Fifty-one individuals are in jail and six others are being sought after a massive federal investigation into methamphetamine distribution and kidnapping by white supremacist prison gangs in North Texas. According to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox, federal authorities seized or diverted more than 190 kilograms…
Barely beneath the surface in the city’s grief over last week’s shootings of two Dallas police officers and a store security guard was bleak bitterness left behind by last year’s ugly battle over the police and fire pension system. Sure, we would all be better off if our feelings about…
Kenneth Martin said it was accident. He hadn’t intended to shoot his estranged wife Linda Martin in the face when he walked up to her car as she sat at a red light near the Southlake Town Square. Wednesday afternoon, a Tarrant County jury decided they didn’t believe him and…
A 27-year-old Dallas Police Department officer injured in a shooting in Northeast Dallas Tuesday afternoon has died, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings confirmed during a Dallas City Council meeting. Rogelio Santander died at 8:11 Wednesday morning, Rawlings said. Santander’s partner, 26-year-old Crystal Almeida, remains hospitalized at Texas Presbyterian Hospital on Walnut…
The Dallas Police Department confirmed late Tuesday afternoon that an unknown suspect shot two DPD officers near a the Home Depot at U.S. 75 and Forest Lane. According to the department, both officers are critically wounded. The suspect also shot a third person. That person’s condition is unknown, according to…
News reports after the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and similar school killings often tell inconsistent stories about the number of such cases because of incomplete data, adding to fear and confusion. Nadine Connell, an associate professor of crime at the University of Texas at…
After 2.5 hours of deliberations Monday morning, a Tarrant County jury convicted Charles Bryant in the murder of 24-year-old Jacqueline Vandagriff in September 2016. Bryant, 30, killed Vandagriff before dismembering her and burning her remains in a kiddie pool he left at Acorn Woods Park near Lake Grapevine. Bryant and Vandagriff met…
The victim of pit bull mauling near Fair Park early Sunday morning remains hospitalized in stable condition, according to the Dallas Police Department. About 2 a.m. Sunday, four pit bulls cornered a woman, whom DPD hasn’t identified, as she walked through her neighborhood in the 4300 block of Hamilton Avenue,…
Three years after a man in an armored van launched a sustained attack on the Dallas Police Department’s headquarters in the Cedars, long-awaited increases in police station security are almost complete, according to new information from the city of Dallas. Improvements to the interiors of most of the department’s substations…
Sometime after 8:30 a.m. Monday, Ethan Couch is getting out of Tarrant County jail. The 20-year-old drunken-driving killer responsible for the portmanteau “affluenza” becoming part of the American lexicon will have served 720 days, completing a condition set by District Judge Wayne Salvant for Couch’s transfer to the adult probation…
An 18-year-old man arrested Thursday for a deadly shooting at a Plano apartment complex is also a suspect in two murders committed in Arlington on Thursday morning, Arlington police said Friday. Plano police believe Franklin Lee Barnes shot four people, killing one, at the Cross Creek Apartments on Alma Drive…
Charles “Big Charlie” Flores and Richard Childs were searching for money when they slid under the garage door of a one-story brick home on Bergen Street. The Black family had built it in the early 1960s when the one-block neighborhood of Farmers Branch was nothing but pasture. They had raised…
Over the weekend, Sen. Ted Cruz found himself, as he has so often, near the center of the political universe. Not for a good reason, either. In a series of reports released by The New York Times and The Guardian, Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company bankrolled by Republican mega-donor Robert Mercer,…
A Denton County sheriff’s patrol sergeant posted a Craigslist advertisement looking for a “needy twink” who wanted to have sex, according to investigators who arrested the officer on charges of solicitation of a minor. “I’m near UNT,” 46-year-old Weston Jordan wrote in an ad posted Tuesday. “I will host and…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban denied doing anything wrong Tuesday, following the publication of sexual assault allegations made against Cuban in 2011 in Willamette Week, a Portland alt-weekly. According to Portland Police Department documents obtained by Willamette Week, a woman ran into Cuban while out on the town with her…
Fernando Cabrera needed someone with a car to take him to pick up some money that a friend known as “Pancho” in Mexico had asked the 21-year-old South Texan to collect. Cabrera, in turn, asked another friend, who asked a younger buddy whose mother wouldn’t let him use the car…
The gunshots erupted shortly after 2 a.m. Feb. 19. Dallas postal employee Tony Mosby, 58, had just left the Dallas Main Post Office in a United States Postal Service 11-ton box truck when a car loaded with four friends tried to pass him on the highway. The four had just…
There he is. Standing on a huge rock. Sitting on top of the world. “I just wanna say that yes, in fact, I do know how lucky I am,” says Wally Lynn, arms and heart wide open as he and his cup of Jack Daniel’s welcome a couple hundred guests…
Seizing on a teachable moment and the chance for a little publicity, Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphree said Tuesday that his deputies are expected to take immediate action, rather than wait for backup, if they encounter an active shooter. Murphree’s directive comes 13 days after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz allegedly shot and…
It’s easy to forget, as much of a pro sports town as Dallas has become, that the city’s professional sports history is a comparatively short one. After a couple of false starts by both the NFL and AFL versions of the Dallas Texans, Dallas finally got its first permanent pro…
Two things — something that happened in my neighborhood last week and the school slaughter in Parkland, Florida — have conspired to reignite a line of thought plaguing me on and off over the last year or so. I’m thinking about the principle of community policing. I used to believe…
Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall’s days as an out-of-uniform civilian administrator are over. The Dallas Police Department announced Thursday morning that Hall has passed her Texas Commission on Law Enforcement licensing exam, making her a real Texas police officer and allowing her to wear a DPD uniform. “TCOLE test done!…
