The iPhone cases with crooked “Chanel” logos you see over at your local cellphone accessory store or mall kiosk could be evidence of an international criminal conspiracy, according to the feds. A Carrollton resident, Shiraz Sherali Odhwani, 54, has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison and ordered to…
As the story goes, Douglas Feldman was out in Plano for a night ride on his Harley in 1998 when a big rig piloted by Robert Everett blew past him and cut into his lane, missing him by inches. Feldman pulled his 9mm and put a few holes into the…
The only halfway house in Dallas County occupies the cabana area of the luxury hotel-turned-county lockup on Stemmons Freeway. At any given time, the Bill Decker Detention Center houses 225 former Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates, all sex offenders, trying to make the transition back to civilian life. Its…
In early hours last Saturday morning, police arrived at Club Extasis to find John Hargrove sprawled in the middle of the floor, unconscious. He had been badly beaten in a bar fight, struck with a chair and pool cues by several attackers. He was dead by the time his body…
Ricky Carr, the man who police say bilked Dallas’ elderly out of $100,000 by pretending to be a cop and asking to inspect their cash, remains in jail, leaving the title of most-shameless-exploitater-of-old-people up for grabs. We don’t yet know who they are, but a pair of new candidates are…
In July, reeling from state budget cuts, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department came up with a surefire way to make a bit of extra scratch: corporate sponsorships. The proposal didn’t include naming rights — no British Petroleum State Park at Galveston Island, for example — but companies who paid…
The board of Irving-based Boy Scouts of America won’t discuss a possible end to its longstanding ban on gays until next week, but the news that it’s up for discussion has been condemned as another step in the nation’s march toward moral ruin. The pronouncements, many of which have been…
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLellan didn’t mince words when he addressed reporters about the murder this morning of Mark Hasse, one of his prosecutors. “I hope that the people that did this are watching, because we’re very confident that we’re going to find you, we’re going to pull you…
It wasn’t long ago — July, in fact — that First Baptist’s Robert Jeffress was comparing homosexuality to bestiality and incest. This wasn’t particularly surprising. Matter of fact, it was in line with his past pronouncements on the subject of homosexuality, which are summed up most succinctly in the title…
Last week, in an interview with the New Republic, President Obama said something about his love for skeet shooting, the subtle art of throwing a clay disk up in the air and shooting the hell out of it. “Up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time,” the…
Just before 9 a.m., as a Kaufman County prosecutor got out of his car in a parking lot outside the county courthouse, he was ambushed by two gunmen who shot him five times. That’s according to a report from Fox 4. The prosecutor’s name has yet to be publicly released…
Texas, the Second Amendment bastion of sport shooters, concealed carriers and Stand-Your-Grounders, also favors a ban on assault weapons by a surprising margin — 49 percent to 41 percent, according to Public Policy Polling. Texans oppose arming school teachers (56 percent to 31 percent), but also strongly favor putting cops…
On Tuesday, the city of Houston went live with a 311 app for smartphones. Downloadable free from the iTunes store, the allows residents to submit complaints and track their progress on the go. “Say you see a pothole on your street. Before you even leave for work you can walk…
At noon yesterday, Jay Bailey parked his 2011 Chevrolet SUV in the lot behind the Blue Goose Cantina on Greenville Avenue and went to lunch. When he returned an hour later, he found that the lot had been targeted by a vehicle burglar. The rear window of an SUV parked…
When employees of USA Beauty Supply arrived at work on the morning of December 26 after taking Christmas off, they were surprised to find that the Red Bird store was already open. The doors were still locked, but the gaping hole in the brick wall provided easy access inside. That’s…
When, in the lead-up to the final game of the Cowboys 2012 season, the rest of America unanimously threw its support behind the Washington Redskins, haters everywhere gleefully declared the death of “America’s Team.” That assessment seemed to be borne out on the field, where Tony Romo and the Cowboys…
Sometimes — more often than he’d like, and even though he knows it’s not healthy, that it won’t change anything — Sean Bass thinks of all the different routes he could’ve taken to the store. It was a warm Friday night in late September. Sean had just mowed the lawn…
In Austin yesterday, state lawmakers were joined by Texans whose family members were killed in texting-related car accidents for an emotional press conference in support of a texting-while-driving ban proposed by Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, and Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo. A nearly identical proposal easily passed last session, only to…
In 2003, Dr. Daniel Leong opened the South Dallas Community Medical Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, a few blocks from Fair Park. It was something of a second chance for Leong, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 1989 after he was caught writing prescriptions to supply his…
In a brief hearing this morning, United States District Judge Sam Lindsay found former self-proclaimed Anonymous spokesperson Barrett Brown mentally competent to stand trial. The judge will issue an order to that effect later today or early tomorrow. At the same time, Brown was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to…
A couple years back when I was on the Preston Hollow beat, I accompanied Dallas police on what just might go down as the most boring ride-along in history. This wasn’t some Cops-style chronicle of the dangerous work of Dallas’ finest, but a plodding search for cars illegally parked in…
In case you missed it, the Dallas Police Department tweeted the following over the weekend: “@DallasPD: I just sliced 38 fruit in Classic Mode on Fruit Ninja for iPhone!” This was followed quickly by a retraction: “Our apologies for the fruit Ninja tweet sent earlier. One of our kids played…
