Public Safety

Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.

Public Safety

Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.

Public Safety

Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.

  • police mugshot for Eugenio Les Zavala, 34, convicted of Driving While Intoxicated

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    Five-time DWI offender sentenced to 50 years in prison

    A Montgomery County jury sentenced Eugenio Les Zavala, 34, to 50 years in prison on July 21 for his fifth DWI conviction, after prosecutors used the state's habitual felony offender statute to elevate the punishment range to 25 years to life.

  • Aerial view of a flooded river swallowing a road amid flat scrubland.

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    Montgomery County emergency team deployed to South Texas flood zone

    Montgomery County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management personnel are deployed to the Texas Coastal Bend, working with more than 100 first responders as the Nueces River approaches a 40-foot crest near Three Rivers that could flood homes for miles.

  • Six uniformed people raise their right hands during a swearing-in ceremony before a sheriff's office backdrop.

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    Montgomery County Sheriff's Office hires six, promotes three in staffing push

    The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office hired five detention officers and one dispatcher and promoted three employees the week of July 28, continuing a staffing push at the agency that patrols The Woodlands.

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    Remains of Montgomery County teen missing since 2020 identified

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit announced Tuesday, July 28, that it has identified remains recovered in January 2020 as those of Kristen Galvan, a 15-year-old who disappeared from Montgomery County after becoming a human trafficking victim; the criminal investigation remains open.