Law Enforcement

It's official.  By unanimous vote, the Lufkin City Council has adopted a city ordinance that prohibits panhandling and solicitation of vehicle occupants on city roadways.

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Yes friends. The moon still shines on the moonshine stills deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas.  Just ask the lawmen in Trinity and Smith Counties.

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Is there no end to the ways crooks can find to steal from you?  The newest "con" making the rounds is in the moving business. The Texas Department of Public Safety recently broke up a ring of "fake movers" who were posing as household furniture movers to scam victims out of thousands of dollars.

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A Houston State Representative says he will work to repeal Texas’ “Castle Doctrine”, the law that gives Texans protections similar to Florida’s “stand your ground” law that is coming under fire in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting.

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The FBI Internet Complaint Center has issued a national warning about new trends in cyber crime, and new twists in some old cyber scams.

The long and short of it is that cyber crooks are always looking for new ways to pick your pocket over the Internet, and they very often update their old scams and re-use them.

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A federal appeals court says Texas cities cannot pass ordinances that prohibit landlords from renting to illegal immigrants.

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Police in Fort Worth have arrested a suspect in the fire-bombing of the district office of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis.

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Orlando Sanford International Airport officials say they will take advantage of a new law, and try again to opt out of using TSA workers to screen passengers.  They want to hire their own screeners to do that, but using federal standards and under federal oversight.

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