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…
Came across this video posted to YouTube yesterday by the friend of the show who maintains the essential Dallas Trinity Trails blog. I’ll let Ben describe what he captured:Dallas County Sheriff Deputy cornering and chasing dirt bike motorcycle on the Trinity River levees near Industrial Blvd and Corinth. The dirt…
The Dallas Police Department has many, many photos of the man you see at right. They were all taken a little after midnight on December 20, on R.L. Thornton just off Grand Avenue, site of a Comerica Bank branch. But DPD does not know his name, which is why it…
No doubt you’ve heard by now that a 65-year-old Little Elm woman was arrested at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport this morning for taking a .38-caliber pistol aboard an American Airlines flight. The Transportation Security Administration sent out a press release early this morning; a couple of hours later, DFW Airport…
Below you’ll find one Dallas Area Rapid Transit customer who won’t be so upbeat if he’s ever asked to fill out a rider satisfaction survey. But that’s only because he’s at Lew Sterrett right now, after having been arrested last night for assaulting a public servant, a felony offense. And…
That photo you see at right comes from the F.B.I.’s Bandit Tracker website, which we’ve perused in the past. It was snapped June 14 of last year at a State Bank of Texas branch in Garland, off IH-30. The bandit in question: 19-year-old Anthony Blue of Garland. Which we now…
A little while ago reports began to circulate that Dallas Police and Dallas Fire-Rescue were searching the Trinity River for a car thief who ditched out of his stolen ride and took a dive into the rain-swollen river. That search is over, despite the fact authorities have yet to find…
In October of 2009, James Capra, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Dallas Division, invited media to a press conference so he could show off the massive haul from a long-in-the-works bust involving the Mexican drug cartel known as La Familia: 220 pounds of methamphetamine, 4.5 kilos of cocaine,…
On Tuesday Mike Byrd provided us with his high-speed, first-hand account of how, along a rural stretch of Mississippi highway, the sheriff there used his .40-cal Sig Sauer to shoot out the tire of a fleeing Steven Milam, the Tyler casket salesmen better known as the “Handsome Guy” Bandit who…
