FORT WORTH — Police in Texas say officers who responded to a phone call from a home have found four bodies inside the residence in what authorities are describing as “an isolated incident.”

Fort Worth police say officers discovered the bodies Monday at the home in a residential neighborhood with an elementary school nearby in the northern part of the city.

Investigators have not released any other details, including the manner of death.

Police indicated that there’s no ongoing threat to the public.

 

Defendant paid $100
of $149,000 restitution

SHREVEPORT, La. — Federal authorities say a man who pleaded guilty in connection with dumping military explosives in Louisiana has paid only $100 toward more than $149,000 restitution, so the government is garnishing his investment account.

William Terry Wright was vice president of operations at Explo Systems, which had an Army contract to “demilitarize” artillery propellant at a Louisiana National Guard site called Camp Minden.

Wright and four others pleaded guilty to conspiracy or related charges of making false statements or submitting false documents.

Wright is serving five years in Texarkana, Texas. The federal inmate locator shows a May 2023 release date.

 

Killer dies, questions
remain about girls’ death

NAVASOTA — A man serving 70 years for a 1978 slaying near Houston who was also under investigation in the unsolved killings of several missing girls has collapsed and died in a Texas prison.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jeremy Desel says 79-year-old inmate Edward Harold Bell died Saturday at the Wallace Pack Unit in Navasota.

Desel added that there was no foul play suspected.

The Houston Chronicle reports that Bell’s death leaves unanswered questions about the unsolved murders of 11 girls he claimed to have killed.

Bell was already serving time for killing an ex-Marine from Pasadena when he admitted in 2011 to kidnapping and killing several girls in the 1970s.

 

Search continues for woman
who failed to pick up son

DALLAS — Dallas-area police say they’re continuing to search for a 26-year-old woman who went missing last week after failing to pick up her 6-year-old son from a baby sitter.

Mesquite police Lt. Stephen Biggs said Monday that Prisma Denisse Peralta Reyes is considered a missing person and there’s been no indication at this point of foul play.

Reyes is a resident of Mesquite last seen Wednesday captured on surveillance video at an apartment complex in nearby east Dallas. Her Jeep Wrangler was found at the complex. She failed to pick up her son later that day.

Her brother, Rudy Peralta, told WFAA-TV in Dallas that Reyes’ son “was her world” and that she would never willingly fail to pick him up or take care of him.

 

Man accused of dragging
Nebraska deputy arrested

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — A driver accused of dragging a Nebraska sheriff’s deputy as the deputy tried to stop the car has been arrested in Texas.

Authorities say 33-year-old Tristan Bush was arrested Friday in Pasadena, Texas, near Houston. He’s being held in the Harris County Jail until he can be returned to Grand Island for trial. Nebraska court records say he’s charged with escape using a deadly weapon, intentional child abuse and other crimes.

Authorities say Bush was a passenger in a car stopped April 12 in western Hall County but slid over and began driving away to keep the deputy from arresting him on several warrants. A Hall County Court affidavit says a dog in the car bit the deputy and that the deputy had to shoot the dog to make it let go.

The affidavit says a chase was quickly ended out of concern for a 7-year-old child in the back seat.