By DANIEL BORUNDA | The El Paso Times | Published: January 15, 2021 EL PASO, Texas (Tribune News Service) A Fort Bliss soldier was formally accused Thursday of three sexual assaults within a year, including allegedly raping a soldier later found dead on New Year s Eve. Pfc. Christian G. Alvarado was arraigned at a general court martial on Fort Bliss for violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. A military judge has not yet set a trial date. Alvarado faces three allegations of sexual assault, a charge of aggravated assault and two counts of making false statements to military law enforcement investigators. According to a charging sheet document, Alvarado is accused of raping Pfc. Asia M. Graham while she was unconscious on Dec. 30, 2019, in Fort Bliss.
By EMERSON CLARRIDGE | The Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Published: January 15, 2021 FORT WORTH, Texas (Tribune News Service) When FBI special agents searched Larry Brock Jr. s Grapevine apartment, they found hanging in a closet a jacket with red markings that resembles one in a photo that he has acknowledged shows him on the U.S. Senate floor last week as the legislative body was to certify the Electoral College vote. In the trash was a patch, previously Velcroed to Brock s body armor, that shows the Punisher, a comic character that has become a symbol of vigilante justice. Brock had helpfully left on top of gun safes codes to access them, believing that law enforcement officers would want to open the empty containers.
By MATT SMITH | Cleburne Times-Review, Texas | Published: December 23, 2020 CLEBURNE, Texas (Tribune News Service) A Burleson pilot died Saturday after the kit plane he was flying crashed in a business parking lot. Burleson police and firefighters responded to the back parking lot of a business at 605 E. Renfro St. where they found the crashed plane and pronounced Earl Kirkpatrick, 85, dead at the scene. Kirkpatrick was the sole occupant of the plane, police said. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. The plane was a Sonex, a small kit aircraft that Kirkpatrick had taken for its first flight. Kirkpatrick s son, Forrest Kirkpatrick, told nbcdfw.com that his father founded ELK Engineering Associates, a company specializing in corrosion engineering and electrical grounding services. Kirkpatrick, ELK principal engineer and chairman of the board, still worked four days a week at the company, his son said.