Early Sunday morning, Eric Jackson, special agent for the Dallas FBI field office, announced that Shavon Randle, the 13-year-old Lancaster teenager missing since Wednesday, was found dead inside an Oak Cliff home along with a then-unidentified man. “We didn’t have the positive result we were looking for, but being able to…
One of the most interesting things about the Dallas Police Department’s blog, DPDBeat.com, is that it provides action-packed photos and videos, which the department posts to crow about big arrests or seek help with unsolved crimes. So far in 2017, DPD Beat has featured a woman running a man down…
Tonya Couch managed to stay out of jail Thursday morning. The mother of Ethan Couch, the teen who got 10 years probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving crash in 2013, is awaiting trial for helping her son flee to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The two headed south of the border…
Shocking news, shocking, unbelievably shocking that the Russians tried 17 times to hack the Dallas County election system before last year’s presidential election. More shocking, possibly even earth-shaking: They did not succeed. In years covering vote fraud issues in Dallas, I have known drunken homeless people who could hack local…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced late Wednesday afternoon that he and his office will assist Dallas County in the ongoing investigation into potential mail-in ballot fraud during May’s Dallas City Council election. Paxton, like Dallas District Attorney Faith Johnson, a Republican, has prioritized fighting voter fraud. “Nothing is more sacred to our…
Liberty Grace isn’t sure why the Walmart in Weatherford started requiring proof of an insulin prescription before selling her syringes. When she was still shooting up methamphetamine, she could get needles at the Walmart in the small town of Graham, about 58 miles away, with little trouble. “You just walk…
A Dallas County grand jury has indicted Christopher Hess, an officer for the Dallas Police Department, in the January death of Genevive Ann Dawes. Hess is charged with aggravated assault by a public servant, a first-degree felony. Hess, a 10-year DPD veteran, killed Dawes, 21, in January at the Five Trees…
Tuesday night, nearly three days after a woman reported being sexually assaulted near the Baylor Medical Center DART station in Deep Ellum, Dallas police released a photo of a man they’ve identified as a person of interest in the assault. Police say the man in the photo is Latino, about…
Tonya Couch’s freedom may be short lived. The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office filed a motion Tuesday seeking to revoke the “affluenza” mom’s probation on hindering apprehension and money laundering charges. Prosecutors say Couch drank alcohol June 16. Couch gained notoriety after her son, Ethan Couch, received 10 years probation…
This week’s National Geographic features a fascinating deep dive into the horrifying 2011 massacre in Allende, Mexico, a small town just across the U.S.-Mexican border. As the magazine painstakingly reports with help from ProPublica, the destruction of the town, carried out by a Zeta cartel bent on revenge, wouldn’t have…
Just before 5 p.m. Monday afternoon, Dallas police responded to an “active shooter” call in Pleasant Grove. Soon the suspected shooter would be killed by police and a woman in his house had been taken to the hospital with multiple injuries. Assistant Dallas Police Chief Randy Blankenbaker said Monday night…
Dallas state Representative Victoria Neave’s month just went from bad to worse. Court documents released Monday afternoon reveal that the freshman Democrat, fresh off the completion of her first regular session in Austin, had a blood alcohol level of at least .15 when Dallas police arrested her just before 11:30…
U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay sentenced the owner of a Dallas home health care company to 17 years in federal prison Tuesday for his role in what authorities have called the biggest instance of home health care fraud in the history of Medicare and Medicaid. Lindsay also ordered Wilbert James…
Last Thursday morning, the Facebook page for downtown Dallas’ Serj Books announced that the bookstore and coffee shop was closed for the summer. “Do not look for us,” the message said. “September is just days away. We love you all. Respect.” There may have been a reason the shop’s owner,…
The street racers thundered down the stretch of roadway near an industrial area in the 8400 block of Eastpoint Drive last Saturday night. They drove mostly foreign cars, but Mustangs and other American-made muscle cars sometimes made an appearance. When the racers appeared again last Monday, Dallas police’s Southeast Deployment and Crime…
Since his retirement last October, former Dallas Police Chief David Brown has kept a relatively low profile. With the exception of a couple of commencement speeches, the ex-chief hasn’t talked much about himself and his six years as chief of one of the largest police departments in the country. This…
Dallas police arrested state Representative Victoria Neave early Wednesday morning for driving while intoxicated. Neave, who the Texas House Democratic Caucus’ recently named “freshman of the year,” remains in Dallas County Jail, waiting to see a judge so she can be released on bail, according to county records. Neave represents House District…
On Tuesday, the 2017 National Homeland Security Conference kicked off in Buffalo, New York. Typically, a conference for law enforcement and emergency personnel in Buffalo wouldn’t make much noise in Dallas, but this year is a little different. During the conference’s opening general session, interim Dallas Police Chief David Pughes…
Denton resident Earl Leroy Thompson Jr. has been arrested in connection with a string of attempted and actual sexual assaults near the University of North Texas campus and Denton’s downtown square. Scott Fletcher, deputy chief of the Denton Police Department, told the Observer on Tuesday that Thompson confessed and gave significant details to…
Dallas Police Department command partially evacuated Jack Evans Police Headquarters, 1400 South Lamar St., on Monday morning after someone left a bottle containing a clear liquid with a note attached at the building’s north entrance. The discovery prompted deployment of the DPD bomb squad and a Dallas Fire-Rescue hazardous materials team. …
Late Friday afternoon, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office issued the first warrant related to the ongoing investigation of potential voter fraud in a recent Dallas City Council race. Allegations of vote tampering dogged the contest between incumbent Monica Alonzo and Dallas County Schools board member Omar Narvaez. Prosecutors charged…
According to multiple reports from Cowboys beat reporters, national outlets and NFL.com, Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott turned over phone records to NFL investigators last week as the league continues to investigate several allegations of domestic violence against Elliott. The news, first reported by USA Today’s Tom Pelissero, indicates that…
