In 2004, after a man’s death from a controversial choke hold (the “lateral vascular neck restraint”) prompted Police Chief David Kunkle to revisit the department’s use-of-force guidelines, the Dallas Police Department bought its first batch batch of 400 Tasers. They were intended as an intermediate option, a relatively humane way…
The McKinney police officer who pulled a gun on two unarmed teenage boys and tackled and pinned an unarmed teenage girl was the victim of his emotions, his attorney said Wednesday. “With all that happened that day, he allowed his emotions to get the better of him. Eric regrets that…
One of the two women charged with operating an illegal butt injection clinic in Deep Ellum has been arrested for murder. Wykeshia Reid died on February 15 after allegedly receiving injections at the clinic. Reid said she didn’t feel well after the injections, Clarke told police earlier this year, so…
Joe Gonzalez tried to out-OJ OJ Simpson Wednesday afternoon. Driving a white vehicle, Gonzalez, 42, led Fort Worth police on a low-speed chase that included his heading the wrong way down an exit ramp, onlookers stalled in traffic getting out of their cars and taking photos and, finally, a SWAT…
Connect-a-Jet was going to do for private aircraft what Expedia.com and its competitors did for commercial air travel. No longer would luxury-minded fliers be forced to dispatch their indentured servants to personally charter that flight to the Caymans — which, we’re told, is how private jet reservations typically work. Instead,…
Bilal Abood, the Mesquite man arrested Thursday as part of a counter-terrorism investigation, hasn’t committed any act of violence. Nor, so far as the government seems able to prove, has he threatened to commit an act of violence; if prosecutors have evidence to the contrary, they didn’t present it to…
Ladies of Irving, beware. A serial groper — or gropers — is on the loose. According to an Irving PD news release, at least eight women and girls in recent months have reported “being inappropriately touched on the buttocks” in the southeastern part of the city…
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the terror attack that ended with a security guard getting shot in the ankle and two gunman with assault rifles being taken out by a Garland cop’s service pistol, according to media reports. “We tell America that what is coming will be even bigger and…
Christopher Omigie, according to federal investigators, was perceived to be someone who had mystical powers in the tribal tradition of his native Nigeria. He was a witch doctor, feds say, viewed as being capable of divining people’s futures and, if necessary, warding off law enforcement. It’s only natural then that…
Give former Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Justin Moore credit, the man sure knows how to make an exit. Cops pulled him over after he was seen weaving in and out of traffic at more than 100 mph near Ledbetter Drive and Highway 67 in Dallas in January. Moore refused…
Texas lawmakers are chewing over several civil-forfeiture reform bills, ranging from the weak (allowing police departments to use forfeiture money to fund scholarships for children of officers killed in the line of duty) to the strong (Representative David “God made weed” Simpson’s to do away with civil forfeiture entirely. As…
The Dallas cops who shot and killed a mentally ill man holding a screwdriver will not face charges, after a grand jury declined to indict Dallas Police Department Officers John Rogers and Andrew Hutchins. “The family is obviously severely disappointed,” attorney Geoff Henley told The Dallas Morning News. The news…
The Dallas Police Department’s explorer program, a partnership with the Boys Scouts, offers young people with a “sincere interest in law enforcement” the chance to do things like ride-alongs and paint over graffiti with cops. But according to the department, one veteran officer recently took an alarming interest in his…
At the Dallas County jail, a local company’s attempt last year to end in-person visitations and replace them all with video chats was quickly foiled by local activists and politicians. But in Denton, the same plan recently went off without a hitch. Denton County and the video company Securus are…
Two Colombian nationals are sitting in Collin County Detention Center after being arrested for multiple home invasion robberies that allegedly targeted individuals of Asian descent. Pier Alexander Pelaez, 44, was arrested Friday in Dallas. Edwin Riascos Romero, 32, was arrested Tuesday in Plano. Plano police say they starting receiving reports…
On February 9, a dog was taken to the animal emergency room in Denton County. The dog had been “injured,” according minutes from the Denton County Commissioners Court, “while deputies of the Denton County Sheriff’s Office performed their patrol duties.”…
Soso Jamabo is a funny kid. His viral stunt, the one where the 28th-ranked football recruit in the country told WFAA that he’d narrowed his decision about where to play running back to ITT Tech and the University of Phoenix, showed a self-awareness that was refreshing in the absurd recruiting…
Despite what you may think about Mesquite, having a ton — OK, 1,900 pounds — of meth in one’s house in that fair suburb is pretty sure to convince law enforcement that the drugs aren’t simply for personal use. Jose Farias Lopez, 24, found that out the hard way Friday,…
A convicted sex offender wanted by police after escaping his halfway house apparently spent a few of his precious hours of freedom in the saddest way imaginable, holed up at a Winstar Casino in Oklahoma. Charles Raymond Sprague left his halfway house shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday after cutting off…
Sometime after 3 a.m. on February 5, at the Flats at Five Mile Creek apartments, a tow truck driver left his truck idling and walked away. He was looking for parking violations, police said. When the driver returned to his truck, a 27-year-old probation officer named Lance Lemons was sitting…
Back in February the Austin American-Statesman published a great investigation on so-called Brady lists. These are records kept by prosecutors identifying local police officers with credibility issues that are sometimes so severe that they the DA’s office will no longer accept cases from them or allow them to testify in…
At 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, the DeSoto Police Department put out an alert. The department and U.S. marshals were looking for Colby Robinson, who faced murder warrants in Oregon. By 10 p.m. Robinson was dead, shot by DeSoto police after a car and foot chase that ended in southeast Oak Cliff…
