Amazon is facing off with law enforcement over their hot new holiday product, the Amazon Echo. If you aren’t familiar with the new device, it has a series of microphones that respond to your voice commands. You can order products from Amazon, listen to your favorite songs, and dictate your…
Citizens of Montgomery and Harris counties can sleep easier tonight now that a large shipment of high grade Feline Bam Bam has been taken off the street. The Kingpin was quoted as saying, “they thought they had the biggest bust in Harris County. This was the bust of the year…
It appears yet another lab is in hot water due to poor protocol. The Austin Police Department crime lab has been in and out of the news for years now. As you may recall, the DNA analysis section was actually shut down following claims of improper testing. In 2012, the…
Chances are, if you are reading this, you or a loved one has probably been charged with marijuana possession or another drug offense in one of the counties in which I practice: Montgomery, Walker, Grimes, Madison, and Leon Counties. Although the law is the same wherever you are in Texas,…
On the Watergate scandal, Nixon was quoted as saying, “It’s not the crime that gets you…it’s the cover up.” Nixon knew that he may have avoided the whole Watergate scandal if instead of lying and covering his tracks, he had admitted his wrongdoing early on. Mismanagement is one thing; obstruction…
Maybe not. A Texas Department of Public Safety’s crime lab scientist is under fire for conflicting statements he made in a misdemeanor DWI trial this month. In May of 2013 the DPS crime lab switched two samples and delivered the wrong results to the police. The error resulted in a…
Worried about getting a driving while intoxicated charge in Montgomery County, Texas? You should be. It’s that time of year. We are getting into the holiday seasons. With the Conroe Catfish Festival and the Texas Renaissance Festival already upon us, law enforcement will be out looking for drunk drivers in…
National topics in the news today include two DWI related stories. First, in our own Montgomery County, Texas, a man received a fifty-year sentence for a driving while intoxicated charge and second, an Ohio man was arrested for driving drunk on a lawn mower. Lawn mower you say? I know…
According to a May 2016 National Insurance Crime Bureau report, your beautiful State of Texas won top honors in state hail loss claims from 2013 through 2015 with 394,572 hail claims. No other state was even close to Texas for storm damage. Why is this important to you? Storm damage…
Elected officials love telling you they’re tough on crime. Right? You hear, “there’s too much crime, too many drunk drivers, too many drugs.” What are they doing about it? “We’re coming down hard on criminals, we’re hammering the drunk drivers, we’re cleaning up the streets!” Blah, blah, blah. That is,…