Vigilantism

A 25-year-old Baytown woman has been charged over allegations that she used the internet to harass a registered sex offender and his family, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said. Darien Lombrana is accused of using social media to “harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, and embarrass” a registered sex offender, according to court records. The sheriff’s office said she posted about

The then-17-year-old boy was armed with two things: his BB gun and a list of local registered sex offenders, available through a public statewide database that tracks them, according to authorities. The teen proceeded to travel around town, accosting and threatening people convicted of sex crimes, and occasionally shooting at them with the BB gun. On March 15, he was

A fundraising campaign for a teenager accused of murdering a 56-year-old registrant was recently shut down by GoFundMe. The campaign had raised thousands of dollars from supporters who viewed the accused as hero. It says a lot about our society when an individual charged with killing someone was able to attract widespread public sympathy, financial support, and a community willing

Detectives with the Collegedale Police Department connected the disappearance of a 56-year-old man to an 18-year-old, who now faces several charges, including criminal homicide. Police said that on June 9, someone reported that Neal “had told her that he had killed someone, but they were a rapist and missing, and that he disposed of the body,” the affidavit stated. Detectives

Late on a Saturday night in McAllen, Texas, Sanjay Singhania was awoken by a call from a phone number he didn’t recognize. The man on the line said that Mr. Singhania’s son, Akash, was being arrested. The stranger was not trying to be helpful. He sounded amused. Mr. Singhania hung up and tried to call Akash, 25, who lived in