
Gabriel Monte
Crime & Courts Reporter at Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Courts, cops, crime and public safety reporter for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Opinions, if any, are my own.
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2 days ago |
lubbockonline.com | Gabriel Monte
A 22-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison without parole after admitting to sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl last year. Jason Trinidad, who has been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since his Sept. 30 arrest, pleaded guilty to a count of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 6 years old, a first-degree felony that carries a punishment of 25 years to life in prison.
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3 days ago |
yahoo.com | Gabriel Monte
A 41-year-old convicted kidnapper who had been on the run for about two weeks until his arrest in Lubbock will return to Hawaii to face charges that he escaped custody during a prison work furlough. Issac Pascua appeared Friday morning in the 137th District Court and waived his rights to an extradition hearing, during which prosecutors would have to prove that he was the person identified in an out-of-state warrant and needs to be extradicted to the state that holds jurisduction over the case.
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3 days ago |
lubbockonline.com | Gabriel Monte
A 41-year-old convicted kidnapper who had been on the run for about two weeks until his arrest in Lubbock will return to Hawaii to face charges that he escaped custody during a prison work furlough. Issac Pascua appeared Friday morning in the 137th District Court and waived his rights to an extradition hearing, during which prosecutors would have to prove that he was the person identified in an out-of-state warrant and needs to be extradicted to the state that holds jurisduction over the case.
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1 week ago |
lubbockonline.com | Gabriel Monte
An arrest warrant states a woman told investigators that a 22-year-old man suspected in a fatal shooting Friday in east Lubbock pointed a gun at her after she saw him standing over a man suffering gunshot wounds and searching his pockets. Jeremiah Lawrence was booked Saturday into the Lubbock County Detention Center on a charge of murder in the shooting death of 25-year-old Leonardo Pollard at a home in the house 1900 block of East Colgate Avenue.
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1 week ago |
lubbockonline.com | Gabriel Monte
Auntwenette Kinney, 34, faces federal charges for stealing a U.S. Marshal's vehicle containing a rifle. Kinney was indicted by a federal grand jury for theft of government property exceeding $1,000. She was also indicted on state charges for unauthorized use of a vehicle and theft of a firearm. Kinney's alleged accomplice, Shandon Gary, has not been formally charged.
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