Speaking of the wrongly imprisoned …On Saturday, we stopped to take note — belatedly — of the passing of Randall Dale Adams, whose October death didn’t reach newspapers till late last week. Adams, of course, was freed from prison in ’89 following the release of Errol Morris’s documentary The Thin…
Yet again, the Dallas Police Department sends an email saying there’s a press release on Facebook — so many hoops, but so worth it. The department says Chief David Brown’s fired three officers, including Senior Corporal Cat Lafitte, otherwise known as the artist who took to Facebook in February to…
Twice today, including just moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent notes to media asking for the public’s help in finding the driver of a red 1999 Ford F150 who police say was responsible for a fatal hit-and-run yesterday at Northwest Highway and the Dallas North Tollway. According to police,…
Schutze is taking in commissioners court this morning; it’s part of his summer local-government internship program. I see John Wiley Price got there early — why, there’s a Channel 8 cameraman chatting him up as he walks into work ’round 5:30 in the a.m. First and only question’s about all…
I sent one of our interns, Alex Scott, to the law offices of on-and-off John Wiley Price attorney Billy Ravkind about two hours ago. Turns out, John Wiley Price was there — had been all morning. Moments ago he came out and spoke. And this is what he said:The Dallas…
Speaking of the innocent spending time behind bars …Meet Hilliard Fields. On August 27, 1997, Fields, who was then in his mid-20s, told prosecutors he was guilty of sexually assaulting a minor. Fields was also facing an unrelated drug charge, and authorities told him: Look, just plead guilty to both…
“It’s an Everyman’s story. It’s the story of someone slipping through the cracks — if you like, a nonfiction Twilight Zone episode.” That was filmmaker Errol Morris talking, in 1988, about his documentary The Thin Blue Line — otherwise known as the film that proved Randall Dale Adams did not…
On its Facebook page this morning, the Dallas Police Department has posted an estimable visual history of its squad cars, beginning with the 1928 Model A. My father, a parts man his whole life, could do without the AMC Matador, wishes he had the ’56 Fairlane pictured above and is…
Moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent a note telling media types to head to its Facebook page for a very special announcement. OK. Let’s see … Ah. “Dallas Police Make Second Arrest in Biker Incident.” And by “biker incident,” of course, the DPD’s referring to the parade of motorcyclists…
In the chaos outside an Oak Cliff club, Juanita Payne, 15, was killed by a stray bullet.
On September 21, 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, then 27 years old, was working behind the cash register of a Texaco station in Pleasant Grove when a man wearing a bandanna, sunglasses and a baseball cap walked into the station holding a gun.Bhuiyan, a slight, soft-spoken man with big eyes and a thatch…
Above is a video just posted by the Dallas Police Department in which two men smash-n-grab the Brook Mays on John Carpenter, stealing as many instruments as they can get their mitts on in the wee small hours of June 7. But it’s a two-parter: A few hours later they’re…
As you might have heard, just a few folks have skipped work to hang out in downtown today to pay homage to a group of very tall men (and one of-average-height Puerto Rican). But with an hour to go, traffic’s an issue: Dallas PD reports that the Jefferson Street Viaduct…
The man seen at right is Thomas Michael Roberts, a 35-year-old Dallas Police say was among the parade of motorcyclists responsible for shutting down and spray-painting Central Expressway on Memorial Day. No doubt you’ve seen the video, which went from YouTube to Channel 5 Monday night — and led DPD…
Since we caught up with him last, not a whole lot has changed for Michael Manos, the aspiring nightlife starlet and entertainer who threw extravagant parties back in those halcyon days of Bella and Billy Zane in 2009. Then, not a whole changes after three more months at Lew Sterrett…
Every year or so we get word of yet another crime map out there. Here’s the latest: Trulia’s Beta-testing, color-coded “heat” map, which, says the Chicago Sun-Times, is a collaboration between EveryBlock.com, CrimeReports.com and SpotCrime.com intended to allow “home buyers, sellers and renters to look at citywide crime trends in…
Exactly one year ago, parents of a former student at Episcopal School of Dallas sued the private school for unspecified damages, insisting it should have known about — and stopped — teacher Nathan Campbell’s advances and ultimately sexual relationship with their daughter, who was 16 at the time. The parents…
Earlier this month, Dallas Police reported finding the body of 18-year-old Jonathan Sierra in a room at the Aloft Hotel downtown, across from Dallas City Hall. DPD suspected that the Skyline senior, who’d been to his senior prom and was all set to graduate, died of alcohol poisoning. At the…
The Dallas Police Department has now lost 80 officers in the line of duty. The first was C.O. Brewer, who, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, was “shot and killed while attempting to arrest a man for slander at the Union Depot station.” That was on May 24, 1892,…
Patrick paid a visit to The Building Formerly Known as the Texas School Book Depository Friday, where Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and commissioners John Wiley Price and Maureen Dickey fessed up: Looks like at least 25 deputy constables lied about serving papers, chiefly eviction notices. “Another black eye,” said…
Over the weekend, media folk were invited to ride around in Dallas Police cars with officers of the Southwest Patrol Division in Oak Cliff to witness a summer crime-curbing program called Operation Heat Wave. It’s designed to improve police-citizen relations in the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where, at the behest…
This morning, Johnny Pinchback sat in the Dallas County Jail, awaiting yet another stop in court. This afternoon, he will be at a steakhouse, celebrating with his family, friends and fellow exonerees. After 27 years behind bars for an aggravated sexual assault he did not commit, Pinchback, dressed in a…
