HISD says patrols will be stepped up.

​A fifth-grade girl from White Elementary was abducted this morning on her way to school by a man who drove her to an apartment "where he touched her in an inappropriate sexual manner" and then returned her to school, HISD says.

The principal of the west side school, at 9001 Triola Lane, sent a letter home to parents telling them of the incident and urging students to travel in groups going to and from the campus.

The girls described the perpetrator as an "African American man with dreadlocks," HISD says, and he was driving a black car, possibly a Honda.

After taking her to his apartment, the man "then drove her back to a street near the White Elementary campus and let her out of the vehicle," HISD says. "A parent of another White Elementary student saw the girl on the roadside and noticed that she was in distress. The parent drove the girl to school, where she reported to staff what had happened."

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Diego Martinez is on the run.

​Diego Martinez came home from work about 7 a.m. today and found his wife with another man, police say.

He got a semiautomatic pistol and began firing, killing her and seriously wounding the man.

Alicia Martinez, 40, died at her home in the 7300 block of Yellow Pine on the northwest side, police say. Her three children were home at the time of the incident.

Her husband escaped and is the subject of a manhunt. He is described as about 5-5 and weighing 200 pounds and was last seen driving a black F-150 Ford pickup with Texas license plate number AX67304. Police say the truck has a white stripe along the bottom.

Anyone with information in this case is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

Mike Wiggins denies nothing.

​Mike Wiggins, Guadalupe County Judge and a former DPS sergeant, has been arrested for having weed in a College Station hotel room.

Wiggins, a Republican first elected in 2006 to lead the county, which is east of New Braunfels, was attending a convention there when the cops were called because a staffer smelled burning marijuana about 11 p.m. Monday.

Cops found a silver grinder, rolling papers and a plastic bag containing 20.1 grams of dope in Wiggins's duffel bag after he consented to a search.

The Seguin Gazette reported:

Wiggins, who also served as Seguin's Department of Public Safety sergeant, said Thursday afternoon that there was nothing he could deny.

"It is what it is," he said.

Party on, Guadalupe.

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I'm gonna use a Bin Laden gun!

​Kaleem Stephens and his colleagues had big plans.

They were going to knock over an armored car, with the help of some employees on the inside. The take would be about $250,000.

The plans included Stephens using what he called "a Bin Laden-style gun" on the driver which, evidence showed, apparently meant an SKS rifle.

Unfortunately for him, the "inside employees" he was describing his grand scheme to were undercover agents from the Texas Department of Public Safety and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Stephens, 30, was sentenced to 12 years in prison today.

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Ted Stavens charged with sexual assault.

​A Houston man liked to rape a woman with a beer bottle and tape himself doing it, investigators say.

Ted Dwayne Stevens, 46, has been charged with sexual assault, media reports say.

Investigators told reporters that Stevens had an ongoing sexual relationship with the woman. Apparently that relationship wasn't enough, because he started using beer bottles to sexually assault her.

Apparently dozens of tapes exist of the incidents. KPRC says 65 tapes have been confiscated.

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Cheer up, Charlie.

​We told you earlier about Wes Covington, a resident of northwest Harris County who was burglarized.

Thieves made off with custom-made guitars -- one signed by Buddy Guy -- but, more importantly, Covington's dog Charlie went missing.

Either the thieves took the boxer, or the dog escaped through the door that had been forced open. (After failing to scare away the burglars, we won't mention.)

Covington and his wife cared more about getting Charlie back than the other stuff that was taken, and their hopes have been realized: Someone found the dog and returned him last night.

The guitars? Still out there.

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Shakira Walker: No magic pumpkin ride for this bullied sister.

​Family dysfunction and domestic disharmony are kind of our stocks-in-trade, but this sick twist on a Cinderella story out of Lufkin shocks even us in its callousness.

According to KTRE, on Friday evening 18-year-old Xavier Walker was berating his 17-year-old sister Shakira Walker because of her sexual orientation.

So there's bullying and homophobia, directed at your little sister, no less.

The Walkers' grandmother saw the whole thing and would later tell cops that Shakira threatened Xavier that if he didn't shut up, she was gonna stab his ass.

So there's a little overreaction going on. When and if she was ever taught to "use her words," Shakira had apparently not been listening. Nor apparently had she heard that "it gets better" once your idiot brother gets out of your face.

For his part, Xavier never learned that words can be weapons. He did not shut up, so Shakira, as promised, stuck him, albeit not in the ass, but in the neck. With a steak knife.

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Jason Lont is out on bond.

​A theater director at Katy High has been charged with sexual assault of a child in relation to a 15-year-old boy the man allegedly met via Grindr, a gay-hookup app.

Jason Lont, 35, who is listed as an assistant theater director on the school's Web site, has been charged with performing oral sex on the boy, who is not a student. The incident happened at his Katy home.

Court documents show the boy's mother discovered text messages that indicated a sexual relationship between the two and contacted authorities.

The Katy school district told Fox 26 that Lont, who has been at the school since 2005, was placed on administrative leave January 12 after officials learned of the allegations.

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A dreamboat, according to the feds.

​De gustibus non est disputandum, as they say in Latin, which basically means some people's taste sucks but there's no sense arguing with them about it.

But we had to take issue with the FBI declaring bank robber John "Steven" Stark, pictured above, as being "tall, dark and handsome."

Stark, who is wanted in connection with robberies in Houston and Beaumont, was ID'd today thanks to tips from the public, FBI spokesperson Shauna Dunlap says.

Dunlap is the one who came up with the "tall, dark and handsome" nickname, and she stood her ground with us.

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Patricia Aguilar: Boy bragged to friend, friend made outcry to cops.

​For one delinquent Rio Grande Valley juvenile, a sentence to boot camp was transformed into a ticket to a dream hummer holiday.

Somehow we don't think this was what the juvenile criminal justice system had in mind for the unidentified 17-year-old boy....

According to Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio, Patricia Aguilar, a probation officer at the Amador R. Rodriguez Juvenile Boot Camp School in San Benito, admitted to performing oral sex on one of the cadets at the camp.

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