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In Benbrook, A Tangled, Tangled Web and One Dead Gumshoe for Hire

By Brantley HargroveOctober 7, 2013

Richard Slatkin must have appreciated the irony in his predicament. Here he was, a 66-year-old private investigator who caught cheating spouses for a living — whose stock and trade was sorting through lies to find something near the truth — and he was being divorced by a wife who had…

A Mesquite Man Is Very Sorry for “Terminating” His Pit Bull with a Shovel

By Eric NicholsonOctober 4, 2013

Earlier in the week, 59-year-old Robert Prichard learned he would be staying in jail for the time being. A Dallas County judge upped his bail to $50,000 on a felony animal cruelty charge and sent him back to Lew Sterrett. The upside for Prichard is that he now has more…

An Opera Singer Was Robbed and Beaten En Route to Practice at Fair Park, Police Say

By Eric NicholsonOctober 4, 2013

John Boehr, a 31-year-old opera singer from Carrollton, says he was violently mugged Thursday afternoon as he walked to choir practice in South Dallas. The attack happened at 3:10 p.m., as Boehr was en route to the Dallas Opera’s rehearsal facility at 4301 S. Fitzhugh, on the far eastern edge…

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Texas, Fresh Out of Pentobarbital, Begins Experimenting With Execution Drugs

By Eric NicholsonOctober 2, 2013

UPDATE: After this item ran, we sent a question to Texas Department of Criminal Justice public information director Jason Clark, asking him — not to put too fine a point on it — why Texas doesn’t just switch to an alternative method of execution altogether, like the electric chair. The…

There’s a Gun-Range Arms Race in North Texas, and North Richland Hills is Winning

By Eric NicholsonOctober 1, 2013

When it was first announced, all the way back in January, the Frisco Gun Club billed itself as the nation’s largest indoor shooting range. Nine months later, as club prepares to open this month, it has dropped that claim, focusing instead on its luxurious VIP lounge and culinary offerings. There’s…

Dallas County Now Has Its Very Own Bulletproof, “Mine-Protected” Military SUV

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 27, 2013

Now that the war in Iraq is officially over and the one in Afghanistan winding down, the Department of Defense found itself facing a conundrum. It had just spent billions of dollars buying heavily armored personnel carriers designed to stand up to insurgent attacks only to find that it had…

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A Far East Dallas Homeowner Was Killed by Police After Shooting a Burglar, Cops Say [Updated]

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 27, 2013

Update at 1:11 p.m.: Police have identified the homeowner as 57-year-old William Hall. According to county property records, he lives at 10316 Sandra Lynn Drive, which shares an alley with Plummer Drive. At a press conference this morning, police provided a more detailed narrative of the shooting, which you can…

James Osborne Beat His 85-Year-Old “Memaw” Unconscious During All-Night Drunken Rage, Jury Finds

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 27, 2013

It’s a question that stumps even the most erudite of moral philosophers: who beats their own grandmother? What type of vile creature would stoop so low as to willingly injure a blood relative, much less one who’s frail and 85 years old? Here, at last, is the answer: James Dolan…

Tanks, Bazookas and Fighter Jets — Pseudo-Historian David Barton’s Interpretation of the Second Amendment

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 26, 2013

The Founding Fathers were farsighted men. They were wise enough to write iron-clad protections of individual liberty into the Bill of Rights and wise enough to craft those protections with just enough wiggle room that, three centuries on, they would still be relevant. Take the Second Amendment: A well regulated…

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Texas v. Obama, Part XXX: Greg Abbott Pledges Lawsuit Over U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 26, 2013

The goal of the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty — of fostering international peace and cooperation and “reducing human suffering” — is laudable. Its methods, which basically consist of asking countries to monitor gun exports so they don’t wind up in the hands of terrorists and other malevolent actors, are commonsense…

Jestin Joseph Tried to Shoot Up a Fort Worth McDonald’s, But His Gun Wouldn’t Fire, Police Say

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 26, 2013

There are a handful of possible explanations for what went down on Tuesday night at the McDonald’s at 4800 South Freeway in Fort Worth. It may have been, as Sergeant Joe Loughman suggested to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, an act of divine intervention. Perhaps gun manufacturers developed a mind-reading anti-murder…

Fort Worth Punishes Dancing Lady Liberty by Tasing Him, Making Him Write on Blackboard

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 26, 2013

Liberty Tax Service doesn’t let just anyone don its trademark Lady Liberty costume and dance for potential tax customers. There are tryouts and specialized training on proper singing, dancing and waving techniques. A lot of dreams are crushed. Channing Gould was one of the lucky ones. A 19-year-old performing arts…

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A Dog Walker Found a Cow Tongue “Ritualistically” Stuck to a Tree in North Dallas

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 25, 2013

Kiowa Park, a postage stamp of green space tucked behind Prestonwood Elementary in Far North Dallas, is not known as hotbed of Voodoo or Santeria, a fact that makes yesterday’s discovery all the more puzzling. According to police, a neighborhood resident was walking a dog through the park at about…

Police: Accused Serial Rapist Van Dixson Really Sorry About Two Rapes. The Rest? Not So Much.

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 24, 2013

Van Dralan Dixson, the man accused of raping as many as nine women in South Dallas in recent months, is sorry. He’s sorry that he raped a woman as she walked home from her job at at a fast-food chicken restaurant on September 1, then stole her cell phone, cash,…

Dallas Man Peed Himself, Compounded Problem by Kicking Cop with Urine-Soaked Pant Leg, Police Say

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 23, 2013

Every man has his limit, and Leonard Small reached his late Sunday night, somewhere between the apartment parking lot where he was picked up for public intoxication and the Dallas city jail. When officers ushered the 25-year-old out from the back of the paddy wagon, they noticed that his pants…

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Several Local Police Departments Are Banning Tasers as Evidence Mounts They Kill People

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 23, 2013

Evidence has been mounting for years that Tasers are more dangerous than their manufacturer and law enforcement officials, who tout the weapon as a nonlethal alternative to firearms, have claimed.Over the past dozen years, 540 people, most of them unarmed, have died after being tased by police, according to a…

A Dallas Cop Was Fired for Refusing to Rat Out an Old Friend Who’s Now a Murder Suspect

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 19, 2013

Dallas police Sergeant Carlton Barnes knew the man the bulletin described. They had gone to school together years before. Now, in September 2011, his friend was a capital murder suspect. According to an internal affairs investigation, Barnes ran the memo by a fellow officer, another former classmate, who confirmed that…

For Grand Prairie’s Gazdzicki Clan, Duping FedEx to Steal Computers Was a Family Affair, the Feds Say

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 19, 2013

Bobby Gazdzicki’s plan worked brilliantly for three months. According to federal court documents, he discovered in April 2011 that as long as he could get hold of a legit tracking number, he could call FedEx, pose as a Dell employee and have the shipping company reroute brand-new computers to whatever…

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Ricky Davis Raped a 12-Year-Old Family Friend, Then Tried to Sell Her at a Bar for $50

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 19, 2013

Ricky Davis had known the girl since she was a baby. He wasn’t quite her uncle, but he might as well have been. His brother fathered four of her siblings, and Davis was close with the family. On August 19, 2012, Davis and the girl’s family went to church together…

Enough People Are Smoking “Fake Weed” That Denton PD Helped Bust a Multi-State K2 Ring

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 19, 2013

Consider this a public service announcement for smokers of K-2 and similar products. There’s a widely available, all-natural product — a miracle, really — that delivers that synthetic marijuana-like high you crave without any unfortunate face-eating side effects. It’s called weed, and it’s about as easy to find as a…

With Help from Mom, Dallas Police Have Pinned Two Recent Murders on Her Teenage Son

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 18, 2013

A Dallas teenager is locked up this morning, accused of killing two people over drugs and money — and investigators have his mom to thank. Nineteen-year-old Jasper Okeith Adams Jr. was arrested by Dallas police on Tuesday for an outstanding warrant and quickly tied to a pair of murders. The…

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William Leak Got Fired, So He Slit the Throats of His Boss’ Border Collies

By Eric NicholsonSeptember 17, 2013

William Skyler Leak’s tenure as the caretaker of a small Fort Worth stable was brief. Last August, after a short time on the job, he was fired and ordered to clear out of the on-site mobile home he’d been allowed to live in. “The owner didn’t like his work performance,”…

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