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…
A little before 1 today reports began circulating about a manhunt near Lake June and Buckner — something to do with an armored-car heist and police officers putting nearby schools on lockdown. One station even said it saw two men being taken off in handcuffs. Maybe so. But not for…
Came across this video posted to YouTube yesterday by the friend of the show who maintains the essential Dallas Trinity Trails blog. I’ll let Ben describe what he captured:Dallas County Sheriff Deputy cornering and chasing dirt bike motorcycle on the Trinity River levees near Industrial Blvd and Corinth. The dirt…
The Dallas Police Department has many, many photos of the man you see at right. They were all taken a little after midnight on December 20, on R.L. Thornton just off Grand Avenue, site of a Comerica Bank branch. But DPD does not know his name, which is why it…
No doubt you’ve heard by now that a 65-year-old Little Elm woman was arrested at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport this morning for taking a .38-caliber pistol aboard an American Airlines flight. The Transportation Security Administration sent out a press release early this morning; a couple of hours later, DFW Airport…
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 photo you see at right comes from the F.B.I.’s Bandit Tracker website, which we’ve perused in the past. It was snapped June 14 of last year at a State Bank of Texas branch in Garland, off IH-30. The bandit in question: 19-year-old Anthony Blue of Garland. Which we now…
A little while ago reports began to circulate that Dallas Police and Dallas Fire-Rescue were searching the Trinity River for a car thief who ditched out of his stolen ride and took a dive into the rain-swollen river. That search is over, despite the fact authorities have yet to find…
In October of 2009, James Capra, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Dallas Division, invited media to a press conference so he could show off the massive haul from a long-in-the-works bust involving the Mexican drug cartel known as La Familia: 220 pounds of methamphetamine, 4.5 kilos of cocaine,…
On Tuesday Mike Byrd provided us with his high-speed, first-hand account of how, along a rural stretch of Mississippi highway, the sheriff there used his .40-cal Sig Sauer to shoot out the tire of a fleeing Steven Milam, the Tyler casket salesmen better known as the “Handsome Guy” Bandit who…
Ricky Dale Wyatt, wearing a sharp suit and yellow tie, walked out of the Frank Crowley Courts Building this afternoon after 31 years in prison — the longest stint served in Texas before having a conviction vacated, according to his lawyer. Previous record-holder Cornelius Dupree stood off to the side…
Seems like only three weeks ago Sam Hurd was just another former wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys who was on his road to journeyman status, which, in his case, ran through Soldier Field. Then it was revealed: Even before his acquisition by the Chicago Bears, the San Antonio native…
By now you’re probably aware that the so-called “Handsome Guy” Bandit wanted in connection with close to a dozen bank robberies in and around Dallas is actually one Steven Milam, according to authorities — a Tyler casket salesman, no less. And at this very moment, he’s in Jackson County, Mississippi,…
Channel 11 had a piece last night about the breastfeeding mom and the party of 12 greeted by a New Year’s Eve stray bullet coming through their bedroom ceiling. That footnote, as you’ll no doubt recall, was part of DPD’s crime-stats round-up yesterday. Today we get the DWI numbers, which…
The Dallas Police Department sends word this morning: It guesstimates 30,000 turned out for last night’s Big D NYE in Victory Plaza, otherwise known as the Dallas Stars’ post-game party that filled a few hours of Channel 8 airtime in between all that Dick Clarking. And while DWI numbers aren’t…
If your New Year’s weekend plans include a destination in Tarrant County and you have a nasty and terribly irresponsible habit of driving drunk, your boozebaggery and bad decisions can make you famous — which is to say, infamous. The Tarrant County District Attorey’s Office will publish the names of…
Forthcoming: Anna’s account of a morning presser with Dallas PD Chief David Brown about a crime-ring bust-up and Leslie’s chitchats with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and a Tarrant County ADA about drunk-driving initiatives over the holiday weekend. Happy New Year! But first, the most … ineffective, let’s say,…
In 1989, two years after the attack that left her in a vegetative state, People described Peggy Railey’s existence as “death-in-life.” Our Mark Graham documented as much years later when he visited her in the Tyler nursing home where she has spent the last two decades; today, he told me,…
In the death penalty debate, Texas has a long-standing reputation for abiding by one guiding principal: an eye for an eye. But the state has increasingly chosen to holster its lethal-injection needles in recent years, with death-penalty sentences decreasing by more than 70 percent since 2003, according to an annual…
This morning, the Dallas Police Department sent word: It’s looking for two men who, over the course of the past few weeks, have been hitting the 7-Eleven at Walnut Hill and Marsh. There are videos, of course; they follow. In both it’s hard to tell what’s happening, but per the…
Way back in April 2009, you may recall, FBI agents raided Core IP Networks, an enormous Internet service provider HQ’d out of 2323 Bryan Street downtown. It made national news, in part because the feds’ raid temporarily disabled some 50 clients’ Web sites. At the time, the FBI would only…
Perhaps you’ve heard by now: Joey Dauben, publisher of the Ellis County Observer and several other small-town papers and websites throughout North Texas, has been indicted and arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy. The 30-year-old Dauben, who Patrick Michels profiled in an Observer cover story earlier this…
