At 10:24 this morning, Dallas Police first sent word that a 6-month-old girl had been kidnapped on Westmoreland Road; a short time after that came that Amber Alert, which turned out to be a false alarm. (Jack E. Jett, take a bow.) Moments ago, Senior Corporal Kevin Janse sent this…
At 9:30 this morning, according to Dallas Police, a woman ran into Max Beauty Supply, located at 7460 S. Westmoreland Road. She left the keys in the car — a silver, four-door 2006 Dodge Stratus, with the license plates BV9-F940.Also left in the car: 6-month-old Azia Crawford. Azia, say police,…
Below, of course, is the tale of Senior Corporal Theadora Ross — the 26-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly depositing at least $250,000 in North Texas Crime Commission’s Crime Stoppers cash in her own bank account. The feds say that the…
That photo you see at top is Dallas Police Department Senior Corporal Theadora Ross, in the middle, being escorted out of DPD HQ yesterday by FBI agents. Andrea was out there Wednesday morning, but at the time, DPD and the feds refused to comment on Ross’s arrest. They promised all…
The gentleman you see above in the Dallas Police Department uniform is DPD Sergeant Donald McMillion. Next to him, in the Austin PD uniform, is Sergeant Ronald McMillion. In case you hadn’t noticed — and, really, I like to take nothing for granted — they are identical twins, who, for…
In April 2009, John Patrick Newton was arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration agents for growing, storing and selling marijuana out of an apartment on N. MacArthur Boulevard inIrving. Said the feds, he was the leader of “a marijuana distribution conspiracy known as the Newton Drug Trafficking Organization,” which included former…
Most releases the Dallas Police Department send to the media are the stuff of crime stats and nightmares — it’s usually bloody awful bad news. But then, a short while ago, this tale arrived in the in-box courtesy Sgt. Warren Mitchell, a DPD spokesman. The subject header? “Positive News Story.”…
Last week came word: The Old Monk and The Dallasite had been robbed at gunpoint. Dallas police did not think the two were related — the former was violently robbed by three men who came in through the back door after hours; the latter, by a lone gunman who, moments…
Back in September, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it had arrested several alleged members of “violent local street gangs,” which included the Highland Hills Posse and the NFL Boyz. Among those snapped up during “Operation Greedy Grove” was 31-year-old Ronald Alexander, otherwise known as “Ron Don,” who today pleaded…
The Dallas Police Department just sent word: Yesterday, a DPD detective arrested 36-year-old Michael D’Spain on a warrant for an improper relationship with a student. D’Spain was arrested at Farine Elementary School in Irving, where, according to his Linkedin profile, he’s been teaching since August. But DPD says the arrest…
This just in from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: A 29-year-old man from Plano, Edward Louis Molz III, pleaded guilty in Dallas federal court this morning to a single count of wire fraud, for which he faces up 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. On top of that, he…
Remember when that L.A. auction house auctioned off the pine box in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery in Fort Worth? Man, seems like only six weeks ago. Since then, of course, the coffin sold — for…
Dallas police just sent word: First thing this morning, the store manager opening up the CVS Pharmacy on E. Northwest Highway — where Plano Road turns into E. Lake Highlands Drive — found a dead man in the bathroom. Hell of a way to start the day. DPD explains:Drug paraphernalia,…
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…
