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The police chief in Bastrop has resigned after being charged with DWI last month in Austin.
According to officials with the Austin Police Department, Chief David Board was pulled over August 16 and charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. The 46 year-old was police chief in Bastrop, about 25 miles southeast of Austin. He has held [...]

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A drunken driver involved in a 2008 crash that killed an Austin woman has been sentenced to three years in prison.
According to court documents, 35 year-old JAmes Kevin Blackerby had been convicted of driving while intoxicated three times prior to his 2008 arrest after the crash that killed 21 year-old Heather Heyns. The arrest affidavit [...]

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Police in Austin have arrested a man accused of assaulting a restaurant employee in an alleged dine-and-dash incident.
According to officials with the Austin Police Department, the incident occurred last month at Antonio’s Restaurant on Highway 183 on Austin’s Northwest side. Police say a man, identified only by his last name - Bounds, and another assailant [...]

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A man is facing felony charges after police say he fired several shots in the air at a North Austin apartment complex Monday afternoon.
According to an arrest affidavit filed Thursday, 24 year-old Alan Carrillo fired several rounds from a .40-caliber Glock handgun shortly after 4:00 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of St. John’s Village [...]

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The Attorney General announced that the 2,000th arrest has been made by the Cyber Crimes and Fugitive units that Abbott made in 2003.
According to the Austin American-Statesman, Kirk Brandon Muller was the 2,000th man arrested.The Statesman reports that Muller, who was “convicted in 1993 for indecency with four children, was arrested for being in [...]

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