It was late on September 24, 2009, that the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word that FBI agents had arrested then-19-year-old Hosam Maher Husein Smadi for plotting to blow up Fountain Place on Ross Avenue — a plot intercepted by federal agents, who ultimately provided the Jordanian-born Smadi with an inert…
Just under a month ago, we mentioned Denton lawyer Evan Stone’s crusade against illegal porn downloaders, filing hundreds upon hundreds of “John Doe” suits right here in Northern District Court on behalf of adult film producers, against folks identified only by their IP addresses. So long as the judge was…
Fascinating case over on Courthouse News involving a Waco woman named Dorothy Isabel who used to live in Dallas and says she can’t return here to visit her relatives because, well, an old episode of A&E’s true-crime series The First 48 ID’d her as a prostitute known as “Lady” who…
Bandit TrackerUnrelated, but while we’re on the subject, Austin PD’s looking for a man who last week robbed a bank wearing a George Bush mask.Surely you recall the tale of Inequa Rushing and Waylon McDonald? No? Then a refresher: In late January, the twosome robbed a bank at East R.L…
Back in December we introduced you to Tommy Eugene Barber, a 32-year-old Dallas man who pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of securities fraud. Long story short: Barber ran something called T-Bar Resources, LLC, which he used to sell interests in oil and gas drilling projects. Two of…
Willis & Woy Sports GroupJordan WoyAgent Jordan Woy, who’s done deals with some 400 athletes (from Ray Crockett to Flozell Adams to Jason Witten) over a 20-plus-year career, is a powerful guy — so much so, at least, he’s found a permanent spot on Richie’s annual breakdown of the 50…
First there was the jewelry heist; then, the safe boost. Now, courtesy the Dallas Police Department, we’re inside the Home Depot on N. Central Expressway and Forest Lane — from which the man seen in the photo here, and in the video on the other side, schleps “two armloads of…
Yes, yes, yes, I’ve seen it — Forbes has named Plano “America’s Safest City,” based upon a low-low-low violent crime rate and a relatively low number of killer car crashes. Thanks to the many Friends who’ve sent the piece, which says money matters — so too homogeneity. Which is nice…
A couple of days back, courtesy the Dallas Police Department, we watched five men boost $40,000 worth of jewels from a Stemmons Expressway wholesaler. Today, against thanks to a DPD-provided video, we’re offered this look at three men ripping the office door out of the Malones Cost Plus on 3939…
As mentioned yesterday, several of the Dallas County exonerees appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live last night, where they were joined by the stars of the movie Conviction, The Innocence Project’s Barry Sheck and Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. On the other side you’ll find King’s interviews with several…
Deborah LusterThomas McGowan, who served 23 years for a burglary and sexual assault in Richardson he did not commitTheir names are, or should be, familiar by now, among them: Thomas McGowan, Entre Nax Karage, Johnnie Lindsey, James Giles, Eugene Henton and Stephen Brodie. Certainly, by now, you know their stories:…
The Dallas Police Department sends word: At around 4 this morning, officers got the call that the alarm was going off at Modes Inc., a longtime wholesale jeweler at 2629 Stemmons Freeway. Around the same time, says the DPD, someone walking to and from a nearby 7-Eleven called 911 to…
One of our own’s presently teaching at Brookhaven College, which, for the second time in a week, is on lockdown. Last week it involved two men who’d robbed a nearby apartment complex; that was Thursday night. This afternoon’s lockdown appears to be a whole different event: Reports from within the…
Andrea’s decided to spend some time at the city council’s Public Safety Committee briefing this afternoon, where she’ll learn a little more about iWatch Dallas, the DPD’s just-launched “virtual crime watch” that allows the citizenry to type in tips from their computers and cell phones. Says the DPD, “iWatch Dallas…
The Enforcement Expo wraps up its three-day stay at the Dallas Convention Center today, which means: There’s goes the Fear and Loathing coverage I’d planned for months. But that’s not important. What is? Yesterday’s presentation by a 21-year vet of the Texas Highway Patrol, during which the great Dub Gillum…
Brion RandallBased upon the handful of comments that just popped up on this 4-month-old Unfair Park item, some of his victims already know and have been celebrating the news: Brion Randall — the Plano man who, from 2004 through ’09, screwed some 30 folks out of around $6 million –…
An Iraq-born U.S. Army translator and his wife have filed suit against the Dallas Police Department and a local nightclub, alleging that the husband was beaten and pepper-sprayed to the point of unconsciousness by off-duty police officers who made “racial and degrading comments” last summer outside the Al-Amir club and…
Over these many years I’ve lost track of the number of Dallas crime maps that have come and gone — seem to recall having SpotCrime bookmarked at one point, there’s the slow-loading CrimeWatch, and the city has its own rustic site that looks like something that was very ahead of…
Jeff Carlton at the Associated Press was the one who, in July, first offered the story of Stephen Brodie — the deaf man who, in 1991, was detained by Richardson police for stealing quarters out of a soda machine and ended up pleading guilty to the unsolved sexual assault of…
By which I mean: your “potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs.” That’s per the Dallas Police Department’s release, sent moments ago, in which it says the DPD and Drug Enforcement Agency will be celebrating Prescription Drug Take Back Day tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are…
Justin TerveenClick to embiggen Justin’s picture of the State Fair-grounds last nightRick Perry’s a disappointment, Craig Watkins is a “demagogue,” Jason Roberts is a fixer — all the name-calling you fit whilst awaiting your first Fletcher’s corn dog of the fall season …Following an outing to Fair Park, speaking of,…
One of the officers in this picture was fired yesterday. (Hint: the one in the middle.)Dallas Police Chief David Brown isn’t messing around: Late yesterday the DPD sent out yet another laundry list of officers being terminated, the third such release in the past few days, bringing the total of…
