Staff report   For the second time in a year, Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett will be placed on administrative leave pending the conclusion of an investigation of which he’s not the subject. The Kyle City Council Tuesday gave authority to City Manager Scott Sellers to appoint Capt. Pedro Hernandez as...

By Samantha Smith A new phone app is helping the Austin Police Department (APD) clear accident scenes faster, but whether the Buda and Kyle Police Departments would implement the app remains to be seen.   Traditionally, a city’s police department has a rotation schedule associated with wrecker compa...

  by Moses Leos III The Kyle Police Department Thursday arrested Wilson Rene Molinares, the wrong-way driver in a fatal Feb. 19 accident on Interstate 35 that killed four people, on four charges of manlaughter, which is a second degree felony.  According to a city of Kyle press release, Molinares, 2...

By Moses Leos III A recent string of daytime burglaries in Kyle has Police Department Chief Jeff Barnett asking citizens to be vigilant.  According to Barnett, as of Feb. 9, seven Burglary of a Habitation calls have been reported across Kyle since the start of 2016.  Authorities say the burglaries i...

By Samantha Smith Changes to a Kyle city ordinance last March on regulating wrecker services has led the owner of a local company to speak out in protest.   Norma Cisneros, who is the owner of Pete’s Towing Company in Kyle, says the changes, approved by the Kyle City Council in March 2015, have been...

By Moses Leos III The installation of license plate recognition (LPR) technology in three Kyle Police Department vehicles has drawn various concerns from the constituents they serve.  It comes as the department readies to use the LPR technology by March, according to Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett. ...

See more photos from the Battle of the Badges here. By Moses Leos III Smoke billowed from a makeshift doorway while rock music blared in the Austin Convention Center Friday as Kyle Police Department officer Matthew Wilson walked down a runway.  After six months of training, Wilson was taking a bold ...

By Kim Hilsenbeck Kyle Police Department Lt. Andre Marmolejo looked on as his accident reconstruction specialists – what he calls the “Crash Team” – began recording data from a recent fatality collision.  Just 30 minutes prior, he handed out assignments to officers Daniel Gooding, James Jones, David...

By Moses Leos III Seven months after a double homicide along Sledge Street, the Kyle Police Department (KPD)continues to push ahead with its investigation into the crime.  According to Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett, the department is making steady progress on the case.  “We work on that (case) almo...

By Moses Leos III Kyle residents who owe outstanding municipal fines to the city may not be able to hide for much longer. With the implementation of new license plate reader (LPR) technology, the Kyle Police Department hopes to not only mitigate outstanding warrants, but also keep people from possib...