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Lew Sterrett

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Arrest Made In This Morning's Sexual Assault and Stabbing Of a 17-Year-Old Near Love Field

    Update, 5:20 p.m.: Police have identified the suspect as Tommy Robinson. He's been booked into Lew Sterrett on charges of aggravated sexual assault. Police are asking the media not to release his booking photo to the public until after the victim has been shown a photo lineup. They told reporters in ... More >>

  • News

    February 2, 2012

    The Thin Line Between Dog Rescuing and Dog Hoarding

    With the city overrun with strays, Dallas' animal rescuers want to save dogs from cruelty and neglect. But some need to be saved from themselves.

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    After a Triple Murder in East Dallas, DPD Accuses a Man of Killing His Wife and In-Laws

    By 8 a.m., the news vans had started to arrive, parking on the street behind the cop cars, the Medical Examiner's white sedan, the city of Dallas vehicle marked "Crime Scene." They sank their tripods into the soft mud surrounding the house on Peavy Road, a nice-looking two-story with a two-car garag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Hell To The Bus Driver: How This DART Operator Got Into It With a Rider Last Night

    ​Below you'll find one Dallas Area Rapid Transit customer who won't be so upbeat if he's ever asked to fill out a rider satisfaction survey. But that's only because he's at Lew Sterrett right now, after having been arrested last night for assaulting a public servant, a felony offense. And that hap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Breaking: City of Dallas Boots Occupy Dallas From Their Campsite Behind City Hall

    All photos by Robert WilonskyThe scene outside, and around, Dallas City Hall at 12:40 a.m.​Robert's downtown at the Occupy Dallas camp, where police are breaking up protestors as we speak. He sends along these photos, and this: City has yanked their agreement with Occupy Dallas, and they're curre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    An Offended Occupy Dallas Responds to City's Demands; Last Arrestee Due Out of Jail Today

    Photo by Chris Howell​At the end of business yesterday City Hall sent that memo from City Manager Mary Suhm and that letter from First Assistant City Attorney Chris Bowers. Both said more or less the same thing: Occupy Dallas has till 5 p.m. Saturday to clean up its mess behind Dallas City Hall, o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2011

    City, Occupy Dallas at Odds Over Who Began Melee That Ended With Eight Arrested

    Photos by Anna Merlan, more in the slide show​An Occupy Dallas march and protest turned ugly this afternoon when police used pepper spray to subdue the crowd outside of the Bank of America building on Main and Lamar, protesters told Unfair Park. Eight people were arrested from the crowd of abo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Occupy Dallas Addresses Need to Keep a Clean, Safe Camp Amidst Sexual Assault Allegations

    Photo by Anna MerlanOccupy Dallas protestors outside Lew Sterrett yesterday following the arrest of 23 at a downtown Chase bank branch​Several news outlets have reported in recent days that the Dallas Police Department is investigating the possible sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl at the Occup ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Dallas PD Takes a Walk on the DarkSide and Discovers, Why, That Ain't No Church

    A flier for a DarkSide event as its new location​According to the Dallas City Attorney's Office, a self-proclaimed church near Northwest Highway and Webb Chapel Road is anything but. Says a complaint filed today in advance of a late-afternoon hearing, whatever Glen Hudson says he's operating a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Dallas PD Says It's Made First, But Not Last, Arrest in Memorial Day Shutdown of Central

    Dallas County Sheriff's Department​The man seen at right is Thomas Michael Roberts, a 35-year-old Dallas Police say was among the parade of motorcyclists responsible for shutting down and spray-painting Central Expressway on Memorial Day. No doubt you've seen the video, which went from YouTube to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Party Boy: Michael Manos, Or "Mordan Stefanov," Cuts a Deal Before Trial Starts

    Photo by Brett VanderUnder the name "Mordan Stefanov," Manos was a party planner and aspiring Dallas nightlife star in late 2009.​Since we caught up with him last, not a whole lot has changed for Michael Manos, the aspiring nightlife starlet and entertainer who threw extravagant parties back in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Back in Dallas After Serving a Year for Jumping Parole, "Mordan Stefanov" Blames "Texas Justice" for Keeping Him Locked Up

    Michael Manos in his latest booking photo from Dallas County.Just less than a year ago, The Paper Version of Unfair Park recounted the story of Michael Manos, an ex-con from Poughkeepsie who jumped parole and started a series of more glamorous new lives, under a series of unlikely assumed names, fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    City, With DA's Assist, Appeals Muni Judge's Decision to Dismiss Case Against Robert Groden

    ​It's been seven months since we first told you the story of Robert Groden, the Kennedy conspiracy theorist and author and Oliver Stone consultant arrested and detained by Dallas police for peddling his pamphlets in Dealey Plaza. Three weeks ago, it looked as the story might have come to a conclus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Tiferet Israel's Rabbi Can't Understand Why 18-Year-Old Wanted Foot From "A Jew Girl"

    ​By now you've no doubt heard: In the wee small hours of this morning, 18-year-old Daniel Stanley went to the Tiferet Israel cemetery at Buckner and Scyene, dug up a corpse and used a hatchet to chop off a foot. According to the Dallas police press release, it was Stanley who turned himself in:An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Time's Running Out for State Legislature to Allow "No-Refusal" DWI Blood Drawa

    Dallas Police VideoA woman arrested for DWI during a so-called No-Refusal Weekend has her blood drawn inside Lew Sterrett. In her left hand? A search warrant that orders her to give up her blood.The Texas Senate yesterday refused to send to Governor Rick Perry a bill that included an amendment that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Short Orders: Fuel City

    Fuel City801 S. Industrial Blvd.214-426-0011The filling stations/taco stand has quite a following.In the wee hours of just about any weekend, people spill from bars and somehow find themselves here--uncomfortably close to Lew Sterrett, swaying in long lines, awaiting a little hangover prevention. In ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

    Beating a DWI case may soon get a lot tougher

    Fuel City801 S. Industrial Blvd.214-426-0011The filling stations/taco stand has quite a following.In the wee hours of just about any weekend, people spill from bars and somehow find themselves here--uncomfortably close to Lew Sterrett, swaying in long lines, awaiting a little hangover prevention. In ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 19, 2009

    Firehouse Subs Turns Up the Heat

    Fuel City801 S. Industrial Blvd.214-426-0011The filling stations/taco stand has quite a following.In the wee hours of just about any weekend, people spill from bars and somehow find themselves here--uncomfortably close to Lew Sterrett, swaying in long lines, awaiting a little hangover prevention. In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2008

    A Coffee-Table Tribute to Those Who Built This City (Not on Rock and Roll)

    Fuel City801 S. Industrial Blvd.214-426-0011The filling stations/taco stand has quite a following.In the wee hours of just about any weekend, people spill from bars and somehow find themselves here--uncomfortably close to Lew Sterrett, swaying in long lines, awaiting a little hangover prevention. In ... More >>

  • News

    October 23, 2008

    Keys to the Jail

    There's only one thing tougher than running for Dallas County sheriff—getting people to care

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    Lynn Flynt Shaw, At Your ArtServe-ice

    There's only one thing tougher than running for Dallas County sheriff—getting people to care

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2006

    More Dead at the Jail

    There's only one thing tougher than running for Dallas County sheriff—getting people to care

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    Nil Appeal

    World's football is full of passion but void of points

  • News

    June 8, 2006

    Time Heals No Wounds

    A judge has to intervene on behalf of an inmate to save his infected leg

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    Sheriff Who?

    Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez was a revolutionary candidate--as a leader, not so much

  • News

    September 15, 2005

    Cell Disease

    Being sick in Dallas County's troubled jail can be a death sentence

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    Someplace Like Home

    Does Miami hold the key to solving Dallas' downtown homeless problem? Maybe, but it's a very expensive key.

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    Coming of Age

    Sheriff's office busted for age discrimination

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    Gag Order

    An anti-fur protester claims her rights are violated by a too restrictive probation

  • News

    November 23, 2000

    True Disbelievers

    Deeper Life ministry says it saves homeless people from drugs and sin. Some ex-members say the church takes advantage of those who need help most.

  • Dining

    October 19, 2000

    Slammer Chow

    Prison food with a price

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    Dirty Cops, Dirty Games

    The untold story of Dallas' bigest-ever police corruption scandal. Part two of a special report.

  • News

    August 31, 2000

    Good Cop, Bad Cop

    The untold story of Dallas' biggest-ever police corruption scandal

  • News

    March 23, 2000

    Buzz

    Bark, don't bite

  • News

    August 5, 1999

    Mommie dearest

    Sheryleen Berryman says she was a good mother. So why did her son end up dead and her sister in jail?

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    Prison sweet prison

    Horace Caraker doesn't belong in federal prison. But he likes it there, and he'll threaten a president if it means going back.

  • News

    May 27, 1999

    Blood Vow

    When investigators uncovered the bodies of a Dallas mother and her young son in a makeshift Oklahoma grave, FBI agent Tase Bailey swore to bring the killer to justice

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    The Boy Scout, the hustler, and the porn queen

    Former Dallas police officer and onetime X-rated movie star Jordan Lee finds herself hunted by two ex-cops who say she did them wrong

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    The Wrong Man

    The case against Nickiolas Jolly fell apart within a month of his arrest for capital murder. But keeping an innocent man in jail 14 months is no big deal in this town.

  • News

    June 25, 1998

    Buzz

    The case against Nickiolas Jolly fell apart within a month of his arrest for capital murder. But keeping an innocent man in jail 14 months is no big deal in this town.

  • News

    May 7, 1998

    Robbing 'em blind

    For burglar Carnell Johnson, willing fences, indifferent neighbors, and friendly dogs ame for an easy living

  • News

    April 23, 1998

    Manhunters

    The Dallas bounty hunter's arsenal includes the pizza scam, the utility-clerk hustle, and the occasional M-1 rifle. Now who's the crook?

  • News

    January 8, 1998

    The Comeback of Harvey Martin

    Eighteen months ago, the former Cowboys hero was drinking and drugging his way to disaster. Now he's clean, sober, and planning to stay that way.

  • News

    June 20, 1996

    Hello, Dallas! DART Light Rail is here

    Eighteen months ago, the former Cowboys hero was drinking and drugging his way to disaster. Now he's clean, sober, and planning to stay that way.

  • Music

    November 9, 1995

    Winedale nation

    A man, his guitar, and a last-chance bar on Greenville Ave.

  • News

    March 9, 1995

    In The Name Of The Father

    Sheryl Lew Sterrett, daughter of a Dallas political icon, charts her own New Age course

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