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Available reporting shows no evidence that Joel Osteen has been criminally charged or convicted; news coverage that touches legal matters around him instead documents investigations and incidents conn...
The core facts reported across local and national outlets show a 15‑year‑old Houston boy identified by his family as autistic named Emmanuel Gonzalez‑Garcia went missing in early October, was found by...
Available reporting shows no credible evidence that Joel Osteen is personally under criminal investigation; multiple outlets say he remains free and leading Lakewood Church and that past probes have f...
Local Houston officials’ most recent public statements in the available reporting about Lakewood Church focus on two types of interactions: city event permitting/street closures tied to Lakewood servi...
State and federal investigations into matters connected to Lakewood Church since 2020 have focused largely on a 2024 mass‑shooting at the church and on separate financial questions tied to past thefts...
The cellphone says was taken from him during an October arrest was tracked to a used-electronics vending kiosk — specifically to an machine — according to reporting and a police report cited in covera...
Lakewood Church experienced a high‑profile theft of roughly $600,000 in donations in 2014 and a stash of cash and checks was found hidden in a church wall in 2021; Houston police say evidence links th...
The Houston Police Department’s written policies on missing, kidnapped and found persons are embodied in its General Orders—most directly in the Missing, Kidnapped, and Found Persons order (600-08) an...
The Houston Police Department (HPD) publicly states it prioritizes missing children and people with mental illness, provides mechanisms to file missing-person reports and maintains youth-focused units...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that Joel Osteen himself has been the subject of a recent federal or state investigation; news coverage instead documents multiple law‑enforcemen...