A 27-year-old woman in Texas will spend several years behind bars for leaving a dead infant inside of a gas station toilet in Houston last year. Harris County District Judge Kristin M. Guiney on Monday ordered Diana Guadalupe Zavala Lopez to serve four years in a state correctional facility after she pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with evidence — human corpse as well as one count of tampering/fabricating physical evidence with the intent to impede an investigation, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Guiney also credited Zavala Lopez with 489 days of time already served.

As Law&Crime previously reported, agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended Zavala Lopez in August 2023 at a bus station in Brownsville, Texas, which is the largest city in the U.S. portion of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Witness and police video shows a man acting out at a gas station before striking a cop car with his vehicle, driving off, and fleeing futilely into a restaurant.

The suspect, Jordon Vasquez, 34, is currently locked up in the Bernalillo County Jail in New Mexico for armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, and resisting, evading, or obstructing an officer.

In the witness footage from Feb. 7 in Albuquerque, an exasperated employee of the gas station apparently spoke to authorities over the phone offscreen. She said the suspect struck two homeless people with his hands.

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“He’s sitting out there nonchalant like nothing happened,” she said, describing the suspect sitting in a vehicle, his feet up, in the middle of the parking lot.

She said that the man had been trying to get cigarettes, although he did not have money.

“And he was like, ‘I don’t have money. I don’t have ID,” and he went to grab the cigarettes from the counter, and I was quick enough to swipe them back, and he was like, ‘girl, don’t make me go back there,”” she described.

A mother in Oklahoma is accused of drunkenly trying to leave her infant children at a 7-Eleven gas station so she could drive somewhere to have sex.

Amber Adams was taken into custody earlier this year and charged with two counts of felony child neglect, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

A witness at the Oklahoma City 7-Eleven on June 6, 2024, called 911 and reported seeing Adams, who appeared to be very intoxicated, pull into the station and stop at one of the gas pumps, according to a report from Oklahoma City CBS affiliate KWTV.

The caller reportedly told the 911 dispatcher that Adams got out of the car and opened the passenger door. She then reached in and “grabbed a baby” by the arm as if the child “was a rag doll.” Adams then reportedly “tossed the baby to the ground.”

Cops in Florida have arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly shooting a U.S. Army veteran to death after a dispute at a gas station last year.

Kendrick Jerrod Anderson is facing a second-degree murder charge for the November 2023 slaying of 60-year-old Gregory C. Reed in Ocoee, a suburb of Orlando. Ocoee police announced Friday in a press release that detectives arrested Anderson after a year-long investigation.

According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, a Publix grocery store employee called 911 around 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 9, 2023, to report an accident involving a Ford SUV where someone died. Officers and paramedics responded to the scene and found that the driver, later identified as Reed, had been shot several times. First responders rushed him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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Publix surveillance video showed the SUV coming from the adjoining BP/Circle K gas station before making an abrupt right turn and crashing into a parked vehicle. A witness at the gas station said he and his girlfriend were sitting in front of the gas station when he saw the SUV and a Mercedes enter the parking lot about the same time. The driver of the Mercedes was trying to pull into a pump, but nearly collided with Reed’s SUV. In response, Reed honked his horn, the witness reportedly told cops. According to the witness, Reed and the two people in the Mercedes were shouting “what, what” back and forth, allegedly sizing each other up.

After the Mercedes parked at the pump, Reed went to the exit to leave the gas station. That’s when the passenger of the Mercedes got out of the car, walked up to Reed’s SUV and allegedly fired five shots, striking Reed multiple times. The Mercedes then drove away.

Reed was wearing a Domino’s Pizza T-shirt at the time of his death and his boss told detectives he had just gotten off his shift as a delivery driver prior to the murder.

RIDGECREST, Calif. – The Bureau of Land Management Ridgecrest Field Office will conduct a gather of up to 140 wild horses in the Centennial Herd Management Area in San Bernardino and Inyo counties, roughly 10 miles northeast of Ridgecrest, beginning on Monday, Nov. 20. The gather will take place entirely on the military facility at the request of the Naval Air Weapons Station- China Lake, where the majority of the Herd Management Area is located; no gather activities will take place on BLM-managed public lands. 

The scheduled wild horse gather is necessary due to decreased forage and water resulting from prolonged drought and two August 2020 fires that burned tens of thousands of acres within the Naval Air Weapons Station-China Lake; this combination of factors has distressed the wild horses. 

The animals will be gathered using a helicopter and wranglers to move the horses at a slow pace to the capture sites. All gather operations will be conducted with care and compassion for the animals’ well-being and will adhere to humane handling standards as outlined in the BLM’s Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program.

Due to the gather operations taking place entirely within the military facility, there will be no public viewing opportunities; however, members of the public are invited to view the gathered horses at the Ridgecrest Regional Wild Horse and Burro Corrals daily from 3 to 4 p.m., from November 22-27.

For information about daily gather reports and additional information, please visit the gather webpage. For information on how to adopt or purchase a wild horse or burro from the Ridgecrest Wild Horse and Burro Corrals, visit the webpage or contact BLM_CA_RidgecrestCorrals@blm.gov

ARCATA, Calif.  –  The Bureau of Land Management has completed restoration of the 114-year-old Punta Gorda Light Station overlooking the Pacific Coast along the Lost Coast Trail south of Eureka. The rehabilitation project was partially funded by $2.8 million received through the Great American Outdoors Act.

In addition to restoring the scenic quality of the two-story lighthouse and adjacent oil house, renovations included repairing railings and replacing a spiral stairway leading to the lighthouse lantern room and deck. The project was planned and supervised by a team of BLM Arcata Field Office staff members with expertise ranging from engineering to wildlife biology.

“A challenging aspect was completing the work without disturbing a colony of northern elephant seals and harbor seals protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act,” said Paul Sever, manager of the BLM King Range National Conservation Area. “We had a four-month window of work time and monitored the seals constantly for any sign of disturbance. We were happy to see that the seals tolerated our project well.”

The light station, a beacon for ship navigation, was built in 1910. Its light was fueled by oil stored in the nearby and now-restored oil house. The station also included housing and other wooden structures. The light station was deactivated in 1951 and the Fresnel lens used to cast the lighthouse beam far out to sea was removed. The station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.  

The light station is near the Mattole Trailhead at the north end of the King Range National Conservation Area, near the community of Petrolia. Hiking to the site requires planning and caution due to creek crossings, a trail section that is only passable at low tide, and the potential for unpredictably high waves. Information on day hiking to the site and backpacking the Lost Coast Trail safely is available from the BLM King Range Office at 707-986-5400.