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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston woman has been convicted for plotting to murder her friend and kidnap her newborn baby in 2017, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. On Tuesday, 35-year-old Erika Miranda-Alvarez pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. On December 19, 2017, family members discovered 33-year-old Carolina Flores-Miranda stabbed to …

PASADENA, Texas (KTRK) — A woman who once worked for the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce will spend 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $1 million from her place of work. Jamie Huffar pleaded guilty to theft and forgery over a five-year period that started in 2017. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office said Huffar, who worked …

McKinney GOP Rep. Frederick Frazier is expected to plead no contest next week to two misdemeanor charges of attempting to impersonate a public servant, the Hopkins County District Attorney said in an email obtaine. Frazier, a Dallas police officer and freshman lawmaker, will be given one year of deferred adjudication probation, Will Ramsay said Friday in an email to the complainant in …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man will spend almost six decades behind bars for killing a man he got into a fender bender with three years ago, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. Treyivion Shaquille Ross, 26, was convicted of murder after brutally beating David Ray Young, 56, who died two years after the incident. It was 2020 when …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A youth sports coach in Houston’s northside has been sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting young girls on his team, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced on Thursday. Juan Jose Cruz, 56, who also went by “John,” was sentenced to 35 years after a guilty plea for two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man wanted for a woman’s murder in Colorado was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of fatally stabbing an acquaintance and stealing his car in Houston in 2019, the district attorney’s office announced. Abbas Abdal Abed, 47, was convicted by a jury last Thursday for the stabbing death of 29-year-old Abdulrahman Haris on Dec. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Sugar Land man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the 2016 fatal shooting of a tattoo artist, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced. Abdul-Rahman Kahn, 27, was sentenced on Thursday after a jury convicted him of murdering 33-year-old Peter Pina, a body piercing technician who worked at the Electric Chair Tattoo & Piercing …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole after he was convicted of killing his wife and her lover in their southwest Houston home in 2018. Jordy Husein Suljanovic, 46, who’s a Bosnian immigrant, shot and killed his wife, Adriana Perez, and her boyfriend, Omar Santamaria-Ruiz, on Oct. 2, 2018. According to …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man will face 38 years in prison after being convicted killing his wife in 2019 and trying to make it look like a case of self-defense, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. Mark Anderson, 36, was sentenced on Friday after a weeklong trial for the murder of Tiereney Nicole Anderson, 34, in their home …

BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Former Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson is cleared from a legal pending case in Brazoria County, according to the county’s district attorney’s office. A 10th case related to allegations of improper sexual conduct was presented to a Brazoria County grand jury Wednesday. But by Thursday afternoon, the district attorney’s office told ABC13 the jury refused to indict …