On Thursday, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst became the latest Texas politician to insert himself into the debate over the sentence handed down to 16-year-old “affluenza” victim Ethan Couch, who killed four people during a drunken joy ride earlier this year. Days after gubernatorial candidates Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis chimed…
If you simply must have an authentic Hustle Gang T-shirt but can’t afford the $50 price tag, and if you aren’t put off by criminal activity, shoplifting isn’t a horrible option. If properly executed, a surprise grab-and-run operation, much like this 300-pound dude carried out at Mockingbird Station’s Victoria’s Secret…
Even after a wave of exonerations confirmed the fallibility of the criminal justice system, even after the state’s supply of lethal-injection drugs has been all but cut off by squeamish pharmaceutical companies, even as national support for capital punishment steadily declines, Texas remains enamored with the death penalty. In 2013,…
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.comKelvion Walker says he didn’t know he was sitting in a stolen car on December 9. He’d just hopped in the passenger seat of the Chevrolet Malibu driven by 19-year-old Reginald Robertson, whom he describes as a close friend. It came as a surprise, then, when Robertson…
Earlier this week, Tarrant County prosecutors were busy lamenting that they are unable to appeal the sentence handed down to 16-year-old Ethan Couch, who got 10 years’ probation and a stint in rehab for drunkenly running over four people in June. Under state law, only the defendant in juvenile cases…
Breath easy, North Texas. Come out of your fallout shelters and panic rooms. Let your children play in the front yard. After four months on the run, federal authorities have captured documented menace-to-society Lonnie L. Jones and locked him up. His crime? Stealing burritos. Federal prosecutors prefer to describe it…
An affluent Keller teen who killed four people while driving drunk and stoned on Valium has become the latest object of outrage. Ethan Couch, 16 at the time of the crash, was handed 10 years of probation, which will include a stint at a pricey rehab paid for by his…
It took a Parker County jury all of five minutes on Thursday to convict 44-year-old Dana Brock of burglary. The evidence, after all, was pretty incontrovertible. Surveillance video showed her stealing a weedwacker and power washer from an Aledo garage last May. But that’s not what made Brock famous. Last…
Smokin Dragon Gifts, with its wide array of smokes and smoking accessories, including a delightful selection of novelty pipes (see: Mario, Angry Birds, the “Despicable Me” minions) and a presumably high percentage of cash transactions, might seem like an ideal target for the criminally inclined. Bad idea. Robbers and shoplifters…
Police in Parker County had been watching Michael Fred Wehrenberg’s home for a month when, late in the summer of 2010, they received a tip from a confidential informant that Wehrenberg and several others were “fixing to” cook meth. Hours later, after midnight, officers walked through the front door, rounded…
There are some murders that are so carefully planned that police spend months or years trying to piece together clues. There are others in which the suspected killers, through carelessness or lack of foresight, practically walk themselves into the jail cell. The slaying of 31-year-old Jose Orta-Sanchez is decidedly in…
It’s been a traumatic and deeply strange week for Crawford and Mary Clay Gupton. After last week’s ice storm, someone sawed the lock off the gate of their Fort Worth backyard and stole Heidi, their greater Swiss mountain dog. Then the thief, using the handle dogthedogsaver, took to Reddit to…
Three days later, the country continues to seethe over Tarrant County Judge Jean Boyd’s decision to let 16-year-old Ethan Couch off with probation for killing four people and injuring several others near Burleson during a drunken joy ride on Father’s Day weekend. It’s an absurdly light sentence given the amount…
It was around 4 a.m. on Wednesday that Chauncey Taylor, a 35-year-old Dallas man, began chatting with an individual on Quest Chat, a phone-chat line that bills itself as a place to “meet sexy local singles.” The paramour’s gender isn’t specified by the police report filed that morning, but Quest…
A Duncanville City Councilman was arrested by the city’s police department after his wife accused him of stealing her cell phone and assaulting her, court records show. Mark Cooks was elected to the Duncanville City Council in 2012. More recently, in June, the Duncanville City Council in June selected him…
There’s no doubt that Ethan Couch, 16, is guilty of drunkenly killing four people in a deadly car crash in Burleson. Last week, the teen pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication manslaughter stemming from a June 15 wreck in which his Ford pickup, going 70 in a 40-mph zone,…
For a brief moment Tuesday evening, it seemed that the Dallas Police Department had learned something from the case of Bobby Gerald Bennett, in which an officer, unprovoked, shot a mentally ill man in a Rylie cul-de-sac. Rather than waiting for a damning video to emerge showing that Monday afternoon’s…
The way police told it, 76-year-old Chung Kim simply exploded. The couple who lived upstairs with their five children dumped dog poop on the back porch of his Abrams Road condo, so he pulled out a handgun and murdered them in cold blood. In a series of jailhouse interviews, Kim…
Those who could stay off the roads on Friday did so, but truckers, the grease that keeps American commerce humming, couldn’t rest. They had consumer goods to deliver, groceries to restock, gasoline stations to replenish. At around 3:30 p.m., police say Martin Barrera was transporting a particularly precious load of…
Texas Rangers outfielder Leonys Martin followed a risky but well-trodden path to the Major Leagues. Like many Cuban ballplayers before him, he defected in 2010 while in Japan for the World University Baseball Championship. He made his way to the United States several months later and signed a lucrative, $15.5…
The kids in Head Start just can’t catch a break. If it’s not the federal government shutting down or arbitrarily cutting funding to the low-income preschool program, it’s petty thieves breaking into their classrooms. At 4 a.m. on Wednesday, one such criminal broke into Head Start of Greater Dallas’ preschool…
A Texas state trooper was arrested in Cleburne Tuesday night after allegedly buying 6 grams of methamphetamine. According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, 47-year-old Jimmy Jay Gillman, an officer in the Texas Department of Public Safety’s commercial vehicle enforcement unit, was picked up just after 9 p.m. in front…
