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Katrina Victims Blamed for Houston Crime

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 6:50:07 AM
By PAUL J. WEBER

Michael Wright, a bounty hunter, poses for a photo holding case files of recent apprehensions in his office in Metairie, La., on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006. Katrina sent a lot of bad guys to Texas, as Houston is finding out. Houston took in 150,000 evacuees, the most of any U.S. city, after Katrina struck. Houston police believe the evacuees are partly responsible for a nearly 17.5 percent increase in homicides so far this year over the same period in 2005. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)HOUSTON (AP) - A letter to inmate No. 1352951 and a cell phone bill for $76.63, both found in a soggy New Orleans duplex ruined by Hurricane Katrina, led Louisiana bounty hunter James Martin to Texas. Again.

It marked the seventh time since Katrina that Martin, whose pursuit of bail jumpers often begins with clues salvaged from abandoned New Orleans homes, has followed a trail to Texas.

"I don't think Texas really knows what they got," Martin said.


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