Amid an ongoing staffing shortage at Dallas County Jail, a man held there died while on suicide watch early on Friday, according to internal county records. At the time of his death, Terry Stewart was being housed in solitary confinement in a cell in the jail’s suicide watch wing. A…
A Wylie man charged in connection to the Capitol insurrection could be the first defendant to face conviction following a jury trial.
Dallas County Jail failed to meet Texas’ minimum standards for acceptable jail conditions for the second year in a row. According to a Texas Commission on Jail Standards’ report, state inspectors during an annual weeklong walk-through last month found that jail staff are violating at least four of the state’s…
If they hadn’t scoured the Philly perp’s phone, the FBI might never have found his co-conspirator in Dallas. In 2020, FBI agents executed a search warrant granting them access to all the contents of a phone owned by a Philadelphia sex offender who was previously convicted of child pornography charges…
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is considered one of the largest and most violent prison gangs in the country.
In the lead-up to Tuesday’s Texas primaries, Republican candidates looking to unseat GOP incumbents from the governor’s mansion to the Texas Capitol rallied around a theme: attacking their opponents for not being conservative enough. Take East Texas U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, who was vying for the GOP nomination for attorney…
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing to stop Texas from investigating the families who seek gender-affirming treatment for their transgender children. In partnership with Lambda Legal, the ACLU filed a petition in a Travis County state court this week requesting that Texas’ Department of Family and Protective Services (otherwise…
In Dallas County, people stopped by law enforcement could wind up behind bars because of errors in the database that the county uses to search for active arrest warrants. Recently, that number topped 2,600 active arrest warrants that should have been deleted from the system. That could mean big trouble…
A Texas man has pleaded guilty to crimes related to a plot to attack power grids in the United States.
Three firefighters were severely injured while responding to a natural gas leak in an apartment building that ended up exploding. Now, they’re suing for their injuries, lost pay, and alleged “gross negligence” that led to the explosion.
When one coach screamed at their team after dropping someone during a stunt, he was the one hugging them after practice and assuring them they’d nail it next time. After one coach punished the team with a set of conditioning drills that had everyone puking by the end, he was…
A federal judge has ruled that Stewart Rhodes, founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, will stay behind bars for the time being. On Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said during a hearing that allowing Rhodes to spend the next several months under house arrest was too risky…
Both the candidates in a local judge’s race are calling out the county’s antiquated and dysfunctional system for tracking criminal cases in justice of the peace courts, which in many cases leaves people who have paid fines subject to arrest because of outdated records. “As a new JP, I noticed…
Nothing about Jerry Harris’ fall from Netflix superstardom to pleading guilty to sexually abusing minors on Thursday came as a surprise to attorney Michelle Tuegel. The Dallas-based attorney represented several athletes from the U.S. national gymnastics team in legal actions against the United States Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics and Michigan…
The scheme was simple enough. The labs would pay Dr. Eduardo Canova, Dr. Jose Maldonado and nurse practitioner Keith Wichinski. Then the medical professionals would order an unneeded laboratory test from one of the labs. Later, they’d bill the cost of the test to Medicare and other federal healthcare programs…
First, the feds say, a concerned citizen gave away Patricia Maldonado’s identity. Then, Patricia Maldonado’s Facebook photos gave away Patricia Maldonado.
Before he landed in a North Texas jail last month on seditious conspiracy charges for allegedly trying to overthrow the U.S. government, then Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes pushed a dark and apocalyptic vision of what lay in store for the U.S. According to Rhodes, it’s only a matter of…
When Jerome Van Zandt was booked into Harris County Jail in November 2020, he was optimistic. “There’s no way I’ll be here more than three months,” he told himself. A Navy veteran with 20 years of service, he had been caught with less than a gram of crack cocaine and…
A series of bogus emails gave it away: Jennifer Faith, authorities say, baited her boyfriend into murdering her husband.
Last week’s meeting got off to a smooth enough start. Kayla Kates-Brown from Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission, or HHS, read off a few changes to the meeting itinerary. She collected votes from attending members to proceed. The plodding tedium you’d expect from a virtual state government subcommittee meeting seemed…
Shannon Daves, a transgender woman, was homeless when Dallas police officers arrested her for an alleged misdemeanor in January 2018. (It’s not clear from court documents what she’d been charged with.) Four years later, her case could have dire consequences for those fighting for bail reform in Texas and around…
One of the alleged masterminds of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol will stay locked up until trial, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Elmer Stewart Rhodes, who goes by Stewart Rhodes, founded the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia. He was arrested earlier this month on the rarely…
