The Sotelo family gathers on the patio of Tia’s on the Bluff as a guitarist fingerpicks Spanish tunes. It’s a large family with roots in what was once known as the Rock Island neighborhood on the north side of Fort Worth. On this Sunday afternoon in late May, it seems…
Reliably, once every six months or so, the Arlington Police Department ends up in the news for screwing up, even though the city it serves is about a quarter the size of Dallas and less than half the size of Fort Worth. Here are five of the lowlights of the…
Just after 1 a.m. Sunday, Dallas police arrested a 20-year-old woman for street racing southbound on South Central Expressway at Linfield Road in South Dallas. Police found the woman after she spun out down an embankment and wrapped her car around a wooden utility pole on the west side of…
One of the teenagers who attacked local actor Daniel Whitener outside Dallas’ Cityplace Target in January pleaded guilty this week to aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson announced Thursday. Zantrell Sauls, 17, will spend four months in jail and 10 years on probation for…
The Texas Senate voted Wednesday to significantly beef up the state’s election code, creating stiffer penalties for those who attempt to manipulate mail-in ballots. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made stemming mail-in ballot issues a priority for the special legislative session after problems during the Dallas City Council election in May…
Dallas police announced late Tuesday afternoon that they’re looking far a suspect in a fatal Monday night carjacking in northwest Dallas. According to DPD, the suspect killed the car’s owner, who has not been identified. As the suspect attempted to drive away in a red 1992 Pontiac, the car’s owner…
The Colony Police Department announced Monday that a retired soldier — who famously stood at attention for hours outside Dallas Police headquarters in honor of the officers killed in last summer’s ambush — was killed in his home Sunday night. Police found Chandler Davis, 34, with a gunshot wound to…
Just after midnight Sunday, San Antonio police got a call about a suspicious tractor-trailer in the back of a Walmart parking lot. There, they found a horror that has captured the nation’s attention. According to a federal criminal complaint released Monday, federal authorities have charged James Matthew Bradley Jr. with…
Dallas police announced late Thursday night that they’ve arrested a suspect connected to at least two sexual assaults in the city over the last month. Police have not released the suspect’s name because they believe he may be connected to additional crimes. At about 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, a man approached…
Hey. Be careful what you say about Detroit. I don’t know anything about this new Dallas police chief coming down here — U. Renee Hall, a deputy chief in the Detroit Police Department — but I do know a little bit about her hometown. Judging by some of the comments…
On Wednesday, Roy Oliver, the ex-Balch Springs police officer who shot and killed Jordan Edwards, for the first time gave the public a glimpse of his side of the story. In a court filing made in response to the federal civil lawsuit filed against Oliver by Edwards’ parents, the former…
Dallas police announced late Wednesday afternoon that they are suspending the investigation into an altercation involving Ezekiel Elliott on Sunday night at Clutch in Uptown because of a lack of cooperation from both the complainant and witnesses. Police responded to Clutch around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a police reports…
On Wednesday afternoon, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax announced that Dallas’ next police chief will be U. Renee Hall, a deputy chief in the Detroit Police Department. She’ll take over the post vacated by former Dallas Police Chief David Brown, who retired in October. She’s expected to start on September…
Dallas police confirmed Tuesday that the teenager found dead in a southeast Dallas creek Sunday morning is Mikayla Mitchell, the 17-year-old stepdaughter of Howard Diamond, a Sherman doctor whom federal prosecutors recently connected to seven overdose. Police found Mitchell in a creek near the 3000 block of Rochester Street just before…
Hicks Holdings, the Dallas-based investment arm of the family of former Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks, announced Tuesday that it’s throwing its considerable weight behind a company that makes body cameras and in-car video systems for police departments and transit authorities across the country. The investment in Georgia-based Utility…
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver and kick returner Lucky Whitehead is having a rough 2017. In April, the Cowboys drafted his potential replacement — the University of North Carolina’s Ryan Switzer — jeopardizing Whitehead’s playing status in 2017. Last week, something worse happened to Whitehead: Someone stole his dog, Blitz. According…
A Dallas County grand jury has indicted a former Balch Springs police officer for murder. Roy Oliver, 37, is charged with killing Jordan Edwards, 15, as Oliver and another officer attempted to break up a house party in the Dallas County suburb. After heading into the house to break up…
On Sunday afternoon, Dallas police announced the end to a tragic weekend. Just before noon, police said, they’d been called to the 3000 block of Rochester Street in southeast Dallas. When they arrived, they found a woman’s body floating in the creek. The unidentified woman had been murdered, according to…
A new study published in July’s American Journal of Public Health attacks one of contemporary policing’s biggest questions using data culled from the Dallas Police Department. The central question: Are white police officers more likely to use force against nonwhite suspects? The answer in Dallas appears to be no, according…
Maybe for once I will try to exercise the better part of valor and not wade knee-deep into the El Paso public school cheating scandal, about which I know not one thing except for this: A federal district court judge in El Paso recently tossed federal prosecutors and the FBI…
The only suspect in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s investigation into voter fraud in May’s City Council election is in custody. Miguel Hernandez has been on the lam for more than a month; a warrant was issued June 2 for his arrest on illegal voting charges. A grand jury…
Dallas police have confirmed that a suspect took a shot at officers as they tried to serve an aggravated assault warrant at an apartment complex Thursday morning. At about 6 a.m. Thursday, U.S. marshals and Dallas police officers attempted to arrest the suspect at the Rosemont at Cedar Crest Apartments…
