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According to the sheriff's office, a border agent smelled marijuana smoke coming from the bus and ordered everyone off so that a dog could inspect the vehicle. A prescription bottle with several marijuana cigarettes was found in a trashcan, and more marijuana was found in two other containers. In all, 0.13 pounds of the drug were found.

Broadus admitted the drug was his and was released, the sheriff's office said.

There were about 20 percent more driving while intoxicated arrests during this past holiday period than in 2010.

Local and state law enforcement agencies were out in increased numbers, placing a higher priority on the dangerous, illegal activity between Dec. 17 and Sunday. There was also one DWI-related fatality this year, compared to none last year.

In 2010, there were about 46 arrests for drunken driving during that time period compared to about 56 this year. Although there were several more felony arrests for a third or more charge of DWI last year, there were more first-time offenders, according to records from the Midland County Sheriff’s Office, Midland Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety.

A former Army soldier was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for the intoxication manslaughter of an Alton man.

State District Judge Sid Harle listened intently as a lawyer for Brian Keith Hutton Jr., 27, asked for a sentence of probation to help rehabilitate Hutton, who testified that he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression and had drowned his problems in alcohol.

A 23-year-old southwest Houston woman was arrested and charged Sunday with injury to a child, causing serious bodily injury, according to the Harris County District Clerk’s office.

Britni Bereasa Glover is the mother of a 4-year-old boy who was found beaten on Friday and later died, KTRK reports, and her boyfriend is wanted for questioning.

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A former prosecutor with a reputation for taking on more indigent defense cases than any other San Antonio lawyer is under investigation after a judge's signatures on reimbursement forms for such work appeared to be forged, the Bexar County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

Detective Louis Antu, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, said Hilda Valadez came under suspicion after a clerk for a state district judge noticed the signatures didn't appear to match the judge's.

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Bexar County Sheriff's Office deputies Monday night arrested a San Antonio man accused in Harris County of selling fake annuity policies to 69 clients, then stealing more than $200,000 he netted in those sales, according to court documents.

Luther Pierce Hendon, 64, is being held in Bexar County Jail on charges of misapplication of fiduciary property, money laundering and theft by deception. A judge set bail at $1.5 million.

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Former NFL quarterback Craig Nall was arrested in Alexandria early Thursday morning on a driving while intoxicated charge.

Nall, 32, an Alexandria native now living in McKinney, Texas, was stopped around 2:45 a.m. by Alexandria police after an officer observed him crossing the center line on Horseshoe Drive, a police report states.

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Capping more than a month of politically charged testimony in which the district attorney's office was accused repeatedly of prosecutorial misconduct, a judge on Wednesday overturned the embezzlement conviction of a San Antonio woman whose defense table was searched in the middle of her trial.

“In the interest of justice, I'm granting a mistrial,” state District Court Judge Raymond Angelini said after both sides agreed not to give closing arguments. The judge didn't elaborate other than to set a new trial date in April.

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Actress Brooke Meuller, Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife, was arrested on felony cocaine possession in Aspen, Colo. The 34-year-old was arrested after she allegedly assaulted a woman at a local bar. After she was arrested, police say they found four grams of cocaine in her possession.

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A retired Houston judge shocked GOP officials Wednesday by filing to run against incumbent Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos in the March primary.

Retired state District Judge Mike Anderson ended months of rumors about a possible bid just a day after several area police unions joined forces to chastise Lykos for being "antagonistic" toward law enforcement. Union officials singled out her policy of prosecuting crack cocaine residue cases as misdemeanors instead of felonies, which Anderson seized on.

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