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HURRICANE SEASON JUNE 1 - NOVEMBER 30
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HURRICANE SEASON JUNE 1 - NOVEMBER 30
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NEWS SEPTEMBER 2010
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weekend recap news story 02.15.10 KSHN FIRST REPORTED FRIDAY AFTERNOON THAT THE DISCHARGE RATE AT THE LAKE LIVINGSTON DAM HAS BEEN INCREASED TO 49,300 CUBIC FEET OF WATER PER SECOND. AT THAT RATE OF DISCHARGE, THE TRINITY RIVER IN LIBERTY IS ESTIMATED TO CREST NEAR 28.5 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL TODAY. THAT WILL RESULT IN SOME SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IN MANY OF THE LOW-LYING AREAS ALONG THE RIVER – AT LEASE TO ROADS AND LOW-LYING PORTIONS OF SUBDIVISIONS. ACCORDING TO LAKE LIVINGSTON PROJECT MANAGER BILL HOLDER, THE DAM IS NOW RELEASING ROUGHLY AS MUCH WATER AS IS FLOWING INTO LAKE LIVINGSTON FROM THE NORTH. HE SAID NO MORE SIGNIFICANT DISCHARGE INCREASES ARE EXPECTED. ALSO OVER THE WEEKEND, KSHN REPORTED A CITY OF CLEVELAND POLICE OFFICER HAS BEEN INDICTED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING. ACCORDING TO CLEVELAND POLICE chief MARK BRADSHAW, ONE OF HIS OFFICERS, BLUFFORD BLANKENSHIP LIVES IN CONROE BUT HAS WORKED AS A PATROL OFFICER FOR THE CITY OF CLEVELAND SINCE 2007. BACK IN SEPTEMBER 2009, HIS WIFE – 25-YEAR-OLD LORETTA BLANKENSHIP – PLED GUILTY IN THE NINTH DISTRICT COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY TO AGGRAVATED THEFT, A FIRST-DEGREE FELONY. MRS. BLANKENSHIP ADMITTED TO EMBEZZLING $367,000 FROM A CUT N SHOOT CONSTRUCTION FIRM. NOW, A MONTGOMERY COUNTY GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED BLUFFORD BLANKENSHIP ON A FELONY CHARGE OF MONEY LAUNDERING. Chief BRADFORD SAID, AS OF FRIDAY MORNING, THAT OFFICER HAS BEEN SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY PENDING THE OUTCOME OF DISCIPLINARY ACTION THAT COULD RESULT IN HIS BEING FIRED FROM CLEVELAND PD. IN ANOTHER WEEKEND REPORT, CHAMBERS COUNTY SHERIFF JOE LARIVE RELEASED THE NAMES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN A KNIFE ATTACK THAT LED TO AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING IN WINNIE BACK ON FEBRUARY 5. ON THAT DAY, A VEHICLE WAS TRAVELING NORTHBOUND ON HIGHWAY 124 NEAR LEBLANC ROAD IN WINNIE WHEN THE PASSENGER – NOW IDENTIFIED AS GERARDO CASTILLO - ATTACKED THE VEHICLE’S DRIVER – 44-YEAR-OLD GILBERT ANDERSON OF BEAUMONT. ANDERSON IS SAID TO HAVE STOPPED THE VEHICLE AND FLED, BUT THE PASSENGER PULLED A KNIFE AND BEGAN STABBING HIM. GERARDO CASTILLO REPORTEDLY chased HIS VICTIM a short distance AND THE STABBING CONTINUED. A CHAMBERS COUNTY DEPUTY - NOW IDENTIFIED AS SERGEANT INVESTIGATOR CHARLES ALEXANDER - rACED to the scene on foot AFTER A WITNESS REPORTED THE INCIDENT. ACCORDING TO A NEWS RELEASE, THE ASSAILANT lunged at SGT. ALEXANDER. CHAMBERS COUNTY SHERIFF LARIVE SAID HIS DEPUTY - fearing for his life and the life of the victim - fired one shot, killing THE SUSPECT - GERARDO CASTILLO. THE STABBING VICTIM – GILBERT ANDERSON - WAS treated for Stab wounds. SERGEANT INVESTIGATOR CHARLES ALEXANDER HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO OFFICE DUTY DURING AN INVESTIGATION. |
