The FBI suggested plastic bags in the van contained methamphetamine. The agency hasn’t released official test results.
Criminal Justice
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Texas crime rate continues to drop, with McAllen seeing its lowest levels in decades
Despite ICE crackdowns, experts say immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. Deportation fears might also make them less likely to report them.
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Immigration
Houston police worked with ICE on at least 103 occasions since April, report shows
The first report on police-ICE interactions required by the City Council shows Houston transferred 18% of people with immigration-related warrants to ICE custody.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Harris County DA’s office to treat ICE shooting as criminal investigation, says it may take months or years to complete
Harris County officials say they will fund an independent investigation to identify the ICE agents involved in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing.
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Houston ICE Shooting
What we still don’t know about the ICE shooting in Houston
Federal agencies and investigators have offered limited information, prompting calls for outside scrutiny.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Harris County prosecutor will investigate ICE shooting but cautions that feds control access to evidence
District Attorney Sean Teare said he is in contact with prosecutors in Minnesota who are investigating the January shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents.
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Criminal Justice
U.S. Supreme Court denies Texas death row inmate’s intellectual disability claim
Attorneys and experts for both the state and for death row inmate Victor Saldaño agree that he should be allowed to present evidence of his disability to a state criminal appeals court.
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Criminal Justice
SCOTUS orders Texas court to reconsider man’s 1997 murder conviction
The ruling came after Cooke County District Attorney John Warren told the U.S. Supreme Court that “the State no longer had confidence in the verdict.”
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Courts
U.S. Supreme Court unanimously sides with Texas man, rules it’s not a crime for marijuana users to have guns
Ali Danial Hemani successfully challenged a federal law prohibiting people who illegally use drugs from owning guns. Justices said that ban is a Second Amendment violation.
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State Government
Former Texas Tribune board member killed in Laredo plane crash
The plane carrying Joshua Baer, who was also the CEO of Austin-based startup accelerator Capital Factory, was on its way to Austin from San José del Cabo in Mexico.
