Gabriel Monte

A registered sex offender was sentenced to 15 years in prison for hitting his ex-girlfriend with a car last year at a Lubbock apartment.

A Lubbock judge sentenced a 58-year old man to 40 years in prison without parole a day after jurors found him guilty of repeatedly abusing a 6-year-old family member for months.

Lubbock police arrested an 18-year-old man accused of shooting a convenience store employee in both of her legs hours after he threatened another woman with a gun.

Lubbock officials released a video of a former police employee shoving an elderly sex offender who he believed threatened him.

The attorney for a former LPD employee said his client acted in self defense when he shoved an elderly sex-offender during a compliance appointment.

DNA evidence helped detectives with the Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit identify a suspect they believed stabbed to death a 26-year-old man 16 years ago at a bar.

A 27-year-old man was sentenced this week to 18 years in prison after admitting to trading child sexual abuse materials online.

A 61-year-old man described by investigators as a "relatively sophisticated computer user" faces multiple federal charges related to illicit online material.

A 23-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 55 after admitting to shooting and killing his girlfriend last year in view of a federal agent watching their apartment as part of an armed robbery investigation.

"You took his life as if it didn't matter," Severo Losoya's daughter wrote in her statement which was also read aloud in court. "But his life did matter. It mattered to me. It mattered to all of us and you took it with no hesitation."