A little more than one year ago, Dr. James Shin was a Southlake resident and a family man and the Chair of the Internal Medicine Department at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. Then, on September 17, 2007, officials with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement cybercrime unit discovered “numerous…
In August 2007, as it was becoming evident that Dallas was becoming “ground zero for criminal justice change,” in the words of Innocence Project of Texas founder Jeff Blackburn, Glenna Whitley wrote that faulty eyewitnesses were partially to blame for the convictions of so many innocent men. Which is why,…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins A couple of days back, The Wall Street Journal ran a profile of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins – and he’s “The Exonerator,” proclaimed the headline to a story that, like many others written about Watkins in recent months, focuses almost exclusively on…
At this very moment, the city council’s Public Safety Committee is meeting to discuss, among other things, the so-called Holiday Crime Initiative aimed at preventing crime during this most wonderful time of the year. Specially, today’s presentation deals with two parts of town: the Dallas Police Department’s North Central Patrol…
Anand Jon with one of his famous former clients Several Friends of Unfair Park who quite vividly recall the sordid story of fashion designer Anand Jon have sent this update: Yesterday, Jon was convicted in Los Angeles of raping and sexually assaulting aspiring models as young as 14. The conviction,…
Rogelio Reyes Cannady A week from today, 36-year-old Rogelio Reyes Cannady will be dead. That’s the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s plan, anyway: Cannady is scheduled to be executed on November 19 for murdering his cellmate in October 1993. Cannady, once a waiter, was in prison in ’93 serving out…
Ruben Bohuchot Allen Gwinn just texted me with today’s news: Ruben Bohuchot, the former Dallas Independent School District associate superintendent for technology indicted last year and convicted in July for screwing the district out of millions, was just sentenced in federal court. Writes Allen, U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay has…
After the jump, courtesy the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the tale of Dolores Arriola Espino, who managed to steal $84,000 from the Garland Independent School District — her employer for 22 years. (Loyalty, schmoyalty.) Sentenced Friday to 10 months in prison for theft and embezzlement and ordered by Chief U.S. District…
After the jump, courtesy the U.S. Attorney’s Office the story of Dallas’s Freddy Lee Foots, a 51-year-old today sentenced to more than 29 years for robbing an armed car — and using some of the loot to buy a used Mercedes. But the story does not yet have an ending:…
Brian Harkin Jim Trulock, co-owner of Duncanville’s Cherry Pit No doubt you’ve read Mike Fisher’s September 17 cover story about the Cherry Pit; more than a month after publication, the swinging tale out of Duncanville remains a big hit. If you somehow missed it, well, you might wanna bone up…
The November issue of Texas Monthly features a piece by Michael Hall titled “The Exonerated,” which offers testimony from the 37 men who spent a combined 525 years in Texas prisons for crimes of which they were later cleared. Actually, not all the men spoke to Hall: Michael Blair, convicted…
Red Woof Inn, based in Rockwall, is one of them fancy-schmancy doggy-daycare joints; its Web site touts 7,200 square feet of free-range fun, along with other boarding and boutique-ing options available for your pup. Red Roof Inn, based in Columbus, Ohio, is a 325-locations chain of discount hotels, with no…
Josephine Davis used to work in the Dallas office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of General Counsel — used to. Now, she may very well end up in prison for the next decade. Lesson learned? Do not use a government-issued credit card to spend $10,000…
Sarah, left, and Amina, right, were sisters and best friends. Earlier this month, the FBI added Yaser Abdel Said to its list of “Featured Fugitives,” his crime: “UNLAWFUL FLIGHT TO AVOID PROSECUTION – CAPITAL MURDER – MULTIPLE.” No doubt you recall he’s accused of killing daughters Sarah and Amina, who…
A 2005 traffic accident in Dallas certainly has gotten a lot of national attention in recent months. That’s because In Re Volkswagen of America Inc. et al appears to be the case that will empty the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall, heretofore known as…
Hell of a time for Avi Adelman not to have his video camera handy: The Barking Dog reports that at about 1:30 yesterday morning, a Dallas police officer got the call that he was needed to subdue a drunken patron at the Sugar Shack on Greenville Avenue. But the collar…
Patrick Michels To Swerve and Protect Sarah Palin’s visit last Friday drew nearly about as many fans as protesters to the Fairmont downtown, and it was a charged atmosphere. Slogans were hurled across the barricades and signs were thrust high into the air — but thankfully, with the Dallas Police…
Kirk Bloodsworth Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted, twice, of raping and killing a Maryland 9-year-old girl in 1984 — a crime for which he was to be put to death. But in the early 1990s, he was released from prison and became, as CNN put it in 2000, the “first prison…
On Saturday, “FloMoDad” posted to the YouTubes the video below, in which a banana chases a gorilla across the football field during Flower Mound’s homecoming game Friday night. But, you’ll see some cops initially didn’t find Curtis Patton and Sean Kight’s senior prank terribly funny, as one of the guys…
Ghassan Elashi With federal prosecutors making a second run at Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development officials, after their first attempt last year ended up in a more-or-less mistrial, the daughter of one of the defendants today writes about Part II for The Huffington Post. Noor Elashi’s a…
Daniel Rodrigue No, this was not the buffet spread at today’s drug-bust announcement. Yesterday, 300 law enforcement agents were involved in the largest one-day seizure of drugs and cash in North Texas — ever. They arrested 22 alleged members of drug trafficking cells associated with Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. Officers seized…
As expected, Shared Hope International released today its 10th and final report dealing children being trafficked as sex slaves — and, fittingly, the report about Dallas was released in Dallas, where the organization’s wrapping up its conference. It’s a 149-page document, and for the most part it’s got good things…
