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Texas Teens Charged with Tossing High School Swimmer’s Clothes and Phone After Fatal Jump from Railway Bridge

Two teenagers in Texas have been arrested and charged with tossing the clothes and deleting cell phone evidence after the accidental drowning death of their friend and swim team member.

18-year-old Daniel Erving and two of his friends jumped from a railway bridge into Lake Ray Hubbard in the eastern suburbs of Dallas.

Only Erving did not survive the jump. His body was discovered three days later and ruled an accidental death by the coroner.

Erving’s two friends, 19-year-old Lucas Roper and a 17-year-old juvenile suspect, have been charged with tampering with physical evidence after failing to report Erving’s death and disposing of his clothes and cell phone.

Tampering with physical evidence is a third-degree felony in Texas.

An arrest affidavit reviewed by ABC News claims that after Erving drowned, Roper and the juvenile fled the scene. In addition, Roper is accused of throwing Erving’s clothing into some trees near the bridge.

At Roper’s insistence, the juvenile threw Erving’s cellphone from their vehicle.

The affidavit states that Roper deleted messages from his deceased friend’s phone because he “was aware that there would be an investigation into Daniel Erving’s death and he did not want to get into trouble.”

Detectives report that when interviewed, Roper admitted to panicking after Erving’s death.

In addition to being a member of the swim team, Erving was also an honor roll student.

The case remains under investigation.

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San Antonio Activist Groups Protest Fatal ICE Shooting in Houston

Approximately 100 people gathered near the steps of City Hall in San Antonio to protest the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) involved fatal shooting of an illegal alien in Houston earlier in the week. Authorities allege the suspect attempted to flee from agents conducting a targeted enforcement operation and was shot as he allegedly tried to run over an officer with his vehicle.

Breitbart Texas observed Friday’s protest at San Antonio City Hall where members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and other leftist groups carried posters that read, “JUSTICE FOR LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO.” Organizers shouted chants on a bullhorn and gave speeches calling for an end to ICE presence in San Antonio and in other parts of the country. Protesters denounced the incident and called for the abolition of ICE altogether.

A member of the San Antonio chapter of the PSL rallied the group, calling for the abolishment of ICE. Corrie Rosen, who has previously identified herself as a public-school teacher, spoke about Lorenzo Salgado-Araujo in front of a makeshift memorial display, saying, “He was in the country for 35 years, but let’s be clear, I don’t care if he was here for 35 years or 35 days, the injustice does not stand.”

Government officials told Breitbart Texas late last week that Salgado applied for a work permit earlier this year. On the application, he allegedly said he entered the U.S. in 2005. His family stated at a press conference that he had been here much longer.

Rosen criticized the future opening of an ICE detention center on the East Side of the city, calling the facility a concentration camp. Rosen rallied the protesters, telling the crowd, “The Eastside detention center is across the street from a school that is being closed; we need money for jobs and education, not for racist deportations.”

Rosen did not tell the crowd that the school, Essence Preparatory Charter School, was ordered closed by the Texas Education Agency for failing performance in three of the four years it was open, and that its closure was not related to the future opening of an ICE detention center nearby.

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Texas Man Gets 40 Years for Leading Violent Online Child Exploitation Ring

A federal judge sentenced the online leader of a Nihilistic Violent Extremist (NVE) group to 40 years in prison. In addition, he will spend the rest of his life on court-ordered supervision for charges related to child sexual exploitation and racketeering. 19-year-old Alexis Aldair Chavez of San Antonio was also ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution.

According to court documents, Chavez, who used the online profile names Zack and Zack8884, was an administrator and online leader of the “8884” network. The online network is related to a larger violent extremist group that shares common goals, including the promotion of social unrest and the downfall of the current world order, including the United States Government.

Members of the group led by Chavez hope to destroy civilized society through the corruption and exploitation of vulnerable populations, including young children. Chavez’s guilty plea comes after his arrest for actions within the group that extorted and coerced victims to engage in a variety of violent behavior, including self-mutilation, online and in-person sexual acts, harm to animals, sexual exploitation of siblings and others, acts of violence, threats of violence, suicide, and murder.

According to a federal criminal complaint, sometime around October 2023, Chavez and a co-conspirator made efforts to encourage an underage female to commit suicide during a video chat by overdosing on pills. The pair of conspirators recorded the suicide attempt and used the video content to maintain and increase their status within the violent extremist group.

Later, Chavez and the same underage female worked jointly to coerce a female outside the United States to disrobe on camera, mutilate herself, and engage in sexual acts. They also forced another victim to self-mutilate by cutting the name “Zack” onto her body.

According to court records, in December 2023, Chavez and a co-conspirator coerced another underage girl to cut her tongue during a live video call during which the victim was also ordered by the pair to kill a cat. During the same month, Chavez, along with another co-conspirator, groomed several young females, coercing one to light her arm on fire until it burned through her skin and deeper into her body while on a video call. Another victim, according to court documents, was forced to drink her own urine and attempt to overdose on unknown pills.

Chavez was arrested in October 2024 and was found to be in possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. After his arrest, in December 2025, Chavez pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering, one count of distribution of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography, leading to the stiff sentence handed down during his sentencing hearing.

Acting Assistant Director Coult Markovsky of the FBI Counterterrorism Division commented on the case, saying, “Nothing is more abhorrent than those who prey on children and other vulnerable members of our society, and this defendant will pay a steep price for doing just that.”

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Using Marijuana Will Make You ‘A Loser In Life,’ GOP Congressman Says

A Republican congressman claims that using marijuana “hurts your DNA,” will “make you a loser in life” and leads to young women being “taken advantage of.”

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), one of the most outspoken opponents of cannabis legalization in Congress, made the comments in an  appearance on “High Stakes,” a podcast produced by the prohibitionist organization Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM).

“If you want to become a loser in life—if you want, as a young woman, to be around areas where the knowledge that you have of being assaulted, taken advantage of, and harming your life—just go forth and be around marijuana,” he said.

“I became very aware in college about people who used marijuana, who ended up literally dropping out—dropping out of life—who just chose that way of life,” he said. “I saw it from a personal perspective of a danger to someone’s future in their life.”

“There is not one positive effect of this marijuana,” Sessions claimed, despite the fact that nearly every state in the country has legalized cannabis for medical uses and the Trump administration has partially federally rescheduled it, officially recognizing its therapeutic value.

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OF COURSE: Texas Democrat James Talarico Is Campaigning With Doctor Who Performed Trans Surgeries on Minors

James Talarico, the far left candidate running for U.S. Senate in Texas, seems to be a single-issue candidate. Every time his name comes up, so does the topic of ‘trans children.’

He is obsessed with the issue and has talked about it extensively. For him, it doesn’t seem to matter how the public feels about this.

Now we are learning that he is even campaigning with a doctor who has performed transgender surgery on children. How is this supposed to appeal to the voters of Texas?

FOX News reports:

Talarico campaigns with surgeon who operated on transgender minors: ‘Wolf in sheep’s clothing’

Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is facing questions after fundraising with a “female-to-male” top surgeon who previously operated on minors shortly after saying that he does not support sex-change surgeries for children.

Talarico, a progressive Democrat, state lawmaker and Presbyterian seminarian, is running a highly competitive race to flip a Texas Senate seat for the first time in decades. He is opposing Republican state attorney general Ken Paxton. The seat is critical to both parties’ hopes of holding a Senate majority this next session.

During an appearance on the “Unity Over Division” podcast on June 8, Talarico responded to criticisms that he supports gender transition for minors by stating, “I oppose gender reassignment surgeries for minors.”

Days later, he participated in an Austin “Pride for Talarico” fundraiser that featured Dr. Dustin Reid, a female-to-male breast surgeon who confirmed with Fox News Digital that he previously operated on minors in “rare” cases prior to Texas banning the practice. He said that he no longer performs these surgeries in line with Texas law.

Speaking with Fox News Digital over the phone, Reid confirmed his participation in the event in support of Talarico. He said that “in the past, on a case-by-case basis, I would do that [female-to-male surgeries on minors] but not since they made it illegal in Texas.”

There are plenty of reasons to oppose Talarico’s candidacy, but this issue could be the one that sinks him.

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Texas Hospital Caught Red-Handed Advertising BIRTH PACKAGES in Mexico to Convince Foreigners to Have Babies In America – Governor Greg Abbott Orders Investigation

A hospital in South Texas is under fire for trying to profit from America’s ridiculous birthright citizenship policy, which was upheld by the Supreme Court last week.

As Fox News reported on Tuesday, Mission Regional Medical Center has been caught red-handed advertising a birth packages campaign in billboards in Mexico. The purpose was to convince foreign nationals to give birth across the border so their babies could obtain U.S. citizenship.

The hospital promoted deliveries starting at $3,950 for a natural birth and $5,525 for a C-section, and directed viewers to a website, havemybabyinTEXAS.com. The website has since been taken down.

Moreover, the billboards also displayed a telephone number beginning with “001.” This is the country code used to place calls to the United States from Mexico.

Mission Regional Medical Center later claimed this was all a “misunderstanding” and claimed they had backed off.

“The marketing materials regarding maternity services are no longer in use due to any unintended misunderstanding,” a hospital spokesperson told Fox News. “We do not support or facilitate any unlawful activity and work to comply with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations.”

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Ten States Enable Vast Majority of Migrant Truckers Who Can’t Speak English

Almost eight-in-ten of the migrant truckers who have been busted for not speaking English got their licenses from just ten states, a new study reveals.

Texas, Florida, and Ohio each sit in the top five of the worst offenders, according to American Truckers United (ATU), showing that this is not just a blue state problem.

The ten states from the largest number of violators to the fewest, includes Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Washington, and Colorado. These states account for 77 percent of all violators who have been cited by federal and state officials.

ATU added that the four worst states include Texas, with 29 percent of all violators, California with 14 percent, Florida with ten percent, and Illinois with seven percent.

Of note, Florida does not hand out commercial trucker licenses to illegal migrants and any migrant who gets a CDL license there is verified as a legal foreign resident by DHS. In addition, starting late last year, Texas began pulling CDLs from illegal migrants and has begun the long process of purging them from the system. But it takes time to do this.

Enforcement is also not living up to its claims.

The group also pointed out that these illegal truckers may not be feeling the impact of law enforcement just yet as the group has found instances where migrants are told that their right to drive is revoked in one state via an “out of service order” only to see them simply move to another state and keep on driving.

Worse, these out of service orders have no teeth because the drivers are not arrested, their trucks are not impounded, and their companies are not sanctioned.

The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up the pressure, though, and took to social media this week to proclaim that “If you are in this country illegally you should NOT have a Commercial Driver’s License.”

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Jasmine Crockett on Talarico Win in Primary: ‘It Was Racist, It Was a Racist Race’

Radical leftist Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said race played a major role in her Democrat primary loss to Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico (D).

Crockett argued that racism, not politics, was the deciding factor in her Democrat primary loss to James Talarico.

“The reality is that there was a lot of races, not a lot, it was racist. It was a racist race. It is what it is, right? But we live in America as y’all are celebrating 250, okay? We know what this country is,” Crockett said.

Crockett rejected criticism that she should have spent more time campaigning alongside Talarico. Instead, she said her strategy was to help down-ballot candidates, pointing to five black men she endorsed in Texas runoff races who all advanced to the November election.

“The best thing that I can do for James Talarico isn’t me standing on a stage with him,” Crockett said. “It is the fact that I endorsed five candidates in the runoff who all happen to be black men in the state of Texas and every single one of them won.”

She pushed back on criticism that she should have campaigned more directly for Talarico, saying giving voters multiple candidates to support is a more effective strategy for boosting turnout.

“People keep trying to say, ‘Well, Jasmine has to go and hold his hand.’ No, I don’t,” she said. “If you can give people more than one thing to vote for, then you have a better chance of getting them out to the polls.”

Talarico defeated Crockett in Texas’s Democrat primary for the U.S. Senate in March, overcoming weeks of polling that had shown her with a sizable lead in the race to challenge Republican Sen. John Cornyn in November.

Crockett previously said she does not believe black voters have fully united behind Talarico’s Senate campaign and confirmed she will skip next week’s Texas Democrat Party convention.

She said she has not seen broad enthusiasm for Talarico or the rest of the party’s statewide candidates, adding that many voters remain unconvinced despite several months remaining before the November election.

“I’ve not heard a bunch of kumbaya,” Crockett said. “People don’t seem to be convinced at this point, but there’s a lot of time between now and November.”

Asked whether she plans to campaign for Talarico, Crockett explained that her focus is on down-ballot races rather than his Senate bid.

“I have no idea. I am more focused on down-ballot races in general,” she said.

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Illegal Alien from Mexico Fatally Shot After Trying to Run Over ICE Agent in Houston – DHS Responds

An illegal alien from Mexico was fatally shot after trying to run over an ICE agent in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday.

According to reports, ICE officers conducted a traffic stop around 6:50 am when the illegal alien, identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, tried to evade law enforcement.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands and attempted to run over an ICE agent before he was fatally shot.

The illegal was transported to a local hospital where he died from his injuries.

This is the second time this month that an illegal alien has tried ramming a vehicle into law enforcement officials this month.

Click 2 Houston reported:

An undocumented immigrant was shot and killed Tuesday morning in east Houston by an ICE agent during an attempted arrest, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The man has been identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who was in the U.S. illegally, according to ICE.

According to the agency, at about 6:50 a.m., ICE agents attempted a traffic stop in the 6800 block of Canal Street as part of a “targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien.”

Officials said Araujo attempted to flee the scene.

ICE said Araujo rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused multiple verbal commands and used his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE agent. The agent then fired his weapon in self-defense, according to ICE.

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Supreme Court won’t block Texas from enforcing a law requiring age verification for app downloads

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to block Texas from enforcing a state law that requires apps stores to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for minors seeking to download apps or make in-app purchases on mobile phones.

Justice Samuel Alito, in a pair of one-sentence orders, denied petitions by plaintiffs who claim that the Texas App Store Accountability Act violates users’ constitutional rights to free speech.

Last month, a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law can take effect. The panel suspended a district court’s ruling last December that the law is unconstitutional.

The plaintiffs suing to block the law include the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a defendant in both cases.

Plaintiffs’ lawyers argued that the law impermissibly seeks to limit access to content protected by the First Amendment, including news and educational material.

“Equity and the public interest support relief because protecting First Amendment rights — and parents’ rights to supervise their children as they see fit, not as the government tells them they should — is always in the public interest,” wrote attorneys for Students Engaged in Advancing Texas.

Attorneys from Paxton’s office argued that the law protects children from “dangerous modern products.”

“A child with access to an app store and a mobile device (such as a tablet or smartphone) can potentially download any number of software applications, potentially agreeing to invasions of the child’s privacy and sale of the child’s data and be exposed to any conceivable content without parental consent or even parental knowledge,” they wrote.

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