[Update: Cheryl Potashnik was given two years probation and has to pay $50,000 to the U.S. District Clerk within seven days. Brian was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison and will be on probation for two years following his release. He also was ordered to pay $1.25 million to…
To begin the day, some housekeeping …A happy ending to yesterday’s story about the kidnapping of Eileen Loskot: She was found dehydrated but otherwise unharmed in New Mexico, and one of the three young men involved has been arrested. Her husband is heading to Amarillo to get her. …Lee Harvey…
The woman at right is Eileen Loskot, a 54-year-old woman last seen leaving her job — somewhere in the 2300 block of Reagan Street, between Harry Hines Boulevard and the Dallas North Tollway — a little after 1 this morning in her red 2004 Infiniti G35. At 12:07 this afternoon,…
Back in June we broke the news that Robert Groden, perhaps the most familiar (and certainly the most respected) of all the Dealey Plaza vendors peddling JFK assassination materials, had been arrested and detained by Dallas Police officers on the clean-up crackdown. Groden filed a federal suit claiming, among other…
Moments ago, the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word in two back-to-back e-mails that two former government employees — one, an agent in the Dallas FBI office; the other, a city of Garland risk management adjuster — have copped to breaking the law. Let’s begin with the FBI agent.Her name is…
We may not have Detective Dan Stark out there to protect us anymore, but this morning a handful of local agencies put their guns together to see how they’d handle responding to a major attack on the city.Dallas Fire-Rescue, Dallas Police (including SWAT teams and a bomb squad) and medical…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com/video.Yesterday, the Richardson Police Department issued a press release detailing a Sunday-evening stick-em-up near Centennial Boulevard and Audelia Road: Around 6:15 p.m. Sunday, a woman pulled in to use the ATM, at which point she was greeted by a man with a gun who lifted…
Avi Adelman, the Barking Dog, has been nipping at the heels of Lost Society on Lower Greenville since at least June, when bar co-owner Brightman “Brian” Nwatu was taken into custody and put on immigration hold for evading deportation for five years. Two days later, Adelman followed up with news…
Friends of Lisa Stone, the Dallas woman who went missing in early June, continue to hold vigils and pray publicly for answers in her disappearance, vowing over and over again not to let Stone’s memory die. On Friday night, tailed by a 48 Hours camera crew, Mesquite High School alums…
This morning, the Dallas Police Department sent some mugshots of a man named James Huffer Jr., who was arrested in the wee small hours of this morning near Cedar Springs and the Dallas North Tollway — till he took off in a DPD squad car, which he drove to and…
Back in June, you may recall, downtown oil man (coughnotreallycough) Alan Todd May was caught in San Francisco, to which he’d fled following a filing by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that said his Prosper Oil & Gas but little more than a front he used to steal, oh,…
Some folks strive to donate to charities during the holiday season: North Texas Food Bank, Salvation Army Angel Tree, Adopt-A-Child. Maybe they even help out a kitty or pup. Which brings us to Second Chance Treasures, the retail offshoot of the no-kill, non-profit East Lake Pet Orphanage (ELPO) housed inside…
On the other side you’ll find a lawsuit I came across this morning while looking for something completely unrelated: United States of America v. PrimeLending. The residential mortgage lender, HQ’d in Victory Park, is a subsidiary of PlainsCapital, which, maybe you remember, took $87.6 mil in TARP funds two years…
In a few minutes the council’s Public Safety Committee will begin wrapping up 2010 with a few items of interest — among them, the latest crime report you see at top that more or less speaks for itself.Also on the agenda: the so-called 10-70-20 Crime Reduction Program, which refers to…
This morning in D.C., Attorney General Eric Holder met with the media to discuss Operation Broken Trust, a wide-ranging crime-bustin’ effort conducted by an alphabet soup’s worth of agencies intended to “protect American investors, to ensure the strength of our markets, and to prevent financial fraud schemes.” Following Holder’s opening…
Behind bars for more than 20 years, after being found guilty of the 1986 rape and murder of a Garland woman named Galua Crosby, Clay Chabot always maintained he was innocent. This morning, that all changed: In a Dallas courtroom, Chabot pleaded guilty to Crosby’s murder. He was poised to…
The toughest room in Texas today was a plain white conference room in Garland along Interstate 30, down the hallway in the Texas Department of Safety’s regional office. That’s where Governor Rick Perry joined about three dozen officers, friends and family members to welcome Chuck and Aaron Norris into the…
As you’re most likely aware by now, Dallas County Constable Derick Evans, former constable Jaime Cortes and two of Evans’s deputies have been indicted on a total of nine counts. We’ve been working the phones since yesterday and haven’t heard back from several parties, although Judge Jim Foster’s supposed to…
No doubt you’ve heard about the shooting last night at a Pleasant Grove apartment complex that left one Dallas Police officer and a bystander wounded and the gunman, Kenneth Horton, dead. Moments ago, the DPD sent along this statement from Dallas Police Chief David Brown: Last night Dallas officers responded…
Nothing like the holiday season to bring out the best in all of us, right? Notsomuch, says the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, which held a press conference today in front of the Kroger at Mockingbird and Greenville to advise citizens not to park in handicapped spots if they’re not, you…
Two weeks ago, a crack team of You+Dallas filmmakers introduced us to Dallas Police officer Jason Groom, a former fireman now in his first year on the force. Groom’s got the downtown beat — lucky! In this, the second installment of “Deep Nights,” Groom deals with a stolen purse at…
Forty-seven years ago today, Temple Bowley was headed for a weekend getaway with his family when he found Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit lying dead beside his cruiser at 10th Street and N. Patton Avenue in Oak Cliff. He used the radio in Tippit’s car to alert dispatch, then helped…
