In the lobby of the Longview Police Department station nearly two weeks ago, police fired their guns five times at a mentally ill teenager named Kristiana Coignard, killing her. In her final moments, Coignard was cornered by three armed officers. Why couldn’t they subdue her without killing her? The Longview…
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What a beautiful week we had. Temps in the high 70s, sunny skies, patio lunches — it was damn pretty. You got your bike tuned up, your picnic basket packed up, and you’re geared up for a kickass outdoor weekend. I am now here to crush your outdoor weekend dreams,…
Eutopia — which Unfair Park can’t help but pronounce as Eww-topia — is, or was, a swingers club located in a half-million dollar home near AT&T Stadium. The city of Arlington didn’t have a problem with that in and of itself, but has now sent James and Mary Self, who…
The two cases of Bud Light in the bed of John Werthing Jr.’s, pickup were still cold when Hutchins police pulled him over around 8 a.m. on September 30, 2013. A clerk at a Shell gas station had called in a shoplifting complaint a few moments before; a man matching…
One week after Longview Police Department officers shot and killed a mentally ill teenager in the lobby of their own police station, the department has released a surveillance video that captures the teenager’s death. It does little to clear things up. The police say Kristiana Coignard charged at officer Glenn…
In a region with poor public transit but plenty of available parking at the bar, it’s no longer surprising to learn that someone in law enforcement was arrested for driving drunk. That doesn’t make it OK that a longtime Dallas Police Department officer allegedly drove while under the influence in…
Rachel Hardy Johnson is nothing if not audacious. The 35-year-old Mansfield woman currently facing corpse abuse and theft charges in Tarrant County, stemming from decomposed and desiccated bodies found in her funeral home, has now pleaded guilty to stealing food stamps. See also: Multiple Bodies Found Inside Abandoned Funeral Home…
Two years ago the Texas Legislature slipped into the state budget an item mandating a thorough review of certain civil forfeiture proceedings. Civil forfeiture — the process state and federal prosecutors use to seize property from suspected criminals, whether they’ve been convicted or not — is a source of perpetual…
In October 2013, Clint Peterson was shot to death by a Duncanville Police Department officer. Now his family has filed a lawsuit in federal court against three unnamed officers who responded to the call that ultimately lead to his death. Other defendants named in the suit are Duncanville Police Chief…
A 3-month-old is dead and a teenage relative is in jail after a Monday morning drowning at an apartment complex near Charlton Methodist Hospital. Dallas police say they received a “person in danger” 911 call just after 6 a.m. When they arrived, they were told by members of Dallas Fire…
After James Harper, an unarmed kidnapping suspect, was killed by a police officer in July 2012, police Chief David Brown committed to reforming the way his department would chase suspects on foot. Brian Rowden, the officer who shot Harper, had ended up chasing Harper alone after Harper and three other…
Edgar Diaz’s life had all the trappings of the quintessential American success story. After fleeing his native Colombia in a harrowing escape from leftist guerillas in 2001, he and his wife settled in Dallas with little money and less English. With a diligence and entrepreneurial spirit that would do Horatio…
Anonymous associate and freelance investigative journalist Barrett Brown, who’s already spent more than two years behind bars, learned today that he will be locked up for three more. Brown, who admitted to being an accessory after the fact to accessing a protected computer — he linked to data obtained from…
In late December, two cyclists with heavy bruising on their faces said they had been punched by a random, angry motorist driving behind them on Turtle Creek Boulevard. Despite the serious accusations, the Dallas police who came to the scene that night didn’t appear to try too hard to get…
Jeani Mulligan’s mother-in-law may have died, but the 43-year-old Keller woman kept her memory alive, in the form of cashed Social Security checks, for more than a decade. Between December 30, 2000, the date of her mother-in-law’s death and February 2013, Mulligan received $124,825.30 intended for her dead relative. In…
Dallas Police Sergeant Paul Figueroa, a 20-year DPD veteran, turned himself in Wednesday after Collin County charged him with family assault, a Class A misdemeanor. Figueroa was charged with the same crime in 2012. After an internal affairs investigation, he was allowed to remain on the force. Now, he has…
Prosecutors and police detailed the forensic and circumstantial evidence tying Arochi to Morris’ disappearance.
Anticipating what will be one of the hottest button issues of the 2015 session of the Texas Legislature, advocates for the right to carry assault rifles into fast food establishments and handguns wherever they damn well please gathered at the state capitol in Austin yesterday to manufacture gun parts on…
Just over a month after a fire at Thanksgiving Tower killed three men working on the downtown building’s HVAC system, Dallas Fire and Rescue gave the most definitive answer yet as to what caused the blaze. Oscar Esparza-Romo, Luis Carrillo-Solorzano and Nicacio Carrillo-Martinez, were working in underground tanks when the…
Latasha Wilson should have just gotten a Lyft. The 34-year-old Dallas woman, apparently unsatisfied with the other transportation options available, commandeered an empty ambulance at Baylor Hospital on Sunday, Dallas police say. Considering Wilson was driving a vehicle that’s pretty hard to miss, she actually did pretty well for herself…
David Kattner, the longtime Dallas police officer accused of sexually assaulting prostitutes, has been found dead in his Little Elm home. WFAA reports that he was found by his wife after a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound. See also: Dallas Cop Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Prostitute Kattner was arrested December 21…
