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Houston Police Assistant Chief Sheryl Victorian has been selected to lead the Waco Police Department. Show MoreShow Less
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Then-Lieutenant Sheryl Victorian at HPD Headquarters, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016 in Houston.Karen Warren, Staff Photographer / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Houston Police Assistant Chief Sheryl Victorian has been selected to lead the Waco Police Department, officials announced.
Waco City Manager Bradley Ford said his recommendation which must be approved by the Waco City Council next week came after a five-month search, with more than 40 applicants from 17 states.
Pittsburgh Police continued the search this week for a Beechview man missing since last month.
Thomas Hughes, 25, was last seen around 11 p.m. on Jan. 23.
His vehicle, a 2012 silver Volkswagen Routan, was found the next day near the South Side Riverfront Trail, authorities said.
Authorities searched that area again Friday, deploying patrol officers, bicycle units, the Special Victims Unit and River Rescue, according to a release from Pittsburgh Police. The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office searched the area from overhead using drones.
Hughes remains missing.
A day prior, police released a security footage from a gas station that captured Hughes the night he was last seen. Police did not say which gas station the footage was from, though they asked that anyone who encountered him around that location to contact the Special Victims Unit.
GALVESTON COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) The mother of a 4-year-old boy whose body was found on a beach in Galveston a little over three years ago has been sentenced to life in prison, authorities announced on Thursday.
According to a news release issued by the Galveston County Criminal District Attorney s Office, 37-year-old Rebecca Suzanne Rivera, the mother of Jayden Alexander Lopez, who was nicknamed Little Jacob , was convicted of injury to a child by omission causing serious bodily injury after a 7-day trial that ended on Thursday.
The boy s body was discovered on East Beach in Galveston in October 2017. Trial evidence showed that Rivera and her girlfriend brought Jayden s body to Galveston after he died in Houston.
Arrest of sex offender in new case sparked questions on registry. Here’s how it works.
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Following the latest arrest of a registered sex offender who authorities allege used Instagram to try to lure a 12-year-old girl to a mall meet-up, questions began to arise regarding the inner-workings of the registry process and the restrictions placed on those convicted.
Readers expressed confusion over why Ryan Behar, 42, of New Springville, who was first arrested in 2018 on charges he tried to coax a 13-year-old child to his apartment for sex, was not on the state’s online sexual-offender registry (he was a level-one offender, and thus not listed). Some asked questions about how offender levels are determined and what that means for the convicted and their neighbors.