Houston man gets probation in $1 million Dr Pepper rebate scam

A Shell station owner in Bakersfield, Calif. complained to no avail when he didn’t get a promised $75 rebate after replacing Tropicana Fruit Punch in his dispensers with Diet Dr Pepper. The Shell owner took his complaint up the chain to Dr Pepper. The Houston rebate company contracted by Dr Pepper ultimately came through with…

Lawmakers call on Chief Art Acevedo to release audit on Houston police’s narcotics division

In the March 4 letter, State Rep. Gene Wu, D-Houston, wrote that the continuing revelations of misconduct that have emerged about the Jan. 28 2019 drug raid that ended with the deaths of Rhogena Nicholas and Dennis Tuttle have “severely compromised” the public’s trust of HPD’s special units and criminal investigations. Democratic state Reps. Anna Eastman, Christina Morales,…

DA’s office recommends man arrested by ex-HPD cop be declared “actually innocent”

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A dozen years after he was first arrested, Otis Mallet is one step closer to being fully exonerated. Monday morning, a judge agreed with prosecutors and defense attorneys, recommending the exoneration to the Court of Appeals. For years, Mallet and his attorneys have argued that evidence in his drug case was…

Houston judge sides with death row prisoner

Whether or not the state of Texas executes Ronald Hamilton could all come down to the fingerprints left more than 15 years ago on a half-empty 40-ounce malt liquor bottle found sitting outside a Houston convenience store. They were the likely fingerprints of a killer – a killer who was not 42-year-old Hamilton, a Harris…