Crime

SWAT utilized for drug warrant

Clinton Bridges, 33, of Beaumont, was arrested June 11 following the execution of a narcotics search warrant, according to the Beaumont Police Department (BPD).Members of the BPD SWAT team executed the warrant, detained Bridges. And searches the premises.

Task force operation nets 28 arrests

The Southeast Texas Violent Crime Task Force conducted a coordinated enforcement operation June 2-6 in areas throughout Southeast Texas identified as having elevated criminal activity, according to the Beaumont Police Department (BPD).

Child killed in suspicious crash

June 6, 2026, at approximately 3:11 a.m., officers with the Beaumont Police Department (BPD) were dispatched to the 4000 block of College Street in reference to a major traffic accident.

Former BPD officer arrested

A former Beaumont police officer has been arrested in Jasper County on a charge of felony assault family violence by impeding breath.

Suspect surrenders after standoff

A suspect surrendered June 9 after deputies attempted to serve a felony warrant and he ran into a home with a firearm, according to Hardin County Sheriff Mark Davis.

Romantic relationship ends with gunshot to victim’s head

A Beaumont man is being held on a $1 million bond after allegedly shooting his girlfriend in the head. The victim later died at a local hospital.

Party bus murderer sentenced

Jaren Battles, arrested in 2023 at 18 years old, was in Jefferson County’s Criminal District Court this past week defending a murder charge dating back to his Beaumont arrest.

Jefferson County felon charged with federal firearms violation in the Eastern District of Texas

Jared Cole Stephenson, 41, of Beaumont, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Stephenson appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Christine L. Stetson on June 8, 2026.

Men arrested for child sex crimes

Two men have been arrested and charged in child sex crime cases, according to the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) jail report.

PAISD teacher, coach killed in Houston

May 26, Marlon Sanders, a music teacher and coach at Port Arthur ISD’s Adams Elementary School and Memorial High School, was shot and killed in northeast Harris County on May 25, according to media reports.The fatal shooting occurred during a child custody exchange.