This afternoon’s meeting of the council’s Public Safety Committee should be a particularly good one; its agenda, covering everything from reality teevee shows to neighborhood crime watch groups to the latest crime stats, is action-packed. Andrea, but of course, will liveblog. But the item most likely to generate interest is…
To the list of Dallas-set-or-shot series airing in the fall — The Good Guys, Chase and Lone Star — add another heretofore unknown to us till it appeared on the city council Public Safety Committee’s agenda for Tuesday: Police Women of Dallas. It’ll air on the network formerly known as…
This weekend will mark two months since the last time Lisa Stone was seen in Dallas, and today a billboard went up at the intersection of LBJ Freeway and Northwest Highway with Stone’s photo and information on the $10,000 reward for information regarding her disappearance. The billboard was paid for…
Back in June 2009, then-Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle told then-Dallas Observer-er Kimberly Thorpe why he was (and, no doubt, remains) a big fan of the department’s so-called No-Refusal DWI Initiative, which allows officers who pull over suspected drunk drivers to take and test two vials’ worth of blood. Said…
Back in June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word: Jon Leslie Lyons, a 44-year-old who’d been teaching English at Woodrow Wilson High School for three years, had been arrested and charged with keeping child pornography, some involving children under the age of 5, on his home computer and iPhone.A Dallas…
I know where Andrea’ll be tomorrow at noon: In the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, where council member Delia Jasso will be joined by members of the Dallas Police Department and local rape-victims advocacy and support groups to announce the kickoff of what DPD’s calling a “Sexual Assault Awareness…
Yesterday, Friend of Unfair Park “The Big Guy” directed our attention to a Jalopnik item in which a security guard for Dallas Auto Auction is seen treating someone else’s Corvette ZR1 like it’s his very own hundred-thousand-dollar Hot Wheel. For whatever reason, said security guard not only recorded his burnout…
Although investigators aren’t linking him to the series of white powder mailings throughout North Texas, Michael Wayne Patterson was arrested Thursday by federal law enforcement officers and was detained today pending an August 30 detention hearing, according to U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks. Patterson’s handwriting and fingerprints were found on…
You might recall reading last month about the Mesquite couple found dead in their home, in what police suspected was a murder-suicide. Police found Irene Haggerty, 46, beaten to death at the foot of the steps, while her 52-year-old husband Godfrey Spain was found upstairs where he’d hanged himself. Both…
Tyrone Weatherall, the 35-year-old leader of the “West Side Gator Boys,” pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, according to U.S. Attorney James Jacks. Weatherall’s West Side Gator Boys was a Dallas drug trafficking and criminal street gang that operated as…
So now we know what the Dallas Police Department is charging Michael Laurence Browne with following yesterday’s slow ride that landed on the Love Field runway: evading arrest in a vehicle, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal mischief, aggravated robbery and an outstanding traffic ticket. That’s the laundry list…
No doubt you caught at least some of The Dallas Morning News’s recently wrapped three-part series on Texas’s trouble with properly punishing drunken drivers. Probation instead of prison; back behind the wheel instead of behind bars. Says Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins in a missive his campaign sent out…
This just in from the Dallas Police Department: North Central patrol officer are currently pursuing a stolen Chevy pickup that was taken in a carjacking. That is all the information we have at this time. We will not know anything else until the pursuit ends. KDFW-Channel 4, of course, has…
At around 8 a.m. on Saturday, Tina Wiley was on Facebook messaging members of the now-1,821-member-strong Looking for Lisa group: A reward is now being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of whomever’s responsible for the disappearance of 51-year-old Dallas woman Lisa Stone. Wiley and her…
At 4 this morning, the two gentlemen you’ll find in the video on the other side decided to break into the downtown McDonald’s on Commerce and Griffin Streets. Their goal: the ATM in the front window. And, for a little while, it goes so-far-so-good — using crowbars, it takes them…
The headline — and the freshly baked press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office that follows — says it all. U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle sentenced high-tone realtor John Nicholas Sheets — married to one Eleanor Mowery Sheets, who copped to four counts of tax evasion but one month…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com/video.Late last night, KXAS-Channel 5 sent word: Not only did it air a lengthy sit-down with Dallas Police Chief David Brown, in which “no subject was off limits,” but the NBC owned-and-operated was also making available the entirety of the interview in 14 separate segments…
As he told us a couple of weeks ago, attorney Scott Palmer was hired to represent Anna Fermanova two hours before her detention hearing in Dallas federal court on July 15. No way he imagined that a few days later, his client — popped by the feds for trying to…
On Wednesday, Patrick went down to the Dallas Farmers Market, where Dallas police higher-ups met with neighborhood stakeholders about getting a DPD storefront down there pronto. Because, as we’ve noted in recent weeks, property owners are clamoring for a substation to deal with what they say is an increase in…
As mentioned late last month, property owners and vendors around the Dallas Farmers Market have been not-so-subtly courting DPD for a new substation in their neighborhood, and based on this morning’s bimonthly police-hosted meeting, that’s probably where it’ll go — just as soon as someone comes up with the money…
Some start-o-the-week news and notes while I roll a few fat blunts in preparation for this afternoon’s Public Safety Committee meeting …Remember when Tom Hicks said, why, sure, he expects to lose “a couple hundred million” on the sales of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars, but he’ll pocket the…
If you’re headed over to Founders Square in the next, oh, little while or, really, anywhere near the 900 block of Jackson Street downtown, you might wanna hold off: A Friend of Unfair Park who works in the building says it was just cleared due to a bomb threat. Dallas…
