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  • 2 days ago | houstonlanding.org | Eileen Grench |Adriana Rezal |Anna-Catherine Brigida

    U.S. citizens were more than twice as likely to be charged with a crime in Harris County in 2023 than adults who don’t hold U.S. citizenship, according to an exclusive data analysis by the Houston Landing. The analysis, based on the most recent data on the county’s adult population and criminal charges, shows that U.S. citizens have been more likely to be charged with a crime in Harris County since at least 2015, the earliest data collected by the Landing through public records law.

  • 1 month ago | houstonlanding.org | Hanna Holthaus |Eileen Grench

    Mayor John Whitmire has made clear he intends to boost salaries and benefits for Houston police officers in their new union contract, but those increases will not be tied to performance. That means officers across all divisions can expect better pay and benefits regardless of whether crime goes up or response times slow down, clearance rates improve or traffic deaths increase.

  • 1 month ago | houstonlanding.org | Eileen Grench

    Venezuelan asylum seeker Jesus Miguel Barreto Lezama, 29, was denied bail on Thursday after being accused of taking payment from a government confidential informant for the smuggling of cocaine.  Federal prosecutors alleged in a Monday press release that Barreto Lezama, a slight man who attended the detention hearing in a dark green inmate uniform while cuffed and shackled, was a member of the gang Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization that originated in a Venezuela’s Tocorón prison.

  • 1 month ago | houstonlanding.org | Lexi Parra |Eileen Grench

    Read this story in English. El 24 de febrero, Erik Payán, propietario de una tienda de neumáticos y un abuelo que lleva más de 20 años en Estados Unidos, fue arrestado por agentes de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas. Su arresto fue uno de los más de 100 que se produjeron durante una operación conjunta de control de inmigración dirigida a Colony Ridge, una comunidad mayoritariamente latina.

  • 1 month ago | houstonlanding.org | Lexi Parra |Eileen Grench

    On Feb. 24 Erik Payán, a tire shop owner and beloved grandfather who has been in the United States for over 20 years, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. His arrest was one of over 100 people who were detained in a joint immigration enforcement operation targeting Colony Ridge, their largely Latino community. The development had been targeted for years by state and national politicians with anti-immigrant rhetoric and false claims of widespread criminality.

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