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Blogs
May 11, 2011
Dallas PD to Give Girl Back $2,000 She Found ... If Nobody Comes Forward In Next 120 Days
It's been more than three months since 15-year-old Ashley Donaldson found $2,000 outside a North Dallas strip mall and returned it to a nearby Chase bank, thinking someone there could find the owner. But city officials tell Unfair Park the bank didn't turn over the dough to the Dallas Police Depa ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2011
iWatch You Growing Pot In An Empty House
Back in October, the Dallas Police Department launched iWatch Dallas, its spin on LAPD's "virtual crime watch" intended to use citizen alerts to deter anything and everything from car burglaries to prostitution to terrorism. DPD says it's working as planned and that iWatch has "led to several imp ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
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 weekOn 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 >>
Blogs
April 14, 2011
Dallas PD, SPCA Notice "Disturbing Trend" in Cat Killings; Offer Reward In the Latest Case
You may recall: Back in the summer of '09, there was a rash of cat killing across the city, with the animals often sliced in half and left in front yards. Dallas Police Department spokesman Senior Corporal Kevin Janse tells Unfair Park this morning those slayings went unsolved, which troubles the ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2011
DPD Wants Your Help Catching Two Young Men Who Robbed Galleria Bachendorf's Yesterday
The Dallas Police Department just sent word -- not to mention the video you see above: Two men hit the Galleria Bachendorf's yesterday around 8 p.m., getting away with close to $100,000 in jewels in a very short amount of time. (The police report says they got away with diamond earrings and a diamon ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Dallas PD's St. Paddy's Day Do's and Don'ts
From Angela Hunt's 2009 St. Patrick's Day Parade and Party slideshowIt would appear The Hot Topic today is about how hard one can get their drink on at the St. Patrick's Day Party and Parade along Greenville Avenue Saturday. The Dallas Police Department sends word that one need look no further th ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2011
Dallas PD On "Safety at North Park Mall"
Two days ago we received an e-mail from a "william@bubblelifemedia.com" that insisted, "The gang activity at NorthPark sounds like an escalating problem thats not under control yet and could get worse." The missive also contained a link to this page at something called Park Cities iPhone Reporter ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
February 18, 2011
Dallas PD: No Racial Profiling Here
From the Dallas Police Department's 2010 Police Traffic Contact Data ReportCity Hall and most other municipal facilities are closed till Tuesday, furlough day and President's Day and all. Which means council briefings normally posted on Friday night went live last night, including this one that'l ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
February 3, 2011
DPD On Lookout for "Bath House Bandit"
The Dallas Police Department sends word this morning that it's looking for the man you see in the video above, who's suspected of having gone on a "three-hour crime spree" January 29 during which, police say, he robbed three different massage parlors at gunpoint. Among the businesses hit was the Bl ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
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 videoNo 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 >>
Blogs
December 30, 2010
No Surprises: This Holiday Weekend, DPD to Make Drunk Drivers Offer They Can't Refuse
If it's a major holiday likely to involve a drink or two or 12, it's time for ... you guessed it: the Dallas Police Department's No-Refusal DWI Initiative! Let's not waste time recapping the what-the-whats. Release the release!The No-Refusal Initiative will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, December ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2010
Texas Trib Documented Dallas PD, Humane Society's Cockfighting Bust Last Weekend
Late Saturday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that, along with the Humane Society of the United States, it broke up an enormous cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas. As it turns out, The Texas Tribune's cameras accompanied DPD during the bust, which resulted in only a few arrests -- ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2010
Dallas PD, Humane Society Seize Some 100 Roosters During Raid on Cockfight Saturday
Via, a patent for "non-lethal cockfighting"The Dallas Police Department sends word this evening: The Humane Society of the United States shot some undercover video of what sounds like a mammoth cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas -- where, the release says, "cruel cockfights were reportedl ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
DPD Needs Help Finding Elderly Couple
Schley and Elsie ErvinThis just in from the Dallas Police Department: It's asking for the public's help in finding 85-year-old Schley Ervin and 84-year-old wife Elsie. According to the Critical Missing Persons bulletin just sent to media, yesterday afternoon -- sometime between 1:45 and 5:45 -- t ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2010
Dallas PD Won't Press Charges Against Carolyn Davis For Interfering With Traffic Stop
Rebecca Lopez asks Davis about the traffic stop on WFAA-Channel 8 Tuesday.That's the word just in from the Dallas Police Department, which has wrapped its investigation into whether or not the council member acted inappropriately when interfering with officers trying to do their job last week. Da ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2010
Watch the Dallas Police Department Watch You
Patrick MichelsCouple of weeks back Patrick spent the day hanging out with the Big Brothers watching the watchers at the American Society for Industrial Security confab at Dallas Convention Center. Turns out, some attendees were also given an all-access pass to the Dallas Police Department's vide ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2010
Dallas PD: Sexual Assault Cold Cases Will Be Reopened Only With Victims' Involvement
Victims of unsolved sexual assaults committed prior to 1996 will now need to contact the Dallas Police Department should they wish for DNA analysis to be conducted in hopes of identifying their attackers. In a press release sent out today in advance of an afternoon press conference with Deputy Ch ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
October 21, 2010
On Lower Greenville Early This Morning, One Dead and One Injured in Parking Lot Shooting
Coutesy Avi Adelman/Barking DogsAt 2 this morning, Dallas Police officers were called to 1930 Greenville Avenue -- shots had been fired in a parking lot at Greenville and Alta Avenues, right across the street from the Cavern and Billiard Bar. Officers arrived and found two men had been shot -- on ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2010
And This Is What It Looks Like When a Dude Steals a Ton of Tools from Home Depot
First there was the jewelry heist; then, the safe boost. Now, courtesy the Dallas Police Department, we're inside the Home Depot on N. Central Expressway and Forest Lane -- from which the man seen in the photo here, and in the video on the other side, schleps "two armloads of weed eaters to his w ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2010
And This Is What It Looks Like When Three Dudes Bust Into a Business and Steal the Safe
A couple of days back, courtesy the Dallas Police Department, we watched five men boost $40,000 worth of jewels from a Stemmons Expressway wholesaler. Today, against thanks to a DPD-provided video, we're offered this look at three men ripping the office door out of the Malones Cost Plus on 3939 S. P ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2010
What a $40,000 Jewelry Heist Looks Like
The Dallas Police Department sends word: At around 4 this morning, officers got the call that the alarm was going off at Modes Inc., a longtime wholesale jeweler at 2629 Stemmons Freeway. Around the same time, says the DPD, someone walking to and from a nearby 7-Eleven called 911 to report the busin ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2010
Another Way to Map Dallas Crime, At Least Until the City Updates Its Antiquated Map
Over these many years I've lost track of the number of Dallas crime maps that have come and gone -- seem to recall having SpotCrime bookmarked at one point, there's the slow-loading CrimeWatch, and the city has its own rustic site that looks like something that was very ahead of its time in 1998. ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2010
Dallas Police Warn: Armed, Dangerous Man Pretending to Be a U.S. Marshal Is On the Loose
This just in from the Dallas Police Department: On September 19, 2010, at about 12:30 am, the pictured suspect was seen by a complainant performing a traffic stop in an unmarked, black Ford, 4 door sedan, at Lemmon Avenue and Wycliff Avenue. The complainant suspected that the suspect was not a po ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2010
City Auditor: Dallas PD Wasted More than $1 Million Having Officers Hang Out at Muni Court
The City Auditor's Office this morning released its look-see at the amount of overtime paid to Dallas Police Department officers waiting around to testify at municipal court. DPD's got a general order that says: Off-duty officers can either hang around court waiting for trial and be guaranteed tw ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
The Police Blotter: Dallas PD Chief Brown Fires Five, Releases Details on In-Custody Death
Patrick MichelsOn Wednesday, Dallas Police Chief David Brown released that dash-cam video and called upon the Dallas County District Attorney's Office to prosecute three officers involved in the beating of Andrew Collins. Thursday evening, the Dallas Police Department sent word: Brown has fired f ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2010
Dallas PD's New Car Design Gets a Second-Place Prize. But One Local PD Has Top Bike.
Stephanie DanielsLast October we got our first look at the new-look Dallas Police Department black-and-whites. And while some Friends of Unfair Park didn't much care for 'em, the department's fleet manager said: Tough, everyone else does.One Friend of Unfair Park with a good, strong memory points ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2010
DPD: "Preliminary Findings Suggest" Javier's GM "Pepe" Ayala Committed Suicide
Jose AyalaLate last week the Dallas Police Department sent word that a passerby had discovered decomposed human remains in a field in the 10000 block of Van Dyke Road, near White Rock Lake. Early this morning, the department said it had identified the body as that of Javier's popular general mana ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2010
City: Trinity River Will Crest Between the Levees, But Downstream Flooding Could Occur
Jim SchutzeOn the other side is a fresh-off-the-virtual-presses press release from the city warning that by early tomorrow morning, there's a pretty decent chance that as the Trinity River crests -- and, as of right now, NOAA has that happening at 42.8 feet -- "some areas of the City may experien ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2010
To High-Speed Chase or Not to High-Speed Chase? That's the Question for the Council.
This afternoon's meeting of the council's Public Safety Committee should be a particularly good one; its agenda, covering everything from reality teevee shows to neighborhood crime watch groups to the latest crime stats, is action-packed. Andrea, but of course, will liveblog. But the item most li ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2010
DPD's DWI No-Refusal Initiative a No-Go?
On Thursday we gave you the no-surprise-there heads-up that, yet again, the Dallas Police Department would be drawing blood from long-weekend drunken drivers who refused to voluntarily turn over a blood or breath sample. Well, the numbers are in: DPD just sent word that 54 people were arrested fo ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2010
DPD Reminds, If You Drink and Drive This Long Holiday Weekend, You May Also Give Blood
Back in June 2009, then-Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle told then-Dallas Observer-er Kimberly Thorpe why he was (and, no doubt, remains) a big fan of the department's so-called No-Refusal DWI Initiative, which allows officers who pull over suspected drunk drivers to take and test two vials' wort ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2010
Dallas Police Department Outlines Strategies to Combat 25-Percent "Spike" in Sexual Assaults
I know where Andrea'll be tomorrow at noon: In the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, where council member Delia Jasso will be joined by members of the Dallas Police Department and local rape-victims advocacy and support groups to announce the kickoff of what DPD's calling a "Sexual Assault Awareness ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2010
Federal Alphabet Soup Reviewing Yesterday's Love Field Gate-Crashing Before Filing Charges
So now we know what the Dallas Police Department is charging Michael Laurence Browne with following yesterday's slow ride that landed on the Love Field runway: evading arrest in a vehicle, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal mischief, aggravated robbery and an outstanding traffic ticket ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2010
A Carjacking in North Dallas Turned Into a Chase on a Love Field Runway. But It's Over.
Nick RalloThat slow-moving police chase just passed in front of Unfair Park HQ. This is what it looked like out the ofice window.This just in from the Dallas Police Department: North Central patrol officer are currently pursuing a stolen Chevy pickup that was taken in a carjacking. That is all t ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Hey, Kids, DPD's Doing Another Nighttime Curfew Sweep. Starting Tonight.
About five weeks back, the Dallas Police Department warned the under-17s to stay inside after 11 p.m., lest they face a trip to DPD HQ and a call to the folks. Tonight: the sequel! This just in from Sgt. Warren C. Mitchell: The Dallas Police Department will be conducting another nighttime curfew ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2010
News & Notes: Southwest Boots Passenger, a Greenville Ave. "Raid" and DMN Good News
Avi AdelmanJust another weekend on Lower Greenville, where DPD checks IDs at the Hotel CapriSome weekend catch-up while we wake up following several base-running mistakes last night: Kevin Smith is at the Granada Wednesday night, and, maybe, he'll address his earlier-this-year run-in with hometow ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2010
DPD Assistant Chief Golbeck on Crime Near The Bridge, Call for Storefront Near Farmers Market
Tanya RaganRagan says this is a storage unit for Farmer's Market Grill, which was "found to be inhabited by a homeless person distributing pornographic materials."At around noon today, Kelly Qualls, a crime analyst in the Dallas Police Department's Central Patrol Division, sent to Unfair Park thr ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2010
News & Notes: DPD Sends a Warning, Groups Win City Grants and a Ticket Ticker Tryout
Click to embiggen to see where cars have been broken into in DPD Beat 142 during the last monthWhilst I await some call-backs, some loose ends, odds and sods and other desiderata with which to end the work day:The Dallas Police Department sends word: Car break-ins are up -- way up -- in Beat 142, ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2010
DPD Says Operation Triangle's a Hit!
Last month, as you and no doubt Andrea recall, the Dallas Police Department launched its summer-safety initiative: Operation Triangle, so named for its three main goals: reducing property crime, violent crime and public disorder. And, yes, while those are good year-round goals, DPD says there's a ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2010
NorthPark Center Is Not a Drive-Thru. Unless, Apparently, You're Trying to Steal ATMs.
This just in from the Dallas Police Department concerning an attempted smash-and-grab at the mall at around 3 this morning:Dallas Police Officers Responded to a call at North Park Mall at 8687 North Central Expressway regarding an open building. A witness who works at NorthPark Mall told officers ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2010
On Father's Day, DPD Chief David Brown Loses Son in Circumstances That Remain Unclear
Patrick MichelsDallas Police Chief David BrownIt's unusual for Dallas City Hall to send word of a briefing involving the Dallas Police Department, but last night, a little after 10, Frank Librio notified the media of a briefing scheduled for 11:15 p.m. concerning "the incident in Lancaster." By n ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2010
The Case of the Drunk Police Officer, the Ankle Holster and the Errant Shot in a Patrol Car
Patrick MichelsChief David Brown's not at all pleased with how several of his officers behaved last night.The news broke this morning: 27-year-old Dallas Police Officer Kelly Beemer was out drinking last night, at Lee Harvey's, when a few of her pals realized she'd had a few too many to drive. A ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2010
Scenes From Police Memorial Day Cermonies
Photos by Kevin TodoraAccording to the Dallas Police Department, 78 officers have been killed since the department's inception in 1881; the first to die was C.O. Brewer on May 24, 1892. Each year, the DPD pays tribute to its fallen dead during Police Memorial Day ceremonies, which took place toda ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2010
Your Happy Mother's Day Crime Round-Up
Last night, the Dallas Police Department sent word that it has apprehended the man responsible for the purse-snatchings and shooting downtown early Thursday morning. According to a missive from Sgt. Warren Mitchell, a DPD spokesman, investigators received a tip Saturday afternoon about a suspect ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2010
After Three Early-Morning Robberies, DPD To Step Up Presence Downtown For a While
Click to enlarge: DPD sends this still from the AT&T building, taken just prior to the shooting outside the building this morningThe Dallas Police Department's still searching for the man responsible for shooting a 63-year-old AT&T employee in the head this morning as she and a colleague ... More >>
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