{"id":107831,"date":"2025-07-31T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107831\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:11:10","slug":"multi-agency-task-force-arrests-dozens-in-houston-area-jugging-robberies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107831\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-agency task force arrests dozens in Houston-area jugging robberies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A regional task force has arrested multiple suspects in connection with a string of violent<a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Jugging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Jugging\/\"> \u2018jugging\u2019<\/a> robberies, where victims were tailed from banks and attacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In a press conference Thursday morning in Conroe, Montgomery County Sheriff Wesley Doolittle will join leaders from the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Houston Police Department, and the Montgomery County District Attorney\u2019s Office to share details of the joint operation.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities say dozens of suspects have been arrested following a coordinated investigation into \u201cjugging,\u201d a growing crime trend where suspects follow victims from banks and rob them at their next stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cOur message to criminals is clear: we will not tolerate this predatory crime in our communities,\u201d Sheriff Doolittle said. \u201cThis task force is a testament to the power of collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officials also highlighted the upcoming rollout of House Bill 1902, which goes into effect soon and will make jugging a state jail felony in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Watch the full press conference below<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A regional task force has arrested multiple suspects in connection with a string of violent \u2018jugging\u2019 robberies, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[8323,20882,4345,5429,14262,68945,358,42653,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-107831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-harris-county-sheriffs-office","9":"tag-hcso","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-police-department","12":"tag-jugging","13":"tag-montgomery-county-sheriff","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","16":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114948491529839730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}