Detectives with the Killeen Police Department are looking for a man in connection with an assault and possible robbery on Jan. 2.
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BELTON — Police experts called by defense attorneys in the manslaughter trial for former Temple Police Officer Carmen DeCruz testified Friday that there’s video evidence 28-year-old Michael Dean put his hand on DeCruz’s service pistol in the moments before Dean was fatally shot during a 2019 traffic stop.
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Killeen Animal Services officials and city police were at a residence on Clear Creek Road Friday for a search warrant.
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A year after it was created at his urging, Mayor Pro Tem Ken Wilkerson wants to dissolve the city’s Crime Solutions Committee.
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After allegedly refusing to stop for a Killeen police officer after driving more than 50 mph over the speed limit in the early-morning hours on Tuesday, Jaylin Chaquan Crawford was charged with evading arrest.
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BELTON — Defense attorney Robert McCabe called the indictment of former Temple Police officer Carmen DeCruz — on trial for a second-degree felony manslaughter charge that stemmed from the Dec. 2, 2019, shooting death of Temple resident Michael Dean — a “gross miscarriage of justice.”
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A Killeen man was charged with possession of controlled substance after a traffic stop yielded methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, according to the probable-cause affidavit for his arrest.
A Killeen woman was sentenced to prison time for spitting on a Killeen Police Department officer during an incident last year.
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The Temple Police Department is investigating an aggravated robbery.
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BELTON — Jurors in the manslaughter trial of former Temple Police Department officer Carmen DeCruz heard Monday from a member of Michael Dean’s family, Tashina Dean, who told the jury of nine men and five women her brother Michael was a hardworking family man.
A Harker Heights man who had been set to face a jury on Monday instead pleaded guilty to a felony charge for causing a crash that killed a woman’s unborn baby in 2018.
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A Killeen man was charged with aggravated kidnapping after he allegedly forced a woman into his truck at the Killeen Police Department on Jan. 26.
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A Jarrell High School student was killed and four others, including another Jarrell student, injured in a shooting that occurred in northwest Austin on Saturday night.
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Temple Police are searching for aggravated robbery suspect who targeted a fast-food chicken restaurant Monday morning.
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A Gatesville woman was indicted by a Coryell County grand jury after police said she stole and pawned jewelry valued at tens of thousands of dollars during four alleged thefts last year.
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A Temple woman is set to appear in court this week after police say they found more than a pound of pot in her home.
A man accused of killing a woman’s unborn child in a Killeen car collision is set for a jury trial hearing Monday.
A man who had been out of jail on bond was taken back into custody this week after being sentenced to prison time for molesting two children in 2020.
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The Temple Police Department is investigating a shooting that left a building with damage, according to a news release. At about 12:45 a.m. Friday, officer responded to a call of multiple people fighting, then shots fired, in the 1700 block of east Avenue I.
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BELTON — Todd Cavanaugh was walking into the Tractor Supply Co. store in Temple on Dec. 2, 2019, when he saw flashing blue and red lights reflecting off of a tree line in the vicinity.
A 30 year-old San Antonio man was arrested Wednesday in Killeen on a charge of possession of a controlled substance in the amount of 1 gram or more, but less than 4 grams, according to an arrest affidavit.
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A Temple shooting victim gravely wounded on Wednesday morning succumbed to his injuries Thursday, marking the city’s first homicide of 2023.
Three people were indicted by a Bell County grand jury this week after police said they used various weapons — including boots and a machete — to assault people during unrelated incidents.
“Bank jugging” is happening here, according to the Killeen Police Department.
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For the first time, Bell County residents had a first-person view of the actions Carmen DeCruz took as a Temple Police officer on Dec. 2, 2019 — an evening that ended with the fatal shooting of Temple resident Michael Dean at the intersection of Little River Road and Loop 363.
A Belton man was charged with unlawfully possessing a firearm by a felon after he was stopped for a traffic violation in Killeen on Sunday, according to an arrest affidavit.
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A drive-by shooting at a residence in Killeen resulted in two men being arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on Jan. 20, according to an arrest affidavit.
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BELTON — Silence filled the 146th District Court at the Bell County Justice Center on Tuesday afternoon as the audio of a gunshot from a Glock 22 was played for jurors.
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A 42-year-old man wanted for robbery was arrested when he visited the Texas Department of Public Safety driver’s license office in Temple.
An ex-Fort Hood soldier was sentenced to prison time after he recorded himself sexually assaulting a woman almost four years ago in Harker Heights.
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Three women are facing prostitution charges after they were arrested by the Bell County Organized Crime Unit involving massage parlors in Temple and Harker Heights.
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For more than three years, the Temple community has waited for the city to release video of the officer-involved shooting death of resident Michael Dean — sparking protests from people concerned about police violence.
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