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Texas Attorney General’s prosecution summary

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Child exploitation unit

Travis County

Elgin, 43-year-old Chad Allen Wilcox was arrested on April 1 on two cases of child pornography possession. This case was received as an NCMEC CyberTipline report uploading child pornography to an email account with the potential of a living victim. Wilcox claimed ownership of the email account and the production and sending of images of child pornography. Investigators confiscated several devices to be investigated by the Digital Forensics Unit. He was taken to Travis County Jail.

Tyler County

Jeremy Shawn Nobles, 45, of Warren, was arrested on April 6th for five cases of possession of child pornography and four cases of promoting child pornography. This case was obtained as an NCMEC CyberTipline report for uploading child pornography to a social media site. Investigators confiscated several devices for investigation by the Digital Forensics Unit. He was taken to Tyler County Jail.

Hardin County

Brandon Lee Stanley was charged on April 7th on five cases of possession of child pornography. This case was received as an NCMEC CyberTipline report of uploading child pornography to an online account. Stanley was previously held in Hardin County Jail on unrelated charges. Stanley admitted having the email account linked to the suspicious online account and admitted having a problem with child pornography while taking methamphetamines. Investigators confiscated several devices for investigation by the Digital Forensics Unit.

Fugitive Apprehension Unit

Harris County

Galen Black was arrested in Baytown on April 1. Black had an open federal warrant against the receipt of child pornography by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US District Court in the southern Texas district of Houston. Black is currently in custody in Harris County for ongoing child sexual abuse. This arrest was made in conjunction with the United States Marshals Service, the Gulf Coast Violent Offender, and the Fugitive Task Force

Atascosa County

Ramiro Villarreal was arrested in Pleasanton on April 7th. Villarreal had a pending arrest warrant for Sex Assault / Aggravated Sexual Assault Child issued by the Nueces County Sheriff’s Office. The arrest came while working with the US Marshals’ Lone Star Fugitive Task Force in San Antonio.

AG Paxton Sues Biden Administration for Reinstating Migrant Protection Protocols

AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt today filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration seeking to reintroduce the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) to contain the border criminal and humanitarian crisis.

The MPP limits the ability of illegal aliens to remain in the United States during the immigration process, which greatly reduces the burden of state and federal agencies tasked with defending our border.

“President Biden could immediately remedy the influx of crime across our border by reintroducing the migrant protection protocols. Dangerous criminals take advantage of the failure to prosecute and it leads to human trafficking, smuggling, a wide variety of violent crimes and a massive, unprecedented burden on state and federal programs that taxpayers have to pay the bill for, “said Attorney General Paxton. “We cannot allow this lawlessness to destroy our communities any longer. President Biden must act. “

The MPP was enacted by President Trump in 2019 and applies “to foreigners who are not legally entitled to enter the United States but are leaving a third country and traveling through Mexico to reach the United States’ land border”. The lawsuit argues that the illegal setting of the MPP by the Biden administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act and was an arbitrary and capricious act by the authority.

Read a copy of the lawsuit here.

AG Paxton Sues Biden Administration for Reinstating Migrant Protection Protocols

AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt today filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration seeking to reintroduce the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) to contain the border criminal and humanitarian crisis.

The MPP limits the ability of illegal aliens to remain in the United States during the immigration process, which greatly reduces the burden of state and federal agencies tasked with defending our border.

“President Biden could immediately remedy the influx of crime across our border by reintroducing the migrant protection protocols. Dangerous criminals take advantage of the failure to prosecute and it leads to human trafficking, smuggling, a wide variety of violent crimes and a massive, unprecedented burden on state and federal programs that taxpayers have to pay the bill for, “said Attorney General Paxton. “We cannot allow this lawlessness to destroy our communities any longer. President Biden must act. “

The MPP was enacted by President Trump in 2019 and applies “to foreigners who are not legally entitled to enter the United States but are leaving a third country and traveling through Mexico to reach the United States’ land border”.

The lawsuit argues that the illegal setting of the MPP by the Biden administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act and was an arbitrary and capricious act by the authority.

Read a copy of the lawsuit here.

Request for comments

Summary of the official request RQ-0403-KP
Power of a district attorney to bring an action to enforce a violation of a restriction contained in a properly recorded property within the district

Date of receipt
Thursday April 8, 2021

Official applicant
The Honorable Dee Hobbs
Williamson County attorney
405 MLK Street, No. 7
Georgetown, texas 78626

Communication of opinion

Summary of the official request RQ-0384-KP
Whether ratings from the public improvement district may be used in certain circumstances

Summary of the official statement KP-0366
Use of public improvement district ratings in certain circumstances

Communication of opinion

Summary of the official request RQ-0385-KP
Whether subsection 20.05 (a) (5) of the Business and Commerce Code prohibits a consumer reporting agency from reporting certain information when the consumer is covered by a self-funded plan with a reference-based pricing program

Summary of the official statement KP-0367
Applying the Business and Commerce Code subsection 20.05 (a) (5) to a self-funded plan with a reference-based pricing program that does not use a provider network