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Depsite Bomb Threats, Park Cities Schools Reject Metal Detectors as Too "Urban"

The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Just Can't Seem To Stop Killing Each Other

This week, we've given you a little background on the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, and some reasons why two experts familiar with the gang are skeptical that they could be behind the murders of Kaufman County DA Mark McLelland, his wife Cynthia, and ADA Mark Hasse. In short: because while the ABT are ... More >>

Days After Slaying of Kaufman County DA and His Wife, Terrell Man Arrested For Threatening a County Official

Nick Morale, a 56-year-old man from Terrell, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of making "terroristic threats" against the life of an unnamed county official. Lieutenant Justin Lewis of the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office told reporters Wednesday that the threat was left on a Crime Stoppers tip line ... More >>

Despite Bomb Threats, Metal Detectors are too Urban for Highland Park High

I have a column coming out in next week's paper about the bomb and gun threats at Highland Park High School. It was inspired by (ripped off from) a story in The Huffington Post last week by Park Cities freelance writer Pamela Kripke, who is also the mother of a HPHS student. It's a pretty amazing p ... More >>

Police Want to Know How These Men Came to be Using Slain 79-Year-Old's Credit Card

It's hard to fathom why someone would murder a 79-year-old woman in the home she's lived in for 50 years, and do so in such a brutal manner that police have declined to so much as hint at her injuries. But police might be a step closer to finding out who. On Tuesday evening, police released surveil ... More >>

VIDEO: A Convenience Store Clerk Was Brutally Beaten With a Hammer During a Robbery Yesterday

A clerk was working alone at the AZ Mark convenience store on Military Parkway in Pleasant Grove when a man walked in. He was a regular customer, police say, but this time he carried a large knife and demanded cash. When the money didn't immediately appear, the man stabbed the clerk in the neck, th ... More >>

Watch Thieves Smash Truck Through Glass Door, Steal Absurd Amount of Rangers Merchandise

The video above was taken at about 2:30 a.m. on Decenber 1 from inside the Texas Rangers store on McKinney Avenue. If you'll watch carefully -- or really if you just keep your eyes open -- you'll see the taillights of a white Ford pickup creep slowly backward, then smash through the glass door. Two ... More >>

The Former Cop Who Stole $250,000 from CrimeStoppers Will Spend 42 Months in Prison

Theadora Ross asked for leniency. The former senior corporal with Dallas PD, who pleaded guilty in August to stealing $250,000 in would-be reward money from the Dallas Crime Stoppers program she oversaw, argued in a court filing that prison would be too hard on her daughter, who has Down Syndrome. ... More >>

Anybody Know The Beefy Aggie Fan Robbing Downtown Banks In Broad Daylight?

This much we can tell you about the man suspected of robbing Chase Bank and Northern Trust Bank downtown Monday, just before noon: He's around 25 years old; stands 5-foot-7 to 6 feet tall; wears a goatee that must be so wispy it doesn't even register in the surveillance photos of him; and has numero ... More >>

Three Men Are Wanted in a Drive-By at Lolita's That Left a Man Paralyzed

Lukas Da Cruz, 21, was standing outside Lolita's on Lemmon Avenue in the early morning hours of August 16 when a silver Honda drove past. According to a police report and a Facebook account, someone in the car fired a shot from a .40-caliber pistol, hitting him in the back near the right shoulder b ... More >>

Video: Man Gets Pistol-Whipped, Mugged While Getting Gas on Harry Hines

Ramiro Arriaga was getting gas at a Harry Hines 7-11 just after midnight on August 31 when a man walked up behind him, put a gun to his head, and pistol-whipped him. As the man held Arriaga to the ground, a second suspect, described only as a black woman, rifled through his pockets, finding a cell p ... More >>

Irony Alert: Former Head of Dallas Crime Stoppers Convicted of Wire, Tax Fraud

In 2010, Theadora Ross was a senior corporal with the Dallas Police Department and the officer in charge of Dallas Crime Stoppers, the program that offers thousands in cash rewards to tipsters who give information leading to arrest and indictment of criminals. Now, she is neither of those things. L ... More >>

To Help Catch Restaurant Owners' Killers, A $10,000 Reward

Update at 11:45 a.m.: Never mind. Police just retracted the $10,000 reward. "Detectives are working on potential information," they said via news release, which I assume means they have a possible lead. Original post: Police still don't know who shot 40-year-old Yayehyirad Lemma and 31-year-old Yen ... More >>

Hey, Old People: If a Cop Calls and Wants to Inspect Your Money, Don't Let Him

First, a word of caution. If someone cold-calls you, says they're a police officer, then asks you to withdraw a large some of cash from the bank so they can see if it's counterfeit, don't do it. Chances are, they're not actually a cop and you're never going to find out if your money was counterfeit ... More >>

Last Month, A Man Was Shot in Front His 3-Year-Old Daughter. Police Need Help Finding the Killer.

Just before 2 p.m. on June 9, Kerrick Butler was shot and killed by two men inside his Northeast Dallas apartment while his 3-year-old daughter watched. An informant pinned the murder on Marquis White, the 21-year-old believed to have committed two rapes near an Audelia Road bus stop. That lead did ... More >>

Police Need Help IDing Suspects Who Murdered Man After Fight at Downtown Night Club

Over the weekend, 28-year-old James Ramirez was leaving Thrive at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday when he got into an argument with another Hispanic man in the night club's parking garage. The argument over, Ramirez and a friend left the garage. When they stopped at a red light at the intersection at Lamar and ... More >>

Dallas Police Has Even More Explanation for its Response to That Whole Katy Trail Thing

The Dallas Police Department is continuing to explain away -- and maybe overcompensate for -- their initial silence concerning the armed robberies on the Katy Trail and the dozen-or-so incidents police believe they're linked to.A pair of press releases from police hit the inbox yesterday evening, on ... More >>

Justice for Justice, the Burned Puppy, is Now Worth $25,000

There's nothing like the sad death of an adorable puppy to stir up the police, animal services and the media. That's certainly the case with Justice, the 4-month-old lab-terrier mix doused in lighter fluid and burned in a Pleasant Grove apartment complex on April 4. Justice suffered through a week o ... More >>

Do You Know Who's Beneath the "Handsome Guy" Mask? There's Reward Money If You Do.

​Back in July we were first introduced to the "Handsome Guy" Bandit -- so called not because he's attractive, because who can tell, but because of the $800 mask he's clearly wearing in all the surveillance-cam photos taken of the bank robber during his various stick-em-ups in North Texas. And, say ... More >>

Dallas PD Releases Video of Oak Cliff Store Owner's Shooting In Hopes of Catching Suspects

Late on July 3 Dallas Police sent word that two men had shot to death an Oak Cliff convenience store owner ... over two boxes of onions. As Byron Harris noted a day later, Quick Check Grocery's Jin Ha was beloved by folks living near the store at Illinois Avenue and Overton Road; said one customer, ... More >>

DPD Needs Help ID'ing Men Responsible For Series of Violent Convenience Store Robberies

One of the armed suspects hopping the counter at Kilo's Grocery last week​On the other side are two surveillance cam videos the Dallas Police Department just posted to YouTube as part of its ongoing effort to enlist the public whenever the department needs some extra eyeballs. In this instance, th ... More >>

Dallas PD Provides Look at Two Masked Gunmen Holding Up Metro PCS Store

Moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent the video you see above, in which two men took by storm the Metro PCS store at 2247 Buckner Boulevard on February 6 at around 7:33 p.m. According to the police report, the two men got away with $12,900 when they gained entry to the safe, plus more than ... More >>

Know These Men? Dallas PD Has Two Videos It Would Like You to Watch This Morning.

Back to back, the Dallas Police Department sent two videos this morning while wondering: Do you recognize these suspects? The man in the video above -- thought to be somewhere between 25 and 30 years old, 5-foot-5 and around 140 to 150 pounds -- is actually suspected in 11 robberies in North Dallas, ... More >>

Federal Grand Jury Indicts DPD Senior Corporal Who Headed Dallas Crime Stoppers

Andrea Grimes​That photo you see at top is Dallas Police Department Senior Corporal Theadora Ross, in the middle, being escorted out of DPD HQ yesterday by FBI agents. Andrea was out there Wednesday morning, but at the time, DPD and the feds refused to comment on Ross's arrest. They promised all w ... More >>

DPD To Stop Crime at Crime Stoppers

​Below, of course, is the tale of Senior Corporal Theadora Ross -- the 26-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly depositing at least $250,000 in North Texas Crime Commission's Crime Stoppers cash in her own bank account. The feds say that the 50 ... More >>

Dallas PD Asks For Help in Finding "Suspect Vehicle Sought in Vicious Murder"

DPD sent this still of the truck in question, taken from surveillance video​No doubt you're well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, l ... More >>

If You See This Man, And He's Wearing Cuffs, It's Because He Stole DPD Squad Car and Escaped

This morning, the Dallas Police Department sent some mugshots of a man named James Huffer Jr., who was arrested in the wee small hours of this morning near Cedar Springs and the Dallas North Tollway -- till he took off in a DPD squad car, which he drove to and ditched in Arlington. He remains on the ... More >>

Lisa Stone turned to Facebook to reunite with her high school girlfriends; they turned to Facebook to solve the mystery of her disappearance.

DPD Warns: Suspect in East Dallas Sexual Assault Same As Man Wanted for '08 Rapes

​On October 19, Dallas Police Department sent word that two days earlier, at around 6:15 a.m., a man broke into a home near North Glasgow Drive and Reiger Avenue and sexually assaulted a 59-year-old woman who had been sleeping inside. On the 27th, DPD sent a further description of the assailant: b ... More >>

As DPD Look for Leads in Missing Woman's Disappearance, $10,000 Offered For Help

FacebookLisa Stone has been missing since June 4.​At around 8 a.m. on Saturday, Tina Wiley was on Facebook messaging members of the now-1,821-member-strong Looking for Lisa group: A reward is now being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of whomever's responsible for th ... More >>

Seven Dallas Residents Indicted for Intentionally Torching Homes to Get Red Cross Dough

​This just in from the U.S. Attorney's Office: Seven locals, ranging in age from 23 to 60, are accused of setting three fires that caused close to $1 million in total property damage in order to collect a few thousand from the Dallas chapter of the American Red Cross. The seven, which includes a m ... More >>

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