The Wire, David Simon’s epic examination of power, corruption and narcotics in a major American city, was not set in Texas. It couldn’t have been. Not because cities here don’t have those things (they do) but because local police departments aren’t allowed to go around wiretapping drug dealers. Under current…
The official logo of Gun Barrel City, a small town on the banks of the Cedar Creek Reservoir, is a pair of crossed revolvers. Its slogan is “We Shoot Straight With You.” One of its main drags is Gun Barrel Lane, where you’ll find the Carry Right Gun Shop. Its…
Last year, the Arlington Police Department bought a pair of teeny tiny adorable drones, which the FAA gave them the go-ahead to fly back in March. The APD was stoked, dubbing their new toys their “Aviation Unit” and issuing an FAQ about how the drones would never be used for…
On the morning of March 18, police were called to Gerald Canepa’s modest brick home in Oak Cliff. Inside, they found the 68-year-old’s body, naked and lifeless. It was clear from the stab wounds that he’d been murdered. His TV, two computers and DVD collection were gone. The friend or…
Ryan Ball didn’t know that porn legend Jenna Jameson was having her birthday party at Le Vu on Friday night, or so he claims in his recap of the night on Reddit. He and a pair of friends just wanted to have a couple of drinks and settled on the…
From time to time, when police have a particularly busy weekend, we like to compile some of the more interesting happenings into a quick crime digest. We think of it as a public service. How else would readers know not to visit the Stults Elementary playground at 1 a.m., or…
The men and women who gathered alongside Central Expressway this morning to protest the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center were mostly well-behaved. They marched by peacefully by in their Jason-esque hockey masks, Guantanamo prison garb and comically oversize papier mache heads. But then something went wrong. A…
When police officers raided former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace Eric Williams’ Seagoville storage shed earlier this month, amongst the guns and other items they found a white, four-door Ford Crown Victoria that they were pretty sure had been the getaway car in the March 30 murder of District…
Just after 2 a.m. Monday, a young Hispanic woman walked to a walk-up cigarette shop on Ann Arbor Avenue. Her boyfriend had taken her car, she told the person behind the window, and she needed a phone to call 911. She had the phone when two men drove up in…
It was the middle of the night when the girl, 12, peeked her head around her bedroom door and saw the man coming up the stairs. He was a stranger, tall and with a gap between his teeth. He made her take off her shirt before he tied her up…
When police arrived at 3:30 this morning, they found the woman sitting in an otherwise empty parking lot off Stemmons Freeway in Northwest Dallas, her face swollen and her upper lip bleeding. She was distraught and not a little drunk, and kept repeating “He’s going to kill them! He’s going…
Early this morning, about 1:30 a.m., a 23-year-old Old East Dallas man found himself driving along an unfamiliar stretch of Singleton Boulevard in West Dallas. He pulled his 2009 Hyundai Sonata off the road near Bernal Drive to get his bearings using GPS. When he stopped, he noticed two men…
It started last night when 24-year-old Carlos Valencia Jr. got into a fight at a house in the 5400 block of Singleton Boulevard. Police haven’t said what they were fighting about, just that Valencia ended up pistol-whipping the roommate. Police showed up at 11 this morning. The injured roommate left…
Two days ago, few people foresaw that Kim Williams, the ailing wife of a former Kaufman County official, would be arrested and charged with capital murder. But everyone’s been expecting this: law enforcement officials announced today that former Justice of the Peace Eric Williams has been charged with capital murder…
The ads left little to imagination. The young teen was invariably positioned in soft-porn poses, standing with her hands covering her otherwise naked breasts or lying on the bed in bra and panties or bending over with nearly bare buttocks to the camera. “EXTREEMLy HOTT & HigHLy ADDiCTiVE,” screamed the…
Twice in the past 72 hours, Dallas police have tracked down a known member of the Aryan Brotherhood, believed to be armed and dangerous, at local motels. Twice, he has managed to get away. The first encounter came Monday morning at 11:15 a.m. when officers came upon a suspicious-looking black…
Early yesterday morning, a bit after midnight, Dallas police were called to the Addison border to check out a report that a man was passed out in the parking lot of a Belt Line Road office tower. When officer Sean Moses arrived, he found that the man, 33-year-old Jonathan Watts,…
Almost a year ago, Erika Perdue, a 41-year-old “socialite” from a tony University Park neighborhood, was arrested and indicted on charges of distributing lots and lots of child pornography. As we reported that July, she was released to a rehab center in Argyle two days after her arrest, but was…
Update, 1:05 p.m.: Authorities say Kim Williams has confessed. See update and the affidavit below. Since he was arrested over the weekend, speculation has been that former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace Eric Williams would be indicted on capital murder charges at any second in the slayings of District…
There was just something that didn’t add up about Debonaire Bros, the retail menswear business Kristian Fitz had registered with the Texas Secretary of State. For one, there didn’t seem to be any clothes. Federal agents staked out the store’s supposed address, a Red Bird home belonging to Fitz’s parents,…
A witness watched the whole thing play out. On Saturday night at 8:20 p.m. behind a bodega on Maple Street facing Maria Luna Park, an onlooker watched as a man wearing an orange shirt and black jacket jumped 49-year-old Randy Wyatt. The attacker hit Wyatt in the back of the…
The haircuts at Triple D Cuts & Styles on Sunnyvale Road must be top notch. They were certainly hard to pass up for two Grillmasters salesman who decided on Friday afternoon to take a break from their meat hawking and stop in for a trim. They decided the truck full…
