At around 9:05 Wednesday night, Dallas police say, Luis Escalante, 23, and Carlos Cipriano, 37, approached a customer in front of Smoke For Less in the 2900 block of Esters Boulevard in northwest Irving, brandished a weapon — possibly a pellet gun — and made off with a vehicle equipped…
It was a hold-up. If any of Tim Moore’s 16 coworkers at Oshman’s Sporting Goods in Irving made a wrong move on Christmas Eve of 2000, someone would die. The group of men posing as ADT security personnel ordered employees to line up with their hands on the counter. They…
Tests reveal that substances sold as MDMA (Ecstasy) frequently contain methamphetamine, caffeine, or other stimulant compounds
It’s been more than three months since Seth Winder lost his tenuous grip on sanity in a Denton County courtroom, forcing Judge Bruce McFarling to declare a mistrial even as the prosecution prepared to wrap its case. Winder, a 32-year-old homeless man from The Colony, is accused of murdering and…
Scanning the city’s inscrutable bids website this morning in the hopes of finding that not-there-yet Dallas Farmers Market RFP, I came across this instead: a 102-page request for proposals from the Dallas Police Department, which is looking to significantly step up its arsenal of video surveillance cameras. As in: Just…
It’s been 11 years since George Rivas lead the Texas Seven in their escape from prison and shooting of a police officer, and the hour of his death is fast-approaching. At around 6 p.m, the State of Texas will end his life by lethal injection. Rivas confessed that he was…
When the U.S. Attorney’s Office unsealed the indictment yesterday alleging that Dr. Jacques Roy spearheaded the largest healthcare fraud in the nation’s history out of his DeSoto office, they revealed that in 2010, he dispatched recruiters to The Bridge downtown. Their mission: pay homeless Medicaid beneficiaries $50 a pop to…
We received a release this morning from the U.S. Attorney’s Office inviting us to a noon-thirty press conference at the Earle Cabell, at which time U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldaña, Deputy Attorney General James Cole and a host of other federal officials would address “a major health care fraud enforcement action.”…
As Leslie noted yesterday, in her piece about Judge Andy Chatham finally, officially declaring Richard Miles innocent two years after he was let out of prison, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins noted, out of nowhere, that his great-grandfather had been executed by the state of Texas. The DA, a…
The video you see above was taken in the wee small hours of Saturday morning at the 7-Eleven located at 5123 W. Lovers Lane, just off Inwood — you know, the one next to Neighborhood Services, which, according to Dallas PD records, has been robbed more than 70 times in…
Last night, on WFAA, Byron Harris reported: “DART says it doesn’t have enough police to put an officer on every train, but it is trying to place uniformed officers on platforms, where they can be seen.” But then, this morning, this from The Dallas Morning News: “‘Effective today, there’s a…
A couple of years back Scott Goldstein wrote quite the flattering profile of Dallas Police Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson — as in, “In a profession that demands toughness, Simpson embodies compassion.” Simpson was former Chief David Kunkle’s right-hand man — the man Kunkle put in charge of the Patrol Division,…
It’s that time of the year — time for the Dallas Police Department to release its annual by-the-numbers breakdown of traffic stops officers made in 2011. Chief David Brown himself will go to City Hall today to present the council’s Public Safety Committee with the 2011 Dallas Police Department Traffic…
For the past three decades — on and off, but mostly on — there was no swindle too small-time for Alan Todd May. Credit card abuse, theft, check fraud — however he could make an easy, sleazy buck, May did what he could wherever he could to whomever he met…
In the end, the posting to the Dallas Police Department’s Facebook page, made moments ago, probably comes as no surprise. But as of today, Stormy Magiera is no longer a Dallas Police officer. The announcement comes days after the officer, decorated by Chief David Brown in November for saving the…
It’s been close to two years since former Dallas Cowboy Kurt Vollers pleaded guilty to his role in a pot-distribution “conspiracy” run from 2006 till ’08 out of an apartment on N. MacArthur Boulevard, and more than a year since John Newton, the leader of the so-called Newton Drug Trafficking…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have been asking, repeatedly: When will Dallas Police arrest the 19-year-old woman who, on January 7, hit 17-year-old Riley Rawlins as he crossed Royal Lane, near Audelia Road, to meet some friends at the Sonic there. It’s a question that’s been repeated again and again…
I don’t recall Dallas PD ever sending out a series of videos, but below is a brief trilogy dispatched by Senior Corporal Kevin Janse moments ago. Says DPD, the man seen in the first video is merely posing as a student at West Coast University’s Dallas campus on Stemmons. He…
The woman you see at right, in a mugshot posted to the Collin County website, is Sergeant Stormy Magiera, a Dallas Police officer since September 2000. According to an email dispatched by the DPD this morning, Magiera was detained by Garland Police and arrested by Murphy PD on a warrant…
Back in November the Dallas County Commissioners signed off on part2 Productions’ pitch to shoot a season’s worth of Hard Time in the Dallas County Jail on behalf of the National Geographic Channel, which would have taken some 120 days and netted the county upward of $120,000. Alas, we find…
By 8 a.m., the news vans had started to arrive, parking on the street behind the cop cars, the Medical Examiner’s white sedan, the city of Dallas vehicle marked “Crime Scene.” They sank their tripods into the soft mud surrounding the house on Peavy Road, a nice-looking two-story with a…
A little before 1 today reports began circulating about a manhunt near Lake June and Buckner — something to do with an armored-car heist and police officers putting nearby schools on lockdown. One station even said it saw two men being taken off in handcuffs. Maybe so. But not for…
