Crime & Police

Immediately after shooting Botham Jean, former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger told a city 911 dispatcher that she’d made a horrible mistake. “I’m an off-duty officer. I thought I was in my apartment and I shot a guy thinking he was, thinking it was my apartment,” Guyger said. “I…

One of DFW’s longest running true-crime soap operas took another turn Friday as Tarrant County authorities arrested Tonya Couch, the mother of “affluenza” drunk driver Ethan Couch, for yet another alleged bail violation. Couch is accused of failing a urinalysis, violating the portion of her bail agreement that requires that…

Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot would like would-be thieves to know that they can’t steal anything they like without fear of prosecution. Last week, Creuzot’s office announced a series of sweeping reforms, including declining to prosecute most low-level marijuana offenses, cases in which someone is found with trace amounts…

The Dallas Police Department Family Violence Unit is investigated a complaint made against community activist Dominique Alexander, DPD confirmed Wednesday afternoon. Alexander’s accuser called Dallas activist and pastor Jeff Hood after the alleged assault. The pair then went to the hospital, before filing a report at the Northwest Dallas Police…

Campus police are investigating a reported sexual assault at a fraternity house at the University of Texas at Arlington. A female student told Arlington police that she was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance early Sunday, said Joe Carpenter, a university spokesman. Because the assault occurred on campus, Arlington police turned…

In 1998 when John Creuzot, now the new Dallas County district attorney, was a Dallas County felony district court judge, he established an experimental program called the Dallas Initiative for Expedited Recovery and Treatment or DIVERT. It sent first-time drug offenders into intensively monitored recovery programs rather than to jail…

Tuesday afternoon, all 144 of state Rep. Victoria Neave’s colleagues available to vote on the Texas House floor agreed with the two-term Dallas Democrat: It’s time, the state’s lower chamber unanimously voted, to end Texas’ rape kit backlog. “This bill is for all the women who have waited for years…

Dallas police expect to make more arrests in the beating of a transgender woman in the parking lot of an apartment complex in east Oak Cliff. Detectives are reviewing video of the beating to determine how many people were involved, interviewing suspects and working to identify others, said police Lt…

Dallas police have arrested a man in connection with the beating of a transgender woman in the parking lot of an east Oak Cliff apartment complex. Police say Edward Thomas, 29, was involved in a minor traffic accident with Muhlaysia Booker between 5 and 6 p.m. Friday in the parking…

The Senate Higher Education Committee approved a bill Wednesday that updates the state’s policy for how colleges and universities are required to handle campus sexual violence. Senate Bill 585, introduced by Sen. Kirk Watson, an Austin Democrat, would require all public and private colleges and universities in the state to…

The former head of a now-defunct school bus agency was sentenced Tuesday to six months of home confinement and three years of probation after pleading guilty to a single count of tax evasion. Larry Duncan, former board president of Dallas County Schools, admitted to not paying taxes on nearly a…

Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot has dropped felony criminal mischief charges against L’Daijohnique Lee, the woman allegedly assaulted by a Deep Ellum bartender in an incident caught on video nearly two weeks ago. Dallas police issued a warrant for Lee’s arrest Tuesday based on her admission that she broke the…

Dallas police charged L’Daijohnique Lee, the woman allegedly beaten by a Deep Ellum bartender in an incident caught on video almost two weeks ago, with felony criminal mischief Thursday afternoon. Lee is accused of knocking out the windows of Austin Shuffield’s car after an altercation in the early morning of…

The New York Post broke the news over the weekend as the Mavericks continued to play out the string on the road during a lost season and one of the biggest pieces of their on-court future, star center Kristaps Porzingis, remained in North Texas for injury treatment. A woman who…

Most of us had the right reaction, as far as I can tell, when we watched the March 21 video of Austin Shuffield, a muscled up 30-year-old bouncer in Deep Ellum, pounding a young woman repeatedly as hard as he could in the head with his fists. Most of us…

Days after a woman was beaten in an early-morning altercation in Deep Ellum, her lawyer said he was considering suing not only the man accused of punching her repeatedly, but also the bar where he worked. At a news conference this week, civil rights attorney Lee Merritt said High and…

Austin Shuffield, the former High and Tight bartender accused of beating up a woman in Deep Ellum parking lot last week, faces upgraded charges, the Dallas Police Department announced Thursday morning. Shuffield, initially charged with assault causing bodily injury and interfering with an emergency call, both misdemeanors, is now accused…

High and Tight Barber Shop and Bar in Deep Ellum is closed for the weekend, according to its owners, following two days of social media rage against the business following an alleged assault by one of its employees on Thursday. The bar’s owners announced the closing in a now-deleted Facebook…

Dallas police made two arrests in the string of robberies near Dallas ISD school campuses that have shaken up students, parents and employees over the last month Thursday. Roshun Dixon, 17, and Christopher Wade, 18, both admitted being involved in at least one of the crimes, police said. Beginning Feb…

A federal jury in Sherman found former Richardson Mayor Laura Jordan guilty of corruption related crimes Thursday afternoon. Jordan accepted cash, trips, $24,000 worth of home renovations and a job with a $150,000 annual salary in exchange for supporting for supporting a large mixed-use development near Central Expressway. Jordan, whose…

The plan from Dallas mayoral candidate and state Rep. Eric Johnson was on its way anyway, but Friday’s developments certainly didn’t hurt. Monday afternoon in Austin, three hours south of the city that’s seen three current or former City Council members arrested since August, Johnson unveiled his plan to cut…