A Tarrant County judge sentenced two former Arlington jailers to one year of probation Tuesday for their role in the 2015 death of inmate Jonathan Paul. Pedro Medina and Steven Schmidt both pleaded guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges. Each initially received a felony charge of criminally negligent homicide. Arlington police picked…
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave the keynote speech at 30th Drug Abuse Resistance Education International Training Conference in Grapevine on Tuesday afternoon. Ostensibly, the attorney general was on the program to talk to the drug-prevention educators at the conference about the growing epidemic of opioid abuse in Texas and…
On Tuesday, Dallas police arrested Julio Ruvalcaba for shooting and killing Christopher Geddes on Sunday. The incident started at a CVS Pharmacy on South Buckner Boulevard on Sunday afternoon. Surveillance video recorded at the store shows Geddes, 31, shoplifting from the store. According to DPD, Geddes headed to the parking lot after taking the…
A Dallas County grand jury issued its first indictment in the ongoing investigation into mail-in ballot fraud in West Dallas on Monday. The grand jury charged Miguel Hernandez, 27, with illegal voting, a second-degree felony. Investigators in the case believe Hernandez is responsible for at least one of the tainted…
The cruelty, grief and alienation that spring from racism are all still with us, continuing to deform our day-to-day lives, because white supremacy is still with us. White supremacy is a social chasm across which people can barely see each other, let alone hear and understand. None of that will…
Dallas Police Department officials announced Friday afternoon that the department will turn over its investigation of last year’s murders of five Dallas officers to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office next week, more than a year after Micah Johnson opened fire on police following a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas…
Dallas Police Maj. Max Geron is a 25-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department and a graduate of the United States Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. He currently serves as the executive officer for DPD’s Southeast Patrol Division. In the wake of last summer’s ambush, Geron wrote…
On Wednesday morning, the basic facts began to arrive with few details: Frisco police arrested Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson on Tuesday night for two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. By the time reports of his arrest hit DFW media, Wilson was already out of jail, having posted…
Frisco Police Department officers arrested Dallas Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Tuesday night. According to the department, Wilson was picked up after in incident in Toyota Stadium’s parking lot during the city of Frisco’s Freedom Fest. After being booked into the Frisco detention center,…
In the end, it appears kidnappers murdered 13-year-old Shavon Randle over a drug heist. Police and her family say that kidnappers abducted the Lancaster teenager after a man named Kendall Perkins and three other men stole 22 pounds of marijuana from Devontae Owens and Darius Fields on June 26 at a Lancaster…
On July 7, 2016, Dallas witnessed the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 9/11 when a gunman opened fire on police during a protest rally. Five officers died. Police cornered the gunman, entered a failed negotiation and sent in a bomb-disposal robot armed with explosives to kill him. The…
Early Sunday morning, Eric Jackson, special agent for the Dallas FBI field office, announced that Shavon Randle, the 13-year-old Lancaster teenager missing since Wednesday, was found dead inside an Oak Cliff home along with a then-unidentified man. “We didn’t have the positive result we were looking for, but being able to…
One of the most interesting things about the Dallas Police Department’s blog, DPDBeat.com, is that it provides action-packed photos and videos, which the department posts to crow about big arrests or seek help with unsolved crimes. So far in 2017, DPD Beat has featured a woman running a man down…
Tonya Couch managed to stay out of jail Thursday morning. The mother of Ethan Couch, the teen who got 10 years probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving crash in 2013, is awaiting trial for helping her son flee to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The two headed south of the border…
Shocking news, shocking, unbelievably shocking that the Russians tried 17 times to hack the Dallas County election system before last year’s presidential election. More shocking, possibly even earth-shaking: They did not succeed. In years covering vote fraud issues in Dallas, I have known drunken homeless people who could hack local…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced late Wednesday afternoon that he and his office will assist Dallas County in the ongoing investigation into potential mail-in ballot fraud during May’s Dallas City Council election. Paxton, like Dallas District Attorney Faith Johnson, a Republican, has prioritized fighting voter fraud. “Nothing is more sacred to our…
Liberty Grace isn’t sure why the Walmart in Weatherford started requiring proof of an insulin prescription before selling her syringes. When she was still shooting up methamphetamine, she could get needles at the Walmart in the small town of Graham, about 58 miles away, with little trouble. “You just walk…
A Dallas County grand jury has indicted Christopher Hess, an officer for the Dallas Police Department, in the January death of Genevive Ann Dawes. Hess is charged with aggravated assault by a public servant, a first-degree felony. Hess, a 10-year DPD veteran, killed Dawes, 21, in January at the Five Trees…
Tuesday night, nearly three days after a woman reported being sexually assaulted near the Baylor Medical Center DART station in Deep Ellum, Dallas police released a photo of a man they’ve identified as a person of interest in the assault. Police say the man in the photo is Latino, about…
Tonya Couch’s freedom may be short lived. The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office filed a motion Tuesday seeking to revoke the “affluenza” mom’s probation on hindering apprehension and money laundering charges. Prosecutors say Couch drank alcohol June 16. Couch gained notoriety after her son, Ethan Couch, received 10 years probation…
This week’s National Geographic features a fascinating deep dive into the horrifying 2011 massacre in Allende, Mexico, a small town just across the U.S.-Mexican border. As the magazine painstakingly reports with help from ProPublica, the destruction of the town, carried out by a Zeta cartel bent on revenge, wouldn’t have…
Just before 5 p.m. Monday afternoon, Dallas police responded to an “active shooter” call in Pleasant Grove. Soon the suspected shooter would be killed by police and a woman in his house had been taken to the hospital with multiple injuries. Assistant Dallas Police Chief Randy Blankenbaker said Monday night…
