A car that was stolen at gunpoint was recovered by Missouri City police when a house alarm went off in the 2000 block of Honeysuckle.
On Nov. 19 a woman was filling her car up with gas at a Shell station in the 12700 block of Gessner at the Beltway. She told police that as she was putting gas in her car, a man walked up to her with a gun and demanded her keys. She says the man had been standing in front of the store watching her. She gave him her keys, and he took her car.
On Nov. 23, a house alarm went off on Honeysuckle, and an officer in the area responded. As he approached the house he saw a car leaving the driveway in reverse, and followed it. He lost sight of the car for a few seconds, and when he saw it again it was up on a curb, still running, and the driver was gone. The car was identified as the one stolen Nov. 19.
A witness told police she saw the suspect get out of the car, go into her backyard, then jump the fence. He is described as a light-skinned Hispanic man wearing all black, including black gloves. Police recovered a gun that matched the description given by the woman at the gas station.
According to reports, the suspect threw a cement block through a rear window of the house on Honeysuckle, but was apparently scared off when the alarm sounded.
Police have the car and are checking it for further evidence. The suspect was never located.
2. December 2009 at 8:09 am
Why would anyone contact Grady over HPD, HCSO or Harris County politics. He’s a fort bend county commissioner. Perhaps you should contact those commissioners or the Harris County sheriffs office over increasing crime in those areas or get Robert Hebert, our county judge, to contact them and beef up our Sheriffs patrols across the border in that area. I wonder why they haven’t already?
2. December 2009 at 6:33 am
Fact: It’s a blessing …my high school classmate loved his job as a Detective with the HPD force, (wearing his cool motorcycle helmet on his head, mind you!) So what’s this talk about Houston compromising our assets in Sugar Land? Maybe Dec Cty Commissioner Precinct 2 rode off on his motorcycle into the sunset? Please — for our families sake– let’s love our cops!
28. November 2009 at 3:37 pm
I called Dem Cty Commissioner Prct 2 and he was out of town again.
27. November 2009 at 8:17 pm
I love that one, yertle the turtle.
27. November 2009 at 6:10 pm
and once again the topic is “Car Stolen At Gunpoint Used In Attempted Home Burglary”.
Why not call the Prnct 2 Cty Commissioner and ask what he’s doing to protect his district from these thugs? Ask him if he’s speaking to Chief Hurtt of HPD. Ask him if he’s speaking to Dem Mayor Bill White about Houston being a “sanctuary city” for criminals.
2010 is an election year for the Commissioner, who knows he may even stay in town and do something.
27. November 2009 at 1:09 pm
‘ I am an oppressed and manipulated taxpayer who is being asked to serve the needs of a bloated vendor feeding frenzy at my own expense.’ Me too Patriot. It is time to speak up and unmask those that would run interference for those vendors wagging the dog you talk about.
As for fortbendconservative, why are you quoting yourself? Isn’t that your statement? Is that logical? Reread my no. 3 & 10 and it will all be clear to you (like it isn’t already LOL).
27. November 2009 at 1:00 pm
“There are some who don’t need desperation in order to resort to crime. They parade as “conservatives” while they steal from all of us and then hide behind “steeples.”
If we don’t acknowledge the needs of others, their issues soon become real problems to all of us. Name calling and Puritan judgemental-ism does not solve our challenges.”
Are you asking me who I am? I am an oppressed and manipulated taxpayer who is being asked to serve the needs of a bloated vendor feeding frenzy at my own expense.
I would feel safer about crime, if these vendor feeders were made to stop destroying the fabric of our communities through raising taxes and privatizing government obligations. I am Yertle the Turtle and “our backs will all crack!” under this political and economic oppression. Who am I? I am angry! Who am I? I am becoming more knowledgeable about the real criminals in my community. Who am I? I am the bulk of people who have been silent until now.
27. November 2009 at 9:15 am
Ah ha, exactly! Transparent in response to “your own” actions? Please let’s all walk this baby-step together! It’s true. The criminal element is surviving just fine– why? They foresee you are allowing them to take control of our “riches” as we let them… Judge Hebert’s Commissioner’s Court: are you allowed to present yourself as an outstanding committed citizen to change your woes? Since, it is I whom “faces up” here as to (my real name & pic), no I do not always have to go at it alone. Just who are you, to deny us your real name?
27. November 2009 at 6:52 am
Tabor you’re letting your emotions over ride facts. Don’t put words in my mouth.
Once again “I’m appealing to the logical citizens”.
26. November 2009 at 8:48 pm
“the only county commission who’s district is made up mostly of Houston is Dem Commission Grady Prestage.”
And Bob Hebert (R) doesn’t have any responsibility for that Fort Bend area that you incorrectly label as ‘Houston’. Why aren’t you telling people to call Hebert (R), Prestage (D) (bte, who usually votes with Hebert) and Milton (R)? Stop the games, you are much too transparent.
26. November 2009 at 8:43 pm
Of course you are, who do you think you are kidding? And you are trying to make this your usual partisan attack platform. Why aren’t you calling on the republican sheriff to work harder to keep crime down in east county? Nope I think what you are doing is very obvious and a complete waste of time. Besides there is no longer a clear boundary between Houston and our east county, as you well know.
No further partisanship doesn’t solve the crime problem or stop these driveway assaults and robberies. Pointing the finger at one minority group or another doesn’t either. As the documentation above states we have many culprits and enough blame to go around in this economy. So stop the rancor. And what happened to your repeat claims that everything is ok in east fort bend county? Suddenly the empty sloganeering is gone.
26. November 2009 at 4:51 pm
Tabor don’t let your emotions over ride logic, I’m not attacking “the very labor you are attacking”. I said the two previous dem Mayors in Houston declared Houston a scanctuary city and destroyed the HPD. Criminals have found a sanctuary city in Houston and they scurry into Ft Bend commit crimes then run back to their sanctuary.
I’m appealing to the logical citizens to call the dem cty prcnt 2 commissioner and demand the existing laws be enforced, and ask what the do nothing dem cty commissioner is doing to protect citizens in Ft Bend Cty he swore to protect and serve.
The dem commissioner is up for election in 2010 where are the reformers?
26. November 2009 at 2:46 pm
On topic? All I see is you repeating your usual blame game and party rhetoric. The PAC info posted above demonstrates full well which special interest, many who give to both parties, rely on the very labor you are attacking. At least don’t keep the blinders on. Stupidity is not a virtue and neither is finger pointing.
26. November 2009 at 1:02 pm
I believe the thread is a car jacking in Houston and the car was was used in a crime in Ft Bend Cty. i’ll be happy to discuss the “Houston Effect” on crime in Ft Bend with anyone who’s not trying to take the thread off topic.
26. November 2009 at 9:31 am
How do people support themselves when the “real” unemployment rate is 17% and within certain minorities as high as 25%? There is a point where even I would resort to crime to feed my family.
There are some who don’t need desperation in order to resort to crime. They parade as “conservatives” while they steal from all of us and then hide behind “steeples.”
If we don’t acknowledge the needs of others, their issues soon become real problems to all of us. Name calling and Puritan judgemental-ism does not solve our challenges.
26. November 2009 at 7:49 am
the only county commission who’s district is made up mostly of Houston is Dem Commission Grady Prestage.
The last two dem mayors in Houston have destroyed the HPD and declared Houston a scantuary city harboring criminals.
Part of Houston encroaches into Ft Bend like a cancer, committing crimes then retreating back into the scantuary of Houston. On this particular thread, the car was stolen in Houston and used to commit a crime in Ft Bend.
Call the democrat County Commissioner Grady Prestage and demand he take action to protect the citicens in Ft Bend. He is up for reelection in 2010, where are the reformers?….silent.
Tabor don’t makes excuses by saying evryone does it. Houston’s scantuary city status is one of the reasons we have a higher crime rate here. Try to stay on topic.
25. November 2009 at 8:07 pm
Wasn’t it Bob Perry’s (R) boys that funded a PAC that pushed for harsh talk on immigration before the 2004 presidential election, but then later softened the rhetoric when he realized many of the workers building his homes were seasonal labor? Doesn’t Prestage (D) and many republicans too accept campaign contributions from these special interest? Is it really a ‘party’ problem?
Texas business: Pass immigration reform (From ALI-PAC, see membership below)
06:59 AM CDT on Monday, August 28, 2006
Often, in the middle of a heated debate, people forget exactly what they’re arguing about. But we employers on the front lines of American business cannot forget � we know why the nation must come to grips with illegal immigration. We know that Americans must face up to the reality of the foreign workers we need to keep the economy growing and bring them under the rule of law, for their sake and ours.
We own and run a variety of businesses: agriculture, food processing, hospitality, construction, banking and more, mostly but not exclusively in Texas. And we know, if not firsthand, certainly at close reach, just how much the economy depends on immigrant labor.
It’s not that Americans don’t work hard. They do. But the native-born workforce is changing rapidly. In 1960, half of all American men dropped out of high school and looked for unskilled work; today, less than 10 percent do. Baby boomers are retiring. Fertility rates are declining. Yet every year, the economy creates hundreds of thousands of new jobs that require few if any skills, and in the next decade, we will be millions of workers short.
Not all employers mean well, of course. Some companies exploit illegal immigrants. But most who turn to foreign workers do so out of necessity. We aren’t looking for “cheap labor.” We’re looking for available labor, period � and for some businesses, the choice is to hire immigrants or close shop.
Think for a minute about one Texas sector that relies heavily on immigrant workers: construction. A typical Texas construction worker earns more than $50,000 a year if he regularly works overtime. Employers say they do everything they can to attract native-born workers. But few young Americans want to do hard physical labor, particularly in our climate. And in the less-skilled construction trades � masonry, concrete, drywall, tile � more than 80 percent of Texas’ workforce is Latino.
Meanwhile, sectors like farming, which compete with construction and pay less, often can’t find workers. Things have gotten so bad this year that one Rio Grande Valley farmer had to stand by and watch as $400,000 worth of cantaloupes rotted in the fields because he couldn’t find workers to pick them.
These immigrant laborers aren’t just the backbone of their companies; they’re also the backbone of the regional economy. Out in the Rio Grande Valley, at least a dozen other local businesses � from grocery stores to companies that supply fertilizer and farm machinery � see their profits rise and fall with those of the local farm. And scores of native-born workers would be out of work if the farm closed or moved across the border.
As for construction, Dallas-area school systems alone underwent $750 million worth of construction this summer. According to industry executives, without foreign-born workers, few of those new or renovated classrooms would have been ready when school opened this month.
You hear the same story across the U.S. A relatively small number of foreign workers keeps millions of native-born Americans employed. This, in turn, keeps the economy growing, and we all share in the prosperity that results.
Not only that, but immigrant workers renew and reinvigorate America. They remind us what it’s like to give a job your all. We talk about old-fashioned family values; they live them. And those of us who cherish our faith and love our country can only rejoice at their devotion to both.
As chairmen, CEOs and stockholders, we call on Congress to act � to go back to Washington and pass realistic immigration reform that provides the workers we need to keep our businesses growing.
We understand that this will include workplace enforcement. In fact, we welcome reform that gives us the tools to stay on the right side of the law. The important thing is that this vital part of the economy be brought under the rule and protection of the law.
Neither the immigrants here today nor those we will need in the future should have to live in the shadows. These are good people with good values doing work that we need done, reaching for the American Dream and helping make it a reality for all. As we value the work, let us value the worker � and let’s fix the law so that it serves all Americans.
Signed,
Bo Pilgrim
Pilgrim’s Pride, Pittsburg
Harold Simmons
Contran Corporation, Dallas
Bob Perry
Perry Homes, Houston
Vance Miller
Henry S. Miller, Dallas
J. Huffines
Huffines Auto Group, Dallas
Red McCombs
McCombs Enterprises, San Antonio
W.L. Hunt
Hunt Building Corporation, El Paso
James Leininger
M.D., San Antonio
Phil Adams
Phil Adams Company, Bryan
Bob Barnes
Schlotzsky’s, Austin
Kent Hance
Hance Scarborough Wright, Dallas
Tom Loeffler
Loeffler Tuggey Pauerstein Rosenthal LLP, San Antonio
Louis Beecherl
Beecherl Investments, Dallas
Henry J. “Bud” Smith
Bud Smith Organization, Dallas
Dennis Nixon
IBC Bank, Laredo
Ernesto Ancira Jr.
Ancira Enterprises, San Antonio
Tom Hewitt
Interstate Hotels & Resorts
Tom Corcoran
FelCor Lodging Trust Inc.
Lionel Sosa
MATT.org, San Antonio
Henry Cisneros
CityView, San Antonio
Henry R. Mu�oz III
Kell Mu�oz Architects, San Antonio
Harold MacDowell
TDIndustries, Dallas
Pedro Aguirre
Aguirre Corporation, Dallas
Robert “Buddy” Barnes
Dee Brown Inc., Garland
Stephen M. Pitt
Boulder Imports, Houston
Brad Bouma
Select Milk Producers Inc., Plainview
Wayne Palla
Dairy Farmers of America, Grapevine
Jim Baird
Lone Star Milk Producers Inc., Windthorst
Randy Davis
Greenleaf Nursery, El Campo
Josh Bracken
Nicholson-Hardie Garden Centers, Dallas
David R. Pinkus
Tawakoni Plant Farm, Wills Point
Don Darby
Darby Greenhouses & Farms, Jacksonville
Georges Le Mener
Accor North America, Carrollton
Stevan Porter
InterContinental Hotels Group
John Caparella
Gaylord Hotels
Tony Farris
Quorum Hotels
25. November 2009 at 4:58 pm
As Houston the home of the Katrina refugees and a democrat designated sanctuary city continue to encroach on Ft Bend Cty these crimes will continue.
The carjacking took place in Houston and was used in a crime in MC.
Call or write Dem Prcnt 1 Cty Commish Prestage and ask what is he doing to work with Houston on these crimes. Cty Commissioner Prestage’s district is mostly in Houston (from Post Oak to Fondren and South to 2234. Demand immediate action from dem commissioner Prestage ask him what he’s doing to demand Houston stop sheltering criminals.
25. November 2009 at 1:54 pm
Carjackings again? First home invasions and now these. Not a good start to the holidays.