On Monday, March 25, 2024, the Corpus Christi Police Department’s Gang Unit conducted a multi-agency operation alongside the Texas Department of Public Safety, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms and Explosives.

While conducting an investigation, Corpus Christi Police Department Gang Officers were able to identify offenders involved in recent criminal activity.  Officers requested assistance from the Texas Department of Public Safety as well as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms and Explosives to take these offenders into custody safely.

Gang Officers contacted a total of four individuals along the 2800 block of Sacky Dr.  During that initial contact, officers arrested four individuals and recovered five firearms, including one which was later confirmed stolen out of our city.  In a separate contact, related to this operation, officers made an additional arrest and recovered one additional firearm.

The Corpus Christi Police Department greatly appreciates the assistance of our local, state, and federal partners in helping to keep our community safe.  Their support is vital to helping us accomplish our mission to reduce crime, the fear of crime and enhance public safety. 

Lieutenant Kody Harrison was born in Eugene, Oregon and moved to South Texas in 1997. He began his career with the Corpus Christi Police Department on January 10, 2000.

During his 24-year career, Lieutenant Harrison has served in several capacities. After completing the academy and field training program, Lieutenant Harrison served as a patrol officer and was promoted to senior officer in 2003. Lieutenant Harrison spent three years as a Gang Investigator, three years on the FBI Task Force, five years as a NVID Investigator, five years on the DEA Clandestine Lab Mobile Enforcement Team, four years as a DEA Task Force Officer and three years on the NVID felony booking desk. For much of his time as a senior officer, Lieutenant was undercover (12 years) and during four of those years spent with the DEA, he recovered over $1,000,000 a year in cash and assets every year. Lieutenant Harrison was also a board member for the Counter Terrorism Information Group in 2001, and it 2009, he was the National Vice President of the Vice Investigators Association. Lieutenant Harrison also served as a CCPD Academy Instructor for 13 years.

On March 3, 2019, Lieutenant Harrison was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and currently serves as the Crime Reduction Unit Supervisor as well as the CCPD Safety Officer. He has obtained the TCOLE Master Peace Officer License, is a TCOLE Certified Instructor and a TCOLE Firearms Instructor. Lieutenant Harrison obtained his Advanced Undercover School Certification; and, in 2014, obtained Clan Lab Certification from the DEA Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Lieutenant Harrison has received numerous accolades to include seven letters of recognition, four letters of commendation including a letter in recognition of his proactive investigation that led to the recovery and lifesaving emergency medical treatment of an elderly female (2019), four letters of appreciation including one from then Attorney General of Texas Greg Abbott (4/2006), a certificate of merit and officer of the month. In 2018, Lieutenant Harrison was selected as NVID Investigator of the year. In 2017, he was Investigator of the month for his proactive investigation leading to the safe return of a kidnapped underage human trafficking victim and the arrest of the offender.

Lieutenant Harrison currently represents the police department in many groups including the Homeless Coalition, Beautify Corpus Christi Association, Downtown Management District, Montessori School of Corpus Christi Safety Council, to name a few. He is also a co-founder of the Coordinated Outreach Group that coordinates all the private, state, federal and local homeless outreach partners in the area in an effort to stop duplicated resources and coordinate resources for individual cases.

Lieutenant Harrison’s then captain, Captain Sepulveda, stated this: “Lieutenant Harrison is a talented supervisor whom I have learned I can rely on, regardless of the difficulty of the task at hand or the novelty of the challenge. His combination of intelligence, his commitment to his community, and his compassionate character exemplifies the department’s goals and mission.”

In his free time, Lieutenant Harrison enjoys hunting, fishing, and spending time with his three daughters.

Corpus Christi Police Department officers, along with their federal and state partners, continue to work diligently to solve the disappearance of Caleb Harris. Harris is the 21-year-old Texas A&M Corpus Christi student who vanished without a trace from his off-campus apartment during the foggy early morning hours of Monday, March 4th, 2024.

Following the initial exhaustive, but unsuccessful, search of hundreds of acres surrounding Harris’s apartment complex on the 1900 block of Ennis Joslin Drive, Criminal Investigation Detectives turned their efforts toward establishing a timeline for Harris in the hours and days preceding his sudden absence, interviewing his roommates, friends, family members and acquaintances. Detectives at this point in the investigation have no reason to suspect any of these individuals had anything to do with Harris’s disappearance. Officers then went door to door throughout his and an adjacent apartment complex, scouring the area for possible witnesses or surveillance video, as well as searching over thirty vacant apartments for the missing student.

An investigative team consisting of Investigators from the Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division and Organized Crime Unit, the FBI, and the United States Marshals Service, along with several civilian crime analysts was formed within days of Harris’s vanishing and continues to work full time to solve his disappearance. The team meets daily to share information from the previous day’s efforts, discuss possible leads, and plot the course of the investigation. This past Friday, the investigative team met at Police Headquarters with a squad of five Texas Rangers to share all information on the status of the case and seek any advice the Rangers could provide. The consensus from the Rangers was that the investigative team was pursuing the most logical course of action in this search and pledged their continued assistance and technical support to the team.

The CCPD wishes to assure the public that while the search for Caleb Harris may be less visible than the early days of this investigation, it is by no means less intense. Teams of Detectives continue to interview potential witnesses here in Corpus Christi and have traveled both to San Antonio and New Braunfels to conduct interviews. Detectives are continuously following up on tips, are chasing potential leads and will expend every effort until Caleb Harris is found.

Despite these exhaustive efforts, Investigators still have not settled upon a motive for Harris’s strange disappearance, nor identified a suspect or person of interest. Detectives are seeking assistance from the public to solve this case. If you have information regarding the disappearance of Caleb Harris, please contact the Corpus Christi Police Department at (361) 886-2840 or (361) 886-2600.

 Anyone who would like to keep their identity secret and still provide information to Detectives should call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit the tip online at https://www.p3tips.com/TipForm.aspx?ID=343&C=&T=.

Date: Sunday, March 17, 2024
Time: 1:10am
Location: 6400 Everhart Rd/ 4700 Saratoga Blvd
Offense: Intoxication Assault w/Vehicle, Accident Involving Injury, Resisting Arrest, Assault on a Peace Officer, Driving While License Suspended
Case numbers: 2403170013, 2403170021

On Sunday, March 17, 2024, at 1:10am, officers were dispatched to intersection of Everhart/Saratoga in reference to a major traffic accident with injuries.

Officers arrived and located two victims suffering injuries from the accident. Both subjects, a 69-year-old male pedestrian and a 28-year-old male motorcyclist, were transported to local hospitals by medics. The pedestrian had serious but non-life-threatening injuries and the motorcyclist had minor injuries.

Officers found that the female driver of a black passenger car was driving northbound on Everhart, failed to maintain a single lane of travel, and struck the pedestrian (who was in the crosswalk) and the motorcycle (who was stopped in the left lane at the signal light, facing southbound on Everhart). The driver of the passenger car fled the scene on foot.

Officers spoke to numerous witnesses who provided a description of the female driver. Officers were able to locate the female in a neighborhood in the 6400 block of Everhart. As officers attempted to detain the female for the investigation, she assaulted one of the officers by punching him numerous times in the face.

A CCPD DWI enforcement officer also investigated the scene and found that the female driver, identified as 29-year-old Nicole Campbell, displayed signs of intoxication, and was initially arrested for driving while intoxicated. Nicole was transported to a local hospital. Once she was medically cleared, she was transported to the City Detention Center for booking.

Nicole was arrested for the following: Due to Nicole assaulting a police officer, she was charged with Assault on a Peace Officer. Due to the serious injuries the pedestrian sustained; the initial charge of DWI was enhanced to Intoxication Assault with Vehicle SBI (serious bodily injury). Due to the fact that Nicole left the scene of the accident where serious injuries occurred, she was charged with Accident Involving Injury. While at the hospital and when officers initially made contact with Nicole, she resisted officers and was charged with Resisting. It was also found that Nicole was driving with a suspended driver license and was charged with Driving While License Suspended.

Detectives with the Corpus Christi Police Department’s Narcotics and Vice Investigations Division conducted an undercover operation Saturday evening, checking compliance at twenty-one beer and wine retailers across the city. Four of the retailers visited by Investigators sold alcoholic beverages to individuals under the age of 21. NVID’s goal is zero.

During the operation, two cooperating individuals, under the direction and close supervision of NVID Detectives attempted to purchase alcoholic beverages from various convenience stores throughout the city. All four individuals are over the age of eighteen but under twenty-one, the legal age to purchase alcoholic beverages in Texas. The cooperating individuals did not possess fake driver licenses or identification. They were merely instructed to attempt to purchase alcoholic beverages and if asked for identification by the store clerk, to simply present their own valid identification. Of the twenty-one businesses checked by NVID, clerks at four of those stores sold alcoholic beverages to the underage operatives.

The store clerks who sold the alcoholic beverages, face a charge of Sale to Minors (TABC 106.3) a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and/or a fine of up to $4000. NVID will forward the results of this operation to the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission for administrative action against the permittees, which could include revocation, suspension and/or fines.

Saturday’s operation was conducted in conjunction with the weekend’s anticipated large influx of Spring Breakers, as underage drinkers from colleges and high schools flock to Corpus Christi beaches to enjoy the sun and fun. The goal behind Saturday’s operation is to ensure that all Spring Break visitors to our city can enjoy their time here without the tragedy that often accompanies underage drinking. Alcohol is a common denominator in underage traffic fatalities, and frequently leads to numerous other negative consequences. NVID intends to conduct more of these operations in the near future, including repeat visits of previous offenders. NVID will send letters to all of the businesses that were inspected, including those that were in compliance. For those businesses that were not in compliance, future infractions will likely result in the immediate arrest of the offenders.

The Corpus Christi Police Department continues to collaborate with all government and private entities to combat underage drinking and help accomplish our mission of working with the community to reduce crime, reduce the fear of crime and enhance public safety.

On March 8^th, 2024, at about 4:25 PM the Corpus Christi Police Swat Team along with the Gang Unit executed a search warrant on a residence in the 900 block of Lum St.

During the investigation 20-year-old Erik Munoz was taken into custody for an outstanding warrant (FTA-Theft of Firearm, NO BOND). He was then transported to the City Detention Center for booking.

**UPDATE** Alison Tackett has been located, as of March 13, 2024, at 3:00 pm. She is safe. Thank you to everyone who has shared this information.

Corpus Christi Police Detectives need your help in locating 24-year-old Alison Tackett. Alison was reported missing on February 22, 2024.

Alison was last seen by her mother on February 20, 2024. She was last seen wearing a multi-colored sweater and blue jeans. Alison is approximately 5’8” and weighs 150 pounds. She has red hair. Alison is in need of her prescription medication which she has not had in several weeks.

If you have any information that may assist investigators or know the whereabouts of Alison Tackett, please call the Corpus Christi Police Department directly at (361) 886-2840 or (361)886-2600.

If you are visiting Corpus Christi for Spring Break 2024, the Corpus Christi Police Department has compiled a few links to help you gather information and be safe.

TRAFFIC CONGESTION

The Corpus Christi Police Department will post any issues on our Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/CorpusChristiPD

If you want to know of any traffic congestion on any of the local highways, be sure to follow the Texas Department of Transportation Twitter page twitter.com/TxDOT_Corpus or check out https://drivetexas.org/ for any traffic updates for the state.

BEACH FLAG WARNING CONDITIONS

If you want to find out about surf conditions, be sure to follow The City of Corpus Christi-Government Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/citygov

You can see a video explaining the beach flags here (https://youtu.be/wDXjZiciNVw)

RIP CURRENT VIDEOS

The National Ocean Service produced two very informative videos on how to survive a rip current and how to identify a rip current.

Rip Current Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ4hcaJ91TY&t=19s

Rip Current Survival Guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa4k5TcIo_U

Rip Current Safety for Kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ76XfBVKq0

BEACH PARKING PERMITS

If you need a beach parking permit visit the City of Corpus Christi web page for locations which they are being sold. https://www.cctexas.com/beach-parking-permits

SPRING BREAK: BEACH RULES

Here is a link for the Spring Break Beach Rules https://www.cctexas.com/springbreakbeachrules

On March 8^th, 2024, at about 3:31 Am an off duty CCPD officer called into dispatch he was following a suspect vehicle that had just burglarized his personal vehicle which was parked at his residence. The off-duty officer was woken up by his Ring camera.

The home was in a neighborhood behind the Crunch fitness Gym on S. Staples St.

While the off-duty officer was following the suspect vehicle, a suspect in the vehicle fired several shots at the off-duty officer. The suspect vehicle was followed to the dead end of S. Oso Parkway when it turned around. The off-duty officer exchanged gun fire with the suspect vehicle.

The suspect vehicle then fled the area.

On duty patrol officers located the suspect vehicle on Staples St. The suspect vehicle was followed and ultimately lost around S. Staples St. and Everhart Rd.

The suspect vehicle was described as a black Jeep SUV with a possible out of state license plate. It is unknown currently if the suspected vehicle is stolen.

There were no injuries sustained by the off-duty officer. It is unknown if anyone in the suspected vehicle was injured. The local hospitals were checked for any recent walk-in victim(s).

This is an active and ongoing investigation.  If you have any information, please contact the Corpus Christi Police Department at 361-886-2600. Anyone who would like to keep their identity secret and still provide information to Detectives should call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit the tip online at https://www.p3tips.com/TipForm.aspx?ID=343&C=&T=.