In a single weekend, U.S. Customs & Border Protection at Texas entry points arrested four men—all wanted on child-sex crime charges. Their captures spanned Brownsville to Laredo, with biometric checks uncovering felony warrants.
Two men from Texas’s Most Wanted Sex Offenders list were caught on consecutive days — Derrick Flowers in Houston and Spencer Giron in Lake Charles. Neither arrest will pay the advertised reward due to tip-eligibility rules.
Texas CBP agents intercepted a vehicle carrying 67.1 lbs of meth and 42.5 lbs of black tar heroin on October 6. The drugs’ combined street value is estimated at $1,331,172.
Texas DPS has captured Robert Bustrillo-Vasquiez, a Honduran fugitive on the state’s Most Wanted list for kidnapping, assault, and smuggling. He was arrested at work after evading police for months.
orth Texas jurors delivered the death penalty in the case of Marissa Grimes, a young mother whose body was found under Valerian O’Steen’s Fort Worth home.
A newborn baby was discovered crying inside an Austin dumpster, with the umbilical cord still attached. Police arrested the baby’s 22-year-old mother, who now faces felony charges.