The Daily Blotter 06/18/10

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Man charged with aggravated sex assault of a child

Police said a 24-year-old man picked up three teenage girls from school, provided them booze and then sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl.

Authorities responded to the teen's home after her mother called police on May 24, saying Oscar Alvarado-Godoy had sex with her daughter at his home at 7100 East State Highway 290 before taking the girls back to school. The teen told her mother the sex was consensual, and that it had happened first when she was 13, according to the affidavit.

Alvarado-Godoy is charged with first-degree felony charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

Bust nets five suspected crack dealers

A drug bust led to the arrest of five crack cocaine drug dealers, according to police.

Austin Police Department’s Metro Response Unit conducted a drug bust where undercover officers posed as buyers.

Police said they caught Sammie Kellough, Matthew Joseph Sissac, Mark Anthony Stewart, Manuel Mendoza Avila and Victor Maya trying to sell crack cocaine to the undercover officers near Reagan High School at 7104 Berkman Drive Wednesday.

Clerk, 68, chases away robber

Police said a man in a dress and a teen armed with a caulking gun tried to rob a convenience store, hitting the 68-year-old clerk with the tool on June 7.

Jose Alejandro Romero, 17, is charged with aggravated robbery after police said he went into the Speedy Stop Gas Station at 1660 E. 51st St. just after 4 a.m. and demanded cash.

The clerk initially thought it was a joke because even though he said Romero was holding the caulking gun under his shirt, he told police he could tell it was not real. Still, Romero reportedly continued to yell and became more agitated, scaring the clerk.

The clerk said he was having problems opening the cash register, making Romero increasingly mad. That's when Romero allegedly hit the clerk with the caulking gun.

However, the clerk was able to spook Romero off when he ran into him with a garbage can, which police said caused Romero to flee without any property or cash.

The man in the dress allegedly served as the getaway driver and told police he is a transient and prostitute.

Meanwhile, Romero has not been arrested.

Man arrested for gang fight in club parking lot

A man is facing felony charges for his alleged involvement in a gang fight in a night club parking lot.

Austin Police responded to a reported aggravated assault at 214 E. Anderson Lane on March 6. They arrived on the scene in the "Bongo's" club parking lot at approximately 3:00 a.m.

Patrol officers told APD that a large crowd had been fighting in the parking lot between members of two gangs.

Witnesses told officers that one man used a crow bar to hit another over the head, sending him to the hospital. Officers soon located the suspect, Daniel Duran Lopez, 34, who was still on the scene in his vehicle. A quick search led police to a crow bar located in Lopez's car.

The victim hit with the crow bar was able to positively identify Lopez in a photo lineup.

Round Rock runaway sought by national center

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has asked for the public's help in locating 14-year-old Carolina Hernandez, whom they are calling an "endangered runaway." Carolina, who goes by the nickname "Caro," went missing on Monday, June 14. A poster distributed by the center says she may be "in the company of an adult male."

She is described as being 5 feet 4 inches, 117 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information should contact either 9-1-1 or:

• The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
• Round Rock Police Department (Texas) 1-512-218-5500 

Man in courthouse threat declared incompetent for trial

The man accused of causing the evacuation of the Travis County Criminal Justice Complex on May 14 has been declared mentally incompetent to stand trial but has still been indicted on charges of making a false alarm.

Police said Douglas Scott Hoopes was upset about a case he was involved in and said there was a bomb in the building. Because Hoopes has been declared incompetent to stand trial he has been ordered to Texas Department of State Health Services to be confined “for a period not to exceed 120 days.”

Every 120 days he will be reevaluated to see if he is fit to stand trial.

Law enforcement ramps up boating while intoxicated on Lake Austin

The Austin Police Department’s DWI Enforcement and Lake Patrol Units and Texas Parks and Wildlife officers will conduct a boating while intoxicated initiative on Saturday, June 19, from 2 p.m. until midnight.

Our goal is to gain voluntary compliance with all boating laws, especially those that relate to boating while intoxicated. BWI is as dangerous as DWI and the safety of all persons using area lakes is paramount. During this initiative a number of APD DWI enforcement officers will ride along with Lake Patrol and TPWD officers to perform BWI investigations when appropriate.

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