Dallas Police Sergeant Paul Figueroa, a 20-year DPD veteran, turned himself in Wednesday after Collin County charged him with family assault, a Class A misdemeanor. Figueroa was charged with the same crime in 2012. After an internal affairs investigation, he was allowed to remain on the force. Now, he has…
Speaking at a hearing to determine whether Enrique Arochi, the man charged with the aggravated kidnapping of Christina Morris, deserved less than $1 million bail, one of the detectives investigating the case told prosecutors that she believes Arochi kidnapped and murdered Morris. At the end of what was a long…
Anticipating what will be one of the hottest button issues of the 2015 session of the Texas Legislature, advocates for the right to carry assault rifles into fast food establishments and handguns wherever they damn well please gathered at the state capitol in Austin yesterday to manufacture gun parts on…
Just over a month after a fire at Thanksgiving Tower killed three men working on the downtown building’s HVAC system, Dallas Fire and Rescue gave the most definitive answer yet as to what caused the blaze. Oscar Esparza-Romo, Luis Carrillo-Solorzano and Nicacio Carrillo-Martinez, were working in underground tanks when the…
Latasha Wilson should have just gotten a Lyft. The 34-year-old Dallas woman, apparently unsatisfied with the other transportation options available, commandeered an empty ambulance at Baylor Hospital on Sunday, Dallas police say. Considering Wilson was driving a vehicle that’s pretty hard to miss, she actually did pretty well for herself…
David Kattner, the longtime Dallas police officer accused of sexually assaulting prostitutes, has been found dead in his Little Elm home. WFAA reports that he was found by his wife after a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound. See also: Dallas Cop Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Prostitute Kattner was arrested December 21…
In response to the spate of earthquakes shaking their city, Irving ISD conducted an actual earthquake drill on Wednesday in attempt to prepare students for the worst…
David Harrison is still waiting to see the footage of Dallas Police Department officers killing his brother. The June shooting death of Jason Harrison, the subject of last week’s cover story by Sky Chadde, was the first fatal DPD shooting ever captured on the department’s new body camera technology, but…
At least one member of Susan Hawk’s nascent district attorney’s office couldn’t have gotten off to a more inauspicious start in his new job. Justin Moore, an SMU graduate and former Craig Watkins deputy who was kept on by Hawk, was picked up for a DWI early Sunday morning. According…
Cop watchers, or the people who follow cops around with cameras to catch them doing something wrong, were predictably outraged after one of their own got arrested by the Arlington Police Department this weekend. “A copwatcher with a black powder revolver was kidnapped and hauled away like a dog catcher…
The sanctuary of St. Paul United Methodist Church, a red-brick anachronism surrounded by the skyward steel and concrete of downtown Dallas, is small and tight — not nearly big enough to accommodate the swarm of people that poured into the city’s oldest black church on a warm Monday night in…
Unlike her estranged husband, Kim Williams will not go through a lengthy trial. Tuesday morning, she admitted her guilt in the murder of Mark Hasse, the Kaufman County assistant district attorney gunned down in the street in Kaufman by Eric Williams. Kim Williams drove the getaway car. During the penalty…
Whether it’s a police union rep or an activist who says their neighborhood is terrorized by the police, pretty much the safest opinion either side can have is that all cops should wear body cameras. Activists like the idea of cameras because they argue that the footage will bring more…
Ron Pinkston — president of Dallas’ largest police officers’ union, the Dallas Police Association — is not going to resign. He says so, and Stephen Benavides admits as much. Benavides and the group he often represents, Dallas Communities Organizing for Change, called for Pinkston to quit after he blamed protesters…
Three friends were riding their bikes along Turtle Creek after a night out early Saturday when, they say, a French couple in a black Volkswagen pulled up behind them and started honking. While that sounds like typical Turtle Creek driver behavior (minus the French accent), they say the motorist then…
Ron Pinkston and the Dallas Police Association are on high alert following the killing of two New York Police Department officers in Brooklyn on Saturday. Over the weekend, the association’s Twitter account quickly joined what’s been a frenzied attack by conservative media and law enforcement officials on New York City…
Sunday morning, Dallas police officer David Kattner was arrested for allegedly using his authority to coerce a woman into having sex with him while he was in uniform. An arrest affidavit obtained by The Dallas Morning News says Kattner called a woman and told her to follow him to the…
Enrique Arochi was angry, cops say, because one of his friends declined his sexual advances. Not content to end a night that began, he told police, with an Adderall and continued with 10 shots of Captain Morgan’s at a friend’s apartment and three to five beers at a Shops at…
The number of executions and new death sentences continued to drop in the U.S. in 2014, even in Texas, which killed 10 prisoners this year, according to a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center. That’s the lowest number since 1996, when three men received lethal injections. (The 1996…
After hearing testimony on Tuesday about the glee Eric Williams took in killing Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McClellend, McClellend’s wife, Cynthia, and Assistant Prosecutor Mark Hasse, a Rockwall County jury decided Wednesday morning that Williams should be killed by Texas. Williams was convicted of Cynthia McClellend’s murder on December…
Just after midnight Tuesday morning, Dallas police officer Larry Moody shot Jonathan Puckett. It was the 20th time Dallas cops have shot at a civilian so far this year. Puckett was hit in the leg and torso and is being treated for his injuries at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Puckett…
Tuesday morning, one of the last remaining mysteries in the trial of Eric Williams was answered: His estranged wife would indeed participate in the proceedings. Kim Williams took the stand to describe how she and Williams plotted and executed the killings of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McClellend, his wife…
