Ex-Bexar County juvenile detention officer gets 90 days in jail, 2 years probation in felony strangulation case
A former Bexar County juvenile detention officer was sentenced to 90 days in jail and two years probation Wednesday after a jury convicted him of felony strangulation, court records confirm.
Man found not guilty of manslaughter in fatal 2022 crash
A jury on Tuesday found a man not guilty of manslaughter in connection with a crash in July 2022 that claimed the life of a woman who was stalled in traffic. But jurors did find Alexander Castro guilty on a lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide.
Former SAPD officer who shot at two teens who were running from him in 2020 has case dismissed
A Bexar County District Court judge has dismissed a deadly conduct charge against a former San Antonio police officer accused of firing shots at two teens who were running away from him, according to online court records.
Voting Rights Act doesn’t protect coalitions of racial or ethnic groups challenging political maps, appeals court rules
In a lawsuit challenging redistricting in Galveston County, the 5th Circuit said the protections afforded to a single racial group don’t apply to multiple groups who collectively claim voting rights violations.
South Texas couple gets 20-year prison sentences for multimillion-dollar laundering, human smuggling operation
Luis Enrique Moctezuma-Acosta, 37 and Scarlett Fuentes-Gavarrette, 34, pleaded guilty in March to charges related to laundering $2.9 million and human smuggling and have been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
Agreement halts Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ countersuit trial against woman who says he’s her father
The trial in a countersuit brought by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones against a woman who says she’s his daughter and her mother abruptly ended Tuesday afternoon as Jones agreed to drop the countersuit if the women dismissed pending lawsuits against him, including one where the billionaire was ordered to take a DNA test, according to media reports.
Man sentenced for murder outside North Side gym, separate shooting at basketball court
Dontre La Ron Nestle pleaded guilty to murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in those cases. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to 37 years on the murder charge and 20 years for the charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He will serve the sentences concurrently.