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Denton, Texas
Denton may support SB 4 challenge
Laredo and about 475 miles south of
Denton.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
and other state officials defend SB 4,
saying the new law requires local police
to cooperate with federal authorities to
help keep dangerous criminals out of
Texas. The law gives local police, includ-
ing university police officers, the au-
thority to ask people their immigration
status.
Court for the Western District of Texas.
Since August, residents and activists
have repeatedly asked the Denton City
Council to join other cities and counties
challenging SB 4.
It is too late for Denton to join as an
“intervenor,” such as the cities of Dallas,
Austin, San Antonio and Houston have
done.
City to mull resolution
to join battle against
sanctuary cities law
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By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com
Denton may jump in with other Tex-
as cities that are fighting Senate Bill 4,
the so-called anti-sanctuary city law.
The Denton City Council agenda
Tuesday includes a discussion of the
lawsuit against SB 4 filed by the city of
El Cenizo.
The council is expected to consider a
resolution supporting El Cenizo and
the other cities challenging the new law
Tuesday night
El Cenizo, population 3,200, is on
the Rio Grande about 20 miles south of
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It’s likely too late, also, for Denton to
join other Texas cities in a special court
briefing that will provide information
on how SB 4 has, or could, affect those
cities.
If a police chief is found to be vio-
lating the law, he or she could face a
Class A misdemeanor charge. An elect-
ed official, such as a county sheriff,
could be removed from office.
However, a federal court blocked en-
forcement of many provisions of the law
before it went into effect Sept. L
Challenges to SB 4 are being heard
in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
in New Orleans and the U.S. District
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However, Denton could join other
Texas cities that are passing resolutions
in support of the challenge. A draft res-
olution for Denton calls the new law di-
visive and unconstitutional.
The City Council work session is
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Protesters voice their opinions about Senate Bill 4 at Denton City Hall on
Aug. 15. Opponents of the state’s new “sanctuary city” bill want Denton to
join other Texas cities to work against the law.
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By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
jgill @ dentonrc.com
A bank robbery Friday. A strong-arm
robbery Saturday A burglary at Family
Dollar- on Sunday.
No arrests have been made in the three
cases as police continue their investigation
into a suspect connected to several armed
robberies in Denton since Sept 5.
That suspect consistently has been
described as a 5-foot-8 black man with a
relatively thin frame. He wears gloves
and has a cloth over his face. He’s also
displayed a handgun in all of the inci-
dents.
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The cifr of Denton’s in-
ternal auditor, Craig Ha-
metner, resigned his post
effective Monday after-
just eight months on the
job. The resignation sur-
prised City Council mem-
bers, who all received lfis
notice at the same time,
according to Mayor Chris
Watts
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North Bell Avenue between East University Drive and East Sherman Drive in Denton is closed to car and foot
traffic through Oct. 25 as workers Monday prepare to begin resurfacing the roadway, as well as repair gut-
ters and sidewalks.
He is a possible suspect in seven armed
robberies at local convenience stores and
hotels from Sept 5 to Oct. 6, all between
the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 2:35 a.m. In
all the incidents, witnesses said the man
walked inside, calmly demanded money
and left on foot.
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Man sentenced in land-flip fraud
INTERNATIONAL
Police don’t have a specific reason to
believe that suspect is connected to the
robberies and burglary over the weekend,
but department spokesman Shane Kizer
said investigators can’t rule out that possi-
bility.
Denton County property along I-35E in scheme
By Kevin Krause
The Dallas Morning News
kkrause@dallasnews.com
A second Dallas real estate man was
sentenced Friday to federal prison for a
land-flipping scheme using inside help
from the Texas Department of Transpor-
tation to profit from selling tracts along
Interstate 35E.
Kevin Bollman, 49, will spend 15
months in prison under an agreement
with the U.S. attorney’s office for defraud-
ing TxDOT out of $12.9 million.
Bollman also was ordered to pay $L5
million in restitution to TxDOT.
Last month, Bollman’s partner in the
“They’re on notice now,” Eason told
U.S. District Judge Marcia A. Crone.
Bollman did not address the judge dur-
ing the brief hearing.
His attorney, Michael Gibson, declined
to comment.
Eason also said it’s the first time in re-
cent memory that TxDOT is getting mon-
ey back for a fraud committed against the
agency He said TxDOT approved of the
sentences.
Denton County land deals, Wade Black-
bum, 35, was sentenced to one year and
one day in prison and ordered to pay $1
million in restitution.
Like in Blackburn’s case, Bollman
could have gotten more prison time due to
the size of that dollar figure. But Assistant
U.S. Attorney Christopher Eason said the
case will serve as a deterrent to other real
estate speculators who are tlfinking about
cheating to make a buck. The message, he
said, is that you will go to prison and be a
felon.
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“When you have no tangible evidence
to go by, you start looking through your list
of regular [offenders] ... for anyone who
might fit that description,” he said.
Police haven’t been able to get a clearer
description of the suspect based on video
surveillance footage from inside and out-
side the hotels and convenience stores, he
Two weeks after fighting
together against the
Islamic State, Iraqi forc-
es pushed their Kurdish
allies out of the disputed
city of Kirkuk on Mon-
day, seizing oil fields and
other facilities amid
soaring tensions over
last month’s Kurdish
vote for independence.
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In Weinstein’s wake
can Hollywood change?
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By Lindsey Bahr
AP Film Writer
LOS ANGELES - “That’s how it
works,” actress and director Sarah Polley
recalls Harvey Weinstein saying to her
years ago in his office. If she agreed to a
“very close relationsMp” with Mm she
could go on to be a star and win awards, he
said.
particularly interested in being a star or
continuing to act
“I was purely lucky that I didn’t care,”
she wrote.
“That’s how it works” has been Holly-
wood’s dirty little open secret for its entire
Mstory, where men in power have been
able to prey on the dreams of stardom of
many young women. The quid pro quo
sexual harassment even got a cutesy
name: The casting couch.
And yet Weinstein’s downfall after a
surge of accusations of sexual harassment
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He told her that a famous actress had
once sat in her seat and that her success
was because of their “close relationship,”
she wrote in an essay for The New York
Times on Satur day
Polley was 19 at the time and wasn’t
Jordan Strauss, Invision/APfile photo
Harvey Weinstein arrives at the Oscars in Los Angeles in 2014. In the wake of
sexual harassment and abuse allegations against Weinstein, many in Holly-
wood are calling for changes to the entertainment industry to prevent the mis-
treatment of women.
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