Gangs

50 Shades of Prison Gray

Habitat for Humanity Now Owns Four Drug Houses Once Run by the West Side Gator Boyz

Tyrone and Patrick Weatherall had a number of bad habits. Besides the obvious one, their fondness for selling crack, the brothers had lavish, attention-getting taste, which is probably ill-advised when you're in the drug-selling business. According to street lore, when the Weatheralls first united s ... More >>

Jumberjack Fest IX: No Egos and Bearded Grinding

It all began quite simply enough. As the PVC Street Gang was finishing up their set at this year's Lumberjack Fest in Denton at Dan's, venerable guitarist and all-around goofball, Ryan Thomas Becker, began grinding suggestively against a slim, petite brunette just near the front door. He slithered ... More >>

Charles Alexander, Homeless Man and Former Crip, Saves Officer By Body-Slamming PCP-Addled Attacker

Homeless people often get a bad rap, but when you're about to get your ass kicked by a PCP-crazed attacker, an unemployed former Crip living on the street can be handy to have around. Dallas police officer Billy Taylor learned that first-hand last Tuesday in front of The Bridge homeless shelter. He ... More >>

The MS-13 Gang is on a Rampage at a Forest Lane Apartment Complex. No Golf Cart Is Safe.

The Indigo on Forest is, per its website, a wonderful community located in "prestigious North Dallas" that still manages to offer apartments at the low, low price of $440 per month. It would be almost idyllic if it weren't for the contingent of MS-13, a.k.a. Mara Salvatrucha, a.k.a. the brutal Lati ... More >>

PVC Street Gang, Curvette at Good Records

Thursday, September 13, at Good Records

Sending Illegal Immigrants Home Can Boomerang on the States

Why Hasn't the States Invested in Mexico the Way Europeans Helped Their Neighbors?

Preview: Magik Markers at Bryan Street Tavern

Lumberjack Fest

Saturday, February 18, at Dan's Silverleaf

Discipline Anniversary

Thursday, December 29, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

Eight People Shot During Rival Gang Tiff at a Rap Battle in North Dallas Night Club

​Not all open-mic rap competitions are as friendly as the ones down in Deep Ellum these days, apparently: Multiple guns were reportedly fired and eight different people were injured by gunfire late on Friday night during a "Rap-Off Contest" taking place at Rolls Royce Club in North Dallas, near th ... More >>

Love and Dancing Gangs Conquer All

Feds' Bandido Biker Gang Sweep Includes Papa John's Hookup at Dallas's Enchanted Hills

viaKrayzie: "Let's ride. Let's ride. Let's ride. Come on and ... " Bizzy: "Get high, get high, get high."​So your friendly neighborhood feds had a big day yesterday. In an "early-morning takedown" announced late Tuesday, they rounded up 28 people they say are affiliated with a variety of moto ... More >>

Don Hardge Fired His AK-47 Into a Crowd Of Teens, But He Swears He's No Killer

The family of a dead teenage girl might disagree, even if the justice system didn't.

This Just In: Dallas County DA Craig Watkins Names Heath Harris As His New No. 2

Heath Harris​Less than a month ago, the Dallas County District Attorney's Office dropped a small bomb shell amongst those who follow courthouse doings: Terri Moore, Craig Watkins's first assistant, and Mike Ware, head of the Conviction Integrity Unit, would be stepping down July 1. At which point, ... More >>

A $50 AK-47, a Hail of Bullets and a Dead Little Girl: From a Night of Partying to a Day in Court

Don Hardge says he bought his AK for $50 from a crackhead.​On Fourth of July weekend in 2008, Don "Dunn" Hardge, an 18-year-old member of Dallas's DFW Mafia gang, stashed his AK-47 in his friend's trunk and walked into an Oak Cliff club. It was a sticky night, made stickier by the presence of near ... More >>

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 >>

Four Months After DEA's "Operation Greedy Grove" Drugs and Gang Sweep, a Guilty Plea

​Back in September, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it had arrested several alleged members of "violent local street gangs," which included the Highland Hills Posse and the NFL Boyz. Among those snapped up during "Operation Greedy Grove" was 31-year-old Ronald Alexander, otherwi ... More >>

Motorcycle club members and weekend warriors, seeking the freedom of the road, face dangerous curves on and off Dallas streets

Once, He Ran West Dallas Drug Houses. For the Next 30 Years, He'll Be in State, Federal Prison.

Click to embiggen to see where some of the West Dallas Gator Boys' drug houses were​Back in August Sam told you all about Tyrone Weatherall, a leader of the West Side Gator Boys -- and an exotic animal collector -- who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distrib ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Deftones at Palladium Ballroom, White Denim at The Loft and Casey Thompson at Adair's

It's a great day for Rangers fans and a crappy one for Cowboys fans. Fortunately, there are at least a couple musical offerings this evening that seem bound to either continue your euphoria or ease you out of the doldrums...

Dallas Gang Leader, Drug Dealer and Apparent Exotic Animal Lover Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy

We're thinking the kiddos at Pinkston High School weren't having a tough time getting high last year. (The markers are streets where drug houses were located.)​Tyrone Weatherall, the 35-year-old leader of the "West Side Gator Boys," pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to possess wi ... More >>

ICE Says More Than 100 Were Rounded Up During Five-Day Multi-Agency Anti-Gang Sweep

​This just in from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The agency, along with the Office of Homeland Security Investigations National Gang Unit and an alphabet's soup worth of local law enforcement agencies, spent the last five days sweeping Dallas-Fort Worth for gang members and their a ... More >>

The Return of Mable Peabody's

Hope You've Been Nice

Play Time

The Warriors take on Dallas

Happy to Be Up in Addison

See a suburban West Side Story

Rivers of Blood

The Distinguished Gentleman's friend visits Dallas

Straight Outta Left Field

The Dallas Morning News says N.W.A. was "militant." The real answer? N.O.