A57-year-old Texas man who was exonerated in late 2009 for a murder he did not commit is once again back in jail. This time around, he is facing a drug possession charge. The man was convicted in 1997 for a murder that occurred during a home invasion of a Texas drug house. The man served […]

This week, three Houston men were convicted on federal hate crime charges for the assault of an African-American man last August. The conviction is the first of its kind in the Houston area. According to the charges, the men encountered the victim at a bus stop on the night of August 13. One of the […]

The founder of a Houston record label pleaded guilty last week to charges of cocaine distribution and money laundering. Prosecutors alleged that Estell “Hump” Hobbs was part of a nationwide drug distribution network that had ties to Mexican cartels. Along with the rapper Lil’ Flip, Hobbs founded hip-hop label Suckafree Records back in 1998. Prosecutors […]

A joint federal task force arrested 94 people – many of them doctors – in a recent crackdown on Medicare fraud throughout five major cities in the United States. Prosecutors claimed that physicians, health care executives and others in four cities received $251 million in false Medicare claims. Included among the federal criminal charges were […]