Jennifer Ray’s Legal Blog

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has charged Conn’s, a large chain selling electronics, with failing to honor product warranties, misleading customers about products, and other violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.  According to the enforcement suit, there are more than two thousand customer complaints alleging Conn’s unlawfully relied on aggressive and deceptive sales […]

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Alvin police allege that 34 year old Michael Wayne Perkins fired more than 50 shots at officers and wounded a neighbor after they approached him at his apartment complex.  Perkins informed a relative in Austin that he was despondent about a legal problem and shot himself in the leg.  The family member contacted Alvin police […]

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An eighteen year old College Park High School student reported Wednesday morning that a man attempted to abduct her in The Woodlands.  The girl had just gotten off of the school bus around 3pm Tuesday when a black male ordered her to get into his vehicle.  The girl refused and ran to a nearby grocery […]

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Joe “Pancho” Pena, a former general for the Texas Mexican Mafia has pled guilty to federal racketeering charges in San Antonio.  During the proceedings, Pena admitted to ordering five people to be killed between 2003 and 2005.  Pena also admitted to overseeing street operations for the notorious prison gang.  As part of the plea deal, Pena […]

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A local news reporter has pled no contest to a trespassing charge.  KTRK (channel 13) reporter Wayne Dolcefino was accused of trespassing when videotaping a segment on Harris County officials and contractors involved in county construction projects.  Dolcefino and his crew were at Leroy Hermes’s ranch in Austin County at the gate entrance which had […]

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