TribLive featuring Dallas DA Craig Watkins from texastribune on Vimeo.Whilst browsing the Vimeo moments ago, I came across the entirety of Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith’s chat with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins yesterday at the Austin Club. It was just posted. We posted a three minute-excerpt yesterday, but…
Within computer-security and hacker circles, the names Thomas James Frederick Smith and David Anthony Edwards are well-known — have been since 2006, when both men launched remote attacks on computer servers housed at Dallas-based The Planet and T35 Hosting. The attacks were intended to be but the beginning of the…
I got pretty excited last night when I heard a couple of women were attempting to knife each other in a parking lot in Pleasant Grove. Not, you know, because ladies knifing each other is my thing, but because I really wanted to crank up the sirens, throw on the…
Alan Todd May spent the better part of 1983 to 2002 in and out of prison, having been arrested for such things as credit card abuse, check fraud, theft … well, you name the hustle, he hustled it. There were 14 convictions in all, including parole violations. He even pulled…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word that 44-year-old Jon Leslie Lyons, who has been teaching English at Woodrow Wilson High School for three years, was arrested and charged yesterday with possessing child pornography, some involving children under the age of 5. According to an affidavit filed today by an…
As promised below, Texas Tribune has indeed posted a snippet of editor-in-chief Evan Smith’s interview with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins conducted this morning down in Austin. And, as promised, Watkins does indeed say, rather emphatically, that his office’s investigation into the doings of Constables Jaime Cortes and Derrick…
Eighty-two comments on this blog entry later, looks like friends and foes of Evans Wright, the man who was shot last week in a Lower Greenville parking lot, have finally said their various pieces. Figured so much interest deserves an update: The U.S. marshals have arrested a man named Maleek…
That Twitter feed of mug shots from Denton has been around for more than a year now, and online collections of goofy mug shots were all over well before that. But for dead-tree sentimentalists who love the feel of the newsprint as they flip through pages of miserable strangers, Dallas…
The Dallas Police Department sends along this video taken from a bait car that did its job — says Sgt. Andy Harvey, the man involved in this particular smash-and-grab was arrested not long after he concluded his bad business. The point of this pass-along, says Harvey, is to remind the…
According to various reports from the Dallas Police Department and the Lower Greenville Self-Appointed Civilian Police Department Comprised Mainly of Avi Adelman, a man was shot and killed after an altercation early this morning in the Char Bar parking lot on Lower Greenville. I’ve pieced together some of what appears…
The first person I called yesterday after receiving that video in which the drunk driver of a Chevy Impala flew outta Dallas-Fort Worth Airport the wrong way was David Magaña, DFW’s manager of public affairs. And he confirmed it: The driver was arrested for drunk driving. Still, some folks keep…
A good Friend of Unfair Park, through a friend of a friend of a friend, just shot us this extraordinary video captured early yesterday morning at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Took place at the north toll plaza, which served as a launching ramp for one drunk driver trying to exit…
Just returned to the office from an interview to find three press releases in the Unfair Park in-box worth noting. As always, let’s start with the unusually chatty Tom Hicks, who spoke today with, among other media outlets, Business Week and the UK Guardian. To the former he reiterates what…
Where to begin? Let’s go with Your Texas Rangers, who were back in bankruptcy court in Fort Worth for the second day of “first day” proceedings following Monday’s voluntary Chapter 11 filing. Reports the Associated Press, U.S. District Judge D. Michael Lynn finally decided after a bidding war between Major…
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department only recently, and very quietly, began posting videos to the YouTube — like this promo video we mentioned a few weeks back, and Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s very brief inaugural Webcast (in which, right off the bat, she says “this was done with little to no…
After the jump is a DPD-provided video in which at least two men are seen trying to kick their way out of the front door at the golf shop at the city-owned Tenison Park Golf Course on Samuell Boulevard. Turns out, they actually broke into the place on May 9,…
Perhaps you saw the story: At 8 a.m. Monday, a Dallas Area Rapid Transit bus driver noticed a body lying along the Clark Street sidewalk just beneath the overpass where North Central Expressway becomes the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. The body was eventually identified as that of 24-year-old Baxter Odom, whose…
A couple of weeks ago we noted that 48-year-old Brion Randall is pleading guilty to bilking investors out of $6 million — a plea he’s expected to enter in Dallas federal court today, matter of fact. Hence this Wall Street Journal story today about Randall, yet another in a long…
At midnight Saturday, two men were walking along the 2700 block of Throckmorton Street toward Cedar Springs Road when they were attacked by four men wielding baseball bats. The two men had their wallets and a cell phone stolen, according to the police report; one suffered a broken jaw. They…
It was almost one year ago the feds introduced us to 25-year-old Jesse William McGraw — otherwise known as “GhostExodus,” founder and the, uh, leader of the Electronik Tribulation Army. You remember McGraw: He’s the former night-shift security guard at the W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic on N. Central Expressway who…
A Friend of Unfair Park now living in NYC directs our attention to The Daily Beast’s compendium of The Most Corrupt States (which several TDB readers are taking issue with, since Illinois comes in way down at No. 47). And, after factoring in such things as the number of corrupt…
A Vietnam veteran accused of forcing a 6-year-old girl into his car to ride on his lap became the first to sign on for Dallas County’s new veterans court program on Tuesday, with a chance to avoid having a conviction on his record if he completes a six-month treatment program…
