MEDIA CONTACT:
Melody McDonald, Public Information Officer
Office Phone: 817-884-3120
Cell phone: 817-821-3935
Email: mjmcdonald@tarrantcounty.com
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PRESS RELEASES:
May 2013
May 2013
- Ex-officer gets 4 years for tipping off gaming corporation about investigation
- Memorial Day “No Refusal” begins Friday
- Swift Justice: Jury takes 14 minutes, gives serial robber life
- Jury sentences man to 80 years in prison for dumping a homeless man’s body
- ‘Curious’ man gets 45 years for sexually abusing 10-week-old infant
- Man gets life for killing the mother of his child
- Jury sentences armed robber to nine life sentences
- Serial burglar who hit dozens of North Texas’ businesses gets 49 years
- Convicted sex offender is sentenced to 180 years in prison for abusing boy
- Man gets 50 years in prison for fatally shooting store clerk
- Judge gives man 60 years for robbing woman at gunpoint
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Sexual predator gets life for violating civil order
April 2013
- Killer gets life in fatal shootings outside gambling house
- Woman pleads guilty to kidnapping daughter, gets 8 years in prison
- Mother gets 27 years for abusing daughter, leaving her disabled
- Man who had history of sexually violating sleeping woman gets 10 years
- Stalker gets life in prison for killing woman
- Killer gets 99 years for fatally shooting man in Arlington bar
- Couple sentenced for binding, suffocating and stuffing man in fridge
- Life without parole for man who killed estranged wife and two others
- Man gets 50 years without parole for sexually abusing family member
- Ex-con gets 50 years for slitting girlfriend’s throat during a fight over a dog
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Jury takes 36 minutes, convicts man of capital murder
March 2013
- Jury sentences home-invasion robber who fled during her trial to 20 years
- Killer gets life without parole in strangulation of Fort Worth woman
- Pedophile gets 50 years without parole for lewd sex acts with child
February 2013
- Marriage counselor gets 10 years probation for having sex with client
- Judge gives man 50 years for killing his ex-girlfriend’s mother
- Parolee who raped woman gets 26 years
- Jury gives man 89 years in prison for his role in store robbery and slaying
- Jury takes just 12 minutes, gives child molester life
- Man gets 30 years for his role in honor student’s robbery, slaying
- Jury gives man 55 years for drug possession
- “No Refusal” kicks off Super Bowl Sunday
January 2013
- Jury gives defendant 15 years for biting off man’s nose
- Sex offender gets life sentence for sexually abusing 8-year-old girl
- Dad gets 55 years in daughter’s scalding death
- Ex-con gets 90 years for posing as officer
- Jury gives man 35 years for his role in young rapper’s slaying
December 2012
- Judge Catalano gives man 15 years for infecting woman with HIV
- New Year’s Eve “No Refusal” begins Monday Night
- Judge Young gives ex-con 60 years for holding his ex-girlfriend hostage
- Judge Salvant gives man 20 years for using gas skimmer to siphon accounts
- Judge Salvant gives two men life for brutally beating unconscious man
- Jury deliberates 26 minutes, gives child molester life
- Jury gives 21-year-old man 40 years in prison for home-invasion robbery
- Man gets 43 years in prison without parole for sexually abusing daughters
- Ex-con who terrorized three women on same night gets life in prison
- Jury gives ex-con life for fatally shooting a woman during heated argument
- Man gets life for his role in robbery, double-slaying
November 2012
- Ex-con gets 99 years for high-speed chase
- Felon gets 25 years for fatal shooting
- “No Refusal” holidays now include Thanksgiving, Christmas, Super Bowl…
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Man gets probation, fine for taking over $400,000 house
October 2012
- Jury sentences pastor’s killer to death
- Jury gives man 25 years in prison for fatal stabbing
- Man gets life without parole for performing sex acts on infant daughter
- Father pleads guilty, gets 50 years for causing son’s death
- Judge gives killer 45 years in prison
September 2012
- “Papa” gets life in prison for fondling granddaughter
- After 28 years, family of slain woman gets justice
- Jury delivers swift justice: Gives child molester life
- Man pleads guilty to raping ex-girlfriend, gets 40 years
- Killer gets 99 years for shooting girlfriend in back
August 2012
- Jury gives drunk driver 80 years in prison for his 9th DWI
- Man gets 99 years for sexually abusing sisters
- DNA clears inmate of 1988 rape
- Jury gives ex-teacher five years in prison for having sex with five students
- Judge gives home-invasion robber 45 years for Halloween party heist
- Man gets life without parole in deliveryman’s slaying
- Tarrant jury gives ex-teacher life without parole for fondling two students
- Jury gives ex-con life sentence for shooting Fort Worth officer
July 2012
- Killer gets 60-year prison sentence for slashing man’s throat
- Judge burns man with 40-year sentence for arson
- Jury sentences drug dealer to 80 years in prison
- Robber gets life in prison for July 2009 rampage
- Teenage robber sentenced to 99 years in prison for Halloween party heist
- Man gets life in prison for killing the mother of his two children
- Jurors sentence man to life in prison for killing his neighbor
- Officials to have blood drawn at Fourth of July ‘No Refusal’ news conference
June 2012
- Jury delivers swift justice to child molester
- Ex-con sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting neighbor
- Thief convicted of using illegal gas “skimmers” to siphon bank accounts
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Killer sentenced to life in prison without parole in convenience store robbery
May 2012
- Man gets life in prison for causing toddler’s death
- Ex-con sentenced to life in prison without parole for Christmas Day slaying
- Judge Gallagher sentences man to life in prison for beating his ex-girlfriend
- Judge Westfall sentences man with five DWI convictions to 45 years in prison
- Man gets 20 for stabbing a delivery woman
- Convicted murderer erupts over life sentence
- Man sentenced to life without parole for sexually abusing sleeping girl
- Jurors sentence drunk driver to maximum 20 years for causing fatal wreck
April 2012
March 2012
- Child abuser is sentenced to 50 years in prison
- Jury deliberates one hour – sentences killer to death
- Ex-shelter supervisor indicted on theft accusations
- Ex-con gets life for sexually abusing girlfriend’s daughters
- Man gets life for kidnapping, ‘playing house’ with girl
- Jury gives man 99 years for drug possession
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A Tarrant County grand jury indicts eight ‘squatters’
February 2012
- Judge give ex-con 50 years in prison for parking lot shooting
- Ex-police officer is headed to prison for sexually assaulting five women
- Killer gets 45 years in cold-case homicide
- Naked man gets 18 years in prison
- Jury sentences meth cook to 99 years in prison
- Fort Worth man sentenced to 47 years for murder
- DA charges mother in abduction of child
- Jury sentences daycare worker to life for sexually abusing boy
- ‘Sovereign Citizen’ gets 35 years in shootout with officer
- Fort Worth woman gets 99 years for dealing drugs