Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Cepeda will spend the rest of his life in a federal prison. U.S. District Judge Terry Means sentenced Ledezma-Cepeda on Tuesday afternoon for interstate stalking and conspiracy to commit murder. Ledezma-Cepeda is the third person sentenced for his role in the 2013 Southlake murder of Guerrero Chapa, a lawyer for…
At 8 a.m., it’s a common sight to see elementary and middle school students walking to school in northeast Dallas. For one man, it’s also an opportunity. On Nov. 7, a Chevy Malibu pulled up next to a schoolgirl and the man behind the wheel asked for directions. When he…
John Battaglia, the Dallas man who shot and killed his two daughters on May 2, 2001, will not die next week. His execution, scheduled for Dec. 10, will now occur no earlier than February 2017, thanks to a stay of execution ordered late Friday afternoon by the Texas Court of…
Thursday morning, Crowley police revealed the details behind the grisly double murder of Troy and Mary Brewer. Police say that Carl Brewer, 17, killed his parents and prompted a 10-hour standoff at the scene of the crime. On Tuesday afternoon, police received a 911 call from a friend of Carl Brewer’s. The…
Wednesday, Dallas police identified the man they say is responsible for the Oct. 8 attack on Trent Kreslins. Kreslins is a University of Oklahoma senior who stepped in to stop a domestic violence attack in Uptown. According to Dallas police, Abdullah Bannat, 19, is the man who punched Kreslins after…
Police are warning the public about a man who has been lurking near Dallas schools and exposing himself to students. There has been at least four offenses reported in the past year anmd in one recent case, the man rubbed a victim’s breasts and genitals before fleeing. “The Child Exploitation…
Monday afternoon, Wichita, Kansas police released the identity of the woman they believe killed Laura Abarca, the mother of Sophia Gonzalez, the kidnapped infant found in a house near the Dallas Zoo during an early morning SWAT team raid on Saturday. Yesenia Sesmas, 34, recently moved to Dallas, said Wichita police Lt…
John Battaglia, who killed his two daughters on May 2, 2001, will be executed on Dec. 7, State District Judge Robert Burns confirmed Friday afternoon. Despite testimony from three psychologists that Battaglia might not understand his death sentence and that his execution is imminent — which is the Texas standard for…
Thursday, an intruder kidnapped six-day-old Sophia Gonzalez and killed her mother, Laura Abarca, in Wichita, Kansas. Early Saturday morning, a Dallas Police SWAT unit found Gonzalez and made two arrests at a Dallas home. Abarca’s boyfriend found her body after getting home from work just before 4 p.m. Thursday and…
Johnny Manziel’s winding legal journey appears to be coming to an end. The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and Manziel’s defense team agreed Thursday to preliminary terms for dismissing the family violence charges filed against Manziel in April, according to the Associated Press. Manziel, winner of the Heisman Trophy during his…
So do we love our cops here in Dallas or what? Will our cops be happy now that we’re about to agree to more pay for them? People who know a few things about police issues in Dallas say the same thing to both questions. Maybe not.
It’s easy to see why smaller communities like Frisco don’t even consider Dallas as part of their competition for new recruits. Once an officer decides they don’t need to work in the big city, the larger departments rarely have anything better to offer than small places like Frisco.
As the Cowboys marched through the first half of their schedule to the tune of 7-1, they’ve been shrouded by a couple of black clouds. One, what to do with budding rookie star quarterback Dak Prescott when Tony Romo is ready to play following his preseason back injury, is competition…
On Thursday, acting Dallas Police Chief Cynthia S. Villarreal fired two long-serving Dallas Police Department officers following a recommendation from the department’s internal affairs department. Sergeant Terrance Scott was charged with official oppression in June after witnesses told police that Scott hit a man while working as an off-duty security…
The NFL’s investigation against Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott for multiple alleged incidences of domestic violence, and the slow drip of information that comes with it, continued Thursday. The league, according to documents and a 911 call obtained by USA Today, is now actively looking into a February 2016 altercation…
Cesar Gonzalez, according to Dallas Police, has a penchant for picking up women in his truck, attempting to sexually assault them, and then trying to pass himself off as a cop. Early Saturday morning, DPD says, Gonzalez picked up a female passenger in his black Ford F-150. He then drove…
A killer gets off with two years after shooting an Arlington teacher. Now the victim’s family lives in fear and anger.
Dallas Police arrested a 22-year-old local man for the Sunday night murder of Martha Teran. Lonzell Hunter, according to police, shot Teran, killing her in the parking lot of Dallas’ Medieval Times on I-35. Teran, 42, was in the parking lot to sell an iPhone 7, according to police. Hunter,…
Dallas Cowboys rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott can’t move fast enough to escape the shadow of domestic violence accusations. The Columbus, Ohio, city attorney’s office declined to press charges against Elliott, due to conflicting statements from witnesses and Elliott’s ex-girlfriend and accuser, Tiffany Thompson. But yesterday Tobert S. Tobias, the assistant…
Over the weekend, law enforcement officers in West Texas finished searching landfills in Alpine, Presidio and Odessa without finding any sign of missing Sul Ross University student Zuzu Verk. Monday, the Alpine Police Department increased the reward for information to $200,000, raised entirely through private donations. Verk graduated from Timber Creek…
At its core, the Texas-tied, India-based, multi-million dollar phone scam ring broken up by the feds this month was a sophisticated exploitation of the unsophisticated. Now, those the U.S. Department of Justice are accusing of fraud are facing decades in jail and millions of dollars in fines and restitution. Here’s…
Dallas police reported two shootings by officers in the past five days, both of them working plainclothes investigations. Yesterday at about 9:40 a.m., a plainclothes cop working the 3500 block of Virginia Boulevard spotted what he was looking for — a vehicle that he believed has been carjacked the night…
