Lieutenant Thomas Glover, President of the Black Police Association, sat down with the Observer last week and gave some insight as to why the BPA asked for Chief David Brown’s resignation this past March. While many media outlets painted the BPA’s and other unions’ calls as a response to Brown suddenly…
Friday night Bob Poynter, a University Park firefighter, made a mistake when he went to help his estranged wife, according to Royse City police. Chacey Poynter told him her Jeep was stuck in the mud on Farm to Market Road 35 near County Road 2595 in Royce City. Poynter took his…
The news lately on DART, our regional mass transit agency, is that the city’s elected officials are having major credibility problems with the things DART staff tells them about rail construction projects worth billions of dollars. When I hear about those problems at the big-deal end, a part of me…
Tom Huntley stands in the parking lot of Campisi’s Egyptian restaurant, lost in time. It’s been decades since he’s stood out in front of his former boss’ place. He still recalls standing next to Joe Campisi as he cooked pasta, wearing a sidearm and telling stories. The restaurant, owned by…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s first public statement since announcing his retirement last week was a tour of his time on top of one of the biggest police departments in the United States. He listed all the hits, and most of the misses: July 7, Dixon Circle, community policing, officer…
Late Tuesday, the city attorney of Columbus, Ohio, announced that he would not be filing charges against Dallas Cowboys rookie Ezekiel Elliott for domestic assault. In July, Elliott’s ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson accused him of attacking her in a car, but police didn’t make an arrest. The city reviewed the evidence…
The Columbus, Ohio, city attorney’s office will not prosecute Dallas Cowboys rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott for domestic battery. Tiffany Thompson, Elliott’s ex-girlfriend, had accused the former Ohio State star of injuring her on at least five previous occasions. Early on the morning of July 22, Thompson called Columbus police. Elliott,…
For almost everyone outside Dallas City Hall, David Brown’s Thursday announcement that he would be stepping down as Dallas police chief next month came as a complete shock. For Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, however, the announcement came as no surprise. Brown, they said Thursday, had…
Lawyers for Ethan Couch, the drunk-driving teen who killed four and injured 11 in a 2012 accident, are trying to get their client out of Tarrant County Jail. In April, Couch was ordered to serve almost two years in jail by Judge Wayne Salvant for violating the terms of the…
Jeremy Jeffress is headed to Houston for rehab and will likely miss the rest of the regular season. The Rangers relief pitcher has been on the MLB restricted list since Friday, when he was busted for DWI after leaving the Sisu nightclub in Uptown. Conveniently, Jeffress should be home just in…
The online reviews for Dallas’ Doll House Massage Parlor are heavy on acronyms. Once you decode things, you end up finding stuff out you probably could’ve gone without knowing. The Doll House, according to those reviews and the U.S. Department of Justice, was offering out more than just rubdowns. Late…
One of the most fascinating things about the Dallas Police Department’s blog, DPDBeat.com, are the action-packed photos and videos the department posts to try to solve unsolved crimes. So far, DPD Beat has featured hammer-wielding thieves busting up an ATM, a massive counterfeit bust and employees fighting back when their…
Jeremy Jeffress did not make an appearance in the Rangers 9-0 win over the Indians on Thursday, but he had a long night nonetheless. Early Friday morning, Dallas police stopped the right-handed reliever in Uptown after he made a lane change without signaling in the 2500 block of Maple Avenue…
At about 9:45 Wednesday morning, a Dallas Police Officer shot and killed a man in the 3600 block of West Davis in Oak Cliff. It was the first fatal officer-involved shooting of the year. DPD says the man got out of his gray Nissan Sentra during a traffic stop and…
The Dallas Police Department’s Child Exploitation Squad and Internet Crimes Against Children Unit arrested Javier Echeverria, 22, for the possession and distribution of child pornography, a third degree felony, on Sunday. Echeverria was arrested following a tip submitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about the sexual abuse of an…
Friday night, finally, the Next Generation Action Network cancelled a rally. Friday’s event was cancelled, officially, because of rain. Still, at the time the cancellation happened, Free Speech Friday had just 22 RSVPs on Facebook. The advocacy group’s “Free Speech Friday” event at Belo Garden would’ve been its third protest…
A new batch of documents posted to the Army’s public records portal reveals the details behind the investigation that got Micah Johnson sent home from service in Afghanistan in 2014, two years before the shooting downtown. Here are 5 details of note from the more than 130 pages of released…
Wednesday morning, a woman came into an Arlington pharmacy, demanded narcotics and then shot the pharmacist when he turned her down. At least that’s what Arlington Police said at first. By Wednesday afternoon, the story had changed about what happened at Remco Pharmacy on Division Street. As is apparent from…
Barely one month after the murders of five police officers in the streets of Dallas, the police and fire unions are using those deaths in a ham-fisted attempt to intimidate the City Council on pay issues. Mayor Mike Rawlings blasted the groups at a council briefing Wednesday: “That’s not the…
Kenny Martin stood next to his wife’s driver side window, pointing a Colt .45-caliber revolver at her as she waited in her Jeep at a stoplight at the intersection of Central Avenue and Southlake Boulevard. Linda Martin was speaking on the phone as he aimed. A small balding man, the 52-year-old Martin often…
In a big first step for the city of Dallas’ nascent battle against the thousands of loose dogs believed to be roaming the city, the Dallas Police Department made its first ever felony arrest of a dog owner for an attack by their dog. Alicia Hernandez, 64, is in Dallas County…
The NFL will not bend its rules, not even to let the Cowboys support the beleaguered Dallas Police Department. Since the beginning of training camp, the Cowboys have sported a sticker on the back of their helmets signaling solidarity with the department after the ambush and slaying of 5 officers…
