Looking through a stack of federal cases this morning I espied something odd, a file titled USA v. … well, let’s just say an address all of four blocks from my Northwest Dallas house, and a house I drive by at least once a day. A foreclosure, perhaps? A tax…
Twice last summer the Dallas Police Department warned it would enforce, on a limited basis, the once-litigated and gosh-how’d-we-ever-survive-without Section 31-33 of the Dallas City Code, which spells out when the under-17’s can run amok on city streets during nighttime hours. Or, more to the point, when they can’t: not…
On the other side is the Richardson PD bulletin mentioned here this morning, in which police say they’re looking for the “Handsome Guy” bandit who’s hit six area banks, including ones in Dallas, Irving, Plano and Richardson beginning April 19. Says RPD, his most recent stick-em-up was July 14, when…
According to the Dallas City Attorney’s Office, a self-proclaimed church near Northwest Highway and Webb Chapel Road is anything but. Says a complaint filed today in advance of a late-afternoon hearing, whatever Glen Hudson says he’s operating at 3027 W. Northwest Highway, not far from where all those Bachman Lake-area…
Rais Bhuiyan’s attempts to spare the life of Mark Stroman, the white supremacist who shot him in the face and killed two other men he believed to be Muslim in the days following September 11, 2001, have failed: A federal judge down in Austin denied the Dallas man’s petition for…
It was mighty big news last month when Dallas attorney Levi McCathern shot and killed that 880-pound, 14-foot-long alligator along the Trinity River down in Leon County — big enough that it made CNN, matter of fact. Said the proud lawyer for the Dallas Cowboys, “We got a lot of…
Late on July 3 Dallas Police sent word that two men had shot to death an Oak Cliff convenience store owner … over two boxes of onions. As Byron Harris noted a day later, Quick Check Grocery’s Jin Ha was beloved by folks living near the store at Illinois Avenue…
Tomorrow, the steady stream of stories about Rais Bhuiyan’s attempt to save Mark Stroman — the man who shot Bhuiyan in the face and killed two other men in the days following September 11, 2001 — will more than likely come to an end. Tomorrow the former stonecutter and white…
As you’re no doubt well aware by now, Mark Stroman is scheduled to die down in Huntsville on Wednesday for killing Waqar Hasan, a Pakistani father of four who was gunned down on September 15, 2001, while working in southeast Dallas local convenience store; and Vasudev Patel, an Indian Hindu…
Per the Dallas Police Department, the hold-up you see above was captured three nights ago and just two blocks from Unfair Park headquarters, along the 2700 block of Welborn near Oak Lawn and Maple. You know the drill by now: DPD needs help ID’ing the driver of the car seen…
If, by any chance, you spent the first few months of this year blowing lines in the bathroom of various clubs around town, there’s a decent chance the source of your cocaine was Christian “Cri Cri” Ocana, who the feds believe was running a Dallas off-shoot of a nationwide drug…
Late yesterday, our local feds got to brag up a good half-decade’s worth of sleuthing when they announced charges against more than a dozen people in connection with a multi-state cocaine- and heroin-trafficking syndicate based in Forth Worth. The accompanying documents, which Robert shared in yesterday’s post, are a fascinating…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office sends word: Federal authorities have rounded up dozens suspected of trafficking heroin and cocaine from Dallas to Atlanta to Baltimore to Philadelphia to Nashville and all points in between. Those arrested yesterday come from all over, including Dallas and Fort Worth and Mansfield and Grand Prairie;…
An edict from the Justice Department to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives paved the way Monday for tighter regulation of repeat purchases of semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines in border states. The feds’ faces were liberally slathered with egg in May after a bunch of assault…
Twice we’ve written about Rais Bhuiyan, who, on September 21, 2001, was working behind the counter of a Pleasant Grove Texaco station when a man with a shotgun entered the store and shot him in the face. Bhuiyan, who was 27 at the time, thought he was being robbed. He…
Looks like at 11:18 this morning, John Wiley Price attorney Billy Ravkind, or someone in his office, faxed to Channel 5 the search warrant issued on June 24 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Stickney. It’s a seven-page catalog of everyone and everything with whom the county commissioner’s done bidness since…
One week ago today the Dallas Police Department sent word that it had fired three officers — one of whom, Lavar Horne, was also arrested last week for having kept a handgun and tossed some weed seized during a traffic stop. Well, the DPD just sent word that it’s arrested…
Beginning ’round 9ish last night, my Northwest Dallas neighborhood sounded like a war zone — more than usual, anyhow. (As one Facebook friend put it, it turned into a parlor game: Firework or Gunshot?) Clearly, news of the countywide burn ban and threats of Class C misdemeanor tickets for shooting…
Less than a month ago, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office dropped a small bomb shell amongst those who follow courthouse doings: Terri Moore, Craig Watkins’s first assistant, and Mike Ware, head of the Conviction Integrity Unit, would be stepping down July 1. At which point, Watkins promised, he’d announce…
Speaking of the wrongly imprisoned …On Saturday, we stopped to take note — belatedly — of the passing of Randall Dale Adams, whose October death didn’t reach newspapers till late last week. Adams, of course, was freed from prison in ’89 following the release of Errol Morris’s documentary The Thin…
Yet again, the Dallas Police Department sends an email saying there’s a press release on Facebook — so many hoops, but so worth it. The department says Chief David Brown’s fired three officers, including Senior Corporal Cat Lafitte, otherwise known as the artist who took to Facebook in February to…
Twice today, including just moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent notes to media asking for the public’s help in finding the driver of a red 1999 Ford F150 who police say was responsible for a fatal hit-and-run yesterday at Northwest Highway and the Dallas North Tollway. According to police,…
