Lew Sterrett

Man Found Scrapping for Copper at Love Field Now Faces Federal Charges

When Dallas police found Robert Schneider on the wrong side of a six-foot barbed-wire fence at Love Field in March, the 55-year-old at least had the wherewithal not to yell "jihad," or "Jesus" for that matter. "I'm in there scrapping," he explained according to police records. See also Turns Out, ... More >>

Watch a Dallas County Jailer Slam a DUI Suspect's Face into a Tile Floor

For the record, the jailer in the above photo no longer works for Dallas County. Rachel Leigh Graham lost her job and pleaded guilty to official oppression for slamming her handcuffed charge into the tile floor of the Lew Sterrett jail. But that doesn't make the video, seen below in a clip from NBC ... 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 >>

Chris Moore, the Biker who Caught His Shady Arrest on Video, is Suing the Cop Who Pulled Him Over and Took His Helmet Cam

Police were on their toes last Memorial Day weekend, hoping to avoid a repeat of 2011 when a group of stunt motorcyclists succeeded in shutting down Central Expressway. Bikers did descend on Dallas that weekend -- the Calatrava was a rumored target -- but the havoc they wreaked was minimal. In fact ... More >>

Dallas Man Simply Wanted to Shoot His Glock into a Pile of Trash in His Yard

Around 5:30 this morning, 29-year-old Tomas Cavazos developed a serious beef with a pile of trash. A neighbor called police to report that the man appeared to be shooting the hell out of some debris in his front yard. Police arrived at a house in West Dallas to find the 6-foot-2-inch, 240 pound Cava ... More >>

"I Called Y'all to Get a Ride Home, Why Am I at Jail?": Dallas Cops Arrest Man over Fake 911 Call

Late yesterday evening, about 8 p.m., four Dallas police cars descended on a the 2800 block of South Avenue, lights and sirens blazing. They'd been told there was a major disturbance on the South Dallas street, and that one of those involved was hurling legitimate-seeming death threats. Officers ar ... More >>

Dallas Marking Good Friday by Beating Wives, Girlfriends with Belts, Potted Plants

Every single day in Dallas brings a dismaying number of reports of men beating their wives and girlfriends, which is what's fueling Mayor Mike Rawlings' crusade against domestic violence. But the message he delivered at his recent City Hall rally apparently hasn't yet sunk in for everybody. In the ... More >>

Hendri Boykin Was This Close to Putting a Ring on It. Then, the Cops Showed Up.

Somehow, Dallas police weren't convinced that Hendri Boykin was the hopelessly lovestruck 19-year-old he made himself out to be. He had a gold engagement ring and told the officers who visited his apartment Tuesday afternoon that he was "going to ask my girl to marry me," stammering nervously in the ... 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 >>

Police: Extremely Drunk 25-Year-Old Broke Cop's Thumb in Morning Scuffle on Oak Lawn

Dallas police didn't set out to arrest Julio Escobar at the intersection of Oak Lawn and Hall Street at 5 a.m. this morning. They set out to arrest the 25-year-old at a Lemmon Avenue apartment complex a half mile away, where they took note of his slurred speech and alcohol stench. "Officers asked h ... More >>

Your Stool-Stealing, Machete-Wielding St. Paddy's Day Weekend Crime Roundup

This crowd during this weekend's St. Patrick's Day festivities was relatively well-behaved, as far as these things go. Sure, there were three dozen public intoxication arrests and one DWI, but by far the most common offense was a simple parking violation, of which police issued 243. Not a bad outcom ... More >>

A Highland Park Student is Charged with Rape, and Culture Map Kicks Off the Victim Blaming

On Tuesday, Ryan Adam Romo, an 18-year-old Highland Park High School senior and star baseball player, was charged with sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony. Romo is accused of raping a HPHS classmate after a Ghostland Observatory concert at the Palladium Ballroom Saturday night. Given ... More >>

Turns Out Stabbing Yourself with a Pen is an Ineffective Way of Avoiding a Theft Charge

On Wednesday evening, at about 7 p.m., 35-year-old James Lowell Evans walked into the Tom Thumb at 315 Hampton Road, in Oak Cliff. He wandered around the store for a while before meandering over to the personal care aisle, where, according to the store's loss prevention manager, he slipped seven bot ... More >>

An Oak Cliff Man Greeted the Dallas Police with an 18-Inch Jagged Knife Last Night

Around midnight today, Dallas police received a call about a man walking around West 10th Street in Oak Cliff, "wielding a large knife," as the police report puts it. The caller said the man with the knife had, furthermore, phoned him up not long ago and said, "I'm going to kill your dogs." Accordi ... More >>

Screwing Up is What Kids Do, So Spare TCU QB Casey Pachall Your Self-Righteous Hypocrisy

Hey, by any chance did you catch Dale Hansen last night on Channel 8 talking about that poor kid at TCU who got kicked off the football team for misbehavior? Man, I'm telling you: sometimes Hansen is my mullah. He was talking about somebody who had written him saying we should pass a law that any k ... More >>

Elderly People in Dallas Gave Ricky Carr $100,000, Probably Shouldn't Have, Police Say

Meet Ricky Carr. He's 53, from Fort Worth, and a regular visitor to both the Dallas and Tarrant County jails. One's first impression upon looking at his picture is probably not "Hey, he looks just like a police officer!" or "Finally! Someone who can tell me if this pile of cash I have is real." But ... More >>

Anonymous' Barrett Brown Writes Letter from Prison, Claims the FBI Broke His Ribs

It's been almost two weeks since law enforcement swept into a Dallas apartment and arrested Barrett Brown, frontman for that merry band of hackers at Anonymous, for threatening an FBI agent on YouTube. Brown was taken briefly to Dallas County Jail before being released to the FBI and reportedly sent ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Beating a DWI case may soon get a lot tougher

Firehouse Subs Turns Up the Heat

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

Lynn Flynt Shaw, At Your ArtServe-ice

More Dead at the Jail

Nil Appeal

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

Cell Disease

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

Coming of Age

Sheriff's office busted for age discrimination

Gag Order

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

Slammer Chow

Prison food with a price

Buzz

Bark, don't bite

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

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.

Buzz

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?

Hello, Dallas! DART Light Rail is here

In The Name Of The Father

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