has been reported numerous
times that this activity often takes place at
school. Medical examiners and police
continue to classify these deaths as suicide by hanging when there is no evidence
that the child intended to take his life. The
only way to stop the deaths from this activity is to publicize, especially in the
schools, the danger of this activity as we
do with the use of drugs and alcohol.
What is the Choking Game?
The Choking Game achieves a brief high
or euphoric state by stopping the flow of
oxygen containing blood to the brain.
Sometimes children choke each other
until the person being choked passes out.
The pressure on the arteries is then
released and blood flow to the brain
resumes causing a “rush” as consciousness returns. There are variations of this
activity which involve hyper-ventilating
until the participant loses consciousness.
There is a lesser chance of death but it is
still not safe. Playing this game in any
form causes the permanent and cumulative death of large numbers of brain cells.
The variation in blood pressure may also
cause strokes, seizures, and retinal damage.
The danger becomes even greater when
a ligature is used and the activity is performed by a lone child. If the child loses
consciousness and there is no one there
to IMMEDIATELY release the pressure, he
is unable to help himself. The child will
suffer brain damage and death certainly
after three minutes. Some of those who
have died were alone for as little as 15
minutes before someone found them and
it was already too late. This activity can
claim a child’s life the first time it is
played.
How Long Has This Been going On?
This activity has been going on for generations. In almost any group of adults,
one can find someone who played this
game in some form or another when they
were children. The modification that has
made it even more dangerous is the use of
ligatures and the practice of doing it alone.
Make no mistake. It is NEVER safe, but
most of the children who get into trouble
are alone.
Why Do Kids Do This?
Some do it for the high which can
become addictive. Others do it because
it’s “cool” and risky. Most of the kids who
have died from this were not children in
trouble. Most were well liked, active, intelligent, stable children who wanted nothing
to do with drugs or alcohol. This was an
activity they felt was safe. Children have
no clue about the physiological principles
involved and need to be told by the adults
in their lives how dangerous this is. Also,
most children have no concept of their
own mortality. They truly believe nothing
can hurt them.
What are the Symptoms of this
Activity?
There is of course no “test” for this. It is
chemically undetectable, However, there
are some signs which raise red flags:
1. Inexplicable marks or bruises on the
throat
2. Frequent severe headaches
3. Redness of the eyes
4. Belts, leashes, ropes, shoelaces tied
in strange knots or found in unusual locations.
5. Unexplained cuts or bruises from
falling.
6. Disorientation after spending time
alone.
7. Locked bedroom doors.
Not all of these signs may be present.
If I think My child may be doing this,
what can I Do?
• Supervise the child very closely.
• Dispose of items that could be
employed for this purpose.
• Warn your child about this activity.
They often don’t know that this activty
can kill them or leave them brain
damaged.
• Alert school officials so that they can
monitor your child. Often other
students may also be participating.
• Consider professional counseling and
suppor t for your child and your
family.
• Check that siblings are not involved in
this activity.
• Consider alerting your child’s friends
parents.
How widespread is this activity?
Deaths have occurred from this activity
nationwide, and in other countries around
the world.
There are, no doubt, more and the list of
dead children seems to grow each day.
What Can I Do to Help Stop This?
Talk to the children in your life, parents
and everyone you know who works with
children Make sure they understand why
it is so dangerous to participate in this
activity. I have a hard time calling this a
continued on next page–
Breck Porter/Editor
Where are all the
cops going?
o borrow a
phrase; if you
hear a loud swooshing
sound near the causeway, it is probably
Galveston Police Officers heading north
for better jobs. Recently a Patrol
Sergeant and an Investigator, who also
trained officers in self defense, joined
the Houston Police Department. Four
others have applied for other area
departments. The GPD is traditionally
undermanned and there is no change in
sight. The Island is growing in population and spreading out geographically,
requiring more police officers to do the
job. Instead we have fewer officers,
slower response times, more rookie officers and fewer seasoned ones. It‚s not
going to change until city father‚s
become crime victims.
Have you heard of the 800 pound
Gorilla?
Last year when we did investigative
reports on the Galveston parking meter
fiasco, nothing happened. When we
talked with city officials about it, we got
token responses like, “Oh that’s a serious problem, we really need to do something.” Nothing was done. A couple of
months ago Hebert Taylor and The Daily
News growled about it. Guess what?
Two months later we had a new city
ordinance that we call the Boot & Tow
Act. Sometime it takes the roar of that
800 pound Gorilla to get something
done. We hope the Gorilla will roar
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game. But that’s what the kids call it.
Even if they survive, people who participate are killing brain cells each time they
do this. The damage done is permanent
and cumulative. In addition, a child choking another child who is injured or dies,
may be indicted and prosecuted for his
part in the death or injury.
Insist that the school districts in your
area provide education about this activity
as a part of the risky behavior curriculum
(drugs and alcohol, etc.) Doing so insures
that all children are warned of the dangers
of this activity. This should start as early
as elementary school as older children
seem to pass this activity to younger ones.
What Else Is This Called?
There are numerous names for it.
Space Monkey, Fainting, Pass Out Game,
Black Out Game, American Dream,
Flatliner or Flatline, Space Cowboy, Knock
Out, Gasp, Rising Sun, Airplaning,
about handicap parking abuse in public
parking lots.
I wonder what that Grand Jury
really thought.
Four year old Kraig Lee Jenkins used
to play out in the parking lot next door
to my home. He was killed three days
before Christmas in the Jamaica Beach
Apartments where he lived with his
scumbag grandmother and her ex-convict boyfriend. One or both of them
were cooking a killer drug in that apartment to peddle to addicts in our neighborhoods. Kraig’s death was a homicide. That means that someone killed
him. Can you guess who that someone
was? The Grand Jury finally, after five
months, indicted them both for Capital
Murder. I will be there for that trial. You
can bet on that.
Hang the Chief! Hang the Chief!
I can hear it already and there is no
doubt in my mind that if Police Chief
Barry Cook of Santa Fe had shot and
killed the burglar that came into his
home and left with his wife’s purse, we
would be hearing cries for his scalp
clear across the county and even further. The burglar was 15-years old.
Chief Cook was at home and so was his
service pistol. The crook may have
been a juvenile but so are most crooks
nowadays. But if the cops kill one of
them, the cop stands a good chance of
going to the pen, even if the crook gets
it in the cops own home.
That’s the way I see it. How about
you? Write me at The Police News, PO
Box 5396, Galveston, Texas 77554 or
E-Mail: [email protected]
Hawaiian High, Fainting Game, California
High, Breath play, Choke Out, Cloud Nine,
Dream or dreaming, Funky Chicken,
Ghost, Hanging, Hyperventilation, Purple
Dragon, Natural High, Something
Dreaming, Suffocation or suffocation
roulette, Teen Choking or Tingling . There
may be others as well.
Is This AeA?
Sometimes but the two are not synonymous. In cases of Auto-erotic Asphyxia,
an element of sexual satisfaction is
involved. Like the choking game, AeA
causes death due to hypoxia or oxygen
deprivation to the brain and, like the choking game, AeA is often confused with suicide by the officials investigating these
deaths.
You may get more information about this
growing threat to children and read actual
case stories on the internet at:
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Galveston Police Officers continue to support their
counterparts in hurricane ravaged New Orleans.
In April four of Galveston’s Finest delivered 2,000 pounds of dog food for K-9’s
which are being used extensively in the
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“We were amazed at the damage, there
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“If you told me that Katrina had struck last
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level of destruction that still remains.
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Accompanying Sgt. Caldwell on the trip
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THE UNSEEN BRAVERY OF THE FEW
he release of many of the 911
tapes from 9/11 finally put the
spotlight on another relatively
unheralded group of American heroes.
Today we think of terror as being somebody else’s problem—in Iraq, at the
Pentagon, in the White House, in a
Humvee, or on a Marine patrol in Fallujah.
Just a few short years ago, we realized it
was our problem when the Towers fell, the
planes crashed, when the passengers
fought back on Flight 93, when the
Pentagon burned, when the interceptors
were scrambled, when Bush left the grade
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police officers died in the hell hole in lower
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calls when Flight 93 went down in
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pieces to a gigantic puzzle begin to fall
into place with a Poirot-like efficiency or
with a helter-skelter kind of wilding madness. The calls can come in on an incident
in a slow volume as a fire grows in intensity, or blast in as 20 or 30 lines light up
instantaneously when a tank farm
explodes—or, in the case of 9/11 in
Manhattan, when all the boards go crazy
and when the whole place lights up like
the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.You
get a special feel for things while sitting in
an enclosed box like a dispatch center.
Like a blind person whose other senses
are magnified due to their loss of sight,
you listen for those tiny nuances that
mean so much and indicate the true gravity of a situation that you can’t see. You
can pick up fear in a fire chiefs voice that
you never heard before. Engine companies
that are usually quite talkative go silent
and can’t be raised for status checks.
Emergency buttons, those beacons for
summoning aid for the uniformed responders, which indicate the user’s number on
the radio screen, begin to go off. The special calls for apparatus and ambulances
begin to stack up so fast they can’t be
processed as quickly as they come in. The
computer aided dispatching begins to run
T
behind because it, too, with its own personality, is having a hard time keeping up
with your inputs. Engines, tower ladders
and rescue companies coming in from all
over town are calling for their staging
areas. All manner of chiefs are transmitting orders, special requests, locations to
stage and for high-rise packs, changes of
frequencies, requests for squad companies, direct messages to rigs and calls for
every available chaplain.
And in the mayhem you build a mental
picture of what s going on and try to wrap
your faculties around the size of the emergency tearing the heart out of your city and
putting all the guys and gals that you’ve
done your absolute level best to protect
and to help in awful danger.They’re your
firefighters and your cops and your folks
from the Port Authority because you’ve
handled their needs and gotten them help
and answered their calls and been there
for them as long as you’ve punched the
clock, the mike buttons and entered the
info on the screens…ever since the day
you started work—when the whole place
looked so big and complicated and everybody looked so busy and distant and you
wondered if you’d ever make the grade
and fit in and earn your bones.Then, in the
middle of the cacophony of calls a sudden
horrible silence cuts across the radio
channels and many of the phone lines go
dead. And terror grips your heart and you
begin to shiver…just like the Shuttle operations team when the Flight Director
shouts, “Lock the doors!” You know the
problem’s real and that it s not going away
and that it’s just got to be terrible in scope.
You stand up and look around and notice
that everybody’s doing the same thing and
they all have the same stricken, punched
in the gut, pale far away look to them. And
the head dispatcher hollers, “C’mon
everybody, let’s get back to work.” But
there are no histrionics, no cave-ins—just
that pause to catch your breath and take a
drink of Coke.But like it said in the articles,
even after the Towers fell, the dispatchers
were asking if the Towers were still up
because they couldn’t believe that they
were down. And many of them are still
looking for the Towers.There must be a
technical glitch somewhere keeping all
those people off the air because the
Towers could not have fallen and killed all
those guys. This cannot be happening
today, not on my shift. What in God’s holy
name could I have done to save more of
those poor people.Then, like the Shuttle
explosion and crash, or any other huge
explosion and death — or like it was during
the 23rd Street fire in 1966 — it s time to
begin picking up the pieces and get things
back on track. Slowly the radios, though
fewer in number with voices in a painful
shock but resolute in purpose, begin to
came back on line. The phones begin to
ring again. Additional calls go out — more
rigs are going in. Regular calls for service
and other fires give you something to concentrate on. Off duty guys are coming into
empty stations and the house watch
offices are calling you with information.
Status boards are being updated. Work
overcomes the empty hole of grief. The
day moves into night. Coffee and sandwiches appear…the all-purpose fire
department remedy. Relief comes in with
more dreadful news. Time moves on.
Shock turns into pain. The scar tissue
appears and begins to solidify, its choking
tentacles spreading though bodies bent
with the fatigue of overwhelming loss.
As a firefighter and as a cop I sat many
hours in similar rooms, handling smaller
emergencies — those little bits of life and
death, those fires, automobile accidents,
lost kids, suicides, violent crimes and
missing people that mark the rapid decline
of our society. I’ve listened to my share of
frantic telephone exchanges, to the slurred
ramblings of those who’ve overdosed,
folks calling to report the dying, and to
those screaming from inside burning buildings. My stomach has churned on those
dreaded officer down, needs help calls.
I’ve responded to the fire, explosion, people trapped, automatic second alarms.
But there is nothing in America which
can compare to what the Manhattan fire
dispatchers endured on that 9/11 day in
their bunker in Central Park. As the “My
Way” article explains, many of the operators have gone, victims of the stress and
the terror which tore them and their world
apart that day, having realized that the
callers they were speaking with and the
firefighters they were dispatching to save
them, died in the collapse, wiped away forever.
Much is said about preparedness. But
nothing can prepare you for 12 hours in
purgatory, where many of the calls you will
take will be a prolonged station on the
cross…for the caller and for you. There is
no preparation, no training for responding
to the agonizing death of thousands and
the sudden disappearance of entire companies of firefighters and squads of cops.
One day as a little kid dreaming about a
future in the fire department, and hearing
a fire siren go by, I told my grandmother,
who was already used to three generations
of firefighters, “It means somebody’s in
trouble.” “No,” she said firmly, “it means
that someone’s getting help.”
May it always be so.
Like the guys who can enter a bar and
never have to buy a drink, I wish that
By John Burtis – Freelance Writer
something more could be done for those
9/11 dispatchers. But, by their nature,
they are usually a quiet bunch, not prone
to hooting and hollering. But they certainly deserve our prayers for their sacrifice,
for their unseen bravery and for their suffering.
John Burtis is a freeland writer living in
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Captain Pat Bittner, 2006 League City Village Fair Chairman, E XTRAORDINAIRE
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Police Captain
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says “whoever
made the mistake of fighting
one Bittner had
to fight all the Captain Pat Bittner
Bittners.” And as
a 27-year veteran of the League City
Police Dept with six years working longterm narcotics and major crime investigations with tasks forces, this is one Bittner
who will win the fight.
But Pat Bittner isn’t a fighter as much
as he’s a husband of 21 years to wife
Sallie, a father of two teenage sons and
holds a Master Peace Officer License.
This year he adds Chairman of the
League City Lions Club 52nd Village Fair
and Texas Music Festival that occurs May
4-7 to his very busy resume.
The League City Lions Club celebrates
its 52nd Village Fair and Texas Music
Festival May 4 through May 7 with headliners the Marshall Tucker Band and
Roger Creager and a host of other great
musicians including Mean Gene Kelton
Lube & Tune
and the Die Hards, Ezra Charles, The
Posse, 4-Barrel Ramblers, The Kyle Hunt
Band, F7 and Mango Punch. And the best
part is that you can enjoy all the live
music for only $5 a day (and just $10
after 5 p.m.).
The fun and events kick-off Thursday
the 4th at the newly renovated Walter Hall
Park in League City. Other great entertainment includes Teen Night, an Apple
Pie Contest, a Business Expo, a 5K
Walk/Run, Mother of the Year Award, a
parade and a BBQ Cook Off. For more
information about this event or to volunteer, please call 281-332-5005 or visit the
Village
Fair
website
at
www.lcvillagefair.com.
Bittner will not be the first peace officer
to be President of the Lions Club, but he’s
the first in 52 years. Not since Constable
Earl Turner was Lions Club President in
1954 has a police officer earned the title.
The police force is reclaiming its stake in
the club as Chris Reed, the League City
Assistant Chief of Police, will take over
next year as the League City festival chairman.
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Bittner to take leadership roles in the
community. Being perceived as not only a
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Bittner. “Citizens are able to interact with
officers and see them as real people and
friends who are approachable. This builds
community trust, a critical cornerstone
for any successful law enforcement
agency. Community-oriented law enforcement agencies enhance their community
partnerships by encouraging their officers
to spend time interacting socially with the
people they serve.”
Bittner doesn’t just do it for the department, though. He says, “I have been
involved in community groups for years
and have enjoyed every minute of my
time spent interacting with the dedicated
community leaders. My choices of community groups have a common thread of
helping children…certainly due to my
strong sense of family.”
In addition to being an eight-year member of the Lions Club, Bittner has also
served as Past President of the North
Galveston County YMCA. He also served
as Past Chairman of the Devereux Texas
Board of Directors—and still serves on the
Board, as well as serving as a member of
the Knights of Columbus.
“Serving as Village Fair Chairman is an
honor and a true test of leadership and
patience,” says Bittner. “This event is the
largest in League City, and the Lions Club
is fortunate to have the continued support
of the community, elected officials and
local sponsors. The event has grown as
the community of League City has grown
and continues to attract people from
around the state. I have been blessed
that Chief Andrew Daniel has allowed me
to conduct Village Fair business while juggling my police department duties.”
Bittner is a graduate of Michigan State
University, the FBI National Academy and
the Law Enforcement Management
Institute. Bittner’s wife Sallie currently
trains medical students at the University
of Texas Medical School in the Houston
Medical Center.
Lions Clubs International is the world’s
largest community service organization
with clubs around the world involved in
projects as local as cleaning up area
parks and as far-reaching as bringing
sight to the world’s blind. Today, with
more than 45,000 clubs in 197 countries
and geographical areas, the Lions have
expanded their focus to help meet the
ever-increasing needs of our global community, but their mission has never
wavered: “We Serve.”
Hometown Thief Busted in HomeTown Bank
A Galveston man and woman were the thief was working in his yard.
arrested April 15th
Among the items
taken was a personwhen
Galveston
Police
Detectives
al check.
32-year old Robert
interrupted
their
scheme to cash a
“Stink” Wiltz and his
stolen check at the
girlfriend 30-year
old Tisha Williams
HomeTown Bank at
4500 Seawall Blvd.
who actually lived a
block down the
According to police,
a man posing as a Detectives Teague and Galvan search Wiltz street from the vicKatrina victim asking and Williams before placing them in a wait- tim,
reportedly
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enticed two other
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the homeowner left on errands while
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Quinston Gamble is featured in the April
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in a Crime Stoppers Alert. Police had
commented that they suspeced Gamble
was being hidden by friends or family
making his capture more difficult. On at
least one previous attempt to arrest him,
he was tipped that police were coming
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On a second tip, Galveston Police
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2100 block of Avenue N. He is charged
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and Indencency with a Child. He is held
in lieu of at least $160,000 in bonds.
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federal government just unplugs everything,” he added. “It’s difficult to make up
the shortfall. But we’re making the best of
it. Other cities are faced with the same
thing, budget restraints every year. It gets
harder and harder.
Federal funding earmarked for Homeland
Security is funneled into Emergency
Management. The city of Dickinson receives
about $21,000 per year.
“We’ve been getting that for emergency
management,” Morales said. “It’s kind of a
joke, they have us pick from a list — they
have boats, airplanes, helicopters, depending on the population of the city.”
“They figured out three years ago that
they’d give Dickinson $65,000,” the chief
added. “We have this emergency management mobile-command post out back. We
got some air packs so I guess when AlQaeda strikes Dickinson Intercontinental
Airport, we’ll have air packs, like the firemen use for fires.”
Because of population and other criteria
Dickinson is very limited on the federal
funding it does receive. Morales takes that
opportunity to provide equipment for the
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Another factor high on the chief’s list of council. The mayor was in the first class
priorities is communication with the back in the 90s.
Dickinson City Council.
“I don’t think she had any intention of
“They’re all different,” he said, referring to being a mayor,” said Morales. “A mayor or
council members
council member
and the mayor.
can drive down a
“We formed a
street and tell if it’s
Citizens Police
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Academy in 1998
see it needs to be
and so far about
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300 people have
see if the drainage
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is bad after it rains
We try to get as
but they can’t drive
many residents as
down a street and
we can through
see all the crime
the academy. The
that’s going on.
academy doesn’t
And know what it
teach them to be
takes manpowerpolice officers, but
wise.”
basically teaches
“A lot of these
them what the
people don’t get
police department
out at 12 or 1 in
is about, the
the morning when
equipment
we
this stuff is hapuse, and why we
pening – they
use it — why we do
don’t witness the
Dickinson Police Chief Ron Morales
what we do.”
burglaries, they
“Right now all of the city council has gone don’t witness the rape, the murders, the
through the program,” Morales added. vandalism and the things of that nature,”
“They went through the program before Morales added. “So, they really don’t
being on the city council and decided they know.”
wanted to get more involved.”
The chief thinks that it is the police
In fact CPA participants do get more
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“We have a campground in Dickinson
right off of (Interstate) 45 it’s crazy the
whole campground is in Dickinson but the
cash register where the money comes in is
in Texas City,” he added. “That’s the problems and the issues.”
“Our community is growing in leaps and
bounds, which is a good thing,” Morales
said. “The downside of that is that
Dickinson has to still maintain law and
order, still maintain our streets and
drainage and all these other things that
those citizens who live outside our city limits use.”
With federal dollars and grants all but
gone, which is another obstacle the chief
faces, he said everything goes toward
Homeland Security.
“We don’t get grants like we use to that
help us with manpower,” Morales said. “It’s
all going to Homeland Security but let’s face
it Al-Qaeda is not going to come to
Dickinson and try to wipe out hundreds of
thousands of people. I’m sorry they’re going
to the big cities and the big plants and those
kinds of places.”
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Tagged as the Direct Action Response
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will be assigned to concentrate on specific
tasks which normally cannot be policed
due to shortage of police officers.
Basically, patrol officers days off schedules are rearranged so that on specific
days, which statistics indicate are problem
days, all officers are on duty. These officers are given a special detail assignment
on that day. An officer is selected as a
Team Leader and his team will concentrate on a specific problem assignment
such as prostitution, aggressive solicitation, handicap parking violators and other
problems that have been observed by officers or reported by citizens.
Officers assigned to the DART will not be
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falling, is the actual number of dead bodies that law enforcement has discovered.
In the year 2003, we found 16,528 murder victims. In 2004, we found 16,137
bodies. This is in fact a small reduction
(391 victims) in the number of reported
homicides. So, on paper, the homicide
rate is dropping. But there are reasons
why the belief in a declining murder rate
may be unfounded.
There are at least two important factors
that many people seem not to want to consider. First, the FBI, in its annual Uniform
Crime Report, does not have a category
called the “almost dead, or should have
been dead rate.” What they do keep count
of is the aggravated assault rates. This is
the number of incidents where one person
seriously hurts another. A murder is an
aggravated assault taken to the maximum
possible extreme. But what is the aggravated assault rate? The 2004 rate of
aggravated assaults did decline by 4,119
victims to 859,030 in 2004. It is not a
wild guess to state that many of the aggravated assaults were, in fact, attempts to
murder someone. If you shoot someone
three or four times it is expected that you
wanted this person to die.
Secondly, that the victim did not die is
due to a very important reason–todays
medical technology. If we had only the
medical technology that we had in the
1960’s, the murder rate may well be over
65,000 victims a year. This is called the
medically adjusted murder rate. Many
three times, and then rushed to a medical
facility where our current medical technology is able to save the life, this will be considered as an aggravated assault.
Secondly, let us not forget the well over
700,000 people who are reported missing
each year. Where did these people go?
Can all of them be running from child support payments or from creditors? Is it not
unreasonable to believe that a number of
these missing people will never be found
alive?
The following are some statistical facts
about murder that might help us to avoid
becoming a victim.
• Most of us will know who kills us.
(Don’t have any friends)
• Most murders are a result of an argument. (Understand that everyone else is
right)
• When males are killed at home, it will
be in the kitchen. (Go out for meals)
• When females are killed at home, it
will be in the bedroom. (Ladies, sleep on
the couch)
• The most dangerous place to be is in
your own home from 6 p.m. Saturday to 6
p.m. Sunday. (Take a trip somewhere)
• Most homicides are committed with a
handgun. (Don’t keep a handgun at home)
So, if you must stay home all weekend,
don’t own a handgun, eat out, don’t fight
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department’s place to educate the pubic as
well as the city council. After graduating
from the Citizens Police Academy participants ride with the police officers “and it
gives them a whole new perspective.” Now
when Morales approaches the city council
and says he needs something, “they understand why I need it because they’ve been
out there with the officers, some of them
get a lot more involved and stay involved.”
By keeping residents and city officials
involved, the momentum keeps the police
department going. The sheriff’s department
started a Citizens Police Academy as did
Texas City and other area agencies.
Mayor Masters and the students in the
first CPA class were a little nervous as were
the officers who were teaching them, “but
they brought a lot of humor.”
Sheriff Leonard said the Dickinson Police
Department is also a participant in a powerful and efficient technology endeavor with
the county in the communications/records
management arena, “recently having made
the decision to ‘piggyback’ the GSO system.”
“Again, this benefits the taxpayer while
also enhancing the abilities of both agencies
to analyze criminal information and use it in
a more proactive manner,” said Leonard.
The Dickinson City Council approved purchasing the new Computer Aided Dispatch
(CAD) and Records Management System
(RMS) software for the Police Department
to replace the current outdated systems.
The public safety software was purchased
from SunGard HTE’s Open Software
Solutions (OSSI) division in the amount of
$178,738. Also approved in the purchase
are seven laptop computers and associated
hardware priced at $32,734 to be purchased from Affordable Computer Systems.
A project contingency of $10,600 (5%) was
added bringing the grand project total to
$222,072.
Dickinson Police Department will operate
under a “jurisdictional” software license
agreement with the Galveston County
Sheriff’s Department. Police officials made
every effort to take advantage of cost-savings measures as they became available
during the search for this software. Two factors came in to play that contributed to the
decision to recommend purchasing this
software. The first was licensing fees and
second was connectivity. Partnering with
the Sheriff’s office provided a substantially
lower price on the software. Partnering with
the Galveston County Emergency
Communications District to connect to the
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half the cost. The existing 911 fiber circuit
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(computer brand reporting system),” Morales
said. “This council that we have has really
been supportive of our department.”
Morales projected that in five to ten years
all agencies in Galveston County will be on
the same system and be able to talk to each
other, sharing information.
“If you get pulled over in Galveston and
they find a small amount of drugs and I pull
you over in Dickinson a week later, I’ll have
that information,” he added. “They’ve been
very supportive of us.”
The Dickinson Police Department operates
under a $2.5 million annual budget, “and we
need every penny of it,” the chief said.
“I’m hoping not to raise the budget this
year,” he added, saying he wants to keep it
that way.
About five or six years ago, an auditor
reviewed upper management at the police
department and gave the department high
ratings. At that time, the auditor recommended eight more officers. The auditor
recommendations also slammed home the
need for the new department headquarters.
Chief Morales was a resources manager
and health, safety and environmental
administrator with GTE from 1993 through
1995 before he came to the Dickinson
Police Department. He served as mayor of
Dickinson from 1989 through 1991 and was
a council member from 1987-1988. He
began his police work in Sulphur, La.
continued from page 12 (Bust)
the Williams filled out for $330 and
forged the signature of the victim.
An attempt to cash the check was
made at the drive-in window but an
alert teller notified police and convinced the man to come into the
lobby to complete the transaction.
Wiltz and Williams waited in the car
while the two other men when inside
to get the money.
As the police dispatcher broadcast
the call, Detectives Tim Galvan and
Crystal Teague, who were nearby,
responded and arrived at the bank
while the four suspects where still
there.
All four were taken into custody but
according to Galvan, the two who
were duped into cashing the check
were released.
Wiltz has a nine page conviction
record consisting of a variety of
offenses. Williams has been convicted of misdemeanor criminal mischief
for which she severed 15 days in the
Galveston County Jail and paid a fine.
Wiltz has been charged with Felony
Theft (enhanced because of his prior
criminal record) and bond is set at
$250,000. Williams is being held in
lieu of $10,000 charged with Felony
Theft.
FLAGS TO BE FLOWN AT HALF-STAFF ON
MAY 15, PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY
he National Law Enforcement
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reminds police and other government
agencies, businesses, and private citizens
that all United States flags are to be flown
at half-staff on Monday, May 15, “Peace
Officers Memorial Day.”
In 1994, the U.S. Congress and
President Bill Clinton approved Public Law
103-322 authorizing the U.S. flag to be
lowered to half-staff on May 15 as a special tribute honoring the thousands of
American law enforcement officers killed
in the line of duty. The law was spearheaded by U.S. Rep. John Porter (R—IL) at the
request of the NLEOMF.
This poignant and very rare tribute was
part of the crime bill enacted into law that
same year. The only other regularly scheduled time for flags to be lowered to half-staff
occurs on Memorial Day, when we remember those killed in our armed services.
“Every 53 hours a law enforcement officer is killed in the line of duty. Since the
first recorded law enforcement officer
death in 1792, more than 17,000 law
enforcement officers have made the ultimate sacrifice,” said Craig W. Floyd,
NLEOMF Chairman. “Lowering the flags
on Peace Officers Memorial Day is an
appropriate way to show our respect for
those officers who made the ultimate sacrifice and to remember the family, friends,
and colleagues left behind.” The names
of the 155 law enforcement officers killed
in 2006, as well as 311 others killed in
prior years, will be formally dedicated at
the 2006 National Candlelight Vigil on the
evening of Saturday, May 13 at 8:00 pm at
the National Law Enforcement Officers
Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Flag at half-staff, National Law Enforcement
Officers Memorial, Washington, DC
NATIONAL POLICE WEEK
May 14-20, 2006
National Police Week was established by
executive order of President John F.
Kennedy in 1962 as a national day of
mourning for police officers who have
given their lives in the performance of
their duties.
This month, in Galveston County, we
honor the following Peace Officers from
throughout the county who have made the
supreme sacrifice serving and protecting
the citizens and property of Galveston
County.
Deputy Constable, Precinct 2
Element Mitchell Ivanovich
Struck by an automobile April 2, 1927
Texas State Trooper
Bobby Lee Maynard
Killed in a car wreck in League City
November 30, 1964
Texas State Trooper
Edward Zator
Shot during a traffic stop in La Marque
October 6, 1969
Texas City Police Officer
O.E. Evans
Shot during an armed robbery
February 13, 1928
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Texas City Police Officer
W.C. Simmons
Shot while disarming a suspect
July 13, 1974
Deputy Sheriff
Earle Goode, Sr.
Shot during a jail escape
June 12, 1938
Deputy Sheriff
Robert E. Kirk
Killed in a car crash
December 27, 1931
Deputy Sheriff
Joseph A. Meyer
Shot during a jail escape
January 2, 1931
Deputy Sheriff
Patrick Kelly
Killed during prison escape
July 20, 1891
Galveston Police Officer
Robert Louis John
Killed at railroad crossing
August 16, 1990
Gregory Urquiaga, Jr.
Friendly fire during drug raid
December 11, 1976
A.B. McGaffey, III
Shot by man barricaded in house
June 11, 1954
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George Froeschl
Drowned during rescue attempt
April 8, 1952
James G. Reegan
Killed during vehicle pursuit
June 29, 1927
John Reifel
Shot questioning suspect
June 5, 1948
John B. Lawson
Murdered by another officer
June 3, 1919
Bennie Frank Elrod
Shot by prisoner in city jail
March 11, 1948
Frederick L. Richards
Killed during hurricane
September 8, 1900
Arthur J. Vandegaer
Accidentally shot himself
January 11, 1948
Eugene Tovrea
September 8, 1900
Frank Marchesi
Shot by barricaded fugitive
July 21, 1942
Adolph Howe
September 8, 1900
Albert Fredrickson
Killed in motorcycle crash
June 2, 1933
Charles Wolfe
September 8, 1900
Tell Hawkins
Shot during armed robbery
January 2, 1930
John Ferguson
Stabbed by a mental patient
April 6, 1873
John J. Burke
Shot during bar raid
June 1, 1928
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an 8-year, probationary sentence and
required to register as a sex offender in
the city where he lives. He was living in
nearby Webster but soon moved to League
City where he took up residence with his
girl friend and her two children. But,
instead of registering with the local League
City authorities, Slawson went south, over
the causeway, and registered with the
Galveston PD, giving them the phony
address.
His probation remained in Harris County
where he continued to report to his probation officer. Probation jurisdiction was
never transferred to Galveston County so
that he could be supervised here.
According to the local probation office,
this is frequently done when the two counties adjoin as does Harris and Galveston.
There was no doubt in our minds that
Darren Lee Slawon had perpetuated a big
fraud on the sex offender registration system. The address on First Street, we later
learned, is owned by his girlfriend’s father.
It is located on the far west end of
Galveston Island where he figured Boyd
Swindale would never go to check on him
and neither would his probation officer in
Houston. Usually probation officers and
local police work together in the supervision of sex offenders, but there is evidence
that even this didn’t happen in Slawson’s
case. Actually, from 2001 until Galveston
Crime Stoppers received tips on him last
year, no authority knew where he was liv- by certifying that he had never been coning, or what he was doing, at least we have victed of a felony and was not on probation
seen no evidence of it.
or parole. When he signed the document
The Police News knew of an investigative he was on probation in Harris County. And
reporter with KPRC-TV in Houston who was according to reporter Dean he told the
preparing a special, investigative report on same lies to the Multiple Listing Service
the very subject of sex offenders evading or which enabled him to get pass keys to
manipulating the law. We called reporter homes that are for sale anywhere.
Stephen Dean who promptly came to
Galveston Crime Stoppers had already
Galveston and took up the case with us. enlisted the help of the League City Police
Together with Dean we revisited the First Street address
and made photographs of
the empty house with high
weeds and shuttered windows. Ironically, Slawson
had a photo of this very
house on his real estate
website listed for weekend
or summer rentals. He also
had his photo on the website
which we thought was very
brazen for a sex offender.
However, it was an old photo Raid leader Sgt. Dan Krieger responds to questions from the
(Police News photo)
and looked nothing like the media following the raid.
Slawson in the mug shot that accompanies and got them involved in the case.
this story. And, he had dropped his last Detective Marty Grant oversees the sex
name and was going only as Darren Lee.
offenders in that city and deals with all sex
With Stephen Dean and Channel 2 now crimes and crimes against children. “The
involved, the vast resources of Post- problem I had was that none of the neighNewsweek came to bare. Dean was able to bors would cooperate with me,” Grant told
obtain from the Texas Real Estate The Police News. “They refused to give
Commission a copy of Slawson’s applica- evidence, they refused to testify, they
tion for his realty license. There it was wouldn’t give a statement, none of them
learned that he had lied on his application would cooperate. They just didn’t want to
get involved. They were afraid of him, he
was a sex offender,” said Grant. So Grant
and a squad of League City Detectives had
to go about gathering evidence that
Slawson was, in fact, qualified as a fulltime
resident of the address on Sugarwood.
They set up surveillance on his house.
They watched him come and go, they
watched his every move until they felt that
they could openly confront him and his
girlfriend.
“We talked to the girlfriend,” Grant told
us. “She is pretty much dependant on him
because she is legally blind. We talked
with her about his residence requirements
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that they saw him on a regular basis.”
Grant and another detective went to see
Slawson face-to-face. “He had a boat in the
driveway. I said to him, ‘if you’re not living
here what the hell is that boat doing parked
there?’ He said he was just keeping it there
so he wouldn’t have to pay storage.”
Then Slawson concocted a scheme to get
himself off the sex offender registration all
together. He would move out of Texas. Or
at least he would make authorities believe
that he had moved. Police think that
Slawson searched the internet for states
which did not require sex offenders to register until a final conviction had been
entered on their record. In Slawsons case,
his sentence had been deferred, meaning
that a final conviction would not be entered
until he completed the 8-years of probation. At that time, the final conviction
could be completely erased from his record
if he had no further problems with the
police. His arrest would remain on the
record, but his conviction would not show
up. In Texas he would still be required to
register as a sex offender because his
offense included physical contact with his
victim. However, in some states he would
not be required to register.
Slawson discovered that he could claim
a residence in Illinois and not be required
to register. He came up with an address
in Carbondale, Illinois and headed for the
office of Boyd Swindale at the Galveston
Police Department. He told Swindale that
he was moving to Carbondale, Illinois and
filled out the necessary forms to have himself transferred to Illinois and removed
from the GPD files and from the sex
offender data base at the Texas
Department of Public Safety. Swindale
told him the papers would be faxed to the
police department in Carbondale and that
he must go there to sign the form and
have his fingerprint on it.
Once
Carbondale faxed the form back to
Swindale with his signature and print, he
would be dropped as a sex offender in
Texas.
The Carbondale Police did not really
care if Slawson moved to their city. They
did not require him to register, but as a
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continued from previous page (Sex Offender) and leave the area before launching the
service to the Galveston Police raid. Shortly before 7 a.m. as daylight was
Department, they would receive him, get beginning to break, a dozen or more
his signature and fingerprints on the form, League City Police Officers, garbed in raid
and fax it back to Swindale. Slawson had jackets, stormed the front door of the
it planned pretty slick, he thought. He home. Officers had already entered the
made the trip to Carbondale, went to the backyard from the next street over and
police station, signed the form, gave them were in place should Slawson try to flee
his prints, and returned home to League out the back door.
Kreiger’s knock on the front door was
City, Texas. He had pulled it off, but only in
his mind. “He realized he had a problem answered by the girlfriend and the officers
in League City when we started getting on stormed in. Slawson, in the bathroom
him,” said Grant. “That’s when he started shaving, heard the officers coming in and
concocting this Carbondale scam to throw slammed the bathroom door. It was
promptly kicked open by one of the raiding
everybody off his scent, which he did.”
A briefing with League City police offi- officers and Slawson was arrested without
cers, the television reporters, and The resistance. His big deception was over. He
Police News was held in early April by Sgt. had sold his last piece of real estate and he
Dan Kreiger, Supervisor of the Criminal had sold his last bill of goods to the police.
As he was escorted from the home to a
Investigation Division. A plan was made
for a raid on Slawson’s home
the following Wednesday. An
arrest and search warrant
had been issued by Judge
David Garner of the 10th
State District Court in
Galveston, authorizing police
to search the home and seize
computers, papers, pictures,
photographs, videos, DVD’s
or anything that would prove
his residence in League City.
Information on the computers would show that he was League City Police canvass the neighborhood questioning
(Police News photo)
conducting business from neighbors about Slawson.
there and not in Carbondale, Illinois. The waiting squad car, reporter Dean and his
police had already gathered flyers that he camera man fired questions to him. “Why
had mailed out claiming that he represent- did you register in Galveston when you
actually lived in League City?” Dean
ed Clear Lake Realtors.
The following Wednesday morning the asked. “Because I didn’t want to register
raiding party gathered in a park near the in the city where I live,” replied Slawson.
Sugarwood address. Kreiger and Grant “How do you think people would feel if
waited for the two children in the home, they knew a convicted sex offender had a
ages 16 and 18, to board the school bus key to their home?” asked Dean. “I’m the
last person anyone should worry about,”
was Slawson’s answer.
Slawson was arrested that morning. He
posted a $50,000 bond and went back
home on Sugarwood in League City. He
had fooled the system for five years. It
took a lot of police, a lot of man hours, and
a lot of taxpayer money to expose his fraud
and bring him back to justice.
“I don’t know what he’s going to get,”
(sentence) said Grant, “but he put a lot of
effort into throwing the police off his
tracks. He succeeded for a while, but it’s
like everything else, we’re going to catch
up with you in the end.” The Texas Penal
Code provides for a sentence of 2-10 years
imprisonment and a $10,000 if convicted
of a third degree felony. Until now,
Slawson had only been on probation.
During all the months after Slawson’s
scheme was discovered, throughout the
entire investigation one thing went unnoticed and unmentioned. What if The
Police News had not featured Slawson on
it’s sex offender page in the first place?
We believe that he would still be doing
what he was doing and no one would know
the difference. It makes us wonder how
many of these creeps are living in your
neighborhoods but are registered somewhere else? How many of them are living
in your neighborhoods and are not registered at all? And in the case of Galveston,
how can one man, working two days a
week, be expected to ride herd on an ever
increasing population of sex criminals,
some of whom are doing everything they
can to beat the system? Think about that!
But don’t blame it on a police department
that is undermanned, under funded and
whose officers are leaving in droves for
higher paying jobs elsewhere. Think about
that too.
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Sean Derrick O’Brien
Born: April 5, 1975
Harris County, Texas
Occupation: Laborer
O’Brien was convicted in the kidnapping,
sexual assault and strangulation death of
16-year old Elizabeth Pena and 15-year old
Jennifer Ertman.
The two teens had taken a shortcut
home through T.J. Jester Park in northwest Houston when they were attacked by
O’Brien and five other members of the
Black & White Gang.
Raped repeatedly by the gang members,
each was then beaten and strangled and
their bodies left in the woods.
O’Brien confessed to strangling Ertman
with a belt after she was sexually assaulted.
Co-defendants Peter Cantu, Raul
Villareal, Efrain Perez and Joe Medellin
were all tried and convicted and sentenced to death for the murders.
A juvenile was also prosecuted in the
case.
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Sentenced to 30-months in Florida for giving false statements to the INS and use of
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During the night of December 17, 1998
Resendiz murdered 26-year old Houston
school teacher Noemi Dominguez by clubbing her to death in her apartment. A
week later State Troopers found the victims car abandoned at the International
Bridge in Del Rio.
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“The Railroad Killer” literally followed
America’s railroad tracks to slay unsuspecting victims before disappearing. His
modus operandi was always the same—he
struck near the rail lines, then stowed
away on the next freight train to come his
way. Always ahead of the law.The 39-year
old killer was apprehended in July, 1999
after eluding state police for two years and
slipping through a two-month FBI net until,
after nine murders, he was finally traced
and captured by a determined Texas
Ranger.
Jesus Ledesma Aguilar
Born: November 28, 1963
Cameron, Texas
Education Level: Eleven Years
Occupation: Brick Layer
Convicted of murder in the June 1995
shooting deaths of Leonardo Chavez and
his wife Annette Esparza Chavez at a trail-
er home in the Palm vista Estates of
Harlingen. Both victims were shot execution style with a .22 caliber weapon.Police
said that Leonardo was pistol whipped
prior to being shot in the back of the head.
Annette was shot through the neck.
During the shooting, the couple’s 22month old son slept on a bed while their 9year old son hid beneath a kitchen table.
Neither was harmed.Investigators said the
shooting was drug related, with reports of
Annette making frequent trips to
Mississippi and returning with large
amounts of cash.
Aquilar’s co-defendant, Christopher
Quiroz was also convicted in Cameron
County and is presently serving a life sentence for murder.
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The City of Galveston has been selected as
the site for the 57th annual conference of the
Texas Municipal Police Association July 2427. The TMPA was formed in 1950 by Peace
Officers representing all ranks and agency
sizes. It began as a lobbying group of municipal officers with the objective of promoting
professionalism in Texas law enforcement as
well as improving job conditions and enhancing communications among Texas peace officers. Today, TMPA represents over 12,000
peace officers and public safety professionals, many throughout Galveston County.
This year’s conference will be held at the
Historical Hotel Galvez. Events include food
and entertainment out on the Pier, several
general business sessions, and an awards
banquet. A Casino Night Fundraiser will follow the banquet with proceeds going to
TMPA Charities Inc., which contributes to
college scholarships and organizations such
as The Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Sponsorships for the conference are available to individuals and businesses wishing to
support the TMPA. There are four levels
available.
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receives a room for all three nights of the
conference. Your company will receive 4 tickets to the formal Awards Banquet and the
luncheons.
Gold Sponsor - $1500 - Your company’s
name/logo listed as a corporate co-sponsor
of the event. You will also receive 2 tickets to
the formal Awards Banquet.
Silver Sponsor - $1000 - Your company’s
name/logo listed as a corporate co-sponsor
of the event, plus you get 2 tickets to the formal Awards Banquet and the Wednesday
luncheon.
Bronze Sponsor - $500 - Your company’s
name/logo listed as a co-sponsor of the
event and 1 ticket to the Awards Banquet.
Vendor tables are also available for $250
each and sponsorships of Casino Tables for
$150.
The event is being hosted by the Galveston
Municipal Police Association.
Individuals or businesses interested in further information may contact Linda Langan
in the TMPA officers in Austin. Call toll-free
1-800-848-2088.
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programs. Some of you may even have
had a person say this comment to you
while engaged in a conversation or discussion concerning “the rule of law.”
In an ordered society it becomes necessary for people to establish rules, policies and laws. These will govern the way
in which persons of any given society or
community will conduct themselves in
order to become a part of or remain in
that group. In other words, a society or
group decides what behavior is acceptable and what actions are not tolerated.
I am now in my thirtieth year of active
law enforcement, and with only the second agency of my career. During these
many years I have arrested persons who
violated the law. I have seen persons
who were placed into police custody for
violations of penal code statutes and
municipal ordinances. I have also directed that officers and deputies under my
command arrest subjects in the performance of their duties.
The arrest of any person is a very serious matter, regardless of the level of the
offense. I have always kept foremost in
my mind that the major purpose of law
enforcement is to maintain civil order
and/or to restore the peace and tranquility of an ordered society. If law enforcement fails in this very important duty,
then the result is anarchy and chaos,
and this is totally unacceptable, especially for the law-abiding citizens.
Imagine, if you can, what would happen in your city or your neighborhood if
there were no police officers. Would you
continue to live there? Would you take
on the responsibility of policing your
community? Could you summon the
courage to stand up for decency and the
rule of law? There are some in our society who are very selfish and ruthless and
they would challenge you. They would
have no qualms about “taking you out!”
These are the same people who have little or no conscience about doing what is
right. They want what they want when
they want it. They have chosen not to
earn whatever they want, but to take it
from whoever has it—by force if necessary.
The rule of law dictates that certain
customs and practices are acceptable or
legal. Those practices or patterns of
conduct that are not acceptable are then
classified or codified as illegal. Hence, if
certain behaviors are illegal, then there
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are specific penalties that attach to the
misconduct or illegal behavior. When a
nation of laws passes laws or statutes,
then its citizens are held accountable for
following the laws or the rule of law.
We should also consider what the basis
is for any law. If we understand the fundamentals of acceptable social interactions and how we are to engage in relationships that are harmonious and productive (getting along), then everyone
will benefit. Most of us want to be treated in a respectful manner and to know
that we are valued as a person. The
Golden Rule comes to mind and it has
worked very well for me over my lifetime
which is now nearing six decades.
I often read in the Book of Proverbs
that, “To do what is right and just is
more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.” What is the significance of this
passage of Holy Scripture? I understand
that with these powerful words God
regards our proper conduct with others
as a very important—perhaps the most
important guiding principle as we live
our lives, interacting with one another.
Most of us know that God gave the Ten
Commandments (a code for good conduct and proper behavior) in order for
people to live in harmony with each other
and in covenant with God.
There’s no doubt in my mind that the
law is based on good moral conduct. So
it follows that good moral conduct is an
integral part of the law in a very distinct
and powerful way.
Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary
defines moral as, “Of or pertaining to the
principles of right and wrong; in accordance with standards of right conduct;
virtuous.” Does it make sense to you
that when we say that America is a
nation of laws, what we are really saying
is that we are a nation of morals? Did
you get that? It took me a while to sort
through this. Thinking minds will read
this again and come to the obvious conclusion.
Remember that some laws that are
enacted, are bad laws. If they are bad,
it’s because the law makers (legislators)
are not staying within the moral guidelines that were the foundation for a country unlike any other in our world. Let us
make a commitment to the right values
and good morals, and also hold our
elected representatives accountable to
the rule of law based on good morals.
Pray my brothers and sisters that God
may again bless and preserve America!
(Editors note: Jes Garza is a retired
Houston Police Officer and is currently a
Captain with the Harris County
Constable’s Office, Precinct One. He is
a frequent contributor to our pages.)
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CRIME STOPPERS ALERT
WANTED FUGITIVE
Bryan Cole Spillers
Manufacturing/Delivery of Drugs
Dickinson Police report that this fugitive was involved in a drug transaction
with an undercover police officer. He is
aware that there is a warrant for his
arrest and that police are actively
searching for him. Spillers is attempting to avoid arrest by hiding out and
may be using fictitious names and/or
altered appearance. He was last seen
driving a brown Jeep Liberty.
Spillers is a 35 year old white man,
5’-10” tall, weighing 200 pounds. He is
described has having a ruddy complexion with brown hair and blue eyes and
has been known to wear a mustache
and goatee. Both arms are sleeved in
tattoo’s with additional tattoo’s on his
abdomen, back and neck and a scar on
his face.
Spillers has also used the name
Bryan Miller. His record lists numerous
arrests on drug charges, theft,
assaults, trespassing, malicious mischief and he has served time in the
Bryan Cole Spillers
Texas prison system. He is currently on
parole until May 2009.
Persons with information that may
help locate and arrest Bryan Cole
Spillers are asked to contact the
Dickinson, Texas Police Department,
Detective Michael Henson (281) 3376346 or:
Crime Stoppers of Southeast Texas
281-480-TIPS (8477)
409-948-TIPS (8477)
1-800-222-TIPS (8477)
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