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Jalon Nixon

Jalon Nixon

Gun malfunction saves BPD officers

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Two Beaumont police officers survived an alleged murder attempt after a teenager’s gun malfunctioned at an apartment complex on Dowlen Road July 3.

Name released in Orange homicide

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Saturday, June 25, at about 10:30 a.m., Orange Police Department officers were dispatched to Interstate 10, just east of Highway 62, in reference to a white male with a gunshot wound.

Osvaldo Rodriguez

Osvaldo Rodriguez

Fugitive killed after Beaumont sighting

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After Mont Belvieu police announced a man as a suspect in the murder of his estranged wife, officers in near the Texas-Mexico border found the man dead after he was hit by a truck on Highway 77 in

Chelsea Shipp

Chelsea Shipp

Duo indicted in love triangle murder

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Marking two corners of an allegedly murderous, tri-county love triangle, two Southeast Texans in their 20s allegedly killed and hid the body of the man’s 16-year-old girlfriend March 26 .

Michael Bertrand

Michael Bertrand

Child assaults lowlights VPD arrests

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Officers arrested seven people between June 12 and 18, according to a report from the Vidor Police Department (VPD), with crimes including continuous sex abuse of a child and public intoxication.

Eric Sunderland

Eric Sunderland

Nederland felon becomes unwilling absconder

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After a 34-year-old man fled from narcotics detectives with an array of drugs, as well as an unwilling absconder in tow, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) officers arrested a pair of Nederla