A former dancer for the Dallas Mavericks’ male dance team went on a violent rampage in far southwest Dallas last night, using guns and a grenade, killing four people and wounding others, police say. It began at around 10:30 p.m., when 44-year-old Erbie Bowser walked into his ex-girlfriend’s home on…
Trendon Shavers, the McKinney man accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of running a pioneering Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, hasn’t denied that he was running a scam or that he was using investors’ cash to finance his day trading and trips to the casino. His main defense is that Bitcoin…
Tyler Holder, the Saginaw teen accused of brutally raping and murdering 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher, was moved from the hospital to the Tarrant County Jail on Wednesday. That means his condition has improved significantly since he was shot in the head during his July 23 gun battle with police. (Chris Lodatto,…
It’s no secret that the gentleman buying you tons of free drinks doesn’t give a crap about your health, safety, or even how much you like drinking. He’s just making a calculated investment, figuring that you’re more likely to have sex with him after you have $30 worth of vodka…
Two days after 14-year-old Deston Bibbs was killed by a hit-and-run motorist as he crossed Sycamore School Road at 9:20 p.m. on the night of April 25, his mother went to the media with a heartfelt plea. “Just turn yourself in already,” DeShundria Parks told WFAA’s Carla Wade. “There’s no…
Arnold Troy Crayton has matured a lot in the past decade. Back then, he was “Lil’ Arnold,” a 21-year-old junior member of a Fort Worth-based crack distribution ring busted by the feds in 2002. Now, according to federal prosecutors, Crayton’s moved on to marijuana, apparently smuggled to him straight from…
To be fair, the man couldn’t have known Antonio Quintanilla was a cop. It was 3 a.m., and Quintanilla wasn’t in uniform. He was just some guy smoking a cigarette on the balcony of the apartment below at the Villas of Katy Trail early on Saturday morning. That said, Quintanilla’s…
Dafe Kelly Sokoh wasn’t technically supposed to be patrolling the Burger King parking lot. El Rancho Supermarket in Oak Cliff hired him as a security guard to keep an eye on things there, but, when he spotted 26-year-old Roy Castillo leaving the grocery store at what he considered to be…
By the time firefighters showed up at the Newport Landing Apartments in Far Northeast Dallas on Tuesday, Lesley Williams’ had already escaped from her burning unit, running outside and calling for help until a neighbor was able to douse the flames that still covered her body. Her hands, back and…
Douglas Alan Feldman, 55, the remorseless, highly intelligent psychopath who terrorized three North Texas counties for more than a week while he went on a shooting rampage, was executed Wednesday. And he shuffled off his mortal coil with the same venom with which he inhabited it. According to an Associated…
The Facebook photo shows 51-year-old Dallasite Bobby Ray Carter Jr. grinning as he stands beside his son and a handful of friends chest deep in the crystal clear water. Behind him, the sandy beach, lush foliage and sheer cliff face suggest a tropical paradise. The picture was taken outside the…
It should have been apparent to Ronald Dale Ackers that his ex-girlfriend wants nothing to do with him. Even if she never used those exact words, the mere fact that she left him behind in Bedford, Texas while she established permanent residence in Jonesborough, Tennessee should have sent the message…
Mark Bumpers was standing behind his Red Bird home late on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 26, when a stranger walked by. In one arm, he carried a leaf blower. Tucked beneath the other was a DVD player. He pushed an electric lawnmower with his free hand. The man paused…
The feds were quite pleased in 2010 when Operation Greedy Grove, their months-long takedown of a Pleasant Grove-based crack ring, resulted in 28 arrests and the seizure of several kilograms of cocaine, more than a dozen guns, and $210,000 cash. But the guys they picked up — “Rat,” “Ron Don,”…
At closing time Tuesday night, the cash register at Afrika Fusion came up short. The restaurant’s manager, Mondi Baskin, recounted the money and checked her math again. It was stil short. Baskin narrowed the source of the discrepancy to one of the servers, a woman who’d been working at the…
A few months back, we broke the very important news that Dallas is in midst of an epidemic of hair weave heists. Sometimes, the thieves would try to palm a few packages while pretending to shop. Other times, they went for volume, knocking holes in the wall of beauty supply…
Jimmie Jerome Hiners, aka Jimmie “Nookie” Hiners, is kind of an open book. The marijuana leaf tattooed on the front of his neck tells you that he really likes weed, probably too much. The word “Blood” on his left arm tells you that he claims affiliation with that particular street…
The surveillance camera shows the whole room, not that there’s much to see. Mainly just a desk, an office chair, and a door leading to another, smaller room in the back. The footage from March 1, 2012, begins right at 4 p.m. with Michael Meyler, a 44-year-old Russian-born jeweler, occupying…
This year the Texas legislature approved a measure that requires the Texas Juvenile Justice Department to cut $23 million from its budget and continue paying for five of its six secure facilities by the first day of 2014, meaning that one of those six facilities has to go. To meet…
The smoke has cleared since gunfire erupted on Babbling Brook Drive in Saginaw as police executed a search warrant on 17-year-old Tyler Holder, the teen accused of murdering 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher. Holder is reportedly in critical condition at a local hospital, and the police officer who was shot, identified yesterday…
Bitcoin, the decentralized online virtual currency, just hit a milestone of monetary street cred: It’s allegedly been used in a Ponzi scheme. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has charged Trendon T. Shavers of McKinney for defrauding investors in his Bitcoin company, Bitcoin Savings and Trust…
Craig Watson had seen his share of hard times since leaving the military. The 51-year-old was homeless, chronically unemployed and isolated from his family, who live 1,000 miles away in Florida. Still, things had been looking up as of late. He’d been in contact with the Veterans Administration, which was…
