The Corpus Christi Police Department generated 161 original reports for formal criminal complaints from midnight January 1 to 8:00 a.m. January 2, 2015. These are a sample of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

Date: Thursday, January 1, 2015, 21:29
Location: 4121 S. Port Avenue
Offense: Child Abandonment (Penal Code Section 22.041) State Jail Felony
Case Number: 1501010130

A 21-year-old man reported an abandoned child at a restaurant located at 2141 South Port Avenue to Corpus Christi Police Thursday night.
The 21-year-old man told Officers he found a 2-year-old boy in the restaurant by himself crying and with soiled pants at about 9:00 pm. The child was not injured, but frightened. The 21-year-old man told Officers he was unable to locate the parents of the child and requested law enforcement assistance. Officers requested services from the Child Protective Services. The 39-year-old mother of the child arrived at the restaurant at 11pm. The 39-year-old woman was interviewed and then left with the child.

Date: Thursday, January 1, 2015, 23:37
Location: 3238 Buddy Lawrence Drive
Offense: Forgery of a Government Instrument (Penal Code Section 32.21) 3rd Degree Felony
Case Number:  1501010134

A 56-year-old woman reported a counterfeit bill passed at a store located at 3238 Buddy Lawrence Drive to Corpus Christi Police Thursday night.
The 56-year-old woman told Officers she is employed as a clerk at the store and was approached at about 11:30pm by a woman who attempted to pay for merchandise with a fake ten dollar bill. The 56-year-old woman told Officers she immediately knew the bill was obviously not real, and confronted the woman about the counterfeit bill. The 56-year-old woman told Officers the woman left the store and left in a late model white Ford Taurus. The Officers collected the bill as evidence and continue to investigate this case.

Date: Thursday, January 1, 2015, 20:45
Location: 701 N. Staples Street
Offense: Forgery of a Government Instrument (Penal Code Section 32.21) 3rd Degree Felony
Case Number: 1501010123

Corpus Christi Police arrested 19-year-old Manuel Perez (9/11/1995) for attempting to pay for merchandise at a convenience store with fake twenty dollar bills Thursday night.
A 55-year-old woman called Corpus Christi Police at 8:45pm to complain that a man attempted to pay for merchandise at the store located at 701 North Staples with a fake twenty dollar bill and left in a black Dodge Nitro. Corpus Christi Police found the suspect vehicle and conducted a traffic stop at the 600 block of Sam Rankin and contacted Perez to investigate the complaint.
Officers collected information and evidence in this case, then arrested Perez for Forgery of a Government Instrument, a 3rd degree felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. Officers delivered Perez to the city detention center.

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