Crime

PA investigates two shootings in two hours

The Port Arthur Police Department (PAPD) is investigating a pair of shooting incidents that occurred within two hours of each other on June 19, with one suspect arrested hours later in Louisiana with a dead body in his vehicle.

Child hit by car, shots fired follows

An auto-pedestrian accident involving a child led to a disturbance in which shots were fired on June 17, the Beaumont Police Department (BPD) reports, with zero arrests and zero names released as the investigation continues. According to BPD, officers responded to Liberia Park at 4:13 p.m.

Alleged murderer on the loose; admitted accomplice to plead to robbery

Approximately two-and-a-half years after Antonio Wilson’s murder on Beaumont’s Bedford Drive, 35-year-old Beaumont resident Markeith Rashaad Morgan is expected to accept a plea deal to the lesser charge of robbery, a seconddegree felony.

Suspected meth dealer plucked from community

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Suspect named in grocery store shooting

The Beaumont Police Department (BPD) announced they are searching for Eligo Mendoza, 45, of Beaumont, for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon related to the shooting that occurred June 9 at the HEB grocery store on Dowlen Road.

Indicted: Sex crimes, assaults, drugs and theft

Jefferson County Grand Jury indictments list 27 charged with various felony crimes including robbery related to murder, sexual assault, burglary, and dangerous drug possession.

Students burglarize smoke shop in wee hours

Two males, aged 14 and 16, and two females, both aged 14, were arrested for burglary on June 20 after Beaumont Police Department (BPD) officers responded to the burglary of a smoke shop just after 4 a.m. According to BPD, at 4:11 a.m., officers responded to Boomtown Vapor, 6350 Phelan Blvd.

Alleged Keith Park killer captured

June 15, according to the Beaumont Police Department (BPD), detectives obtained a murder warrant and aggravated assault warrant for a teenage suspect in the Alice Keith Park homicide on June 10.

Wanted Beaumont shooter snagged in San Antonio

The U.S. Marshal from the San Antonio Division, working with information from the Beaumont Police Department (BPD), arrested a Southeast Texas man wanted for murder in San Antonio on June 20, reported BPD.

Half-million-dollar embezzlement halts retirement plans for victim

A Nederland business owner told a Jefferson County criminal court that his secretary stealing more than half-a-million dollars from his business not only invoked a federal audit of his finances, but also resulted in a lengthy delay in the senior citizen’s planned retirement.