Here's a daily list of crimes across North Texas compiled on Feb. 24, 2009.
WOMAN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF RUNNING DRUG LAB IN APARTMENT
Police are crediting observant apartment officials with leading authorities to a suspected GHB lab during the weekend, the Star-Telegram reports. Authorities said Monday that the suspected lab had been operating for several weeks in a vacant apartment. More than 2,700 grams of GHB was found in the unit Friday at the Sequoia Bend Apartments, 601 Brown Trail. Click here to read this story from the Star-Telegram.
M.E.: WOMAN FOUND IN TUB STRANGLED TO DEATH
The medical examiner says the Fort Worth woman found dead in her home's bathtub Sunday night was murdered. Maricela Sanchez-Morquecho, 25, was strangled to death, according to the medical examiner. Her relatives called police after her husband and child showed up in Piedras Negras, Mexico, without her. Click here to read the original report on NBCDFW.com.
PARENTS FACE CRIMINAL PROBE AFTER CHILD WOUNDED WHILE PLAYING WITH GUN
The parents of a 5-year-old girl who was accidentally shot by her 7-year-old brother could face criminal charges, the Dallas Morning News reports. The parents left the two children unsupervised Sunday night in the bedroom of an apartment in the 6000 block of Pineland Drive in northeast Dallas, said Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse. The children found a loaded gun and started playing with it, he said. Click here to read this story from the Dallas Morning News.
WOMAN TESTIFIES SHE WAS KICKED LIKE A DOG DURING KATY TRAIL ATTACK
A woman who was attacked as she biked on the Katy Trail in Dallas testified in the trial of a teen accused of robbing her, the Dallas Morning News reports. Elizabeth Prezio, the first witness to take the stand in the trial of Jose Torres, recounted what happened to her as she biked one Tuesday afternoon in November 2007 on the 3.5-mile trail. Torres, now 18, and a then-15-year-old were arrested and accused of the robbery. Click here to read this story from the Dallas Morning News.
AIRMAN ARRESTED IN DALLAS-AREA NIGHTCLUB DEATH
An airman stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque has been arrested in connection with the death of a man who was run over outside a Texas nightclub. Frank Farias, 23, is awaiting extradition to Dallas after he was arrested Friday by Albuquerque police on a warrant that accuses him of first-degree murder in the Jan. 25 death of Marlon Alfaro, 23, of Irving, Texas. Click here to read this story on NBCDFW.com.
ROANOKE POLICE FIND POSSIBLE BOMB IN CAR AFTER ARREST
A local explosives team removed a device with a fuse in it from a car Tuesday morning that had been seized by police after they had arrested two people on suspicion of breaking into a coin-operated machine, the Star-Telegram reports. At about 9:45 a.m., the Northeast Explosives Response Team took the device out of a glove box of the car that had been parked in front of Kwik-Kar Lube & Tune. Click here to read this story from the Star-Telegram.
THIEVES TARGET DENTON CO. RV LOT
The run on flat-screen TVs didn't end with the holidays, as one Denton County recreational vehicle lot is discovering. Dozens of trailers at Fun Time RV along Interstate 35 in Denton have been burglarized during three incidents since January. Burglars have stolen the flat-screen televisions, DVD players and stereo systems that are standard in today's mobile homes. Click hrere to read this story from NBCDFW.com.
MAN SOUGHT IN SHOOTING OF FORT WORTH SHOE STORE OWNER’S FATHER
Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a robber who shot the father of a Fort Worth shoe store owner while robbing the business Friday night, the Star-Telegram reports. The robbery took place shortly before 8 p.m. Friday at the Elite Shoe Store, 811 E. Berry Street. According to a police report, the suspect entered the store as the owner and his father were preparing to close for the night, waved a pistol in the air and yelled, "This is a robbery!" before firing once toward the southwest corner of the building. Click here to read this story from the Star-Telegram.
