6 Things We Learned From Reading Records of Drug Busts at Love Field Airport

Ah, the airport. It’s where national security, the transportation industry, human psychology, aeronautical physics and government personnel collide in an awkward dance. Add into this mix the police who respond to Transportation Security Administration drug-related discoveries, and a collection of travelers that for whatever reason caught their attention.  The Dallas…

Dallas County Crime Spree Fugitive Was Deported Three Times

Guillermo Luviano-Franco, or Silvestre Franco-Luviano — depending on which of his aliases he happens to be using — shouldn’t have been in the United States for the weekend crime spree that ended with his arrest at a Georgetown apartment complex, Hector Gomez, a deputy marshal with the Lone Star Fugitive…

Enrique Arochi Guilty In Christina Morris Kidnapping

A little more than two years after Christina Morris disappeared from The Shops at Legacy in Plano, Enrique Arochi, the last person seen with Morris, is going to jail for her kidnapping. Wednesday night, a Collin County jury convicted Arochi after a little more than 17 hours of deliberation. Arochi’s…

Grisly Details Emerge In Grapevine Murder and Dismemberment

Police recreating the chain of events that ended with the murder of 24-year-old Texas Women’s University student Jacqueline Vandagriff produced a grim narrative of a night out gone very wrong.  Vandagriff’s body was found burning last Wednesday morning at about 6:30 a.m. in a kiddie pool in Grapevine’s Acorn Woods…

Dallas Police Association President Ron Pinkston Retires

Ron Pinkston, the combative face of the Dallas Police Association, announced Monday that he’ll be stepping down as the police union’s president. The date of his departure: Oct. 4, the same day Dallas Police Chief David Brown is set to step down from his post. Pinkston is a Dallas Police…

Police Arrest Man for Murder and Dismemberment of TWU Student

Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with the murder of Jacqueline Vandagriff, a Texas Woman’s University student whose charred and dismembered body was found last week.  Grapevine police say they have video evidence that the 24-year-old woman left a bar in Denton at about 11 p.m. with Charles Dean Bryant, a…

Child Caught in Gunfight’s Crossfire in Troubled City-Run Apartments

Gunfire injured a child on Friday during a fight in the parking lot of the Dallas Housing Authority-owned Hidden Ridge Apartments in Lake Highlands. According to the Dallas Police Department, someone shot into a crowd of people, striking the unidentified child. Someone in the crowd then fired at the shooter. The…

DART Tells Big Whoppers and Little Whoppers. They’re All Whoppers.

The news lately on DART, our regional mass transit agency, is that the city’s elected officials are having major credibility problems with the things DART staff tells them about rail construction projects worth billions of dollars. When I hear about those problems at the big-deal end, a part of me…

Soon to be Former Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s Victory Lap

Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s first public statement since announcing his retirement last week was a tour of his time on top of one of the biggest police departments in the United States. He listed all the hits, and most of the misses: July 7, Dixon Circle, community policing, officer…

Ezekiel Elliott Will Not Be Charged With Domestic Battery

The Columbus, Ohio, city attorney’s office will not prosecute Dallas Cowboys rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott for domestic battery. Tiffany Thompson, Elliott’s ex-girlfriend, had accused the former Ohio State star of injuring her on at least five previous occasions. Early on the morning of July 22, Thompson called Columbus police. Elliott,…

Texas Reacts to Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s Retirement

For almost everyone outside Dallas City Hall, David Brown’s Thursday announcement that he would be stepping down as Dallas police chief next month came as a complete shock. For Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, however, the announcement came as no surprise. Brown, they said Thursday, had…

Feds Arrest Two Women, Ages 63 and 67, In Dallas Brothel Raid

The online reviews for Dallas’ Doll House Massage Parlor are heavy on acronyms. Once you decode things, you end up finding stuff out you probably could’ve gone without knowing. The Doll House, according to those reviews and the U.S. Department of Justice, was offering out more than just rubdowns.  Late…