From the Desk of Chief Ray Schultz,

It is less than one week away! The 2022 Twinkle Light Parade. On Thursday evening, beginning at 6 pm the parade will kick off from Frostwood elementary school at Gessner and Memorial. The parade will travel east on Memorial to Strey and then turn north. We will travel north to Taylorcrest and then east to Strey. South on Strey, back to Memorial, then another left turn traveling east to Bunker Hill Road. The parade will then turn back north on Bunker Hill Road to Taylorcrest and then east to Piney Point Road.  On Piney Point, we will turn south and travel back down to Memorial Drive. Then a right turn on Memorial Drive to Blalock where the parade will turn into the rear parking lot of the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. 

The floats will gather in the back lot where there will be Christmas Caroling, Santa Clause and Hot Chocolate.  As a special surprise, the Memorial Villages Police Foundation is having thousands of pounds of fresh SNOW being trucked in.

There will an area for sledding and for throwing snowballs. The snow area will open when the parade arrives at the church at approximately 7:30 pm. and will close at 9:00 pm. Plan now to join us somewhere along the route and at MDPC afterwards. Bring the family, and your gloves for some snow play time, even if it is 80 degrees outside.  Also, don’t forget to check out the Twinkle Light Prequel Video at the following link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCyICZMNle4

This past week the MVPD had the opportunity to be involved in several events around the community. There was the groundbreaking for the new Memorial Drive Elementary School, and on Tuesday evening Hunters Creek Elementary hosted a school hayride event that was escorted by Officers Boggus, Silliman and Boggus. Tuesday was also Ken Spalding Day in Hunters Creek and yesterday, officers stopped by Frostwood elementary for teacher appreciation day. Thank you for including us in these events. (See the attached photos)

Lots of Holiday parties will be occurring this weekend. Please remember that if you are out and about late in the evening, to be extra careful and alert for impaired drivers. We already had one arrest this week and don’t really want any more.

Again, Thanks for the goodies this week. Lots of great baked goods, fruit, candy and gifts for our staff. We appreciate you more than we can ever say.

Have a great weekend. Chief Ray Schultz rschultz@mvpdtx.org   

Weekly Crime Report

Hunters Creek

12/2/22 at 0845 Hours. 8400 Block of Katy Freeway. Missing Person Located. Officers were alerted to a missing person entering the villages in a vehicle that had been flagged by the ALPR system.  Officers located the vehicle and the missing person traveling on the I-10 frontage road. A relative was contacted and responded to the scene to meet with the missing relative.

12/6/22 at 1000 Hours. 1-100 Block of Hunters Ridge. The victim was notified by his bank of suspected fraudulent activity on his account. A review of his checking account found that the bank had cashed 3 fraudulent checks in Florida that the victim did not issue or authorize.  Information about the account and checks was obtained and provided to detectives for their follow up investigation.   

12/6/22 at 1300 Hours. 1600 Block of S. Voss. Driving While Intoxicated.  Officers were dispatched to the area after receiving multiple calls of a possible drunk driver traveling on Voss. Upon arriving in the area, officers located the suspected vehicle stopped in traffic. Upon approaching the sleeping driver, officers found him to be heavily intoxicated.  The male was placed under arrest and given a breath test that showed his BAC to be twice the legal limit.  The 52-year-old male was booked into the Harris County Jail and the vehicle was towed.   

Bunker Hill

12/2/22 at 1115 Hours. 200 Block of Gessner. ALPR Stolen Vehicle Notification. Officers were alerted to a stolen vehicle entering the villages on Gessner Road. Officers were nearby and stopped the vehicle. The driver was able to produce documentation showing him as the owner of the vehicle.  The vehicle however had been reported as stolen out of Tennessee. MVPD officers were unable to contact officials in Tennessee to obtain more information about the vehicle but were able to determine that the vehicle was part of a civil dispute.  The driver was identified and cited for various traffic offenses and released.   Tennessee authorities were sent information about the identity of the driver.

Piney Point

12/5/22 at 1000 Hours. 500 Block of Blalock. Evading Arrest. Officers observed a male subject on a motorcycle without a license plate. As officers attempted to stop the subject, the male eluded officers by driving on the sidewalk. Officers terminated the pursuit due to the safety of area pedestrians. The black motorcycle was seen leaving the area near I-10.

12/6/22 at 0945 Hours. 1-100 Block of Inman Oaks. Fraud. Victim reported that she had been notified by her credit card company of an attempted fraudulent use of her credit card. The transaction had been denied by the bank. Information was collected about the credit card and location of the attempted usage. MVPD detectives are reviewing the case.