Date: 2/01/2016    3:55 AM
Location: 1530 Airline Rd
Offense: Credit Card Abuse
P.C.  32.31  State Jail Felony
Case Number: 1602010107

Corpus Christi Police detectives need you help identifying this suspect involved in using a stolen credit card.

On February 1, 2016 at approximately 4:28 PM the suspect was observed on video entering Lowes Home Improvement store. Once inside the store he selected various items and paid for them with a stolen credit card.

The suspect is described as a white male wearing a cowboy hat, a blue shirt with patches on the shoulders, a sleeveless brown jacket and blue jeans.

If you have any information or know the identity of the suspect please contact Detective Ramiro Torres at 361-886-2890. If you would like to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS or submit the information online at 888TIPS.com. Crime Stoppers guarantees to keep your identity secret and if the information leads to an arrest, it could earn you up to $2,500 dollars in cash.

The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 816  calls for service and generated 198  reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. May 17 to 7:00 a.m. on May 18, 2016. These are samples of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

Date: 5/17/2016    10:55 PM
Location: 1000 Winnebago Street
Offense: Robbery
P.C.  29.03      First Degree Felony
Case Number: 1605170137
Two men were robbed while they sat in the garage of their home in the 1000 block of Winnebago Street.

The two neighbors, in their fifties, were sitting in the open garage of one of the men when two suspects, both wearing masks and armed with handguns, entered.

The armed men took a wallet and a cellphone from one of the men.  The suspects then took the keys to the other man’s 2007 grey Dodge Charger that was parked in the driveway.

Neither victim was injured.

All the suspects then got into the stolen vehicle and left.

At this time, no suspects have been identified.

Date: 5/17/2016    3:40 PM
Location: 1000 Nueces Bay Boulevard
Offense: Credit Card Abuse
P.C.  32.31      State Jail Felony
Case Number: 1605170094
Gas pump maintenance personnel working at a gas station, located at 1050 Nueces Bay Boulevard, found a skimming device on the credit card machine portion of the pump.

Maintenance personnel were working on pump #2 at the convenience store and found the red security tape had been removed. Inside the machine, where credit cards are inserted, they located the skimming device.

It is unknown how long the skimmer had been on the pump.

Officers collected the skimmer.

At this time it is unknown who put the device on the gas pump.

Search the website Crimereports.com to research all reported criminal activity in Corpus Christi. Anyone who knows any additional information about these crimes should contact the Corpus Christi Police Department at 886-2840. Information about unsolved crimes may be provided to investigators anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or online at 888TIPS.com. Information provided to Crime Stoppers which results in an arrest may earn the caller a cash reward.

Date: 5/2/2016    12:10 AM
Location: 3100 Morgan Avenue
Offense: Murder
P.C.  19.02      First Degree Felony
Case Number: 1605020002

We believe that Jesus Espino and Javier Castro were involved in this Murder.   It appears that they were transported across the border into Mexico the same day of the murder. No arrest warrants exist at this time

 Anyone who has information about these two suspects should contact the Corpus Christi Police Department at 886-2840. Information about unsolved crimes may also be provided to investigators anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or online at 888TIPS.com. Information provided to Crime Stoppers which results in an arrest may earn the caller a cash reward.

Date: 5/2/2016    12:10 AM
Location: 3100 Morgan Avenue
Offense: Murder
P.C.  19.02      First Degree Felony
Case Number: 1605020002

Corpus Christi Police Homicide Detectives are looking into a dispute that led to a shooting in the parking lot of a nightclub located at 3149 Morgan Avenue.  

Officers arrived at the scene and found a 27 year old female with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head.  The female was transported to Spohn Memorial Hospital by CCFD EMS were she was later pronounced dead.

Mary Elizabeth Cantu, 10/09/1965, was arrested on 05/02/2016 at 5:10 p.m. on a charge of Hindering Apprehension.  She is accused of transporting the suspect and two witnesses into Mexico several hours after the shooting.

Corpus Christi Police would like anyone with any information about this case to provide that information to Homicide Detectives by calling 886-2600. The public is encouraged to provide any information they believe may be related to this case no matter how seemingly insignificant and the public should not assume Police have the information.

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Anthony Molina, 08/19/1981,  was booked at the City Detention Center on 05/05/2016 at 1:39 p.m. Molina had been in a local hospital, under guard, since the time that he was taken into custody.  He was booked on a Warrant that stemmed from charges related to the Burglary, Shooting, and Evading Arrest incident that occurred in the 6700 Block of Whitewing Dr. on April 30, 2016.

Molina was transferred to the Nueces County Jail and is being held on a $250,000 bond.

Corpus Christi Police Detectives would like to have complete information related to this case and urge anyone with any information about this case to call 886-2600 and provide the information to Detectives in reference to case number 1604300013.

The Corpus Christi Police have Crime Victim’s Advocates and encourage anyone in Corpus Christi in a potentially violent relationship to reach out to Police and community resources for early intervention

Contributed by Commander John Houston

On May 5, 1892, the citizens of Corpus Christi were celebrating Cinco De Mayo with a parade down Leopard St in the area of where the courthouse is today to the uptown bluff. Elias Mussett Jr had just been relected as the City Marshall and would start his second term that day. Mussett rode at the front of the parade and was soon joined by his daughter Lillian on horseback. The celebration lasted all evening and prior to going to his  home he made one last patrol of the city.

City Marshall Elias T Mussett Jr. had run against a subject named John Parker. Parker was a local trouble maker who the city council hired as a city police officer just three days before the murder even though everyone in the town told the council not to hire him. Parker had made numerous threats to kill Mussett during the election.

At approx 1am on May 6th, Mussett  stopped to speak with a local standing outside the Pancho Grande bar which was located near what is now Waco and Leopard St. As Mussett spoke with the subject about the nights activities, Parker rode up in the dark and came to Mussett’s right side. Without as much as a word Parker fired one shot from his pistol killing Mussett immediately. Parker fled the area and went downtown to the police station located on what is now Mesquite St north of IH 37 and turned himself in for Mussett’s murder. Parker was charged with Murder and his trial began within one day. After days of testimony, Parker was found guilty of Murder and sentenced to life in prison with hard labor. He was sent to the Huntsville, Texas Walls Unit to serve his sentence. The entire city closed for his funeral. Mussett was buried in Rose Hill Cemetary on land that belonged to his father, an original founder of Corpus Christi.

Mussett is the first documented In the Line of Duty Death of a CCPD officer.  Please remember City Marshall Elias Mussett Jr. and his family in your thoughts and prayers this day.