Federal Detention Center, Houston News

A helpful reader points to a December 2007 article from the San Jacinto County Times about the case of Richard Lynn Winfrey, Sr., which was accepted this week by the Court of Criminal Appeals for purposes of evaluating scent lineup evidence.

Joel Lopez Sr., 51, of Roma, Texas, has been sentenced to life in federal prison for a murder-for-hire plot to kill U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa - who had sentenced him to life imprisonment on drug trafficking convictions - and for conspiring with his wife to kidnap a Roma woman who purportedly owed him thousands of dollars for drugs, ...

R. Allen Stanford heads into the federal courthouse downtown on Wednesday morning.

R. Allen Stanford's court-appointed receiver persuaded a U.S. judge on Monday to block the Texas financier's bid to access insurance funds to pay his lawyers at a hearing in a London court.

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, awaiting trial on charges he ran a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, will be moved from the lockup where he got into a jail fight that resulted in him being hospitalized for a concussion.

R. Allen Stanford, the disgraced financier charged with masterminding an $8 billion Ponzi scheme, announced Friday in a statement that he will be changing attorneys.

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford wants to be moved from a private prison because he's been without air conditioning and shares a cell with up to 10 other inmates.

I recognize that he is not the most popular fellow in Houston investment circles these days, but is anyone else but me a tad uncomfotable that the federal government is running roughshod over R. Allen Stanford? As everyone following the Stanford Financial Group scan dal knows by now, at the request of the Department of Justice, U.S. District Judge ...