Of the 105,121 fans who attended the Dallas Cowboys game Sunday, 41 were in the Arlington jail at 7:00 am Monday. The total number of arrests before, during, and after the game may change because some of those arrested may have posted bond and been released.

Two people were arrested for assault and three were charged with driving while intoxicated in Texas. The majority of the other 36 were charged with public intoxication. All of the defendants were arrested in the 900 block of East Randol Mill Road, the site of the stadium in Arlington.

According to an Arlington city spokesperson, 28 people were thrown out of the stadium by halftime.

The Cowboys lost the inaugural NFL game at their new stadium to the New York Giants, 33-31.

An elderly man has been arrested for aggravated assault in Austin, Texas and is being held in the Travis County Jail after firing shots at a crew clearing brush near his Central Texas property. Workers with Piatra, Inc. had been hired by the city of Austin to clear brush on Sunday. Henry Ralph Schots, 85, thought they were trespassing and opened fire on the seven men with a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun. A total of eight rounds were discharged.

Several rounds struck near the workers, though none were injured. Schots was arrested and charged with seven counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

One of the ten most wanted criminals in Texas has been identified as an inmate in a Florida jail. Harold Monroe Sharp was placed on the list in September 2008 and has outstanding warrants for assault, evading arrest and possession of a firearm by a felon. He was arrested and jailed in Orange County Florida last May, though he used an assumed name. A tip to the Texas Crime Stoppers program alerted Texas authorities that Sharp was incarcerated in Florida, and they in turn notified Florida officials.


Sharp will be tried on charges in Florida before Texas has an opportunity to prosecute him.

Texas State District Judge Sandra Watts called for a recess in the trial of a Jesse Salazar, a former employee with the Corpus Christi State School for the developmentally disabled. Salazar is one of six defendants accused of orchestrating a 'Fight Club' with the facility's residents. The case was put on hold after prosecutors said their final witness was not available to testify.


That witness, a police detective, reportedly has a medical condition that kept him from appearing in court Wednesday. He is scheduled to provide testimony by phone on Thursday. Salazar is not expected to call witnesses in his criminal defense, so the jury could begin deliberations immediately after the officer testifies.