Olney Police capture Villalpando at Western Heights

Olney Police caught up with fugitive Felisiano “Felix” Villalpando III on Saturday at the Western Heights apartments, about a week after he eluded a raid on his West Elm Street home by the OPD and the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Special Response Team. Mr. Villalpando, 39, was wanted in connection with an April 12 aggravated assault and burglary, police said. OPD and DPS officers used flash-bang grenades and tear gas at the home at 208 W. Elm St. to flush out Mr. Villalpando and to serve a search warrant but found no one home on April 24. Police had asked for the public’s help in finding Mr. Villalpando, who has an extensive criminal record and was considered armed and dangerous.

“Officers were working on leads that led them to Western Heights, where he was in an apartment,” Police Chief Dan Birbeck said. “He was subsequently located in that apartment and taken into custody without incident.” He is charged with injury to a child or elderly person and burglary of a habitation and is in custody in Young County Jail in lieu of $175,000 bail, according to jail records.