The Securities and Exchange Commission just sent word: In New York federal court today it filed a 78-page complaint charging Sam and Charles Wyly with violating federal securities laws over the last 13 years, during which the SEC alleges the Dallas brothers pocketed more than $550 million in “undisclosed gains.”…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: What the what does Anna Fermanova’s husband do, anyhow? Good question — especially since Fermanova’s attorney, Scott Palmer, says those three high-priced, high-powered scopes she was caught taking to Russia were for a friend of her husband’s so he could get his big-game…
This just in from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: Seven locals, ranging in age from 23 to 60, are accused of setting three fires that caused close to $1 million in total property damage in order to collect a few thousand from the Dallas chapter of the American Red Cross. The…
About five weeks back, the Dallas Police Department warned the under-17s to stay inside after 11 p.m., lest they face a trip to DPD HQ and a call to the folks. Tonight: the sequel! This just in from Sgt. Warren C. Mitchell: The Dallas Police Department will be conducting another…
This just in from the U.S. Attorney General’s Office: From the summer of ’05 till December ’08, five locals were running out of three Northwest Dallas houses an “elaborate marijuana growing operation” that was eventually busted up by the Drug Enforcement Agency. They had three houses — one each on…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations just sent word of that a handful of incidents at the Dar El-Eman Islamic Center in on Mansfield Road in Arlington in recent days have sparked an investigation involving the Arlington Police Department and the FBI. Says the release, on Sunday someone set its playground…
Between The Smoking Gun and Gawker, Anna Fermanova’s bound to have the most-peeked-at profile pictures page on the Facebooks in the last several hours. And after Tim Rogers made mention of the ’05 Ogle School of Hair Skin and Nails grad, several Friends of Unfair Park have wondered: Why haven’t…
If you’ve been looking forward to the Dream Wedding Bridal Expo slated for mid-December at the Gaylord Texan, well, bad news this morning from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.While Karen Tucker, the 47-year-old Pittsburgh woman behind the Gaylord event, is indeed a veteran convention planner with experience from Miami to Las…
While the publishers of our local mug shot magazines keep scrapping for gas station counter space, Mugly!’s J. Martin Ward has been battling on a second front: a slow-motion rumble with police departments in Arlington and Irving over access to their mug shots and jail records. Mugly! runs on a…
Some weekend catch-up while we wake up following several base-running mistakes last night: Kevin Smith is at the Granada Wednesday night, and, maybe, he’ll address his earlier-this-year run-in with hometown-based Southwest Airlines, which, you’ll no doubt recall, asked the filmmaker to deplane pronto lest his heft pose a “safety risk”…
A little more than two months since Dallas County held its first veterans’ court docket, the diversion program has grown to include nine former service members — six Vietnam vets and three veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq — who’ll complete two years of treatment and mentoring to keep a clean…
[Update: After the jump, further information from city of Dallas spokesman Frank Librio.]If you live in the M Streets and woke up this morning to what you thought might have been gunfire, well, you were right. At approximately 6:30 a.m., according to a Dallas police spokesman, a 63-year-old man was…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Dallas County constables had been watching Star Auto Sales, a North Dallas used car dealer, for nearly 10 months before they made their move on February 18; bearing a search warrant, officers from both agencies flipped through the dealership’s financial records and searched…
In 2007, ex-offender support groups in a handful of states began huddling together under a national faith-based umbrella called Out4Life, combining efforts to help prisoners find work and housing, break old drug and alcohol habits, and generally do what it takes to keep out of prison. For life. Texas became…
A release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office just arrived with the following subject header: “Two Plead Guilty in Pill ‘Smurfing’ Case.” Oh, right. That kind of smurfing. To the feds’ more formal definition: “the unlawful practice of making numerous purchases of over-the-counter medication containing pseudoephedrine so that it can be…
It was just one month ago that Dallas Police Officer Jeffrey Thorn was arrested for an alleged sexual assault not far from DPD HQ in the Cedars. Today, the department sends word that yet another officer is behind bars: Isac De La Rosa, a 3-year veteran assigned to the Southwest…
This just in from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The agency, along with the Office of Homeland Security Investigations National Gang Unit and an alphabet’s soup worth of local law enforcement agencies, spent the last five days sweeping Dallas-Fort Worth for gang members and their associates, and when all…
In 1997, Jacob Whitt was a 21-year-old anxious to get out of his tiny Central Florida hometown and start a life somewhere new. Truckers passing through told him Dallas was the place to move if he wanted to make some money, so that August he headed west, moving in with…
We’d just pulled up to the corner of Kiest Boulevard and Polk Street in Southwest Dallas this afternoon when a guy in a black Ford Escort rolled down his window to talk to a pony-tailed undercover vice cop. She’d been milling around outside a car wash in a swimsuit and…
Last month, as you and no doubt Andrea recall, the Dallas Police Department launched its summer-safety initiative: Operation Triangle, so named for its three main goals: reducing property crime, violent crime and public disorder. And, yes, while those are good year-round goals, DPD says there’s a “spike” in such activities…
Earlier today I drove up to the home of the deceased mayor of Coppell, Jayne Peters, and her daughter, Corinne, who were found dead in their home last night after Mayor Peters failed to show up for a council meeting. No doubt you’ve read much of the coverage already, but…
This morning, the Associated Press tells the tale of Stephen Brodie, a deaf inmate serving time in the TDCJ’s Estelle Unit till 2012 — and, quite possibly, yet another innocent man imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. In 1991, Richardson police detained a 19-year-old Brodie for “stealing quarters from…
