In October 2006, Sung Bum Chang of Coppell was sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor and one count of conspiracy to commit forced labor — meaning, he was a human trafficker and a slave master. So too was…
Been a long while since I’ve heard the name Bob Gale, who was quite the big deal back in the early 1980s for having written the likes of Used Cars and Back to the Future, both for Robert Zemeckis, with whom he was Oscar-nominated in ’86. (Gale also wrote the…
The new ordinance would prohibit the sale of individual cigars and require cigars to be sold in packages of at least five, with a penalty of no more than $500 awaiting the perpetrator. Notably, it doesn’t apply to cigars sold in tobacco shops or other businesses. So what’s Caraway’s beef…
Only a few days ago, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece about Texas’ Tango Blast gang, which was formed within the confines of the state’s penitentiaries and “could change the Dallas landscape because it rejects old notions of prison gang exclusivity and lifelong commitments,” wrote Tanya Eiserer. (The D-Town…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word: Arturo Tinoco is going to federal prison for a long, long time — 19 years and then some. Why? Because twice in the span of seven months, the 29-year-old was stopped by Dallas police, who, both times, found a whole bunch of methamphetamine…
The Las Vegas media this morning is touting the arrest of a man wanted in connection with an October 24 shooting in South Dallas: Kevin Jermaine Davis, who was picked up by law enforcement officials only last night. Davis had a whole posse after him: the U.S. Marshals Service’s Nevada…
Stories like this are why we’ve opted for the Termibot. Hell of a way to kill bugs. Courtesy Courthouse News Service this morning comes this story out of Plano: Laura Grant is suing Terminex in a McKinney courthouse, claiming that in March of this year a termite inspector named Mark…
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…
