Gabriel Monte

A woman told her abuser Thursday that it will take her an eternity to recover from the five minutes of pleasure he took from her when he sexually assaulted her at a sleepover during a New Year's Eve party five years ago.

Leo Contreras entered a plea of guilty to a count of aggravated asasult from a moving vehicle causing serious bodily injury.

Prosecutors told jurors Monday that a 44-year-old Petersburg man arrested after a crime spree that ended with a shootout with Lubbock police in 2021 deserved a life sentence.

Luis Aguilar pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault in exchange for three concurrent 20 -ear sentences

A 53-year-old woman who pleaded guilty nearly a decade ago to a 2012 fatal hit-and-run crash was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after her probation was revoked.

A 44-year Petersburg man who admitted to aiming a shotgun at a Lubbock police officer was given probation by a Lubbock jury after a four-day trial

Amy Dixon was sentenced to 2 years in prison after pleading guilty in June to conspiracy to embezzle from a federally funded program.

The smile 46-year-old Tony Castillo wore through most of his trial faded as he heard a Lubbock jury's verdict finding him guilty of shooting his on-again, off-again girlfriend two years ago.

Prosecutor Laura Beth Fossett told jurors on Friday that the little girl whose pictures they've seen throughout the week-long trial will forever live with the physical and psychological scars that Ruben Castillo gave her when he held her down for minutes in 158-degree, scalding-hot water, giving her third- and fourth- degree burns to nearly half of her body.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is offering a $6,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person who killed a 13-year-old girl nearly 40 years ago near Lubbock.