Christian Ivan Cavazos, a Houston gang member, was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in a 2019 crime spree that resulted in five deaths.

A former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the killing of hip-hop music legend Tupac Shakur in 1996 can be released from jail and serve house arrest with electronic monitoring ahead of his trial in June, a judge decided Tuesday.

FBI Houston is conducting a massive arrest operation targeting alleged violent gang members throughout the city Thursday.

Mexican authorities have raised the death toll from an attack on a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas to 17.

A violent crime initiative announced Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice will bring a new focus on prosecuting Houston’s most disruptive criminals and targeting gang members, who law enforcement leaders say are responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime in the city.

An alleged gang member who was arrested Tuesday managed to bring a gun into a Harris County Jail facility because an arresting officer failed to find it during a body search, according to an affidavit.

Brandon Deshun Hawkins, 36, pleaded guilty on Sep. 29, 2021, to being a felon in possession of a firearm. For that offense, he was sentenced Wednesday to serve to 37 months in federal prison.

A new report says cyber criminal gangs are getting increasingly adept at hacking and becoming more professional, even setting up an arbitration system to resolve payment disputes among themselves.

HOUSTON Houston Police Department is searching for Samantha Molina, a confirmed gang member. Molina, 20, is accused of aggravated robbery and aggravated assault in two separate shooting incidents in Harris County. On May 19, police say Molina had a confrontation with a complainant at a Houston apartment complex located in the 3100 block of Crestdale Drive. When they arrived at the gas station, Molina is accused of holding the man at gunpoint and demanding money from him. Information may be reported by calling 713-222-TIPS (8477) or submitted online on the Houston Crime Stoppers website.

HOUSTON – A judge will decide whether a teenage girl will be tried as an adult in connection with the slaying of Lamar High School student DeLindsey Mack, according to investigators. The teenage girl now charged in his death told Mack and the other girl that she had to leave, investigators said. Along with the Lamar High Schol student and Johnson, Dave’on Thomas is also a suspect charged in connection with the case. They mentioned that the juvenile female suspect was smart, more mature than the average person in detention and manipulative. KPRC 2 will not make the identity of the teenage girl charged in Mack’s death public unless she is charged as an adult.