Why, lookie there — former Dallas Cowboys head coach Barry Switzer’s the face of Federal Cash Advance. Makes sense: The payday lender’s Oklahoma-based. But, see, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott doesn’t take to kindly to the way it runs its bidness down here. Says the AG in a lawsuit filed…
And so the long, sordid story of high-tone Realtors Eleanor and Nicky Sheets comes to an end. Four months after Eleanor pleaded guilty to four counts of tax evasion, she was sentenced this morning by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney to a year in prison, to be followed by…
Back in August Sam told you all about Tyrone Weatherall, a leader of the West Side Gator Boys — and an exotic animal collector — who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. Tyrone’s due to be sentenced on November 19. But…
Admit it: You forgot all about Michael Laurence Browne, the gentleman who led police on a slow ride through Dallas — right by Unfair Park HQ, no less — before landing on the Love Field Airport runway a couple of months back. Browne, charged by Dallas Police with a laundry…
This is just in from the Dallas Police Department concerning a home invasion that occurred last night, not far from W.W. Samuell High School. Long story short: Even if you think the bad guys, who’d committed their crime dressed in police uniforms, have returned to the scene of the violent…
Victims of unsolved sexual assaults committed prior to 1996 will now need to contact the Dallas Police Department should they wish for DNA analysis to be conducted in hopes of identifying their attackers. In a press release sent out today in advance of an afternoon press conference with Deputy Chief…
You remember Brian Dean Miller, right? Sure you do. He’s the 43-year-old Northeast Dallas man who, back in March, posted to Craigslist’s “Rants & Raves” section an item titled “Obama must die.” Among its highlights, reminds the U.S. Attorney’s Office today, he wrote: “People the time has come for revolution…
On May 5, 52-year-old David Barouch of Colleyville was arrested for putting a bomb on the front porch of his ex-wife’s house. Two months later, he pleaded guilty to one count of possession of an unregistered destructive device. Today, he found out his punishment: the statutory maximum sentence of 10…
On October 19, Dallas Police Department sent word that two days earlier, at around 6:15 a.m., a man broke into a home near North Glasgow Drive and Reiger Avenue and sexually assaulted a 59-year-old woman who had been sleeping inside. On the 27th, DPD sent a further description of the…
Two weeks ago, I suggested that with the ASIS International security industry expo around — with a few million surveillance cameras lining a showroom full of lasers, booby traps bodyguards — the Dallas Convention Center was easily the safest place in town. At the time, though, I had no idea…
It’s been a long time coming, but it finally happened today — right there, second on today’s consent agenda for the Texas DPS’s Public Safety Commission: “Discussion and possible action to recognize Chuck and Aaron Norris as Honorary Texas Rangers.” The Texas Tribune’s Brandi Grissom spread the word on Twitter,…
At 2 this morning, Dallas Police officers were called to 1930 Greenville Avenue — shots had been fired in a parking lot at Greenville and Alta Avenues, right across the street from the Cavern and Billiard Bar. Officers arrived and found two men had been shot — one in the…
It was late on September 24, 2009, that the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word that FBI agents had arrested then-19-year-old Hosam Maher Husein Smadi for plotting to blow up Fountain Place on Ross Avenue — a plot intercepted by federal agents, who ultimately provided the Jordanian-born Smadi with an inert…
Just under a month ago, we mentioned Denton lawyer Evan Stone’s crusade against illegal porn downloaders, filing hundreds upon hundreds of “John Doe” suits right here in Northern District Court on behalf of adult film producers, against folks identified only by their IP addresses. So long as the judge was…
Fascinating case over on Courthouse News involving a Waco woman named Dorothy Isabel who used to live in Dallas and says she can’t return here to visit her relatives because, well, an old episode of A&E’s true-crime series The First 48 ID’d her as a prostitute known as “Lady” who…
Bandit TrackerUnrelated, but while we’re on the subject, Austin PD’s looking for a man who last week robbed a bank wearing a George Bush mask.Surely you recall the tale of Inequa Rushing and Waylon McDonald? No? Then a refresher: In late January, the twosome robbed a bank at East R.L…
Back in December we introduced you to Tommy Eugene Barber, a 32-year-old Dallas man who pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of securities fraud. Long story short: Barber ran something called T-Bar Resources, LLC, which he used to sell interests in oil and gas drilling projects. Two of…
Willis & Woy Sports GroupJordan WoyAgent Jordan Woy, who’s done deals with some 400 athletes (from Ray Crockett to Flozell Adams to Jason Witten) over a 20-plus-year career, is a powerful guy — so much so, at least, he’s found a permanent spot on Richie’s annual breakdown of the 50…
First there was the jewelry heist; then, the safe boost. Now, courtesy the Dallas Police Department, we’re inside the Home Depot on N. Central Expressway and Forest Lane — from which the man seen in the photo here, and in the video on the other side, schleps “two armloads of…
Yes, yes, yes, I’ve seen it — Forbes has named Plano “America’s Safest City,” based upon a low-low-low violent crime rate and a relatively low number of killer car crashes. Thanks to the many Friends who’ve sent the piece, which says money matters — so too homogeneity. Which is nice…
A couple of days back, courtesy the Dallas Police Department, we watched five men boost $40,000 worth of jewels from a Stemmons Expressway wholesaler. Today, against thanks to a DPD-provided video, we’re offered this look at three men ripping the office door out of the Malones Cost Plus on 3939…
As mentioned yesterday, several of the Dallas County exonerees appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live last night, where they were joined by the stars of the movie Conviction, The Innocence Project’s Barry Sheck and Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. On the other side you’ll find King’s interviews with several…
