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Law enforcement has conducted its third arrest of a person related to the University of North Texas basketball team. The individual who was arrested was charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and possession of a dangerous drug. In addition to this individual, law enforcement has arrested the team’s former student manager on charges of engaging in criminal activity and possession of marijuana and another former player on marijuana charges....

Denton law enforcement recently used a taser on a patient from a mental health facility who resisted arrest. The facility in question helps individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Law enforcement told the man to leave the street prior to arresting him on a charge of being a pedestrian in a roadway. After being tased, law enforcement took the man into custody. This is just one case of individuals resisting arrest....

At the beginning of April, Denton law enforcement arrested a man who barricaded himself inside the bathroom of a stranger’s apartment. The man was wanted for multiple robberies. The arrest warrant affidavit revealed that the man poked a Subway restaurant clerk with a tire tool wrapped in a rag. Before law enforcement arrived at the scene, the man broke into the door of the apartment, which caused one of the apartment’s residents to call 911....

A law enforcement chase in the Denton area recently concluded with officers discovering 4.3 pounds of marijuana in an individual’s possession as well as more than $3,200 in cash and several firearms including some weapons that might have been stolen. According to an arrest warrant, the chase in question arose because the man involved is claimed to have hit and choked his girlfriend. The individual refused to respond to law enforcement and even closed his door on an officer’s hand. When law enforcement attempted to make an arrest, the man broke free and fled the scene....