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Your Blotter: Man with gun disarmed; a Ponzi scheme; 180 years for sex assault

Here are some headlines we didn't want you to miss from the Crime and Safety page at Star-Telegram.com:

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Weatherford man disarmed, arrested after pulling gun at taco stand

(This one's getting a lot of comments from readers.)

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/05/06/4829929/weatherford-man-disarmed-arrested.html#storylink=cpy

Former Dallas Cowboy involved in $25 million Ponzi scheme

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/05/06/4829677/former-dallas-cowboy-involved.html#storylink=cpy

Bedford man sentenced to 180 years in prison for sexually assaulting 8-year-old

Compiled from the works of Bill Miller, Yamil Berard and Mitch Mitchell.

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Sexual predator headed back to prison, this time for life

Todd William Mitchell, 56, who has been convicted of sexually assaulting at least 30 young boys, is headed back to prison -- this time for life.

Mitchell was released in 2011 and ordered into a treatment program for sexual predators, but this week he was convicted of violating its rules by “making sexual jokes, voyeurism and frottage,” Tarrant County prosecutors said.

-- Bill Miller

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/05/03/4822718/convicted-sexual-predator-sent.html#storylink=cpy

Irving man sexually assaulted teen, gave her pills to terminate pregnancy, police say

An Irving man faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl after she gave birth to a child Saturday in a portable toilet at a soccer field, Irving police reported.

Officers found the baby later, but the child was dead, according to documents filed in the case.

Now, Mauricio Hernandez, a 51-year-old school janitor, is accused of sexually assaulting the girl when she was 13.

Also, officers said the girl told them that Hernandez gave her "pills that would terminate the pregnancy."

Read more here.

-- Bill Miller

Fort Worth man accused in sexual assault of boy

When a 3-year-old boy tried to open a door to get out of a house around 1 a.m. last January, the man babysitting him decided to discipline him.

But, Alex Daniel Delgado, 23, of Fort Worth later admitted to police that he got mad and "went too far."

Delgado said he bit the boy’s fingers, hands, toes and feet.

Then he "lost control" and grabbed a pencil and stuck it up the child’s anus.

Delgado is now indicted for sexual assault of a child.

Deanna Boyd has more in this report.

— Bill Miller

Arlington man gets life sentence, no chance of parole for sexual assaults of young girls

Couldn't stop or just wouldn't stop.

Either way, a Tarrant County jury decided that Gregg Wesley MacIntosh of Arlington (shown here) had an extensive history of sexually assaulting young girls.

So to stop the abuse, the jury sentenced him Thursday to life in prison without parole.

Eight young women and girls testified at his trial. Their testimony was graphic, but you can read it in this report by Mitch Mitchell.

Arlington man on trial for sexual assaults of two girls

Expensive gifts, including a horse, were purshased by a 40-year-old man for two girls he is accused of sexually assaulting, according to testimony in his trial.

Gregg Wesley MacIntosh, 40, of Arlington got to know the girls when they became friends with a young relative who lived with him.

The trial is covered by Mitch Mitchell. Read his report here.

Wise County sheriff's employee accused in 8 cases of child sexual assault

A supervisor of the Wise County sheriff's department's inmate work crew was himself in jail Friday, facing eight charges involving child sexual assault, according to a news release from the sheriff's department.

Bail for Jeff Shurbet, 47, of Paradise was set at $645,000.

Sheriff's officials received a complaint about Shurbet Tuesday, and then called in a Texas Ranger to investigate him to avoid the appearance of partiality to an employee.

Bill Miller has more in this report.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/01/4593724/wise-county-sheriffs-deputy-accused.html#storylink=cpy

Capital murder supsect recaptured in Dallas after standoff

Dallas police, including SWAT, recaptured a capital murder suspect who grabbed a gun from a deputy at Parkland Memorial Hospital and then fled the scene.

Franklin B. Davis barricaded himself in a van on Harry Hines Boulevard at Reagan Street.

The incident started about 8:30 p.m. and wrapped up about two hours later when an army of police officers surrounding the van and convinced him to surrender.

Police tracked Davis to the van after he grabbed the gun of a deputy who was guarding him at the hospital, where he was receiving medical treatment.

In September Davis admitted to killing a high school student who was going to testify against him in four sexual assault cases.

-- Bill Miller

Man gets life for being one of 20 to rape girl, age 11, near Houston

A Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for his role in the attack of an 11-year-old girl who authorities say was sexually assaulted by 20 males.

Jared Len Cruse, 20, was convicted of aggravated sexual assault earlier Wednesday in Liberty.

Prosecutors say the girl, now 13, was sexually assaulted in 2010 on at least five occasions in Cleveland, about 45 miles northeast of Houston.

Read more in this report by The Associated Press.

 

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/11/28/4444908/2nd-man-convicted-in-sexual-assault.html#storylink=cpy

Appeals court affirms prison sentences for 'serial child rapist' from Saginaw

A Fort Worth appeals court has affirmed two prison sentences — one for life, the other for 20 years — in the 2011 trial of a Saginaw man who, according to the trial judge, was "a serial child rapist."

The ruling was announced Monday by the Parker County district attorney’s office.

During the trial in Weatherford, Johnathan Eugene Cooper, 26, pleaded guilty to the October 2008 aggravated sexual assault of a child and online solicitation of a child. He also chose to have District Judge Trey Loftin assess his punishment.

In his appeal, Cooper argued that he should get a new trial, claiming that he had wanted to withdraw his guilty plea during the original trial.

Last week, however, the Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth noted that the trial transcript showed that the judge and Cooper’s own attorney "specifically asked him if he wanted to change his plea and he told them that he did not," according to a news release from Assistant District Attorneys Nikki Morton and Jeff Swain, who prosecuted the case.

"Cooper also complained that certain exhibits were not properly linked to him at trial and that evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant should not have been admitted," the news release stated. "He was overruled on those grounds as well."

During the trial, five women testified that they had sex with Cooper when they were between 13 and 16 and he was an adult. One of them also said that he told her that he previously had sex with an 11-year-old.

During sentencing, Judge Loftin told Cooper he was a "serial child rapist" who was "obsessed with young girls."

-- Bill Miller