The City Council tentatively approved a list of items the City plans to purchase with leftover funds from the American Rescue Plan Act [ARPA], a federal stimulus bill designed to help state and local governments struggling to fund operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Olney Police caught up with fugitive Felisiano “Felix” Villalpando III on Saturday at the Western Heights apartments, about a week after he eluded a raid on his West Elm Street home by the OPD and the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Special Response Team. Mr. Villalpando, 39, was wanted in connection with an April 12 aggravated assault and burglary, police said. OPD and
Olney Police locked down the school campus and hospital to catch one assault suspect last week and conducted a predawn raid complete with flash-bang grenades and tear gas at the home of a second suspect who eluded capture.
Olney police removed 26 dogs from a urine-and-feces-infested home on Payne Street on Friday and arrested wo people in connection with the massive animal cruelty case that sprang from a health-and-safety inspection, Chief Dan Birbeck said.