A woman who claims a former Dallas County deputy constable demanded sex in exchange for burying outstanding arrest warrants has filed suit against the county, claiming it failed to perform proper background checks on the deputy.In January 2010, a Dallas County grand jury indicted Deputy Constable Howard Watson on nine…
First K2. Then Salvia. Now bath-salt uppers? How will law-abiding citizens ever get high around here?Texas lawmakers are well on their way to banning yet another synthetic narcotic after the House on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill criminalizing the chemical compounds found in “bath salts.” The salts, sold in head…
On the other side are two surveillance cam videos the Dallas Police Department just posted to YouTube as part of its ongoing effort to enlist the public whenever the department needs some extra eyeballs. In this instance, the department says that two men, at least one of whom carries a…
You may recall: Back in the summer of ’09, there was a rash of cat killing across the city, with the animals often sliced in half and left in front yards. Dallas Police Department spokesman Senior Corporal Kevin Janse tells Unfair Park this morning those slayings went unsolved, which troubles…
Last month, as you no doubt recall, 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie was killed in the parking lot of the Spearmint Rhino, just off Walnut Hill Lane and Stemmons Freeway. McKenzie, who was at the club for a party with some friends, was run down by Eric Brent Crutchfield, who was behind…
If police have any new leads in that statewide run of Dr Pepper truck thefts, they’re not saying much — days of phone messages left with Fort Worth PD spokesmen and detectives have gone unanswered. (As if they’ve got more important things to do.)I was, however, able to reach Sherman…
We mentioned this morning that Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro was in town speaking to business journalists gathered on the SMU campus. Turns out, during her speech she mentioned something that rings a bell: The failure of the Fort Worth office to shut down Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme…
A trio of truck thefts from Dr Pepper distributors around Texas in the last few months have all ended the same way — with the trucks abandoned just hours after they were stolen, somewhere between Dallas and Fort Worth, with loads of beverage gone missing. In early February, according to…
Mexican folk artist Jesús “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira died in 1979, leaving behind an estimable collection of works — some of which, over the years, have turned up at auction at places like Sotheby’s and New York’s Swann Galleries. But according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, most landed in the possession…
As The Musers might say, count the red flags in this story: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that on Tuesday, it stopped two 22-year-old Japanese citizens at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport who were on their way from Jamaica to California. They were carrying with them 11 vacuum-packed boxes…
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department rarely posts videos to the YouTube, and when it does it’s usually something unusual — like, say, this eerie dash-cam smash-em-up. And then there’s this morning’s find, initially posted a few weeks ago: a mini-doc in which you follow along as a man (actor Fernando…
The Dallas Police Department just sent word — not to mention the video you see above: Two men hit the Galleria Bachendorf’s yesterday around 8 p.m., getting away with close to $100,000 in jewels in a very short amount of time. (The police report says they got away with diamond…
Since the beginning of the year, two reports have documented how Texas’s school districts punish their students: Texas Appleseed’s Ticketing, Arrest & Use of Force in Schools How the Myth of the “Blackboard Jungle” Reshaped School Disciplinary Policy, released in January as part of its Texas’ School-to-Prison Pipeline series, and…
As you no doubt recall, Doug Havard — the former Winston School and SMU student who skipped town after being arrested on charges of counterfeiting, selling GHB and armed robbery, among many others — was brought back to the U.S. a few days ago following a six-year prison vacay in…
The strange, sordid story of Carlos Ortiz Jr., a longtime FBI Special Agent in the Dallas Division, was well documented last August following his arrest for plotting to kill Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge, Robert E. Casey Jr. Long story short: The 49-year-old Red Oak resident, accused by his…
Spencer Barasch is a partner at the downtown Dallas law firm Andrews Kurth, where he is in charge of the corporate governance and securities enforcement team. But before that, and for close to 20 years, he worked for the Fort Worth office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including a…
Marisol Valles became an instant media star last October, when she took over as police chief of Práxedis G. Guerrero, a town near Juarez. She was just 20 years old, a criminology student and a mother, and the job she was taking only opened up when her predecessor was beheaded…
Last night, a Dallas Police Department spokesman sent an e-mail to media members containing three thing: recaps of weekend incidents involving Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant and corner Bryan McCann, along with incident reports detailing what led to McCann’s arrest downtown in the wee small hours of the 19th…
Over the weekend news broke that Doug Havard is back in the country — nine years after the former SMU student was arrested on charges of counterfeiting, selling GHB and armed robbery, but bullet points on a longer laundry list of crimes of which he’s been accused. Havard was extradited…
For those who do not recall the name Jesse William McGraw, a brief refresher: He’s the 26-year-old Arlington man Formerly Known as GhostExodus of the Electronik Tribulation Army who was arrested in June 2009 for hacking into 14 computers at the W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic on N. Central Expressway, where…
For the next three weeks, the Dallas Police Department will focus its attention on these mostly southern-sector neighborhoods near Bruton Road & Masters Drive, Hatcher Street & Scyene Road, Sunnyvale Street & Custer Drive, Beacon Street & Columbia Avenue and Polk Street & Twelfth Street. Says the DPD, it’s part…
For those who’ve forgotten the now-legendary tale of Nathan Wayne Pugh, a 49-year-old Sachse man, allow me to recap. On July 26, Pugh went into the Wells Fargo at 4332 Lemon Avenue carrying a bag from a fast-food restaurant. He walked up to the teller and told her, “I want…
