Bravo District, Criminal Investigations Division, Patrol Division

Call Crime Stoppers To Identify A Thief Who Stole Cosmetics From Kohl’s

Date: August 10, 2016, 17:16
Location: 5626 Saratoga Boulevard
Offense: Theft (Penal Code Section 31.03)
Case Number: 1608100120

Corpus Christi Police would like help from the public to help identify a woman accused of stealing cosmetics on August 10th at the Kohl’s department store located on Saratoga Boulevard.

A 28-year-old man employed by Kohl’s for loss prevention, reported the theft to the Corpus Christi Police at 5:16pm and explained that the unknown woman selected multiple items near the jewelry aisle and the juniors department, she walked into the dressing room with the items and then walked out with nothing. The employee told Officers he saw the woman leave out the front doors near the women’s athletic section and immediately get into a white in color Infinity that displayed license plate number DVR4141, and leave the area. The employee told Officers he discovered several hundred dollars worth of cosmetics and clothes taken by the woman. Detectives obtained images of the woman and would now like you help to identify her.

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The woman is described as an adult female with medium brown colored skin, 5 foot 4 inches with black hair approximately 140 pounds and she wore a black shirt with white stripes and blue jean shorts.

If you can identify this woman, or have any additional information about this crime, call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit the information online at http://www.888TIPS.com. Information which leads to an arrest may earn the caller a cash reward.

Community Outreach

Prop Movie Money Has Been Used Locally As Counterfeit Money

This information was originally posted on August 11, 2016.  We have received several recent reports of this “movie money” being used recently during garage sale and Craigslist transactions.

Prop Movie Money which is being sold on numerous internet sites has recently been passed locally as counterfeit money.   Be vigilant when accepting cash of any denomination.   The bills are printed with disclaimers and warnings that they are movie prop money but a hurried transaction might aid an offender that is attempting to pass the fake money to an unsuspecting victim.

Prop Movie Money

Here are some of the disclaimers that are found on internet sites that sell the fake money:

prop money disclaimer

Here is a link to the secret service publication that police officers use to help detect counterfeit bills.

bit.ly/2cYp9q2

 

Patrol Division

Patrol Report 08/11/2016

The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 982 calls for service and generated 215 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. August 10 to 7:00 a.m. on August 11, 2016. These are samples of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

 

Date: 08/10/2016    9:40 PM
Location: 15200 Leeward Drive
Offense: Death Investigation
Case Number: 1608100156
Corpus Christi Police responded to a report of a female that was found unconscious on the ground at the bottom of a stairway at an apartment complex located at 15209 Leeward Drive.

Officers found the 74-year-old female in evening clothes with a dog leash around her arm and severe head trauma at the bottom of the staircase in front of her apartment.  The female was transported by CCFD EMS to Bay Area Hospital however, she did not survive and was pronounced dead at 10:15 PM.

Investigators are looking into what caused the female to apparently fall down the steps.

At this time foul play is not suspected.

 

Date: 08/10/2016    6:05 PM
Location: 10200 South Padre Island Drive
Offense: Child Locked in Vehicle
Case Number: 1608100132
Corpus Christi Police Officers broke the window of a vehicle to rescue a child that was locked inside while it was parked at 10241 South Padre Island Drive.

When Officers arrived they found the father of the child standing next to his 2011 Cadillac CTS that was running in the parking lot.  The man told Officers that his one-year-old daughter was secured in a child safety car seat in the vehicle. At the time, the car was still running with the air conditioning on but the man said that the vehicle would only run for a few minutes because the key was not in the ignition.  Shortly after Officers arrived the vehicle engine shut off.  Officers immediately called for a locksmith service to respond.

At the time of the call, the temperature was 90 degrees with a heat index of 110 degrees.  Officer only waited for a short time, before they saw the child start to sweat and the decision was made to break the driver`s window of the vehicle to rescue the child.

The child was not injured, damage to the window was valued at $300.

 

 

Date: 08/11/2016    5:15 AM
Location: 7200 South Padre Island Drive
Offense: Driving While Intoxicated
P.C.  49.04      Class B Misdemeanor
Case Number: 1608110021
Corpus Christi Police arrested a female driver for DWI after she drove her SUV into a field in the 7200 block of South Padre Island Drive.

The investigation determined that the driver of a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe had veered off the roadway crossed the curb and drove into a field and got stuck.  The driver, Rachel Hudak (05/02/1995) was not injured, but was determined to be intoxicated and she was arrested.

She was additionally charged with possession of marijuana when Officers found narcotics in her purse.

 

 

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.

Community Outreach

Crime Stoppers Has Cash Reward To Capture Fugitive Wanted For Intoxicated Assault

Caitlin Cifuentes (9/20/1990) Wanted for Intoxicated Assault
Caitlin Cifuentes (9/20/1990)
Wanted for Intoxicated Assault

Corpus Christi Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward to the first person to call 888-TIPS and helps law enforcement locate 25-year-old Caitlin Cifuentes.

Cifuentes is a fugitive and has two warrants for her arrest for motions to revoke her probation for the original charges of Intoxication Assault, and Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. The Intoxicated Assault happened on August 8, 2013 at Airline and Holly and Cifuentes was accused of operating a silver 2000 Honda Accord while intoxicated at about 1am and caused a vehicle crash which seriously injured a 22-year-old woman.

Cifuentes is described as a 25-year-old woman who stands 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds, with straight brown hair, brown eyes and has a tattoo on her back of an elephant with three heads and the words, “The World is Yours” in latin. The last known address for Cifuentes was on the 7000 block of Smokewood in Corpus Christi and she was last known to be employed at Murdock’s as a bartender.

If you can provide information to help law enforcement locate Caitlin Cifuentes, call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit the information online at http://www.888TIPS.com. Information which leads to an arrest of Cifuentes may earn the caller a cash reward.

Patrol Division

Patrol Report 08/10/2016

The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 881 calls for service and generated 197 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. August 9 to 7:00 a.m. on August 10, 2016. These are samples of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

 

Date: 08/09/2016    4:30 PM
Location: 4700 Kendall Drive
Offense: Burglary
P.C.  30.02      Second Degree Felony
Case Number: 1608090098
Corpus Christi Police arrested a teenage girl after she broke into the home of a family member’s ex-girlfriend to retrieve property that belonged to him.

A 40-year-old woman told Officers that she and her ex-boyfriend previously lived together in the home, located in the 4700 block of Kendall Drive, and he had moved out a few weeks ago.  Recently the woman had posted something on social media about her ex-boyfriend that angered his family.

While the woman was home on Tuesday, two family members of her ex-boyfriend showed up to get some of his property and confront her about the posting.  When the woman refused to open the door for the two, the teenage family member kicked the locked door open, breaking the frame.  The teenager then went inside the home and attacked the woman pushing her up against a television.  She was not injured during the assault.

When Officers arrived they found the teenage girl and her mother in front of the home still yelling at the woman inside. Officers arrested the teenager who had kicked the door in, Stacie Torres (08/20/1998), for burglary with intent to commit assault, a second degree felony.

 

Date: 08/09/2016    10:20 PM
Location: 4300 Leopard Street
Offense: Aggravated Assault
P.C.  22.02      Second Degree Felony
Case Number: 1608090135
A 35-year-old female victim called Corpus Christi Police after another woman hit her in the head several times with a BB gun at a motel located in the 4300 block of Leopard Street.

The victim told Officers that the female suspect got upset with her after a little boy kept knocking on the victim’s motel room door and then he would run off.  The suspect came out to confront the victim who was sitting outside about the knocking.  When the victim tried to explain it was a little boy who kept knocking on the door and not her, the suspect got mad, produced a BB gun and hit her eight times in the head with it.

When Officers arrived they were able to arrest the female suspect, Heather Davis (06/18/1984), for aggravated assault. They were also able to recover the BB gun that they believe was used during the assault.

The victim was treated for cuts to her head at the scene by CCFD EMS.

 


Date: 08/09/2016    7:20 PM
Location: 6700 Pharaoh Drive
Offense: Theft
P.C.  38.123    Class A Misdemeanor
Case Number: 1608090114
A 36-year-old female called Corpus Christi Police after she was told the attorney she hired and paid to represent her in a bankruptcy case was not a lawyer.

The female told Officers that back in April, she paid a man, who she believed was a lawyer, $1,500 to file bankruptcy paperwork on her behalf.  When the man did not return phone calls or emails from the women, she reported him to the Texas State Board of Lawyers to file a complaint.

On Tuesday, she received a letter from the state board stating the man was not licensed to practice law in the State of Texas.  Officers took a theft report for the female.

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.

Community Outreach

3rd WEST NILE MOSQUITO POSITIVE TRAP TEST FOR 5900 COLORADO

 

The Corpus Christi Animal Control and Vector Services received a confirmation of West Nile virus in a mosquito in the 5900 block of Colorado St. from a test that was submitted August 2, 2016.

Vector Services has implemented the Mosquito Management Response Plan to this detection. The response entails the following:

  1. The spraying of a 1/2 mile radius around the area of the detection for three   consecutive nights beginning tonight.
  2. Police Directed Patrol Officers and Neighborhood Services personnel will be attempting to locate any standing water in the affected neighborhood including examining abandoned properties.
  3. Vector Services will conduct continuing surveillance of mosquito traps in the immediate area for signs of the Culex species of mosquito responsible for West Nile virus.

The need to spray a larger area is not necessary based on the entomology of the Culex species mosquito and the normal travel distance of this mosquito. Vector Control will be conducting the aerial spray in the evening, and at dusk, since that is the time the Culex is most active. Residents are reminded to check their property for standing water and to avoid, if possible, outdoor activities at dusk and dawn, wear long sleeve shirts and long pants. Use appropriate mosquito repellent with DEET for themselves and their children. Please call 361-826-2489 if you wish to report abandoned property or high grass or standing water.

Colarado

 

 

Community Outreach

WEST NILE MOSQUITO POSITIVE TRAP TESTS AT 400 BARTLETT AND 1200 MAIN DRIVE

The Corpus Christi Animal Control and Vector Services received a confirmation of 2 West Nile virus detections in mosquitos from the 400 block of Bartlett and the 1200 block of Main. Those mosquitos were submitted for testing on August 2, 2016. The 400 block of Bartlett is a 3 time positive and the 1200 block of Main is a 2 time positive.

Vector Services has implemented the Mosquito Management Response Plan to this detection. The response entails the following:

  1. The spraying of a 1/2 mile radius around the area of the detection for three consecutive nights beginning tonight.
  2. Police Directed Patrol Officers and Neighborhood Services personnel will be attempting to locate any standing water in the affected neighborhood including examining abandoned properties.
  3. Vector Services will conduct continuing surveillance of mosquito traps in the immediate area for signs of the Culex species of mosquito responsible for West Nile virus.

The need to spray a larger area is not necessary based on the entomology of the Culex species mosquito and the normal travel distance of this mosquito. Vector Control will be conducting the aerial spray in the evening, and at dusk, since that is the time the Culex is most active.  Residents are reminded to check their property for standing water and to avoid, if possible, outdoor activities at dusk and dawn, wear long sleeve shirts and long pants. Use appropriate mosquito repellent with DEET for themselves and their children. Please call 361-826-2489 if you wish to report abandoned property or high grass or standing water.

400 Bartlett

1200 Main Drive

Bravo District, Criminal Investigations Division, Patrol Division

Detectives Want Public Help To Identify Woman Involved In Assault

Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2016, 21:53
Location: 1301 Airline Road
Offense: Assault (Penal Code Section 22.01) Class A Misdemeanor
Case Number: 1608020173

Corpus Christi Police Detectives would like help from the public to identify and locate a woman involved in assaulting a 12-year-old girl at a store located at 1301 Airline Road on August 2nd.

A 34-year-old woman reported the assault at 9:53pm on August 2nd and explained to Officers that her 12-year-old daughter ran to her in the store and complained that she was hit in the face by an unknown woman in the store. The 34-year-old woman told Officers  while she was down an aisle, her 12-year-old daughter came ran to her holding her lip and then said that an unknown woman yelled at her for no reason. The 34-year-old woman told Officers that her daughter explained that when she attempted to run away from the unknown woman, the 12-year-old was grabbed her by the left arm and punched her on the left portion of her lip causing it to bleed. The 34-year-old woman told Officers that when she exited the store, the unknown woman was waiting for them in a green Dodge passenger car. The 34-year-old woman told Officers the woman yelled at her, then drove away.

Detectives have obtained video of the woman accused of the assault and would like the public to help identify and locate the woman.

Anyone who can identify this woman, or has any additional information about this case, should call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS or submit the information online at http://www.888TIPS.com. Information provided to Crime Stoppers which leads to an arrest may earn the caller a cash reward.

Patrol Division

Patrol Report 08/09/2016

The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 910 calls for service and generated 262 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. August 8 to 7:00 a.m. on August 9, 2016. These are samples of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

 

Date: 08/09/2016    12:10 AM
Location: 3600 Crestbrook Court
Offense: Assault
P.C.  22.01      Class A Misdemeanor
Case Number: 1608090012
Corpus Christi SWAT and the Hostage Negotiation Team responded to an apartment located in the 3600 block of Crestbrook Court after a man threaten to shoot responding Officers and then held his girlfriend against her will inside the home with him.

The 47-year-old mother to the suspect had originally called police after she and her son got into an argument over a cat.  When her son began to make threats to kill her, the mother left the apartment to call police.

Also in the apartment was the suspects 28-year-old girlfriend who later told Officers that when she also attempted to leave the apartment, her boyfriend refused to let her out, and assaulted her with his hands and fist.

The female was released without any serious injuries just prior to the SWAT and HNT units arriving on the scene, however the suspect stayed inside.

Those specialized units were used to talk the boyfriend, Blake Garcia (10/06/1988), into giving himself up a short time later.   He was arrested for assault, making terroristic threats and unlawful restraint, all misdemeanor offenses.

 

 

Date: 08/08/2016    6:40 PM
Location: 7400 Interstate 37 Access Road North
Offense: Forgery
P.C.  32.21      Third Degree Felony
Case Number: 1608080166
A cashier called Corpus Christi Police after a couple went into the video store, located at 7430 Interstate 37 Access Road North, and used fake money to purchase items.

The cashier told Officers that a middle aged white male and female walked into the store and purchased merchandise and used a counterfeit $100 bill to pay. The cashier did not initially realize that the bill was fake and it was only after the couple left the store that he took a closer look at the money and could tell it was fake.

Officers hope video surveillance from the stores camera system will help them identify the male suspect who passed the counterfeit bill, however, at this time no suspects have been identified.

 

 

 

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.

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