When last we heard from Anna Fermanova, the would-be cosmetologist from Plano was dishing out celeb gossip on CW33 while awaiting yet another court appearance in New York on federal weapons-smuggling charges after feds accused her of rocketing to Russia high-priced rifle scopes on the U.S. Munitions List. Her TV…
A little while ago I came across the video you’ll find after the jump, in which a man can be seen breaking into Observer staff favorite Sal’s Pizza on Wycliff Sunday morning. Police report says the man, driving an ’02 Ford Expedition, popped the deadbolt and got off with $200…
Danny Balis just called with the heads-up: In the last two days, two local bars have been robbed at gunpoint. Danny wondered if perhaps they were related.According to Dallas Police reports, the first stick-em-up occurred around 1 a.m. Tuesday at the Dallasite on Bryan Street, across the street from Jimmy’s…
On the other side is a lengthy missive we just received from the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in which Craig Watkins outlines his to-do list for the new Legislative session. But you can probably guess what’s top-of-the-pops with a D.A. seeking criminal system reforms: eyewitness identification reform, especially following…
No doubt you’re well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, likely after leaving a Maple Avenue club, where he was visiting…
Cornell Companies, the private operator of correctional facilities ‘cross the country, has a motto: “People Changing People.” A lawsuit filed this week in Dallas County District Court proposes an alteration: “People Filming People.” At least, so suggest 36 former inmates of the Dallas County Judicial Treatment Center in Wilmer, a…
Harper’s Washington Editor Ken Silverstein has many thoughts on the DNA exoneration of Cornelius Dupree Jr. yesterday, when a Dallas County judge acknowledged that the 51-year-old man served 30 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Silvestein delineates some of the myriad “weaknesses of the criminal justice…
Dallas attorney Ralph Janvey’s still combing through Allen Stanford’s financials to see who got some of that money made in the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that landed the Texas financier in prison, where, one day, he’ll face a federal trial (maybe). Janvey, who was appointed receiver, wants that money so he…
“It’s a joy to be free again,” Cornelius Dupree Jr. told a courtroom full of lawyers, courthouse staff, media members and several fellow DNA exonerees this morning during his very brief testimony. Dupree spent 30 years in jail serving time for a robbery and rape he did not commit, but…
We close out the holiday with a look at the Dallas Police Department’s look at how Dallas spent the New Year’s weekend, per a series of stats-filled missives sent out by Senior Corporal Kevin Janse. First, for those wondering whether the threat of a mandatory blood draw works, there were…
If it’s a major holiday likely to involve a drink or two or 12, it’s time for … you guessed it: the Dallas Police Department’s No-Refusal DWI Initiative! Let’s not waste time recapping the what-the-whats. Release the release!The No-Refusal Initiative will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, December 31, 2010,…
Some grim news with which to close out the year, almost …The day after Christmas, Bradley Eyo was found shot to death on Barnes Bridge Road near Lake Ray Hubbard. But Dallas homicide detective and Garland police discovered during their investigation that Eyo, whose friends have made him this tribute,…
A virtual jaunt ’round the Western Hemisphere has led FBI investigators to anonymous users who appear to have used servers from a Dallas-based server company to disable and disrupt PayPal after the money-wiring site froze a WikiLeaks donations account earlier this month. The Smoking Gun has excerpts from the FBI…
As quiet as Dealey Plaza’s been since the truth-bearing publishers were cleared out, you could forgive a few tourists for being concerned this morning to find the place crawling with cops. Surrounded by Dallas police, some in Gang Unit windbreakers, one officer was able to reassure an elderly woman that…
No doubt you’ve heard the tale of Sandy McGriff, the 52-year-old Church of the Living God pastor — and a former prostitute with more than 12 aliases, according to the Dallas Police Department — who was spotted breaking into congregant Serita Agnew’s house on Christmas Eve and is accused of…
Back in September, we pointed out what a busy summer it’d been for Denton lawyer Evan Stone, as he kicked off a crusade against BitTorrent users who’d been illegally sharing porn movies. After three months, he had filed a few hundred suits right here in the Dallas federal court, alleging…
Early this afternoon, my wife called from the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Harvest Hill and asked: What’s up with all the police cars? I told her what I knew at the time, via Dallas Police media bulletins: A man had attempted to rob a bank in the…
Late Saturday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that, along with the Humane Society of the United States, it broke up an enormous cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas. As it turns out, The Texas Tribune’s cameras accompanied DPD during the bust, which resulted in only a few arrests — since,…
The Associated Press this morning directs our attention to this year-in-review: The Death Penalty in 2010, released at midnight by the D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Says the report, Texas is still executing more inmates than any other state — 17 in 2010, the lowest in almost a decade –…
As The American Independent reminds this morning, there have been myriad bills proposed in the Texas Legislature in recent years that would allow for the creation of so-called sobriety checkpoints. And last year’s S.B. 298 — submitted by state Sen. John Corona and co-authored by, among others, his colleague from…
A week ago Sunday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that officers had lost James Huffer Jr., who was arrested earlier that morning near Cedar Springs and the Dallas North Tollway following a family violence call. Huffer, as you’ll recall, managed to steal a Dallas PD squad car while wearing…
The Dallas Police Department sends word this evening: The Humane Society of the United States shot some undercover video of what sounds like a mammoth cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas — where, the release says, “cruel cockfights were reportedly occurring in a large run-down structure on a regular basis.” As…
