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A suspect was in custody Saturday after she allegedly assaulted a woman and her daughter who confronted the individual about a traffic collision in West Temple, police said.
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The Killeen Police Department’s announcement about an 11-pound meth bust last week seemed to the Herald’s newsroom to be a very sizable amount of drugs to be taken off the streets.
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The 11 pounds of methamphetamine confiscated Wednesday during a Temple traffic stop had an estimated street value at more than $125,000 and was likely part of an ongoing Houston to Central Texas trafficking route, Ofelia Miramontez, a public affairs officer for the Killeen Police Department, said Friday.
A man was indicted this week after Killeen police said he was intoxicated when he was driving his red Ford Fusion in the opposite lane of travel, allegedly causing a crash that killed a 26-year-old woman in 2022.
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Eleven pounds of methamphetamine were discovered Wednesday during a traffic stop on a vehicle bound for Killeen from Houston on Wednesday, police said.
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BELTON — After deliberating on Wednesday, a jury decided that a former Fort Cavazos soldier is not guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old Temple girl in 2018.
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A Fort Cavazos soldier has been arrested in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot in Connecticut — which included two children.
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BELTON — During the first day of testimony in a sexual assault trial, a jury heard from two law enforcement officers who told them about the defendant’s piercing known as a “Prince Albert,” a detail that was reported to police by the then-teenaged accuser.
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Editor's Note: The following story is being reprinted with the permission of Stars and Stripes, which retains all rights. The story was written by Phillip Walter Wellman and Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes staff writers, and originally ran on April 30, on www.stripes.com. The article con…
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A Fort Cavazos soldier who is accused of getting two girls drunk in 2018, and then sexually assaulting one of them, will have his case heard by a jury this week in a Belton courtroom.
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Five children, including a teenage daughter of one of the suspected shooters, were endangered during a drive-by shooting incident earlier this year, according to Copperas Cove police.
A 26-year-old woman who was found in a vehicle’s backseat with marijuana and a 15-year-old boy in Killeen in 2021, was sentenced last week to a term of deferred adjudication probation on a felony charge.
A Harker Heights man who choked a woman for being in the bathroom too long was sentenced last week to prison time for felony assault.
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A woman was indicted last week after Killeen police said she left her two children home alone and one of them started a fire while playing with her lighter.
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The Killeen Police Department annual report released earlier this week makes one thing abundantly clear: Crime is down in Killeen.
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A federal civil rights lawsuit against an ex-Copperas Cove Police Department officer that had been on hold since last summer now will proceed since the officer was sentenced on a felony charge.
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A jury this week decided that a Killeen woman is guilty of felony assault after her pit bull attacked a man doing yard work while she used a pistol to threaten two women at a home during a domestic incident in 2018.
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BELTON — A Killeen woman who is accused of pulling a pistol on three people while her pit bull attacked a man told a jury that she thought her dog was in danger during the alleged incident that occurred almost six years ago.
A Gatesville man was arrested Monday morning after driving past a school bus in South Mountain, just east of Gatesville, as the bus was stopped to load children about 6:35 a.m.
A review of crime statistics reported by the Killeen Police Department for March shows a 10.9% decrease in crimes against persons, property and society from the same period last year.
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Almost six years ago in Killeen, a woman allegedly used a firearm to threaten three people while her pit bulls attacked and injured a man. This week, a jury will hear evidence in the case.
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A Killeen business is disputing a claim by the Killeen Police Department that officers found marijuana and other drugs at a “Puff Puff Pass Paint N Sip” event held last weekend in the city.
Police: Killeen toddler beaten to death by parents
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More than three years passed between the fatal shooting of a 45-year-old woman and the arrest of a man accused of being behind the gun, but it took less than three months for an indictment to be handed down.
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COPPERAS COVE — A Copperas Cove man was arrested this week after allegedly leaving a backpack of drugs in the Copperas Cove Junior High parking lot.
A Killeen man who pointed a pistol at a woman during an argument last year was sentenced this week to a prison term for armed assault.
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Court documents: IT employee embezzled nearly $400K from Killeen law firm, bought more than 100 guns
An ex-employee of a Texas-based law firm was indicted this week after Killeen police said he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of several years and allegedly used some of the money to purchase more than 100 firearms.
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BELTON — After a trial last year, a jury deadlocked and could not decide whether a Killeen man was guilty of a first-degree felony after he punched his infant daughter in the head, causing a skull fracture and brain bleed that led to her death two days later. This week, a second jury convict…
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