Just returned to the office from an interview to find three press releases in the Unfair Park in-box worth noting. As always, let’s start with the unusually chatty Tom Hicks, who spoke today with, among other media outlets, Business Week and the UK Guardian. To the former he reiterates what…
Where to begin? Let’s go with Your Texas Rangers, who were back in bankruptcy court in Fort Worth for the second day of “first day” proceedings following Monday’s voluntary Chapter 11 filing. Reports the Associated Press, U.S. District Judge D. Michael Lynn finally decided after a bidding war between Major…
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department only recently, and very quietly, began posting videos to the YouTube — like this promo video we mentioned a few weeks back, and Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s very brief inaugural Webcast (in which, right off the bat, she says “this was done with little to no…
After the jump is a DPD-provided video in which at least two men are seen trying to kick their way out of the front door at the golf shop at the city-owned Tenison Park Golf Course on Samuell Boulevard. Turns out, they actually broke into the place on May 9,…
Perhaps you saw the story: At 8 a.m. Monday, a Dallas Area Rapid Transit bus driver noticed a body lying along the Clark Street sidewalk just beneath the overpass where North Central Expressway becomes the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. The body was eventually identified as that of 24-year-old Baxter Odom, whose…
A couple of weeks ago we noted that 48-year-old Brion Randall is pleading guilty to bilking investors out of $6 million — a plea he’s expected to enter in Dallas federal court today, matter of fact. Hence this Wall Street Journal story today about Randall, yet another in a long…
At midnight Saturday, two men were walking along the 2700 block of Throckmorton Street toward Cedar Springs Road when they were attacked by four men wielding baseball bats. The two men had their wallets and a cell phone stolen, according to the police report; one suffered a broken jaw. They…
It was almost one year ago the feds introduced us to 25-year-old Jesse William McGraw — otherwise known as “GhostExodus,” founder and the, uh, leader of the Electronik Tribulation Army. You remember McGraw: He’s the former night-shift security guard at the W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic on N. Central Expressway who…
A Friend of Unfair Park now living in NYC directs our attention to The Daily Beast’s compendium of The Most Corrupt States (which several TDB readers are taking issue with, since Illinois comes in way down at No. 47). And, after factoring in such things as the number of corrupt…
A Vietnam veteran accused of forcing a 6-year-old girl into his car to ride on his lap became the first to sign on for Dallas County’s new veterans court program on Tuesday, with a chance to avoid having a conviction on his record if he completes a six-month treatment program…
Last night, the Dallas Police Department sent word that it has apprehended the man responsible for the purse-snatchings and shooting downtown early Thursday morning. According to a missive from Sgt. Warren Mitchell, a DPD spokesman, investigators received a tip Saturday afternoon about a suspect already wanted on an outstanding burglary…
The Dallas Police Department’s still searching for the man responsible for shooting a 63-year-old AT&T employee in the head this morning as she and a colleague were walking to work shortly before 6. But DPD now believes that, yes, this same man is responsible for two other robberies downtown –…
This just in from Senior Corporal Kevin Janse in the Dallas Police Department’s Media Relations Office:There was a downtown shooting this morning at approximately 5:50 a.m. An AT&T employee was walking with a co-worker to work at 208 S. Akard when a black male suspect approached complainant and shot her…
This twosome likes hitting the CVS at 4207 Lemmon Avenue, between Wycliff and Douglas; twice in recent weeks they’ve jumped the counter and loaded shopping bags with cartons of smokes. Then they took it down the street to the RaceTrac. The clerk seen during the first robbery is clearly not…
So says a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office that just landed in the in-box. His name is Brion Gary Randall, and according to the feds, on May 18 the 48-year-old will plead guilty in Dallas federal court to running a handful of scams between 2004 and last July…
It’s been six months since Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle gathered up friends and family at police headquarters to announce he’d be leaving his post. This morning, after cramming a mile run and 15 man makers into one last CrossFit routine, the 59-year-old chief sounded more sure than ever when…
A couple of notable press releases from the U.S. Attorney’s Office just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, the most recent of which has to do with a former Internal Revenue Service employee sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 16 months in the federal hoosegow for…
According to court documents, on the evening of September 23, 2005, Dallas Police officer Kent Wolverton received a call for help from a fellow officer at the Larry Johnson Recreation Center on Dixon Avenue near Fair Park. Wolverton would later insist “that he heard screaming in the background of the…
By now you’ve no doubt heard: In the wee small hours of this morning, 18-year-old Daniel Stanley went to the Tiferet Israel cemetery at Buckner and Scyene, dug up a corpse and used a hatchet to chop off a foot. According to the Dallas police press release, it was Stanley…
Hours after news began circulating on Facebook that the Dallas Police Department’s own David O. Brown would be taking over as chief next week, the city’s new top cop stepped before cameras and reporters, and about 20 gathered police officers, to give the news a more personal touch. Saying he…
Seriously.Update: Here’s Mary Suhm’s more formal announcement to the city council and mayor, via a memo given them this morning:Chief Brown Memo April 28 2010…
Back in January, the paper version of Unfair Park featured Megan Feldman’s story on a specialized Dallas County court that’s connecting ex-prostitues with treatment and, provided they stick with their rehabilitation program, keeping them out of prison.Tuesday morning we learned about Dallas County’s plans to help ease jail overcrowding with another…
