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KHOU-TV
Approximately eight kilograms of suspected white heroin, with a street value of $6.4 million, was seized by the Fayette County Sheriff's Department from a car traveling from Mexico to Houston Monday morning. Deputies said they stopped a 2007 Chevy van just after 10:45 a.m. for a routine traffic stop on Interstate Highway 10. When officials began to question the driver, Andrea Hernandez Gonzalez, 54, about why she was traveling to Houston, they allegedly heard varying accounts that didn't add up.
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KVUE-TV
Hundreds of members of law enforcement came to north Austin Tuesday to honor Travis County Sheriff Sergeant Craig Hutchinson. Officers found Hutchinson with a gunshot wound in his own backyard after he made a report about "prowlers." Travis County sheriff's deputies escorted him from the Cook-Walden Funeral home to Shoreline Church Tuesday.
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Austin American-Statesman
A law that went into effect at the end of last month has opened a new avenue for public safety agencies to prepare for active shooter and mass casualty incidents across the nation. The POLICE Act — sponsored by two Texans, U.S. Sen John Cornyn and U.S. Rep. John Carter of Round Rock — authorizes agencies to use federal Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, grant money to pay for active shooter response programs, which previously were not covered by the grant.
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Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA has released a video to all law enforcement nationwide about the dangers of improperly handling fentanyl and its deadly consequences. Acting Deputy Administrator Jack Riley and two police detectives from New Jersey appear on the video to urge any law enforcement personnel who come in contact with fentanyl or fentanyl compounds to take the drugs directly to a lab.
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PoliceOne
A sharp young officer in my state recently noticed a hand-held radio on the seat of a car he had stopped, and it seemed to be monitoring police radio traffic. The driver claimed it was a "scanner" as he handed it over, but the officer suspected otherwise. Hearing his own channel coming from the speaker, the officer pushed the "talk" button on the radio and spoke with his dispatcher — the radio was fully programmed to operate on the PD's repeater system! The incident was sent out on a law enforcement email net with the question: "Is this legal?"
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Former sheriffs, including a former SAT president, help TAC Risk Management Pool members reduce their law enforcement operations liabilities. See consultant territories online. MORE
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The Dallas Morning News
Two food service contractor employees are accused of improper sexual activity with inmates at the Tom Green County Jail, officials say. Luis Carlos Ayala, 51, and Shannon Lorrain Strasburg, 45, were arrested Tuesday and booked into the jail, located in San Angelo, the Tom Green County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
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KDFW-TV
A Lewisville high school football coach who believes in the Black Lives Matter movement also said he believes in great police officers. And that's why he's starting an effort to use the power of prayer to link a frustrated community with the police. Warren Mentis is an avowed member of the Black Lives Matter movement. But with a Facebook page called "Be the Change DFW," he wants to turn protest into prayer.
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WFAA-TV
It is a scary notion when someone poses as an officer to take advantage of people. It is scarier to know that these perpetrators sometime use decommissioned police cars to do it. Police in Rowlett are investigating an incident where someone posed as an officer and attempted to lure a 14-year-old boy who was playing Pokemon Go. Police told WFAA-TV when the boy checked his phone for proof he was an officer, the man walked back to his car and sped off. The vehicle, described by the teenager, was a "marked police car" with police decals.
State Rep. Craig Goldman says he is ready to bring a bill in November that would make it a crime for someone who is not an officer to drive cars that are made to look like genuine police cars.
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