Corpus Christi Crime

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• Corpus Christi faces obstacles with collecting nearl...

  6 hrs ago | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Corpus Christi parking control officers with the Police Department have used an automated system since January, the month parking citations became a civil violation.

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  Related Topix: Corpus Christi, TX, Collecting, Life, Hobbies, Criminal Defense Law, Law

• Corpus Christi police: Man arrested Thursday in conn...

  7 hrs ago | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  He was wanted in the Nov. 9 attack of a 30-year-old woman who had finished a late-night shift at a restaurant when she was grabbed from behind by a man with a switchblade who attacked her and stole her car, police said.

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• Corpus Christi police: Prostitution sting nabs 11 women

  7 hrs ago | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Officers with the Police Department's narcotics/vice division focused between 6:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Agnes and 19th streets; South Alameda and Hancock streets; and the 1200 through 5800 blocks of Leopard Street.

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• Corpus Christi police: Man exposes himself Tuesday t...

  8 hrs ago | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Officers were called about 5:40 p.m. to the 7900 block of Mitra Parkway, near Bill Witt Park, after the girl ran home on her way back from an elementary school.

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• Teen arrested after Corpus Christi police call stole...

  12 hrs ago | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Officers were called about 12:15 p.m. to the 2800 block of Blevins Street after an 18-year-old college student said she was robbed by a man with a gun.

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• Corpus Christi police arrest 2, seek 3rd in hair sal...

  15 hrs ago | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Witnesses talking with officers who were called to Irma's Hair Salon in the 5200 block of Weber Road said they saw two men enter the business while a third man stood outside.

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• 2 children killed, 3 injured in Pettus crash

  18 hrs ago | via The Countywide 

  Two Kenedy children were killed and three people injured in an accident involving two pickup trucks on US Highway 181 near Pettus Thursday afternoon, May 24.

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• Corpus Christi police arrest 26 during party in vaca...

  Wednesday | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Officers were dispatched to the 3000 block of Santa Ana Street at 1 a.m. for adisturbance.

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• Corpus Christi police: Woman injured by suspected dr...

  Wednesday | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Officers were called to the corner of Saratoga Blvd. and Everhart Road at 9:39 p.m. Police determined the 55-year-old driver of a blue Dodge Ram pickup left a nightclub and was traveling eastbound on Saratoga when he failed to stop for a red light and hit the tan Chevrolet Tahoe driven by the woman.

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• Houston No. 2 city on transportation surveillance list

  Wednesday | via Business Journal 

  Houston ranks No. 2 on the magazine's list of "America's Surveillance Cities," after top-ranked Washington, D.C. The other Texas cities to make the top 20 are No.

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• Farenthold makes an impressive statement

  Wednesday | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  The Caller-Times Editorial Board is president/publisher Darrell Coleman , vice president/editor Shane Fitzgerald , viewpoints/opinion page editor Tom Whitehurst , community board member Adriana Garza and editorial page editor emeritus Nick Jimenez.

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• Corpus Christi police: Tools valued at $13,500 stole...

  Tuesday May 29 | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Construction crews arrived Tuesday morning to find someone had forced their way into Zachary Kolda Elementary School, which is being built at 3730 Rodd Field Road, police said.

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• Man sentenced to prison Tuesday for threatening offi...

  Tuesday May 29 | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Richard Soto was arrested in July after violating a three-year supervised release component from a 2002 conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to a news release.

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• Corpus Christi police: Man attacked, robbed Tuesday ...

  Tuesday May 29 | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Officers were called about 1:30 a.m. to the complex in the 11200 block of Interstate 37 located near Violet Road, police said.

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• Corpus Christi police: Bicyclist struck by car Tuesd...

  Tuesday May 29 | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Officers were called about 6:45 a.m. to the intersection of 17th and Marguerite streets to find the man had been hit by a white Nissan sedan, police said.

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• Corpus Christi woman facing murder charges asked a j...

  Tuesday May 29 | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  Chasity Longbine, 25, is accused of fatally shooting of Jesus Quintanilla III May 13 in her apartment complex in the 800 block of Hancock Avenue.

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• Recent editorials from Texas newspapers

  Tuesday May 29 | via El Paso Times 

  We have noted before, as have other observers, that the death penalty in Texas is all too often plagued by errors and failings, and defendants, whether guilty or innocent, have most likely been executed on the strength of faulty evidence.

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• Woman arrested for intoxication manslaughter in death of Corpus Christi jogger

  Tuesday May 29 | via Corpus Christi Caller-Times 

  She is accused of driving her vehicle while she was intoxicated, according to her May 7 indictment, and striking Johnny Joe Ramos, 28. 1 comment

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• Bullying and suicide: Misinformation and hyperbole l...

  Tuesday May 29 | via Christian Science Monitor 

  A teen's fake Facebook page about a child who committed suicide as a victim of bullying raises the need for digital literacy to separate fact from fiction.

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• Mary Ann Perez Captured in New Mexico

  Jun 21, 2011 | via KRISTV.COM Corpus Christi 

  There's no word yet on the circumstances leading up to la Click to Read More and see additional updates CORPUS CHRISTI - Authorities in New Mexico have arrested a Corpus Christi mother wanted on charges of theft and child endangerment.

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