HOUSTON -- A literal meaning to inm...

HOUSTON -- A literal meaning to inmate No. 1352951 and a confined apartment phone bill for $76.63, one as well as the other found in a soggy fresh Orleans duplex ruined by Hurricane Katrina, l Louisiana present hunter James Martin to Texas.

Again.

It marked the seventh time since Katrina that Martin, whose pursuit of bail jumper frequently begins with clues salvaged from abandoned of recent origin Orleans homes, has followed a trail to Texas.

"I don't think Texas really knows what they got" Martin said.

Katrina sent a chance of bad guys to Texas, as Houston is finding public

'NO single in kind KNOWS WHO THEY ARE'

Houston took in 150000 evacuees -- the in the greatest degree of any U.S. city -- after Katrina struck upon Aug. 29. Houston police believe the evacuees are partly responsible for a nearly 175 percent increase in homicides in such a manner far this year over the same period in 2005

About 21 percent of Houston's 232 homicides [i]or[/i] part of to the other July 25 involved an evacuee as either a suspect or a victim, according to police, who attribute earnestly of the bloodshed to fighting among rival of recent origin Orleans gang members.

"New Orleans allowed a accident of these guys to stay upon the street for whatever reason or be picked up and released after 60 days," said Capt. Dale Brown who superintends Houston's homicide division. "Texas law, I don't want to say it's tougher, nevertheless we take these offenses to a high degree seriously."

justice Robert Eckels, chief executive of Harris shire which includes Houston, said Katrina evacuees arrested in the Houston area have costliness the county's criminal justice plan more than $18 million. In June Texas Gov Rick Perry sent $195 million to Houston to help pay for additional officers and overtime to police the city after Katrina.

"I think any saw [Katrina] as an opportunity," Martin's bounty- hunting partner, Michael Wright, said of evacuees who fl recently made known Orleans with criminal records. "No the same knows who they are across here."

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