Federal Bureau of Investigation

Craig Watkins Thumbs Nose at a Court Order, Unveils New Theory of White People Law

Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins started out with one question to answer. Now that he has defied a subpoena, he's got at least a couple more. Last week Watkins was ordered to appear in the court of state District Judge Lena Levario to answer an accusation that he brought criminal charg ... More >>

Anonymous' Barrett Brown is Mentally Fit to Stand Trial, a Prison Psychologist Has Decided

A lot has happened to Barrett Brown since heavily armed federal agents raided his girlfriend's Dallas apartment and threw him in jail: The Anonymous-affiliated hacktivist was indicted on charges of threatening an FBI agent via loopy YouTube rant, then doxing said agent by publishing his personal inf ... More >>

FBI Agent Says John Wiley Price Stole and Laundered a Lot of Money

The FBI dropped a bombshell in federal court today with an affidavit by Special Agent Donald Sherman as to why, exactly, law enforcement felt the need to seize more than $400,000 in cash (thick stacks of $100 bills) and other assets from Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price last year. In br ... More >>

19-Year-Old Garland Man Pleads Guilty to Being a Bank Robber After His Mom Turns Him In

​That photo you see at right comes from the F.B.I.'s Bandit Tracker website, which we've perused in the past. It was snapped June 14 of last year at a State Bank of Texas branch in Garland, off IH-30. The bandit in question: 19-year-old Anthony Blue of Garland. Which we now know thanks to Anthony' ... More >>

Feds' Complaint Adds More Screenplay Details Leading to "Handsome Guy" Bandit's Arrest

​On Tuesday Mike Byrd provided us with his high-speed, first-hand account of how, along a rural stretch of Mississippi highway, the sheriff there used his .40-cal Sig Sauer to shoot out the tire of a fleeing Steven Milam, the Tyler casket salesmen better known as the "Handsome Guy" Bandit who poli ... More >>

Kwanzaa, Minus the Feds

The Black Police Association's Disappearing Money

Organization's books weren't cooked -- they simply don't exist.

Our Gang: Welcome Dallas County Government, Where Interfering with the FBI is Part of the Job

​I think of everything the wrong way, from a skewed perspective. Who knows why? Maybe I got dropped on my head as a baby. But here's how I'm looking at this deal in which Dallas County Judge Craig Jenkins fired the security lady who wouldn't sweep for FBI bugs in the home of a county employee ... More >>

Where's Willis? Maybe He's Out Looking for That Secret Stash of County Satellite Gear.

​If you missed Brett Shipp's Willis Johnson story on WFAA-Channel 8 last night, you need to go give it a gander here. I also have a column in this week's paper version of Unfair Park talking about Johnson, a radio host who is a crucial but mysteriously low-profile figure in the affairs now be ... More >>

And So They Begin: Community and Church Leaders Plan Rallies for John Wiley Price

​Looking to keep your holiday week festive?Then look no further than tomorrow night's wingding at the Kirkwood Temple CME Church -- to our knowledge, the first real "community" event in support of embattled Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who, of course, is under FBI investigation for ... More >>

Rawlings Campaign Tells Us What Price Pal Kathy Nealy Did to Earn Her Quarter Mil

​Mayor Mike Rawlings' chief campaign-runner, Mari Woodlief of Allyn Media, responded this afternoon to questions I had posed about the $270,000 paid by the Rawlings campaign to consultant Kathy Nealy, whose offices were searched by the FBI Monday as part of the federal investigation of County ... More >>

FBI Arrests Mesquite PD Officer in Charge of Narcotics Unit for Stealing $2,000

​The U.S. Attorney's Office just sent word: This morning, FBI agents arrested John David McAllister, a sergeant with the Mesquite Police Department -- and the head of its four-man Narcotics Unit. Says the release, back in December the feds got a tip that McAllister was skimming off the top during ... More >>

Way to Go, Frisco, You're the 14th-Safest City In the United States of America!

​We can look at CQ Press's just-released City Crime Rankings 2010-2011 two ways: from safest to most dangerous or vice-versa. But either way -- based upon the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports that include "the violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and the property crimes of bu ... More >>

Some DPD (and DSO) News & Notes While We Play a Little Early-Morning Catch-Up

​Between the weather and the Rosh a few things fell through the cracks yesterday. Like, oh, former FBI agent Terence Hart's report to City Manager Mary Suhm concerning the funeral procession for Dallas Police Chief David Brown's son. City Hall sent the 11-page doc, and Suhm's accompanying memo, la ... More >>

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 >>

Plano Man Arrested for Threatening "Deadly Force" at Dallas Abortion Clinic

​The U.S. Attorney's Office just sent word: On Saturday afternoon, a 27-year-old Plano man named Erlyndon J. Lo, was arrested by FBI agents at his home on charges that he threatened to use deadly force to stop an abortion at the Southwestern Women's Surgery Center on Greenville Avenue and Lovers L ... More >>

Someone at the F.B.I.'s Having Way Too Much Fun Naming Bank Robbers

Earlier this month, the so-called Billy Mays Bandit robbed a Wells Fargo on S. University in Fort Worth.​This morning's New York Times heralds the debut of the F.B.I.'s Web site featuring the most-wanted bank robbers in New York and New Jersey. Of course, that's old news 'round these here parts: T ... More >>

No Justice: We've Bailed Out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind Our Financial Collapse?

Eddie Bernice Johnson Wants FBI to Include Attacks on the Homeless in Hate Crimes Stats

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson​Last year, The New York Times noted a sharp increase in violent crimes committed against the homeless -- up 65 percent from '05 to '07, according to statistics kept by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. But at the moment, attacks on the homeles ... More >>

Be Careful What You Ask: Judge Foster Spills the Beans About an Alleged FBI Investigation of John Wiley Price and the Inland Port

In a sworn deposition filed in Dallas today, Dallas County Judge Jim Foster is quoted saying he has spoken with the FBI "on many occasions" concerning an ongoing FBI investigation of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and the southern Dallas "inland port" project. Reached for comment this ... More >>

Allen's the Ninth Safest City in U.S. Dallas? Um. Um. Well, You See...

Yup, says so right here on CQ Press' 2008 City Crime Rate Rankings: The fine, fair city of Allen's a Top 10'er when it comes to safety among 385 cities in the country -- and not far below, why, you'll find the likes of Frisco (at No. 16) and Plano (No. 51) and McKinney (No. 60) and Carrollton (No. 7 ... More >>

Freddy Lee Foots Meets the Long Arm of the Law (Again and Again)

Gustav Isn't Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

CD/DVD Pirates Taken Down In Cowtown

Phony Heroes

Fakers find they can easily get license plates reserved for military heroes

The Other Three Indictments

Former UTD Student Gets Six Years

Test My Balls of Fury

You want answers to last week's quiz? We got answers.

Don Hill Has "Courage." So, Thanks, FBI!

Nonissue

Set Don Hill free

Spy Vs. Spy

Billy Ray takes on another liar: FBI traitor Robert Hanssen

It's a Crime How There's No Crime

No Newy. But There's Always Dr. Mona.

Help, It's the Police!

Someone's lying in the latest DART cop beat-down. Can you tell us who?

DART Strikes Back

Credit Risks

Stacked Deck

Giving penny-ante politicians a say over lucrative affordable-housing developments seemed like a good idea--until the FBI came calling

Rant, Rave

A year-end banquet of my two-bit opinions

Bah Hum-Buzz

Buzz gets his jollies keeping tabs on 2005's naughty and nice guys. OK, mostly naughty.

True truisms

Hanging with a bad crowd

Save Yourself

Separate the "crap" from the "gold" at the Rock 'n' Roll RedemptionSale

Redemption Thong

Salma's shorts get top billing in an otherwise unwatchable caper

Together, We're Suspects

Polyphonic Spree member unwittingly sets off bomb scare at DFW Airport

Fallout

DART removes ads for a charity accused of links to terrorists

Officer down

Thirty-five years ago, Jesse Curry was Dallas' respected, popular police chief. Then Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, and Curry became just one more victim of the Kennedy assassination.

Saint Al

Will he die in prison for the sins of the plantation?

The fat man sings

Judge Solis orders controversial Peavy Tapes released to Justice Dept.

Buzz

BeloWatch

FBI probes bribery allegations in Ferris