Criminal Assault

UT-Arlington Fined for Misreporting Crime Data

SMU has come under fire in recent months for its "non-adversarial" process for handling on-campus sexual assaults, but it's the actions of another local university that have earned censure from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Education just levied an $82,500 fine against the Universi ... More >>

If You See This Dude and He Has His Red Backpack, Run

Mark Farmer had his red backpack with him in the early hours of last Friday when police found him at Infinity 13 tattoo studio at Skillman and LBJ. They unzipped that backpack and found a few thousand dollars worth of tattoo needles, parts and ink, plus a bag of weed. "The cops were already right h ... More >>

Police Say a Panhandler Went Berserk when His Colleague Went to Buy a Hot Dog

On Saturday afternoon, a panhandler, whom police later identified as 59-year-old Isaiah Caldwell, was working the traffic coming off Interstate 35 on Marsalis Avenue in East Oak Cliff when another panhandler, a 42-year-old woman, arrived at the same spot. She quickly offered a suggestion: Rather th ... More >>

Lakeith Fowler Sold 12,000 Pairs of Fake Nikes from His Dallas Shop. Now, He's Going to Jail.

For about four months in 2007, Lakeith Fowler had a good con going. That May, the 32-year-old had hooked up with a supplier who began shipping case after case of the latest Nike sneakers at dirt-cheap prices. Fowler marked them up and sold them from his retail store, The World is Yours Clothing & Ac ... More >>

Police: SMU Student Was Assaulted and "Held Against His Will" at a Frat House Last Night [Updated]

From SMU's crime logs, we bring you a brief, somewhat disturbing, deeply weird police report: at 8:18 last night, campus police reported that a student was "was assaulted and held against his will" at the university's Sigma Phi Epsilon house. The case is being classified as "Aggravated Assault/Aggra ... More >>

A Dallas Woman Shot at Her Husband as He Held Their 3-Month-Old Child Yesterday

Yesterday afternoon, at the mobile home they share on Lawson Road in the Rylie neighborhood of Dallas, 52-year-old Warren Miller and his wife began to argue. At issue, police say, was $20 that had been left in the living room. The argument escalated into something more serious when police say the w ... More >>

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Thursday, January 31, at The Granada Theater

A 73-Year-Old Was Stabbed to Death by a Fellow Resident At His Assisted Living Center [Updated]

Update at 12:29 p.m.: The Morning News Tanya Eiserer reports that Silva has confessed to the murder, telling police that, "I killed him because he put a flower on my door and tonight he had on a red hat so I decided I was going to kill him." Original post: As a younger man, Joe Silva was in and out ... More >>

A Schizophrenic Buys an AK-47, a Threesome Goes Horribly Wrong, and Other Bad Ideas From This Weekend

Dallas police had a busy weekend, as they always do. There were lots of reports of petty theft, minor assaults, and traffic accidents. There were also these gems, pulled from the weekend's police reports: Saturday, 2:30 a.m.: Michael Stewart, 46, told police he had arranged an all-male threesome wi ... More >>

Police Make Arrest in Brutal Lower Greenville Beating that Left a Dallas Attorney in a Coma

On December 6, Damien Falgoust went out for post-game drinks with his kickball teammates at the Knox Street Pub. At 1:30 a.m., he got into a cab and headed for his condo off Lower Greenville. He never made it. An hour later he was found a couple of blocks away, unconscious and badly beaten. CBS 11 ... More >>

An Enraged Driver Ran Down a Cyclist on the Tollway Yesterday

At 3:30 p.m. yesterday, 36-year-old Terry Varghese was riding his bicycle when he turned onto the Dallas North Tollway service road. That turned out to be a bad idea. Shortly after he made the turn, a car pulled alongside Varghese and its driver began shouting obscenities. "Are you crazy?" the driv ... More >>

DNA Links Man in County Jail to Halloween Mask Found at South Dallas Murder Scene

More than three years ago, a woman Dallas police will not identify for her safety returned to her home on Frio Drive in South Dallas. A 36-year-old man named Hashim Anderson was there when she went to bed. At around 12:15 a.m., she jolted awake to "knocking noises and dogs barking." She peered out o ... More >>

Dallas Police Say An Oak Cliff Landlord Attacked One Tenant With an Ax Five Days Before Her Brother Beat Another to Death

Virgil Slay was at home in Oak Cliff on the afternoon of October 1 when his landlord arrived to kick him out of the room he'd been renting from her. His refusal sent the landlord, 42-year-old Toni Faye Taylor, into a rage. According to a DPD incident report, she first tried to physically drag him f ... More >>

'I Shed Some Innocent Blood,' Man Tells Police after Carving Pentagram into 6-Year-Old Son

You probably noticed that today is December 12, 2012, or 12/12/12, which depending on who you ask is the Gregorian calendar's last repeating date this century or the last date. Period. We'll go ahead and assume Brent Troy Bartel falls into the latter camp. Police were dispatched to Bartel's Richlan ... More >>

A Robbery Suspect Confronted Police in North Oak Cliff, and Was Promptly Shot in the Ass

Two armed men held up the 7-Eleven on Zang and Colorado Sunday afternoon. As they made their getaway, Dallas Police were fanned out, searching for a vehicle matching the description given by witnesses. A police helicopter crisscrossed the area. It didn't take long for officers to find them. What f ... More >>

A Guy Walked Into a Denny's This Morning and Stabbed His Wife, Police Say

Janet Parker, a 61-year-old waitress, was working the overnight shift at an Irving Denny's on State Highway 183 this morning when her husband, Thomas Parker, walked in. Without warning, the 54-year-old took out a knife and stabbed his wife several times, according to a release from the Irving Poli ... More >>

Randy Travis, This Time Fully Clothed, Arrested Cited This Morning at Plano Church

Update at 11:47 a.m.: The AP has a few more details. Travis apparently knew the woman who was arguing with her estranged husband. No one was injured, but Travis and another woman were both ticketed for simple assault, a Class C misdemeanor. The police report does not indicate that alcohol was involv ... More >>

In Speedy Press Conference, Sen. Royce West Says Dez Bryant Did Not "Commit Family Violence"

Just before 2 p.m. today, the conference room in state senator Royce West's law office looked like a game of journalist Tetris, as some two dozen reporters and ten news cameras crammed around a long table to hear what Dez Bryant had to say about his recent arrest for allegedly attacking his mother, ... More >>

Court Drops Gypsy Tea Room Skinhead's Lesser of Two '05 Convictions

The 2004 summer night when David Cunniff took his two teen daughters to an Old 97's show at the Gypsy Tea Room rattled Deep Ellum to the core. How it all went down depends who you ask, but the end result left Cuniff bloodied and beaten to the point that friends and family questioned whether he would ... More >>

DPD Officer Suspended For Alleged Family Violence

The Dallas Police Department sends word that it has suspended officer Jakarsha Carter following a family violence call early this morning. According to the police report, Carter, 29, and a 25-year-old woman were arguing in a car in the 9800 block of Sophora Circle just after midnight. When the woma ... More >>

Plano Police Are Working the City's First Anti-Gay Hate Crime Case

The Dallas Voice has been on this for a while now, but it deserves a belated mention. According to the Plano Police Department, two women were holding hands as they walked with an teenage friend through the parking lot of the Plano Sports Authority (a rec center) at about 2 p.m. on May 27. They wer ... More >>

Occupy Dallas Protestor Pushed from Planter and Accused of Assaulting Cop Takes Plea Deal

Stephen Benavides, the Occupy Dallas protester arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer during a scuffle at the November Bank of America protest, has signed a plea deal that reduces the felony to a misdemeanor resisting-arrest charge and keeps him out of jail. Benavides pleaded no conte ... More >>

Deion Sanders Twitter-casts That His Wife Jumped Him (Updated)

Update: Pilar Sanders was arrested and booked in Collin County Jail on a misdemeanor assault charge. And Sanders fired off another tweet a little while ago with a photo of his boys smiling: "Smile if u know God is good! We're smiling baby. Joy came this morning and we opened the door and let Joy in. ... More >>

The Long Arm Sees All: Ten Musicians Arrested in Texas

When Snoop Dogg was issued a citation for marijuana possession at a border checkpoint outside El Paso last week, the world reacted with shock and disbelief. We had no idea this beacon of sobriety -- the same guy who penned "Smoke Weed Everyday" - could act so out of character. Of course, Texas is f ... More >>

Protestor Accused of Assaulting Cop Now Accused of Punching a Fellow Occupier

Photo by Brantley HargroveStephen Benavides​Earlier this morning, Occupy Dallas posted to its website an item headlined: "OccupyDallas supporter assaulted." That supporter: Glynn Wilcox, who was among those who helped hash out the agreement between City Hall and the protesters that allowed them to ... More >>

Yet Again, DPD's Arrested One Of Its Own

​One week ago today the Dallas Police Department sent word that it had fired three officers -- one of whom, Lavar Horne, was also arrested last week for having kept a handgun and tossed some weed seized during a traffic stop. Well, the DPD just sent word that it's arrested yet another officer: Vic ... More >>

Prosecutors Accused Hilliard Fields of Rape With Zero Evidence. Now, His Name is Cleared.

Hilliard Fields stands outside the courtroom with his lawyer, Gary Udashen.​In the end, it only took minutes for Judge Larry Mitchell to clear Hilliard Fields of the sexual assault charges that have followed him for the last 14 years."Sir, I'm very sorry for the misery this has caused you in your ... More >>

BREAKING NEWS: Arrest Warrants Issued for Okolo and Aqib Talib

​This just in, stemming from this, and this. From the Garland Police Department: Garland investigators have obtained warrants for Aqib Talib and Okolo Talib in connection with a disturbance police responded to on March 21 in the 900 block of Green Pond Drive. On Monday, March 21, just before 7:30 ... More >>

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 >>

Paying the Piper

Photo by Chris Wier​A City of Ater found this poster -- artist unknown -- in Exposition Park yesterday. Don't get it? Well, as the Morning News reported, Michael William Liebermann, co-owner of the Pizza Lounge in Exposition Park, was charged with misdemeanor assault last week, accused of beating ... More >>

The Problem With... Chris Brown's "Deuces"

Chris Brown is back with a new hit? What the deuce is this?

A Dallas Police Officer Is In Jail After Being Charged With Aggravated Sexual Assault

​Jeffrey Thorn joined the Dallas Police Department in December 2008. During his probationary period, he was assigned to the Southeast Patrol Division. But, at this very moment, Thorn is in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center after having been arrested by Dallas police on a sexual assault charge today. ... More >>

Data Collector Quoted in DMN Crime-Stats Story Now Says "I'll Take Kunkle's Side"

Patrick MichelsIs Kunkle a numbers-fudger or simply exercising good judgment in dealing with confusing federal guidelines?​Another front-page story last week in The Dallas Morning News criticizing the Dallas Police Department's crime-reporting methods had the paper in a self-congratulatory mo ... More >>

Sting Like a Butterfly: Hey, John Wiley Price, Are You Ready to Rumble?

Today In Music News: Perez Gets His, Kid Rock Teams With Rubin and Chris Brown Is Guilty

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 23, 2009... Perez Hilton allegedly got punched by the Black Eyed Peas' manager for calling Will.I.Am a "faggot."  It's funny how it's OK for him to call a straight man that. A little bit of a double standard, ya think? Kid Rock is ... More >>

On Lower Greenville, the Activist Becomes the Accused as Adelman Gets Assault Citation

Mark GrahamAvi AdelmanAvi Adelman was out early Sunday morning (2:35 Sunday morning, to be precise) doing what he normally does in the wee small hours of the weekend: videotaping the goings-on on Lower Greenville Avenue. Only this time, he came away with something extra: a ticket accusing him of mis ... More >>

BREAKING NEWS: Russ Martin Charged With Three-Count Misdemeanor

Russ Martin Update: No Update

Meat Puppets

Friday, November 16, at the House of Blues Cambridge Room

Love a Parade? Yet Another DNA Exoneree Has Been Released From Prison.

The Marijuana "Muffin Boys" Received Their Punishment Today

More on Hate Crime Trial in Denton

Dallas Children's Theater Goes to New Hampshire. Bad Grown-Up Things Happen.

Gurode v. Haynesworth

Low standards

Who comes to visit when you dial 911?

Such a Nice Boy

Evil Eyes

Coral Eugene Watts is a serial killer. He says he'll murder again. Why can't Texas stop him?

Innocent as Charged

After his acquittal on an assault charge, Clark Birdsall questions the system he once embraced

A Minor Affair

When young love ended in a rape allegation, the juvenile justice system left a Dallas teen's life in limbo.

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