For a portrait of the Kafkaesque nightmare criminal residency restrictions can create, go read about the permanent sex offender camp that took root several years ago beneath Miami’s Julia Tuttle Causeway. Thanks to a local ordinance barring them from living within 2,500 feet of any place that children congregate, there…
For the past year Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc., one of the two big players in the red-light camera industry, has been embroiled in a bribery scandal in Chicago. The company, according to news reports, treated a senior transportation official to lavish vacations and had an unusually close relationship with bureaucrats…
With the knockout game having officially arrived in Dallas, and with the two documented cases here occurring in restaurant parking lots in northern Dallas, it would be only natural to assume that the man beaten with a baseball bat outside Smashburger on McKinney Avenue is a victim. Yet that doesn’t…
The circumstantial evidence against Charles Stobaugh is damning. His estranged wife, Kathy, was last seen on the night of December 29, 2004, setting out for his isolated farmhouse to discuss their divorce, set to be finalized the next day. Add in his domineering personality and his evident heartburn at the…
For 15 months, Sidelines Private Sports Lounge provided what it billed as “South Side’s Version of Upscale,” which included drinks, dancing, Madden tournaments and exotic dancers performing on the establishment’s prominent stripper pole. The problem, according to Dallas police, is that it was operating illegally, and it was doing just…
Google “Colten Moore” and you’ll find that there are two young North Texas men of that name currently making headlines. One, 24, from Krum , just scored an inspiring snowmobiling victory at the X Games, one year after brother Caleb was killed trying to do the same. The other, 18,…
When Dallas Police Chief David Brown quietly changed department policy to give cops who open fire on suspects three full days before making a statement, the rationale was that studies show that the stress an officer experiences during such an event can negatively affect their immediate recollection of it. It’s…
Like air marshals’, the identities of Argyle ISD’s “marshals” will remain secret. This anonymous contingent of staff members, known only to school administration, the local police, and the Texas Department of Public Safety, has been authorized to possess handguns on campus to respond to the threat of an “active shooter.”…
It’s not entirely clear from federal court documents when Jesse Brister earned the nickname “Bozo.” Probably, it was around the time he became a member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. In any case, he’s earned it. He proved it upfront when he joined an organization whose members have a…
Around 2 o’clock this morning Charles Pace, a 74-year-old grandfather, went to Denny’s on North Central Expressway to grab a bite to eat. Though just a few blocks from his apartment complex, he never made it inside. Before he could reach the door, he told police, he was jumped, set…
There was a brief time, not all that long ago, when discountmedspa.com was the Internet’s go-to place for gray market botulinum toxin, that Mansfield’s Laurie D’Alleva could call herself the Botox Queen. Then, Wired stumbled upon her site — and the how-to videos featuring D’Alleva injecting the product into her…
Dallas, we know you suck at coping with cold weather and that you would much prefer to step into a warm car on a winter morning. Trust us. We feel the same way. But leaving an unwatched car idling on a Dallas street is like wrapping a steak in bacon,…
Yesterday we introduced you to Ron Martin, a man who was arrested by Frisco traffic cops for holding a sign toward passing motorists that said “Police ahead.” Officer Thomas Mrozinski (that’s his police vehicle pictured above) was trying to catch drivers going over the speed limit that day. When he…
On Monday, Dallas Police Chief David Brown briefed the City Council on changes the department’s use-of-force training regimen. Before, training sessions were required once every two years; now, it’s quarterly or bi-monthly. To oversee the training, Brown added several high-ranking officers to oversee the “use of force team.” The overhaul,…
The good news is that Luis Rocha, 70 is recovering from last Sunday’s random beating outside the Mockingbird Campisi’s. He’s well enough to give TV interviews, anyways, and quip of the men who broke a dozen of his ribs and left him in the Baylor ICU, “Maybe they wanted my…
If you were in a particularly charitable mood and didn’t know much about the situation, you might credit Misrael Perla with trying to save Alexandra Julia Moreno. He did, after all, rush the 20-year-old Irving woman to the hospital when he discovered her unresponsive in July 2012. But then you…
Less than a year since the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would review the “highly unreliable” results of microscopic hair analysis in federal cases, the State Forensic Science Commission will do the same in Texas. In cases nationally where DNA has later exonerated the wrongfully imprisoned, microscopic hair analysis…
Anyone who follows Dallas Police Chief David Brown on Twitter or Facebook knows that during the department’s semi-regular disciplinary hearings he posts details about the punishment handed down to misbehaving officers. A Dallas Police Association attorney briefly raised a stink about it last March, but the practice has generally been…
Chung Kim might look like someone’s kindly grandpa, but the 76-year-old has a helluva mean streak. His former boss knew this; when Kim was laid off from his job in 2001, he allegedly pulled a weapon. So did his neighbors, several of whom he allegedly threatened with murder over the…
The Bob’s Steak & Chophouse on Lemmon Avenue isn’t the type of establishment that plasters its dining room walls with pictures of famous athletes, which explains how a $3,000 photo of Babe Ruth came to be hanging in the men’s restroom. When dinner began on Wednesday evening, the Great Bambino…
It’s been a while since we had occasion to skewer Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles for a personnel move. Jennifer Sprague, the overpaid and underqualified strategy maven; Miles saboteur Rebecca Rodriguez; chief of staff and FBI target Jerome Oberlton — they are all long gone. But now that Oberlton is…
Roy Alvin Adams Jr. didn’t win much sympathy from a Tarrant County jury when his case went to trial in 2005. He had killed a cop, drunkenly running over veteran Grapevine police officer Darren Medlin as he performed a routine traffic stop along the State Highway 121, leaving Medlin’s two…
