LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) -
An
Angelina County grand jury handed down 40 criminal indictments Friday. Among
those indicted were Jose Buenrostro and Cesar Alba.
Back in
October, Buenrostro, who was indicted for robbery and burglary of a habitation,
was arrested three times in nine days. The first two charges were robbery and
burglary of a habitation. The last time he was arrested, Buenrostro was charged
with sexual assault of a child.
Buenrostro,
20, of Lufkin, is still being held in the Angelina County Jail on charges of sexual
assault of a child, burglary of a habitation. Collectively, his bond has been
set at $600,000.
The
robbery charge that Buenrostro was indicted for stems from an incident in early
October in which he allegedly tried to steal a Samsung tablet computer from a
man who was refilling his drink at the McDonalds in the 1100 block of
Timberland Drive. When witnesses tried to stop Buenrostro, he reportedly bit
one of them before Lufkin Police officers arrived on the scene.
On Oct.
19, Buenrostro was arrested again after he was treated at a local hospital for
injuries he received when a man hit him repeatedly with a stick outside a
residence on East Kerr Ave. He was charged with burglary of a habitation in
connection to a burglary that in the 1100 block of Moss Drive in which
Buenrostro allegedly forced his way into the home of a past female
acquaintance.
In regard
to the sexual assault charge, an arrest affidavit stated that a girl under the
age of 17 told Lufkin Police officers that Buenrostro sexually assaulted her while
she was "smoking dope" with him and two others during the weekend of Oct. 13.
Cesar
Alba, 33, of Lufkin, was indicted on two counts of injury to a child. He is still
being held in the Angelina County Jail on a third-degree felony charge of
injury to a child. Alba's bond has been set at $10,000.
Alba's
charge stems from an incident on Oct. 22. According to the arrest affidavit,
Alba was at his girlfriend's residence in the 1000 block of Dunlap Street when
the 10-year-old victim got in trouble for arguing with her sister. Alba
allegedly squeezed and twisted her arm before he threw her to the floor and
repeatedly hit her head on the wall.
Also
indicted were three burglary suspects. Ishmeal Washington, 25, of Lufkin,
Joshua Nash, 23, of Lufkin, and Terrance Harris, 23, of Lufkin, were all
indicted for burglary of a habitation. The charges stem from an incident that
occurred on Nov. 12.
A Lufkin
Police officer spotted the three men jumping a fence at a residence in the 2000
block of Lowery Street. When the officer ordered them to stop, the three men
allegedly fled on foot. LPD offices rounded up the three suspects a short time
later. After the three men were taken into custody, the
officers learned that they had burglarized a home in the 2000 block of Lowery
Street.
The recovered property
included two Rossi handguns, a 65-inch Mitsubishi television, seven hats, 11
pairs of shoes, jewelry, a basket, pink head phones, 10 women's belts, seven
collared shirts, a bath robe, a brown jacket, two pairs of women's pants, an
MTECH knife, scissors, and assorted DVDs.
In
addition, the Angelina County grand jury indicted Christopher Samuel Williams,
29, of Lufkin, on a possession of a controlled substance charge and two felony
theft charges.
Williams
was arrested after he allegedly shoplifted baby clothes and wipes from the
Dollar General store on Atkinson Drive and officers found a cocaine rock hidden
in a metal Altoids box inside his car. The theft charges were upgraded to
felonies because Williams already has two prior theft convictions on his
record.
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Joe's Buenrostro (Source: Angelina County Jail)
