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The Year in Dallas Crime Pictures (So Far)

Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 3:01 p.m.

Dallas Police Department DPD says this guy pried open his victim's Victory Park apartment, presumably with whatever he's hiding in the front of his pants. An in-apartment camera system alerted the resident and captured video of the suspect. 1/14

Dallas Police Department DPD found these drugs during a joint investigation of Felix Cantu and Gilberto Gomez with the DEA. Both men were convicted of of conspiracy to distribute methamphetinine as well as possession with intent to distribute both cocaine and marijuana. 2/14

Dallas Police Department Surveillance cameras captured this photo during a home invasion on Lea Crest Drive. The woman in the picture, along with two male accomplices, is accused of firing multiple shots at a home owner, who then shot back at the suspects. 3/14

Dallas Police Department While clearing out merchandise from behind a Dollar General counter, wanted to get to the cigarettes. He threw a rock, repeatedly, at the cabinet, until it coughed up what he wanted. 4/14

Dallas Police Department Robbing a bank inside a Wal-Mart doesn't seem like the best idea, but this guy did it and got away on foot, according to Dallas police. 5/14

Dallas Police Department Dallas police released this photo, hoping to identify three men they believed were involved in the April murder of Mark Burnough. Two of the men — Roemello Rashaud Gordon and Jacquez Javon Gibbs were arrested in early May after admitting to killing Burnough. 6/14

Dallas Police Department Dallas Police believe the man caught here committing a separate graffiti offense spray-painted the Cathdral of Hope on Cedar Springs with a screed about "kitty porn" and Chivy Suburbans. 7/14

Dallas Police Department A security camera captured this image seconds before Lakinta Cosby ran over her boyfriend, Sherron Berry, after a domestic altercation. DPD arrested Cosby for Berry's murder on January 14. 8/14

Dallas Police Department Dallas police arrested the man in the photo, believed to be Earl Wayne Humphries, in May. He's been charged with two murders, both committed during robberies of Latino men sitting in their cars. 9/14

Dallas Police Department DPD arrested these two teenagers, Zantrell Sauls, 17, and an unidentified younger teen for attacking Derrick Whitener with a wooden rod in a Target parking lot after Whitener reported them to store management for behaving suspiciously in the parking lot. 10/14

Dallas Police Department According to DPD, this guy robbed a Pizza Patron with a knife on January 17. 11/14

Dallas Police Department DPD says this guy is part of two man wrecking crew that took down at least seven banks in 2016 and 2017. 12/14

Dallas Police Department Dallas police arrested Omar Rimlawi in March for clearing out two rooms assigned to a wedding party at the Rtiz-Carlton in Uptown. 13/14

Dallas Police Department With help from an accomplice, this Air Force-t-shirt wearing man robbed the Knox-Henderson Apple Store at knife point in April. 14/14

The Year in Dallas Crime Pictures (So Far)

One of the best things about the Dallas Police Department's blog, DPDBeat.com, is the action-packed photos and videos the department posts to crow about big arrests, or try and crack unsolved crimes. So far in 2017, DPD Beat has featured a woman running a man down with her car, a knife-point robbery of an Apple Store and graffiti artists targeting a church among many, many others. This slideshow collects some of the best DPD has to offer this year as Dallas heads into the heat of the summer, when crime really ratchets up.

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