Quaid Landheart

Another great effort by one of HPD’s detectives. Officer S. Phillips of the Cyber & Financial Crimes Division investigated two cases in which big ticket merchandise were stolen from local stores using fraudulent credit cards. 

After identifying Quaid Landheart, 30, Officer Phillips learned Landheart was awaiting trial on two additional cases and linked Landheart to yet another case. Consequently, Officer Phillips charged Landheart in three separate felony theft cases.

Landheart is currently on bail in five separate cases of felony theft.

Ashley Yates

Cyber & Financial Crimes Investigator R Bearden recently solved an embezzlement case involving the theft of $539,740.60. 

After an extensive review of financial evidence, Detective Bearden determined Ashley Yates, 35, committed the theft by diverting payments intended for her employer to her personal use.  She is accused of using 396 checks and 734 credit card transactions to divert money over a four year period beginning in 2015. Yates was arrested and charged with First Degree Felony Theft in the 179^th Judicial District Court on April 20^th, 2020. She is currently out on a $30,000 bond.

Yates has a history of arrest. On August, 29^th, 2013, Yates was accused of assaulting the manager of the property where she resided. Yates had obtained her apartment fraudulently by using another person's identifying information.  She was charged with Assault-Bodily Injury (County Court at Law #7) and two felony counts of Fraudulent Use of Identifying Information (179th Judicial District Court). As part of a plea deal, the felony charges were dismissed and Yates received 9 months of deferred adjudication for the misdemeanor assault.

Deferred adjudication is a form of leniency in which the defendant admits guilt and the court orders a period of probation. If the defendant completes the probation satisfactorily, the court dismisses the charge formally. Typically, failure to complete probation will result in an adjudication of guilt. 

While on deferred adjudication for the assault, Yates was charged on December 4^th, 2014 in a felony embezzlement scheme resulting in the aggregate theft of more than $1500, and on December 16^th, 2014, she was released from probation with "Unsatisfactory Termination" without a guilty adjudication.

On September 1st, 2015, Yates was placed on 3 years deferred adjudication again, this time for the felony offense. On September 12^th, 2018, Yates was released from deferred adjudication for "Unsatisfactory Termination" without a guilty adjudication.

Nicholas Mooton

Outstanding arrests by our officers of the Midwest and South Gessner Crime Suppression Teams and the Procedural Justice Hot Spot Units who responded to a violent carjacking of a Toyota Sequoia from a family with two kids. Officers located the Sequoia with several suspects and another stolen vehicle, a Dodge pickup. After a short foot pursuit, officers arrested Nicholas Mooton and two juveniles male associates for Aggravated Robbery with a Deadly Weapon. All three are members of a criminal street gang.  

Officers determined Suspect Mooton wielded the pistol used during the robbery while the juveniles drove the stolen vehicles. Mooton wore a court-ordered ankle monitor during the robbery.  At the time of the robbery, Mooton was on a PR bond for Carrying a Handgun in a Motor Vehicle involving a firearm discovered during an investigation of a May 2, 2020 drive-by shooting at 4398 Alvin St. In that case, Mooton was a passenger in a stolen vehicle that was targeted by shooters from a rival gang.