Local Woman Arrested, Jailed For Blowing Bubbles
SAN LEON – A local woman was arrested in San Leon on Sept. 8th after being caught blowing bubbles on a busy street corner.
The woman, Kathy O‘Helnoe, age 24, was taken into custody after San Leon Police Chief Art Pinero determined that her actions were a danger to traffic on FM 517, causing drivers to swerve and nearly causing several collisions.
Witnesses at the scene stated that O‘Helnoe was on a grassy area near the intersection of FM 517 and 12th Street, blowing bubbles on the afternoon of Sept. 8th.
Witnesses told Pinero that she had been seen blowing bubbles at this location several times recently. Passing motorists began honking and waving, causing a small disturbance.
A passing officer observed the woman and pulled over. When the officer accosted O‘Helnoe, she stopped blowing bubbles and was strip searched.
She was taken into custody for Creating A Disturbance, with bond set at $5,000.
Bubbles, a well-known local rodeo clown, was not charged in the incident.
Kathy O‘Helnoe
War On Terror Takes To The Trees
If you have any trees on your property, the Bureau of Homeland Security wants to talk to you. New guidelines issued by the Bureau of Homeland Security have named trees as a specific threat. According to new guidelines, trees could be useful to terrorists, who might use them as a place of concealment.
The agency has made the tree issue a priority, and will spend millions of dollars this fiscal year investigating trees all over the US.
Plans provide for eliminating or removing all unnecessary trees, and transplanting useful trees into special quarantine areas. Officials speculate that as many as 60% of US trees must be relocated or destroyed in order to comply with provisions contained within the expanded Patriot Act.
Trees less than 2 feet tall and those which produce no limbs or foliage are exempt from the program, as are rocks and boulders.
suspicious tree
Routine Traffic Stop Results In Sign Ordinance Violation Arrest
KEMAH – A report of a reckless pedestrian at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday August 29 led to a 47-year-old Kemah man’s arrest for violating the sign ordinance. Police received a report of a redheaded guy staggering recklessly down Highway 146. By the time officers were able to respond, the man had grown a beard to conceal his identity. However police noticed that the man was driving a stolen Pontiac Firebird. Officers wasted no time adding the man to their list of suspects in the theft of the vehicle. Police asked for permission to search the vehicle, but the driver, 34 year-old Lincoln Connenal, refused, claiming diplomatic immunity as a citizen of Haiti.
Using their flashlights to look through the car windows, officers saw marijuana cigarettes and partially-burned marijuana cigarettes in a plastic bag. They also saw two bags of loose marijuana, a cigarette rolling device, and two shotguns. The man admitted that the items in the vehicle were his.
Officers considered these circumstances to be suspicious, and were considering whether they should make an arrest or simply gun him down on the spot, when suddenly one of them noticed an illegal campaign sign being posted across the street. As officers raced across the street to respond, the stolen car zoomed off heading south.
Meanwhile, police busted Bailey Heathcoat of League City for failing to abide by the city’s sign law which requires all political signs to be exactly 36 inches apart.
Police are seeking the driver of the car as a witness in the sign case. Three people in the passenger seat and six people in the back seat are also wanted for questioning.
Lincoln Connenal
