A Staples woman was sentenced last week in a 2008 smuggling case that originated with a search of a San Marcos mobile home that turned up about two dozen aliens from Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and Nicaragua. The aliens were being forcibly detained pending payment of smuggling fees by family and friends.
After push-back from local cabbies last week, the San Marcos City Council nixed a $10 fare cap originally proposed for inclusion in a new taxi law.
The Luling teenager who left the scene of a botched marijuana heist and returned after all the shots had been fired now faces three counts of murder. A Hays County District grand jury has indicted Frank Castro, 18, for one count of capital murder, two counts of felony murder and one count of aggravated robbery.
San Marcos Police Chief Howard Williams tried to re-assure local residents about the city’s safety at a community meeting last Friday night, but he also asked that San Marcians tip off the cops about drug dealing.
In the wake of the latest arrest for a San Marcos home invasion, San Marcos Police Chief Howard Williams said a recent wave of headline violence does not characterize the frequency of violent crime within the city limits.
San Marcos Police Chief Howard Williams has suspended the officer who brought national attention to the city in August 2008 after telling a couple rushing their dying poodle to a veternarian that their pet was “just a dog” during a traffic stop. Williams suspended Officer Paul Stephens last month, citing a pattern of dishonest behavior after an incident at Dillinger’s on the courthouse square.
The Hays County District Attorney’s office said this week that it will not comment as it decides whether to press charges in a botched burglary that ended in the shooting deaths of two people earlier this month.
San Marcos police say they don’t anticipate filing charges against a Chestnut Street resident whose gun shots killed two Luling teenagers in a bungled home invasion early Friday morning. Police have charged a third Luling teen with aggravated robbery, while a fourth Luling teen is hospitalized with serious wounds.
Extended bar hours on the downtown square appear to be drawing night visitors to San Marcos. How will these new patrons mix with Texas State students when they return within the month? It’s too early to tell.
San Marcos CISD and the San Marcos Education Foundation recently honored area law enforcement personnel at its annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Breakfast.
