A Dallas County jury found former Dallas Police Department officer Bryan Burgess not guilty Friday afternoon of criminally negligent homicide in death of Fred Bradford Jr. In 2013 Burgess hit and killed Bradford, who was riding on a bicycle, with his police car after a brief chase in South Dallas…
Muffled by a silencer, the gunshots from the killer’s 9mm made no more noise than a six-pack opening as he fired into a parked Range Rover. Wearing a hoodie, his face covered by a bandanna, the drug cartel hit man tattooed the front passenger side window with at least seven…
The saga that ended with Steric Paul Mitchell getting 35 years of federal prison time began nearly four years ago with a 911 call. The woman on the line, as the Observer’s Eric Nicholson reported at the time, was frantic. She told the dispatcher she’d been kidnapped the day before. She…
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price could see some of the charges against him dismissed even if a federal jury finds him guilty. During a hearing Monday morning, U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn repeatedly questioned the validity of some of the government’s charges against Price. By late Monday afternoon, she…
The sign on the door of Little World, a convenience store on the 4600 block of Malcolm X Boulevard, reads “no Guns.” It’s a plea from the owner to the neighborhood, which has been wracked with violence. The store was the backdrop of a shooting at 1am on Friday night. Dallas…
In a surprising move late Thursday afternoon, the defense for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his executive assistant Dapheny Fain rested their case after calling only two witnesses. Price is accused of taking nearly $1 million in bribes and tax evasion. Fain is charged with lying to FBI…
Did you ever get badly bawled out by somebody, and the person stalked out of the room and then stalked back in and started bawling you out again? That means the person is mad at you. That’s what happened to federal prosecutors Tuesday in the corruption trial of Dallas County…
Dallas police are on the lookout for a puppy thief. At a little after 7pm last night, the man seen in the photo below visited the Petland pet store on Preston Road in North Dallas. He asked an employee to see a golden brown Maltese Shih Tzu puppy and took…
This week of testimony, the sixth in the United States’ corruption trial of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his executive assistant Dapheny Fain, was not a good one for federal prosecutors. As the government neared the end of its case, prosecutors provoked U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn by…
Just before 5 am Wednesday, the Dallas Police Department received a call from woman, telling them that she broke into the Golden Chick at 3071 W. Northwest Highway According to Assistant Police Chief Thomas Castro, when officers arrived at the restaurant, the still-unidentified woman was still inside. Soon, Castro said, she left…
Tuesday afternoon, several hours after U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn sent jurors home for the day, the attorneys prosecuting and defending Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his executive assistant Dapheny Fain were still in Lynn’s courtroom. The teams were at odds over the prosecutors’ failure to turn over…
This week, Dallas police released video of the men who raided the rooms of a wedding party and made off with $100,000 worth of goods. Today, the department announced an arrest, prompted by an anonymous tip. In early March, on the night before her wedding, Jeanette Engler returned to her room…
Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin is under investigation for sexual assault in Florida, the Fort Lauderdale police department confirmed Wednesday. While the department is not releasing details from what it calls an ongoing investigation, a department spokesperson said in a statement that Irvin was named in an incident…
Earlier this month a bride returned to her room at the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas to find the room raided by burglars. They targeted the jewelry, including her engagement and wedding rings, as well makeup, credit cards, Gucci wallets and anything else that looked like it was worth stealing. “It will…
Members of both parties in the Texas Legislature are pushing bills to reform civil forfeiture laws in Texas. The state allows law enforcement agencies to file legal actions against property that the agency believes is owned by a criminal or otherwise connected to criminal activity. That way, they can seize property even…
Week four of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s federal corruption trial was a short one. Thanks to two scheduled days off at the end of the week, jurors who have already suffered through three weeks of repetitive government testimony got a break. The testimony they did hear, however, was…
If anyone knows John Wiley Price’s work on the Dallas County Commissioner’s Court, it’s Mike Cantrell. The two served on the court together for more than 20 years. Often, they’ve butted heads — Cantrell is the only Republican currently on the court, while Price is a stalwart Democrat — but…
Dallas Police announced Tuesday afternoon they’ve arrested an Oklahoma man for the March 18 hit-and-run death of Rachel Spelman on Cedar Springs Road in Dallas. Spelman, 23, died sometime after 2:10 a.m., when she was struck by a dark-colored sedan while attempting to cross the street. Witnesses at the scene…
Ethan Couch, the Tarrant County teen who killed four people while driving drunk in 2013, petitioned the Texas Supreme Court for early release from Tarrant County Jail late last week. Couch, jailed last year for violating probation, says that the judge who sentenced him to nearly two years in prison…
After nearly a month of searching, Dallas police announced Thursday afternoon that they’d arrested Ray Charles Keys. Police say Keys, known as “Cowboy,” beat a man to death on Feb. 17 because he believed the victim assaulted a woman. On Thursday, police got the drop on Keys. After receiving a suspicious…
A suspected drunk driver accidentally killed a man who stopped to help a motorist change a tire in Dallas last night. Dallas police say the man spotted the woman just after 10pm as she was struggling with a flat tire near the overpass where Walton Walker Boulevard meets Singleton Boulevard. He…
Two robots made debuts in Dallas last week, each promising ways to help humans with automation — or at least save them some legwork. One is called Knightscope, a police robot that serves as one part pack mule, one part guard dog. Stacy Stephens is a former Coppell PD police officer and co-founder of…
