Early this afternoon, my wife called from the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Harvest Hill and asked: What’s up with all the police cars? I told her what I knew at the time, via Dallas Police media bulletins: A man had attempted to rob a bank in the…
Late Saturday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that, along with the Humane Society of the United States, it broke up an enormous cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas. As it turns out, The Texas Tribune’s cameras accompanied DPD during the bust, which resulted in only a few arrests — since,…
The Associated Press this morning directs our attention to this year-in-review: The Death Penalty in 2010, released at midnight by the D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Says the report, Texas is still executing more inmates than any other state — 17 in 2010, the lowest in almost a decade –…
As The American Independent reminds this morning, there have been myriad bills proposed in the Texas Legislature in recent years that would allow for the creation of so-called sobriety checkpoints. And last year’s S.B. 298 — submitted by state Sen. John Corona and co-authored by, among others, his colleague from…
A week ago Sunday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that officers had lost James Huffer Jr., who was arrested earlier that morning near Cedar Springs and the Dallas North Tollway following a family violence call. Huffer, as you’ll recall, managed to steal a Dallas PD squad car while wearing…
The Dallas Police Department sends word this evening: The Humane Society of the United States shot some undercover video of what sounds like a mammoth cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas — where, the release says, “cruel cockfights were reportedly occurring in a large run-down structure on a regular basis.” As…
[Update: Cheryl Potashnik was given two years probation and has to pay $50,000 to the U.S. District Clerk within seven days. Brian was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison and will be on probation for two years following his release. He also was ordered to pay $1.25 million to…
To begin the day, some housekeeping …A happy ending to yesterday’s story about the kidnapping of Eileen Loskot: She was found dehydrated but otherwise unharmed in New Mexico, and one of the three young men involved has been arrested. Her husband is heading to Amarillo to get her. …Lee Harvey…
The woman at right is Eileen Loskot, a 54-year-old woman last seen leaving her job — somewhere in the 2300 block of Reagan Street, between Harry Hines Boulevard and the Dallas North Tollway — a little after 1 this morning in her red 2004 Infiniti G35. At 12:07 this afternoon,…
Back in June we broke the news that Robert Groden, perhaps the most familiar (and certainly the most respected) of all the Dealey Plaza vendors peddling JFK assassination materials, had been arrested and detained by Dallas Police officers on the clean-up crackdown. Groden filed a federal suit claiming, among other…
Moments ago, the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word in two back-to-back e-mails that two former government employees — one, an agent in the Dallas FBI office; the other, a city of Garland risk management adjuster — have copped to breaking the law. Let’s begin with the FBI agent.Her name is…
We may not have Detective Dan Stark out there to protect us anymore, but this morning a handful of local agencies put their guns together to see how they’d handle responding to a major attack on the city.Dallas Fire-Rescue, Dallas Police (including SWAT teams and a bomb squad) and medical…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com/video.Yesterday, the Richardson Police Department issued a press release detailing a Sunday-evening stick-em-up near Centennial Boulevard and Audelia Road: Around 6:15 p.m. Sunday, a woman pulled in to use the ATM, at which point she was greeted by a man with a gun who lifted…
Avi Adelman, the Barking Dog, has been nipping at the heels of Lost Society on Lower Greenville since at least June, when bar co-owner Brightman “Brian” Nwatu was taken into custody and put on immigration hold for evading deportation for five years. Two days later, Adelman followed up with news…
Friends of Lisa Stone, the Dallas woman who went missing in early June, continue to hold vigils and pray publicly for answers in her disappearance, vowing over and over again not to let Stone’s memory die. On Friday night, tailed by a 48 Hours camera crew, Mesquite High School alums…
This morning, the Dallas Police Department sent some mugshots of a man named James Huffer Jr., who was arrested in the wee small hours of this morning near Cedar Springs and the Dallas North Tollway — till he took off in a DPD squad car, which he drove to and…
Back in June, you may recall, downtown oil man (coughnotreallycough) Alan Todd May was caught in San Francisco, to which he’d fled following a filing by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that said his Prosper Oil & Gas but little more than a front he used to steal, oh,…
Some folks strive to donate to charities during the holiday season: North Texas Food Bank, Salvation Army Angel Tree, Adopt-A-Child. Maybe they even help out a kitty or pup. Which brings us to Second Chance Treasures, the retail offshoot of the no-kill, non-profit East Lake Pet Orphanage (ELPO) housed inside…
On the other side you’ll find a lawsuit I came across this morning while looking for something completely unrelated: United States of America v. PrimeLending. The residential mortgage lender, HQ’d in Victory Park, is a subsidiary of PlainsCapital, which, maybe you remember, took $87.6 mil in TARP funds two years…
In a few minutes the council’s Public Safety Committee will begin wrapping up 2010 with a few items of interest — among them, the latest crime report you see at top that more or less speaks for itself.Also on the agenda: the so-called 10-70-20 Crime Reduction Program, which refers to…
This morning in D.C., Attorney General Eric Holder met with the media to discuss Operation Broken Trust, a wide-ranging crime-bustin’ effort conducted by an alphabet soup’s worth of agencies intended to “protect American investors, to ensure the strength of our markets, and to prevent financial fraud schemes.” Following Holder’s opening…
Behind bars for more than 20 years, after being found guilty of the 1986 rape and murder of a Garland woman named Galua Crosby, Clay Chabot always maintained he was innocent. This morning, that all changed: In a Dallas courtroom, Chabot pleaded guilty to Crosby’s murder. He was poised to…
