As most people who follow the news know by now, since Craig Watkins became Dallas County district attorney in 2007, 33 local men have been exonerated of crimes they didn’t commit. But what does this number mean in the context of the rest of the nation, and what are the…
Word came early Saturday afternoon that the Dallas Police Department had identified veteran shit disturber Dominique Trevun Thornton as one of the suspects in a string of armed robberies along the Katy Trail. And it wasn’t 24 hours later before they announced that 23-year-old Thornton was in custody — reportedly…
On Friday, Dallas police reported that they were investigating the apparent overdose deaths of two students from Thomas Jefferson High School in March and April: 14-year-old Jaime Morales, who was found dead at his home in Northwest Dallas, and an unnamed 17-year-old, found dead in an apartment on Ferguson Road…
“Cheese,” the cheap-as-hell mixture of cold medicine and black tar heroin, is again rearing its head at DISD’s Thomas Jefferson High School. The school, which was known by students as the Cheesehead Factory, had reportedly done a pretty good job of ridding if from their hallways.Now, another student has died…
Michelle Flores finished her bartending shift at a Dallas nightclub and was driving home to Fort Worth late Sunday night when someone pulled alongside her car, mouthing ‘Your tire, your tire … pull over.’ The 35-year-old mother of three would have normally ignored such a warning, but this time pulled…
An exhaustive new study has found alarming conditions for Texas teenagers housed in adult jails while awaiting trial, a practice that Dallas and Harris counties use more than anywhere else in the state. In essence, the study found that there’s really no good way to keep teens and adults safely…
Update at 4:55 p.m.Turns out, the powder was harmless. Tests, presumably by someone who has crushed anti-depressants into powder, showed that the substance was similar to “an anti-depressant medication that had been crushed into a powder.” In the case at the Arbors shopping center in far North Dallas, a clerk…
It’s always unsettling when envelopes containing white powder start showing up in mailboxes, because even though it’s probably baking soda, it could always be good ol’ anthrax. The 20-plus powder-filled letters that showed up at schools, childhood development centers and aerospace-related businesses last week were apparently harmless, but the FBI…
The Dallas Police Department is continuing to explain away — and maybe overcompensate for — their initial silence concerning the armed robberies on the Katy Trail and the dozen-or-so incidents police believe they’re linked to.A pair of press releases from police hit the inbox yesterday evening, one an unusually discursive…
Police rolled into the roundabout encircling Kelly Gordon Rogers’ fountain at his sprawling estate in Frisco recently, with warrants charging him with money laundering, securities fraud and aggravated theft in a $2.8 million oil and gas rip-off. The indictments, issued by a Collin County grand jury, provide a laundry list…
We know a lot more about the string of recent armed robberies at the Katy Trail since the Dallas Police Department initially released some details on the incidents yesterday. We know, for example, that police think all were committed by a pair of black men in their 20s who were…
Question: Is Jim Schutze a prophet, or does does the city just go to him for its marching orders? Just a few short hours ago, he was grousing about the piddling response by the Dallas Police Department to a string of armed robberies on the Katy Trail.Immediately DPD officers, who…
This week’s feature tells the story of Debbie Jones, a Richardson woman who was raped and robbed at knifepoint in 1985, when she was 19. Soon after the crime, Jones picked Thomas McGowan out of a photo lineup. He was convicted of burglary and sexual assault and sentenced to two…
The badly burned body of a man in his 20s or 30s was found Saturday in a vacant field at the end of Wixom Lane in far southeast Dallas, not far from a set of railroad tracks. His death is being treated as a homicide, but police haven’t yet identified…
Around 3 a.m. today, a cab driver called the Dallas police to report that he’d been carjacked after dropping off a passenger. He couldn’t specify just where he’d been when this happened, and he didn’t know the license plate number of the cab, only the unit number. Upon arriving at…
Danny Cantu is a diesel mechanic who says Dallas Police tossed a flash-bang grenade through his window while he was making a sandwich. In a lawsuit filed back in January, he claims they kicked in the door and yelled, “Get on the ground!” and that he kindly obliged. Then, he…
In a new twist for a case full of them, lawyers of Kerry Max Cook, the Dallas man sentenced to death for a gruesome rape and murder before being exonerated two decades later, are accusing a prosecutor in his case of taking home the murder weapon as a dark, twisted…
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…
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate and extremist groups in the United States, has found “stunning” growth in what they call the “anti-government patriot movement,” conspiracy groups whose primary focus is opposing the federal government. And much of that growth has been here. Texas now has 76 such…
Update 2: Prosper cops issued Deion Sanders a ticket for misdemeanor simple assault, according to TMZ. The ticket carries a fine of up to $500. Update: Pilar Sanders was arrested and booked in Collin County Jail on a misdemeanor assault charge. And Sanders fired off another tweet a little while…
Update, 9:42 p.m., Friday: An arrest has been made. From DPD: Darius Ewing, who was wanted in connection to the puppy who was burned, has surrendered to the Dallas Police Department. He surrendered to police while a candle light vigile was being held by area animal advocates for the puppy…
Dallas Police Department Chief David Brown, who’s made a habit of announcing department firings on the DPD Facebook page, announced three more firings late yesterday, including one officer accused of molesting a relative in Rains County. Here’s the rundown: Officer Zenae Humphries of the South Central was caught lying after…
