Category Archives: Community Outreach

Community Outreach, Narcotics/Vice Division, Patrol Division

Three Arrested During Narcotics Raid

Date:  January 23, 2014, 10:45pm
Location:  1458 19th Street
Offense:  Search Warrant
Case Number: 1401230155

Juan Jesus Chapa
Joshua Stewart
Jaime Jesus Garcia

 On Thursday, January 23, 2014 at approximately 10:45pm Narcotics Vice Investigation Division Officers along with the assistance of  “K” Shift Patrol Officers conducted an operation in regards to a drug house located at 1458 19th St.

The 19th Street residence had been the target of an ongoing narcotics investigation.  NVID officers had the residence under surveillance as they prepared to serve a search and arrest warrant when a wanted individual named Jamie Jesus Garcia (10/02/80) left the residence.

Garcia was pulled over and the traffic stop resulted in the recovery of approximately one ounce of powder cocaine.  Garcia and his passenger Joshua Stewart (08/11/85) were both subsequently arrested.  They were both charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance.

At approximately 10:57pm, NVID officers served a search warrant at 1458 19th St.  Officers seized 5.71 ounces of powder Cocaine, 1.98 ounces of Crack Cocaine and seven dosage units (2 grams) of MDMA (Ecstasy).  The drugs have a total street value of $10,845.  Officers additionally seized a 2003 Chevrolet Suburban. 

Juan Jesus Chapa (04/07/82) was also arrested and charged with  Manufacturing/Delivery of a Controlled Substance.  All three men were booked at the City Detention Center.

Community Outreach, Criminal Investigations Division, Patrol Division

Thieves Take Empty Cash Register

Date:  January 6, 2014, 2:16am
Location:  2763 S. Staples Street
Event:  Burglary of a Building
Case Number:  1401060013

Corpus Christi Police Detectives are asking the public’s assistance to identify the individuals involved in the burglary of the Jalisco’s Meat Market.  The suspects gained entry into the building and stole a cash register.

Video surveillance clips of the suspects have been uploaded to the police department’s CorpusChristiPD YouTube site at http://youtu.be/xBVXfu7omw8.

Anyone with any information on the identity of the suspects is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online at www.888TIPS.com.  Tipsters will earn a cash reward if the suspects are identified and arrested.

Community Outreach, Criminal Investigations Division, Patrol Division

Do You Know These Partners in Crime?

Date:  January 3, 2014, 3:58am
Location:  2763 S. Staples Street
Event:  Burglary of a Building
Case Number:  1401030037

Corpus Christi Police Detectives are asking the public’s assistance to identify the individuals involved in the burglary of the Jalisco’s Meat Market.  The suspects gained entry into the building and fled when the burglary alarm sounded.

Video surveillance clips of the suspects have been uploaded to the police department’s CorpusChristiPD YouTube site at http://youtu.be/q74bop8yhAw.

Anyone with any information on the identity of the suspects is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online at www.888TIPS.com.  Tipsters will earn a cash reward if the suspects are identified and arrested.

Bravo District, Community Outreach, Criminal Investigations Division

Help Us Solve This Robbery and Earn Some Cash

Date:  January 7, 2014, 10:45pm
Location:  5701 Williams Drive
Event:  Robbery
Case Number:  1401070127

Corpus Christi Police Detectives are asking the public’s assistance to identify the individual who can be seen arriving in a dark-colored vehicle and entering a local gentleman’s club.  The man befriends a 21-year-old man who is possession of several thousands of dollars.  The man invites the victim to another local gentleman’s club, but stop by a local apartment complex at the man’s request.  Once at the complex, the victim is assaulted and robbed.  Police Detectives would like to identify and speak to the man in the video.

Video surveillance clips of the man have been uploaded to the police department’s CorpusChristiPD YouTube account at http://youtu.be/2hsdZxIyvF4. He was last seen wearing a baseball cap, a colored jacket, and dark-colored pants.

If you have any information on this crime or know the identity of the man in the video, please call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online at www.888TIPS.com.  Tipsters will earn a cash reward if the suspect or suspects are identified and arrested.

Bravo District, Community Outreach, Criminal Investigations Division, Patrol Division

Elderly Woman Injured During Purse Snatching

Date: Monday, January 20, 2014, 17:32
Location: 1250 Flour Bluff Drive http://goo.gl/maps/31Ov2
Offense: Aggravated Robbery (Penal Code Section 29.03) 1st Degree Felony
Case Number: 1401200123

Corpus Christi Police are asking the public’s assistance to help identify the individual involved in the robbery of a 70-year-old woman.    The victim told Officers she was walking through the Wal-Mart parking lot when the driver of a black Honda Civic drove by and grabbed her purse.

Surveillance video shows the suspect vehicle and the driver snatching the woman’s purse.  The vehicle can be seen headed northbound on Flour Bluff Drive.  Clips of the surveillance video have been uploaded to the CorpusChristiPD YouTube account at http://youtu.be/s7A3AGwLaX0.

The woman sustained minor injuries, but refused medical treatment.

Anyone with any information on this crime is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online at www.888TIPS.com.  Tipsters will earn a cash reward if the robber is identified and arrested.

 

Community Outreach

CCPD Blotter 2013 in Review

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Community Outreach

Burglary Suspect’s Identity Sought

Date:  January 1,  2014, 03:00am
Location:  2626 S. Padre Island Drive
Event:  Burglary of a Building
Case Number:  1401010081

Man involved in the burglary of Empire Furniture Store
Man involved in the burglary of Empire Furniture Store

Corpus Christi Police Detectives are asking the public’s assistance to help identify a suspect involved in the burglary of the Empire Furniture For Less.

Anyone with any information on this crime is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477)  or submit a tip online at www.888TIPS.com.  Tipsters will earn a cash reward if the suspect is identified or arrested.

Bravo District, Community Outreach

Town Hall Meeting Scheduled for Saturday

The Corpus Christi Police Department will hold a Town Hall Meeting on Saturday, January 18th at the Seashore Middle Academy located at 15437 S. Padre Island Drive. The event will begin at 3:00 p.m.

Detectives with the Child Crimes Unit will be on hand to discuss the recent Attempted Kidnapping along with sharing information on how to keep your children safe.

 

 

Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 17:24

Location: 13700 Hawksnest Bay Drive http://goo.gl/maps/lIIxr
Offense: Attempted Kidnapping (Penal Code Section 20.04) 1st Degree Felony
Case Number: 1401150105

A 44-year-old woman reported an attempted kidnapping on the 13700 block of Hawksnest Bay to Corpus Christi Police Wednesday. The 44-year-old woman told Officers her 13-year-old son explained to her that a man in a truck approached him while he walked home at 5:20pm. The 44-year-old woman told Officers her son said the man demanded the boy get into the truck. The 44-year-old woman told Officers her son ran home to call police and the vehicle went east on Hawksnest Bay toward Gypsy. The 13-year-old boy described the truck to Officers as a gray Ford F-150 with a rounded front end and a red square shaped decal on the upper driver’s side rear window and then described the man as about 40 years of age with a mustache and medium brown skin.

Charlie District, Community Outreach, Criminal Investigations Division

22-Year-Old Father of Two-Month-Old Arrested

Date:  January 16, 2014, 02:49am
Location:  3533 S. Alameda Street
Event:  Injury to a Child
Case Number:  1401160014

JIMMIELACOURCorpus Christi Police were called to Driscoll Children’s Hospital for an abuse of a child call.  Police arrived to find a two-month-old baby had been brought in by the mother for a welfare check.  The baby was found to be suffering from bleeding to the brain and admitted to the hospital.

The mother told Police she left the child with the father while she went to work.  Further investigation by both the Police Department’s Child Protection Unit and the Texas Child Protective Services revealed the baby’s father was the suspect.  Detectives were able to obtain an arrest warrant for the baby’s father Jimmie Lacour (10/13/91). 

Lacour was arrested and charged with the outstanding warrant for Injury to a Child.  He was booked at the City Detention Center with a bond set at $150,000.

Community Outreach, Gang Unit, Narcotics/Vice Division, Patrol Division

Local Gang Member, Associates Sentenced for Federal Drug Trafficking Crimes

Contributedby USATXS-Public Affairs Officer Angela Dodge

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Three men working with the Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) to distribute heroin and cocaine in the Corpus Christi area have been sentenced to federal prison, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Alejandro Guerrero, 39, of Corpus Christi, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute heroin after a two-day jury trial in October 2013.

Today, Senior U.S. District Judge Hayden W. Head sentenced Guerrero to a total term of 188 months in federal prison which will be immediately followed by five years of supervised release.

Jose Miguel Zuniga aka Slick, 33, also of Corpus Christi, and Alberto Donicio Galindo aka Crazy Horse, 38, of Laredo, had previously entered respective guilty pleas to possession with intent to distribute heroin and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Zuniga and Galindo were also sentenced today to 74 and 24 months in federal prison, respectively. Both will serve three years of supervised release.

The remaining defendants in this case, Ruben Esparza aka Popo, 36, and Ernesto Villarreal aka Crash, 36, both of Robstown, have also pleaded guilty to their involvement in the heroin conspiracy and are scheduled for sentencing in Houston before U.S. District Judge Nancy F. Altas in February.

Jurors in the trial of Guerrero heard testimony that Esparza, a local leader of the TMM, had been receiving shipments of narcotics from Laredo in 2011. Investigators learned of the time and place of drug shipments and witnessed Guerrero meet with a courier from Laredo at a Corpus Christi Walmart on two occasions. After a traffic stop, law enforcement discovered a loaded handgun in the passenger compartment of Guerrero’s vehicle. “Black tar” heroin was also found hidden in a secret compartment of Guerrero’s vehicle.

Galindo was another courier for the Laredo drug source. He delivered 4 ½ ounces of cocaine to Esparza in April 2011. Zuniga, another member of the TMM, admitted to purchasing an ounce of heroin from Esparza in May 2011, which Zuniga then intended to distribute.

All defendants have been and will remain in custody pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.

This case was investigated through a joint effort by the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Texas Department of Public Safety and the Corpus Christi Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael Hess.