Rudolph Dinwiddie had a rough night on Monday. As he withdrew cash from a Bank of America ATM in the 3900 block of Cedar Springs Road, a car pulled up behind him, and three people stepped out. One was pointing a submachine gun. “If you don’t cooperate, we are going…
Update at 2:53: Menager told WFAA’s Brad Watson she has demons in her. See his tweet — complete with creepy picture — after the jump. Yesterday afternoon, police pulled over a man on Singleton Boulevard who told them that he had just gotten a call: his 1-year-old child was dead…
Earlier this week, we all shuddered in unison upon learning that some Kotex Natural Balance tampons, possibly tainted with bacteria and “metallic particles,” were stolen and fraudulently sold under shadowy circumstances. Kimberly-Clark, Kotex’s Irving-based parent company, says they’ve received no reports of health issues stemming from the tainted tampons. They…
We put photos of his tattoos up on this blog — a rat in a top hat, smoking a cigarette; a grinning shark; a winged heart bearing the name “Lena.” They were the only identifying features police found on a body that had been burned, dismembered, and abandoned near railroad…
In January, under pressure from the city of Arlington and the state, Ryan Walker Grant agreed to close down Flashdancer Cabaret, one of the city’s last remaining strip clubs. Grant agreed, but he wasn’t happy about it. Almost immediately, he set about doing what any gent as classy as himself…
Ramiro Arriaga was getting gas at a Harry Hines 7-11 just after midnight on August 31 when a man walked up behind him, put a gun to his head, and pistol-whipped him. As the man held Arriaga to the ground, a second suspect, described only as a black woman, rifled…
Cigarettes are addictive and, while they don’t typically make people do crazy things the way, say, bath salts do, people often want them very badly. At least one of those people found their way to Smokers Choice, a discount smoke shop in Northeast Dallas this morning some time between 3…
Two years ago today, just after 2 a.m., three men smashed through the glass doors of Henryk Kostman Fine Jewelry in a nine-story building on Turtle Creek Boulevard. A security guard was patrolling the grounds at the time, but was unable to stop the thieves from making off with nearly…
In the days after Deanna Cook was murdered while on the phone with 911, only to be found two days later by family members, DPD admitted that, yeah, things could have been handled a bit better. For starters, the dispatcher could have better communicated the severity of the situation with…
In 1997, Blas Hernandez was convicted of drunk driving in Ellis County. It was his third DWI, making it a felony and, since he had two previous convictions for assaulting a public servant, they threw the book at him: Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison. Fast-forward to 2012. Hernandez,…
Three people walk into a strip club and start hitting a dancer “with closed fists.” The cops show up. Nobody gets put in handcuffs. Not exactly a joke. More of a riddle, we’d say. Marqualia Bernard is a dancer at Exposure Sports Cabaret, a fairly new club conveniently located near…
On the sprawling “social news” website Reddit, there are pages and pages of user-created discussions and links, ranging from funny to poignant to vile. One of the site’s most fascinating sub-sections is r/IAmA , also known as “Ask Me Anything,” or AMA. AMAs are question and answer sessions with unique…
Early this morning at about 3 a.m., passersby in a Main Street parking garage became concerned when they spotted a young man walking about, allegedly waving an AK-47 in the air. They called police who, as first reported by the Morning News, confirmed that, yes, there was indeed a man…
On April 2, 2010, as 36-year-old Pedro David Garcia sat in the back seat of a car at an apartment complex in Northwest Dallas, he was shot several times, dying at the scene. The shooter fled in a white Dodge pickup. Homicide detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Augustin Gonzalez,…
In 2001, the Texas Legislature passed a law that made prostitution a state jail felony after a third misdemeanor conviction. The measure was intended to be tough on crime and help clear hookers from Dallas truck stops. The law has done little to curb the sex trade, but it has…
On Saturday morning, a Dallas Police Department helicopter was on routine patrol over South southern Dallas when officers spotted what appeared to be marijuana growing inside a deeply wooded area off the 1500 block of Wood Vista Court, just north of the intersection of C.F. Hawn Freeway and Lake June…
A year ago, John Pena Medellin, aka “Papa John,” aka “Uncle John,” the founding president of the Los Homeboys motorcycle club, was head of an operation that purchased large quantities of black-tar heroin, meth, and coke (some of it from Dallas’ Enchanted Hills apartments, and distributed it throughout the DFW…
Update at 11:47 a.m.: The AP has a few more details. Travis apparently knew the woman who was arguing with her estranged husband. No one was injured, but Travis and another woman were both ticketed for simple assault, a Class C misdemeanor. The police report does not indicate that alcohol…
Things were going well for Charles Anthony Jones last Valentine’s Day. Business was good, he had $3,000 cash in his front pocket and enough anti-impotence medication in his car to kill a stallion. But that’s when things started going down hill. Irving police arrested him later that day and took…
In 2010, Theadora Ross was a senior corporal with the Dallas Police Department and the officer in charge of Dallas Crime Stoppers, the program that offers thousands in cash rewards to tipsters who give information leading to arrest and indictment of criminals. Now, she is neither of those things. Last…
On Sunday morning, with their knocks and phone calls unanswered and water pouring from beneath locked doors, family members broke into Deanna Cook’s home. They found the 32-year-old dead in her bath tub. Two days before, police had been called to a domestic disturbance at the home. Dallas police knocked…
On the night of July 7, two women huddled in the back bedroom of the mobile home at 6108 Big Wood Court in rural Tarrant County. From another room, they could hear the cries of 34-year-old Earnest Ray Lackey, as three men hog-tied and beat him for hours until, at…
