Man Arrested for Aggravated Assault on a Public Servant

Date: Friday, August 28, 2015, 13:39
Location: 3800 Brookside Drive
Offense: Warrant of Arrest (Code of Criminal Procedure Section 15.03)
Case Number: 1508280082 related to 1505040059

The United States Marshal’s Gulf Coast Fugitive and Violent Offender’s Task Force arrested 21-year-old Jheryl Ray Mancillas (12/9/1993) for a warrant for Mancillas’ arrest for aggravated assault against a public servant with a bond amount set at $180,000 dollars.

Mancillas was involved in an armed confrontation with Corpus Christi Police on May 4, 2015 at 9:30am at his residence on Brookside. No Officers were injured in the confrontation, but Mancillas suffered injuries from gunshots and was in the hospital for treatment for several weeks. Corpus Christi Police Detectives obtained the warrant for the arrest of Mancillas and requested the Marshal’s Task Force to apprehend Mancillas. Mancillas was arrested with no physical confrontation and Mancillas was delivered to the city detention center.

Patrol Report 08/28/2015

The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 1034 calls for service and generated 217 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. August 27 to 7:00 a.m. on August 28, 2015. These are samples of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

 

Date: 08/27/2015       4:05 PM
Location: 3600 Leopard Street
Offense: Arrest of Wanted Person
Case Number: 1508270091
A Corpus Christi Police Officer on patrol through a motel parking lot, located in the 3600 block of Leopard Street, found a wanted person out of San Patricio County.

The Officer observed a parked Ford Explorer in front of a room at the motel. The vehicle was registered to a person that was wanted for an outstanding arrest warrant for sexual assault that was issued on August 26.

The Officer was able to confirm that the man was staying at the motel by checking with the front office. The wanted person, Daniel Billman (02/27/1973), was arrested after he answered the Officers knock on his motel room door.
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Two Suspects Break Into School

Date: 08/26/2015       6:45 AM
Location: 7600 Leopard Street
Offense: Burglary
P.C. 30.02       State Jail Felony
Case Number: 1508260022
Corpus Christi Police Detectives have released camera surveillance images of suspects that they believe broke into the Tuloso-Midway Academic Career Center, located at 7601 Leopard Street, early Wednesday morning.

An employee arrived at work and found a door to the building had been forced open.

Officers went inside and observed damage to several classroom doors. The doors had been forced open and the classrooms had been ransacked.

A television and at least four laptops were stolen from different rooms.

On one of the video clips, two male suspects are seen prying open one of the doors to the school. The other video clip shows one of the two suspects inside the school,  entering a room and looking through a cabinet.

The suspects in this case has not been identified and Detectives need your help in solving this crime. Anyone with information about this case should call the Corpus Christi Police Criminal Investigations Division at 886-2840. Anyone who would like to keep their identity secret and provide information to the Detectives should call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit the tip online at http://www.888TIPS.com. Information provided to Crime Stoppers which results in an arrest may earn the caller a cash reward.

 

Video of two male suspects prying open the door

Video of one of the suspects entering a classroom

Patrol Report 08/27/2015

The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 1030 calls for service and generated 187 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. August 26 to 7:00 a.m. on August 27, 2015. These are samples of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

 

Date: 08/27/2015       2:25 AM
Location: 1000 Morgan Avenue
Offense: Driving While Intoxicated
P.C. 49.04       Third Degree Felony
Case Number: 1508270014
A vehicle stopped at a red light got the attention of a Corpus Christi Police Officer after the light cycled to green and the car did not move.

The Officer approached the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu and saw that the driver was asleep at the wheel and the car was still in drive.

The Officer knocked on the window several times before the man woke up.

After an investigation, the Officer determined that the driver, Juan Daniel Ramos (07/07/1984), was intoxicated. He was arrested for driving while intoxicated, a felony, and his vehicle was impounded.
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Suspect Swipes Handgun From Display Table

DATE: August 23, 2015
LOCATION: 2001 Suntide Road
OFFENSE: Theft of a Firearm
P.C. 31.06   State Jail Felony
CASE NUMBER:
1508230108
Corpus Christi Police Detectives have released a video of a couple that they believe stole a handgun from the table display of a vendor at a Gun Show, held at the Al Amin Shrine Temple, on August 23.

The owner of the weapon told Officers that a male and a female worked together to steal a stainless steel derringer handgun that was on display on a table.

The video shows the male suspect walking in front of the table with a cell phone up to his left ear. The female is seen walking up to the table and then listening to something the male tells her. There is a small handgun on the table, and when the vendor turns his back, the male reaches down and picks up the firearm and walks behind the female to put it in his right pocket

The two suspects are described as being a bald male with brown glasses. He is wearing a light green untucked long sleeve shirt and black pants. The female was wearing a blue top and black pants. She has long black hair and glasses.

The suspects in this case have not been identified and Detectives need your help in solving this crime. Anyone with information about this case should call the Corpus Christi Police Criminal Investigations Division at 886-2840. Anyone who would like to keep their identity secret and provide information to the Detectives should call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit the tip online at http://www.888TIPS.com. Information provided to Crime Stoppers which results in an arrest may earn the caller a cash reward.

 

Video of theft

 

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Photo of the male suspect

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Photo of the female suspect

Patrol Report 08/26/2015

The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 990 calls for service and generated 199 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. August 25 to 7:00 a.m. on August 26, 2015. These are samples of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

Date: 08/26/2015       12:05 AM
Location: 5700 Wooldridge Road
Offense: Burglary With Intent To Commit Other Felonies
P.C. 30.02       First Degree Felony
Case Number: 1508260004
Two females who were babysitting two children at an apartment, located at 5757 Wooldridge Road, were tied up by three suspects, and held against their will for a short time.

Neighbors called Corpus Christi Police after the two females escaped out a back window of the apartment and were going door to door asking for help. When Officers arrived they found the 23 year old and 17 year old girls standing outside a neighbor’s apartment. Neither of the females were injured.

The girls told Officers that they were babysitting inside an apartment when the older female answered a knock on the door. The man at the door, asked to speak to a man that lived at the apartment, but he was told that the male was not home at the time and she closed the door.

About ten minutes later the same man returned and knocked at the door again. When the older female opened the door the man grabbed her by the throat and forced his way into the apartment followed by two black males wearing ski mask. All three males pulled out handguns and ordered the females to sit in a back bedroom.  The females then had their wrist tied together by the suspects.

After several minutes of ransacking the apartment, the three males left with property from the home and each of the females cellphones.

The younger female was able to get free of her restraints and fearing that the males were still in the apartment, she was able to get out of a bedroom window and both fled to a neighbor’s apartment.

The suspect, who knocked on the door, was described as a Hispanic male in his late twenties, about 5’9”tall and weighing between 150 and 170 pounds. The other two suspects were both black males, in their late twenties, between 6’0” to 6’2” tall and both weighing between 150 to 180 pounds.  One of the black males was wearing a ski mask with a skull on it.

The two boys, ages 4 and 5, that the females were babysitting, slept through the entire incident and were not injured.

Officers have not made an arrest, or identified the three suspects involved in this crime and continue to investigate this case.

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Patrol Report 08/25/2015

The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 977 calls for service and generated 247 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. August 24 to 7:00 a.m. on August 25, 2015. These are samples of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

Date: 08/25/2015       5:00 AM
Location: 3500 Greenwood Drive
Offense: Aggravated Robbery
P.C. 29.03       First Degree Felony
Case Number: 1508250030
A 26 year old male victim called Corpus Christi Police after he was robbed while riding his skateboard to work.

The victim told Officers that a newer model silver Lincoln Towncar with large rims pulled up next to him, and three Hispanic males got out and one was armed with a gun. Two of the three suspects were wearing masks.

The suspects demanded money and took cash from the victim and then left. The victim was not injured.

Officers are still investigating this case, and at this time no suspects have been arrested.

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Detectives Arrest Man for Capital Murder

Corpus Christi Police Detectives obtained a warrant for the arrest of 33-year-old Lionel Pena for Capital Murder as a result of the death of a 2-year-old boy on the 800 block of Twenty Fifth Street on August 18, 2015. Pena was originally accused of Injury to a Child until the child died from the injuries, now the accusation against Pena has been upgraded to Capital Murder. After the child died, Detectives obtained a warrant on August 24 from the Justice of the Peace Precinct 1, the Honorable Joe Benavidez, then Detectives served Pena with the warrant at the Nueces County Jail. The warrant states the bond is set at $500,000.00 dollars.

The original post in this blotter stated:

Date: 08/18/2015       10:05 PM
Location: 800 25th Street
Offense: Injury to A Child
P.C. 22.04       First Degree Felony
Case Number: 1508180143
A 2 year old boy is at Driscoll Hospital in very serious condition, and a man is in jail for hitting him.

Corpus Christi Police responded to a home located in the 800 block of 25th Street after the mother of the child called to report her son had fallen and was not breathing.  The child was then carried to Spohn Memorial Hospital by family members.

When Officers arrived at the emergency room, they were told that the two year old boy was in serious condition and being transferred to Driscoll Children’s Hospital.

Officers then went to the home of the child to investigate. Once there, Detectives were notified, and after an investigation, Lionel Pena (10/25/1981), a man that lives at the home, was arrested for injury to a child.

Crashes Happen Very Quick! Be Careful Out There.

A reminder that things can happen very quickly when you are driving.

This video was captured by the dash camera of a Corpus Christi Police Department patrol unit as it sat parked on the side of the road in the 700 block of Brownlee Boulevard on August 20.

The 2011 Toyota Corolla was traveling west on Mary Street when it fail to yield the right of way at a stop sign and struck a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado truck traveling south on Brownlee Boulevard.

The Chevrolet was then forced off the road and into a wooden fence and also into a parked GMC truck  in the 1600 block of Mary Street.

The driver of the at fault vehicle was taken to Spohn Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. She was issued a citation for running the stop sign.

Three other people in the Chevrolet truck were not injured.

 

Patrol Report 08/24/2015

The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 745 calls for service and generated 186 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. August 23 to 7:00 a.m. on August 24, 2015. These are samples of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

 

Date: 08/23/2015       10:05 PM
Location: 2500 Fig Street
Offense: Deadly Conduct
P.C. 22.05       Third Degree Felony
Case Number: 1508230142
An 18 year old female babysitting two children, at a home in the 2500 block of Fig Street, called Corpus Christi Police after a man fired five shots into the home.

Officers arrived and the female told them that a man, she did not know, knocked on the door looking for two men that lived there. She told him that they were not there, and closed the door.

She went to check on the kids, and at that time noticed the man was still walking around outside. A short time later, she heard five shots fired, three of which went through the walls of a back bedroom of the home.

No one inside the home was injured.

No suspects have been arrested, and Officers continue to investigate this crime

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