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Posted: January 1, 2026
Happy New Year from TexArrest. As 2026 begins, the platform is operating at full momentum—scraping counties, publishing booking records, and expanding automation compatibility across Texas jailing systems.
📸 28-Day Dataset & Analytics Milestone
Since submitting TexArrest for Google crawling in December 2025, growth has accelerated faster than expected:
- 10,000+ scraped and published mugshots
- 15,200+ total search impressions
- 4,430+ organic search clicks
- 300+ active daily scrape and publish sessions
- Average Google position: 4.1
These numbers confirm real demand for centralized Texas arrest data, and the trajectory continues upward as more counties are added to the bot fleet.
🤖 APD, WilCo, and Collin County — Live & Posting Daily
Scraping pipelines currently running at scale include:
Austin Police Department (APD)
- Fully operational
- Posting mugshots as soon as they are publicly released online via APD search
Williamson County (WilCo)
- Scraper and automation pipeline fully finalized
- No human intervention required
- Posting records almost daily
- Uses a 30-minute session reset strategy to maintain image reliability
Collin County
- Scraper is fully functional
- Capturing and publishing daily arrest and booking records
- Mugshots processed reliably when available
At this point, TexArrest is publishing public booking records faster than most other arrest or mugshot aggregation resources, while keeping the platform free for public use.
📂 “No Mugshot Available” Records Now Supported
TexArrest has expanded to include arrest records that contain full booking details but do not have a mugshot.
These are now grouped under:
“No Mugshot Available”
During development, we noticed a blank image field meant the scraper failed to pull a mugshot—not that the record had no photo. After re-scraping those blank-image records:
Wala — mugshot found.
This anomaly detection has now become part of the discovery strategy to recover missed mugshots in future scraping cycles.
🧠 Surname Wildcards & One-Bot-Per-County Strategy
Because Williamson County does not publish a full browsable inmate roster or chronological arrest feed, scraping must be done via:
- Surname-based discovery
- Wildcard name searches
- Adaptive surname list expansion per scrape session
Earlier attempts to merge all Tyler Technologies-based counties into one master bot caused scraping stalls when debugging new counties.
That strategy has now been replaced with a stronger model:
One bot. One pipeline. One county. Every time.
This ensures:
- Scrapers run independently
- No county is blocked when another is being tested
- Each bot builds its own wildcard surname arsenal
- Taxonomy and title formatting helpers can later be tuned per county
⚙️ Bots Now Live
- TexBot Austin
- TexBot WilCo
- TexBot Milam
- TexBot Collin
More county bots are being added to the software fleet weekly.
⚖️ Removal Requests — Final Policy Statement
TexArrest has begun receiving removal requests without mandated court orders or legal expunctions.
Let’s make this extremely clear:
🚫 TEXARREST DOES NOT REMOVE RECORDS
🚫 We do not delete mugshots
🚫 We do not hide arrest records
🚫 We do not offer a pay-to-erase history service
If you are submitting a removal request without a mandated court order, expunction, or sealing order, please do not waste your time.
We will only remove or modify records when legally required to do so by a court or state law directive.
If you have a legally mandated order, we will comply.
For anything else: WE DO NOT REMOVE RECORDS.
🚔 Tarrant County — Next System Under Analysis
Next up: Tarrant County.
This move is intentional:
- To study a different jailing system platform
- To expand compatibility beyond Tyler Technologies-only counties
- To ensure future support for multiple Texas inmate record system types
🚀 What’s Next
- Launching daily scrapes for current-day bookings
- Rapid rollout of Tyler-based counties now that the blueprint is finalized
- Continued offense taxonomy normalization
- TexBot refinements completing soon
- Mugshot and booking record coverage expanding across Texas counties and cities
TexArrest is entering 2026 stronger, faster, and ready to scale statewide.
More updates soon.
Carlos Jose Ayala Morales, a 44-year-old convicted sex offender, is currently listed among the Texas DPS 10 Most Wanted Fugitives following a February 10, 2025 warrant issued out of Harris County, Texas, for Attempted Indecency with a Child by Sexual Contact.
Stephen Joseph Vess, a 39-year-old fugitive, is currently listed on the Texas DPS 10 Most Wanted for Sexual Assault of a Child and Possession of Child Pornography. Vess has longstanding ties to Rockwall County and the city of Mabank, Texas, and is considered armed and dangerous.
Ernest Christopher Nathan, a 45-year-old fugitive, is wanted by Texas authorities following a Failure to Appear warrant issued on February 29, 2024, tied to an original Murder – Firearm charge. Nathan was previously arrested by Houston Police Department for Murder and Evading Arrest with a Vehicle on October 4, 2022, but was released on bond the next day and has since absconded.
Raul Herrera Jr., a 53-year-old fugitive from the Rio Grande Valley, is currently listed among the Texas DPS Top 10 Most Wanted. He is wanted on multiple Hidalgo County felony warrants, including Aggravated Sexual Assault, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Assault Causing Bodily Injury, and Violation of Bond/Protective Order.
Elijah Turner Reyes, a 24-year-old Texas fugitive, is currently listed on the Texas DPS Top 10 Most Wanted following a May 22, 2025 murder warrant issued in El Paso, Texas. Reyes is a documented Piru (Bloods) gang member with a violent criminal history that includes Aggravated Robbery, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Assault of a Pregnant Person, and Assault of a Peace Officer/Judge.
Miguel Ángel Gomez, a 51-year-old Texas fugitive, is currently one of the Texas DPS Top 10 Most Wanted and is sought on a 2022 Murder warrant issued out of Harris County, Texas. Gomez is also wanted for a Parole Violation stemming from his prior conviction for Sexual Assault of a Child.