Stories linking Los Zetas — a drug cartel consisting of, among others, former Mexican Army commandos — with North Texas have been around for years. Take this story, from three years ago, connecting a Collin County deputy constable with a cousin said to be working for the cartel. In March,…
First off, the Dallas Police Department just sent word: “Thanks to multiple viewer tips,” writes Senior Corporal Kevin Janse, officers today detained the man they believe may be the one seen holding up the Exxon Tigermart on Lemmon Ave. with underwear on his head. His last name is Underwood. (Update…
Steven Phillips, a man who spent 25 years in prison for a string of Dallas rapes he did not commit, was arrested in Carrollton for cocaine possession — an arrest that could cost him millions. When reached by phone, Phillips declined to comment. But according to the arrest affidavit obtained…
Back in June, the city sent word that it had agreed to hand over to the feds $2.5 million — without acknowledging that, ya know, maybe it did violate the civil False Claims Act and Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act by overcharging Medicare and Medicaid for ambulance rides. Could have…
1402 Rowan Avenue, located just a few blocks from O.M. Roberts Elementary near Fair Park, is on the tax rolls at around $18,000. But that didn’t stop two men — Blaise Hancock of Arlington and Clint Allen of Lewisville — from taking out insurance policies on the property worth a…
Yesterday, we told you about the Feed Store of God Cowboy Church, where police are investigating possible animal cruelty charges relating to dead livestock, and introduced you to its pastor, James Hatley Jr. We’re still awaiting more information about the investigation, but the name Hatley rang a bell for Wilonsky,…
What do you need to know about this video sent out by the Dallas Police Department? Well, let’s see. The stick-em-up in question took place yesterday at around 5:25 in the morning at the Exxon TigerMart at 2503 Lemmon, which is right off of N. Central Expressway. And, per the…
“I don’t want to talk about all that.” The pastor took some letters from the mailbox without glancing over. “What I really want to talk about is getting more people to come to church on Sundays. You want to talk about religion, you can come by anytime.”Yesterday, we got an…
Last time I noted the Dallas Police Department’s concerns over cat killings ‘cross the city, the great Bud Kennedy of the Star-Telegram jumped in the comments and insisted, “Every ‘cat mutilation’ hoax nationwide has turned out to be the work of animal predators.” Far as Bud’s concerned, it’s all the…
In the spirit of this week’s cover on the exoneree compensation scheme and the attorneys who’ve profited handsomely from it, we submit the case of Billy Frederick Allen — a man incarcerated for nearly 26 years for two apparently drug-related University Park murders. In February 2009, the Court of Criminal…
John Wayne was a U.S. marshal, far more than once. He was police lieutenant and then detective, back to back in the 1970s. And, of course, he played a sheriff, repeatedly and quite famously. And now, courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries, proof of his greatest position in law enforcement: an honorary…
When the Dallas Police Department isn’t using its Facebook page to post breaking news about missing persons or arrested officers, it’s sharing quite a bit of departmental history via old photos. Already we’ve peeked at an illustrated history of the department’s sweet rides, and been treated to a gallery featuring…
Had the council not canceled all of its committee meetings through mid-September, at which point Mayor Mike Rawlings will reshuffle the deck chairs, yesterday would have been the first Public Safety Committee since June 20. I asked Dallas Police Department spokesman Senior Corporal Gerardo Monreal if he happened to have…
A little while ago, the Dallas Police Department’s Central Division posted this heads-up to its Facebook page:A homeless black male who possibly goes by the name “Poochy” is stealing puppies and selling them to residents in downtown Dallas along Main Street. The suspect is approx 53 yrs old, 5’6″, 140lbs,…
Actually, it was just one Picasso — along with “real estate, boats and other personal water craft, luxury vehicles, artwork, furniture, antiques, musical instruments, jade, expensive jewelry and wine.” Still. That’s not how Tony Rand and his boys Greg and Bill were supposed to be spending more than 300 investors’…
We’re ahead of the curve here in Texas when it comes to our treatment of the wrongfully convicted. These days, instead of loosing them into a world they barely recognize with empty pockets, we hand them well-deserved golden parachutes worth $160,000 for each year they spent in prison for crimes…
Looking through a stack of federal cases this morning I espied something odd, a file titled USA v. … well, let’s just say an address all of four blocks from my Northwest Dallas house, and a house I drive by at least once a day. A foreclosure, perhaps? A tax…
Twice last summer the Dallas Police Department warned it would enforce, on a limited basis, the once-litigated and gosh-how’d-we-ever-survive-without Section 31-33 of the Dallas City Code, which spells out when the under-17’s can run amok on city streets during nighttime hours. Or, more to the point, when they can’t: not…
On the other side is the Richardson PD bulletin mentioned here this morning, in which police say they’re looking for the “Handsome Guy” bandit who’s hit six area banks, including ones in Dallas, Irving, Plano and Richardson beginning April 19. Says RPD, his most recent stick-em-up was July 14, when…
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 at 3027 W. Northwest Highway, not far from where all those Bachman Lake-area…
Rais Bhuiyan’s attempts to spare the life of Mark Stroman, the white supremacist who shot him in the face and killed two other men he believed to be Muslim in the days following September 11, 2001, have failed: A federal judge down in Austin denied the Dallas man’s petition for…
It was mighty big news last month when Dallas attorney Levi McCathern shot and killed that 880-pound, 14-foot-long alligator along the Trinity River down in Leon County — big enough that it made CNN, matter of fact. Said the proud lawyer for the Dallas Cowboys, “We got a lot of…
