Allen sits squarely in Collin County, which keeps the criminal-defense map simpler than it is in Plano or Frisco — every felony and most non-Class-C misdemeanor matters move to the Collin County courthouse complex in McKinney, and the city-ordinance and Class C work stays at Allen Municipal Court at 305 Century Parkway. Kent Starr’s office at 5900 S Lake Forest Drive is roughly ten minutes north of Allen on US-75, which makes in-person meetings practical for clients during the workweek and on short notice for emergencies.
The defining feature of criminal enforcement in Allen is the US-75 corridor. The stretch of Central Expressway running from the McDermott Drive / Bethany Drive interchange north through Stacy Road has been one of the most actively patrolled segments in southern Collin County for years. Allen PD has historically participated in state-funded DWI overtime grants — the kind of grant cycle that produces concentrated enforcement on weekend nights and holiday weekends — and the resulting case volume shows up at every weekly setting in the county. Kent regularly handles DWI defense for Allen arrests and is familiar with how the field-sobriety, intoxilyzer, and blood-draw evidence in these matters tends to develop, which officers from the Allen DWI unit tend to testify, and how Collin County prosecutors approach negotiations on these cases.
Allen also has its own retail and entertainment density, which produces a different stream of allegations than the highway DWIs. The Allen Premium Outlets at the Stacy Road interchange with US-75 generate a steady flow of shoplifting and theft cases, occasional escalations into resisting and evading charges, and the related drug-possession matters that surface during searches incident to a theft arrest. Watters Creek at Montgomery Farm — the open-air retail and dining district along Bethany Drive — has its own evening case mix: public-intoxication allegations, assault-by-contact charges arising from bar incidents, and the occasional DWI from drivers leaving the district by way of US-75 or the Sam Rayburn Tollway.
A pattern Kent has watched develop in Allen over the last several years involves the city’s growing high-school-age population. Allen High School is one of the largest single-campus high schools in Texas, and the city’s other schools and athletic facilities draw from a wide service area. The result is a recurring volume of juvenile defense matters — minor-in-possession allegations, vape and cannabis cases, school-resource-officer referrals, fighting and assault citations, and the occasional more serious felony allegation that can carry adult-certification risk under Section 54.02 of the Texas Family Code. Many of these cases can be resolved without an adjudication when the defense engages early, but the window for first-offender programs and deferred-prosecution arrangements closes quickly in Collin County’s juvenile system.
Bail and release work in Allen routes through the Allen city jail for short holds and through the Collin County Detention Facility on Community Avenue in McKinney for longer holds and felony bookings. Kent works with vetted bail bond resources for Collin County so release work begins before the family arrives at the jail. For matters that go further, the firm covers everything from misdemeanor county-court trials to felony jury work in the Collin County district courts, and federal exposure is handled through the federal criminal defense practice in the Eastern District of Texas.
What does not change between the US-75 DWI cases, the retail-district allegations, and the juvenile dockets is who actually does the work at Starr Law P.C. Kent is a solo practitioner; the lawyer the client hires is the lawyer who appears at every setting and handles every cross-examination personally. He has thirty years of trial experience, has handled more than fifteen thousand cases, speaks Spanish and Portuguese in addition to English, and is reachable around the clock for emergency arrests. The McKinney office is a ten-minute drive from most of Allen via US-75. Reading the firm’s client reviews is the most honest portrait of the work.
Starr Law P.C. represents clients throughout Collin, Dallas, Tarrant, Denton, Rockwall, Kaufman, Ellis, Johnson, and Parker Counties. Initial consultations are free, confidential, and conducted directly with Kent.
If you have been arrested in Allen, cited at the Outlets or Watters Creek, or contacted by Allen PD about a case that is still under investigation, call (214) 982-1408 for a free consultation with Kent.
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Every case is evaluated on its own facts.
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