Lisa Stone disappeared on June 4, and her friends in the Dallas LGBT community are disseminating a flier and have created a Facebook page, according to the Dallas Voice’s InstantTea blog. Photographs and Stone’s birth certificate were found in a dumpster near her home, while Stone’s purse and pets were…
I finally spoke with Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Vince Golbeck, head of the Central Patrol Division, concerning Officer Perry Strickland’s decision to fire off 13 rounds of pepper balls on Lowest Greenville Avenue early Sunday morning, just as clubs were closing. Golbeck has already acknowledged that Strickland, a six-year…
On Monday I recounted my late-night, pepper-spray-scented trip to Lowest Greenville Avenue. Since then, I’ve been trying to get some response from Dallas Police Department. But yesterday DPD spokesperson Janice Crowther said, in short, there was nothing to respond to: She told Unfair Park that if an officer fired pepper…
Again, this is Candy Evans’s beat — why, just today she noted over on D’s DallasDirt that the former manse of Eleanor and Nicky Sheets is selling at half off the original asking price after it failed to move at an IRS auction in February. Nevertheless, this just in from…
Two years ago, John Crowder was playing basketball for God’s Academy in Grand Prairie and considered one of the top talents in Dallas-Fort Worth. He was 15. Crowder came to the area to escape life in his native Baltimore, where, he says in a 2008 video on The Dallas Morning…
The Unfair Park in-box has been filling up with reminders from DPD in advance of the July 4 weekend, chief among them that by-now familiar heads-up concerning the department’s long-standing No-Refusal DWI Initiative. Which is to say: Beginning tonight at 6, if you’re pulled over from driving while intoxicated and…
That’s quite the hodgepodge. Nonetheless, to the briefs …Avi Adelman, first to the story despite what you read elsewhere, brings the latest news concerning Lost Society on Lower Greenville Avenue: The landlords have done put a padlock on the place. And that’s not all: Co-owner Brightman Nwatu, already faced with…
Jeffrey Thorn joined the Dallas Police Department in December 2008. During his probationary period, he was assigned to the Southeast Patrol Division. But, at this very moment, Thorn is in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center after having been arrested by Dallas police on a sexual assault charge today. Lt. Andy…
The story of Lost Society co-owner Brightman “Brian” Nwatu hit The Dallas Morning News this morning, but it’s nothing new to Avi Adelman. Soon as I saw the tale of the Lower Greenville bar owner who’s been evading deportation for five years, I went over to Barking Dogs, where, sure…
I was out of the office Friday evening when the e-mail from City Manager Mary Suhm first came in alerting media to the fact several Dallas police officers had been called in by Deputy Chief Julian Bernal to provide a funeral escort for DPD Chief David Brown’s son. By now…
This just in from the Dallas Police Department concerning an attempted smash-and-grab at the mall at around 3 this morning:Dallas Police Officers Responded to a call at North Park Mall at 8687 North Central Expressway regarding an open building. A witness who works at NorthPark Mall told officers that after…
Speaking of criminals …Courthouse News today has this lawsuit brought by an Austin law firm against the City of Arlington, in which Sullo & Bobbitt PLLC claims that the city, by moving its criminal records to municipal court, is attempting to restrict access to docs every other city in the…
Avid mug-shot magazine readers (or picture-lookers) will have noticed some changes in that sliver of the media landscape since our first mention of Busted and Mugly! earlier this month. I’ve been trying to reach Busted’s Ryan Chief to learn more about the shame rag business around here, and finally caught…
Hao Liu is not an attorney. He’s never been an attorney, nor a member of the State Bar of Texas. He’s also not in law school. Never has been to law school. Hard to say what he does — except, that is, tie up Dallas courts with frivolous lawsuits.Used to…
The news broke this morning: 27-year-old Dallas Police Officer Kelly Beemer was out drinking last night, at Lee Harvey’s, when a few of her pals realized she’d had a few too many to drive. A fellow officer offered to drive her home. They didn’t quite make it. At the intersection…
Section 31-33 of the Dallas City Code outlines precisely when the under-17 set can’t be loose on the city’s streets. But let’s just summarize and say: Pretty much, when it’s dark out. And if you don’t think Dallas police are serious about enforcing the curfew, well, then, you didn’t just…
TribLive featuring Dallas DA Craig Watkins from texastribune on Vimeo.Whilst browsing the Vimeo moments ago, I came across the entirety of Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith’s chat with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins yesterday at the Austin Club. It was just posted. We posted a three minute-excerpt yesterday, but…
Within computer-security and hacker circles, the names Thomas James Frederick Smith and David Anthony Edwards are well-known — have been since 2006, when both men launched remote attacks on computer servers housed at Dallas-based The Planet and T35 Hosting. The attacks were intended to be but the beginning of the…
I got pretty excited last night when I heard a couple of women were attempting to knife each other in a parking lot in Pleasant Grove. Not, you know, because ladies knifing each other is my thing, but because I really wanted to crank up the sirens, throw on the…
Alan Todd May spent the better part of 1983 to 2002 in and out of prison, having been arrested for such things as credit card abuse, check fraud, theft … well, you name the hustle, he hustled it. There were 14 convictions in all, including parole violations. He even pulled…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word that 44-year-old Jon Leslie Lyons, who has been teaching English at Woodrow Wilson High School for three years, was arrested and charged yesterday with possessing child pornography, some involving children under the age of 5. According to an affidavit filed today by an…
As promised below, Texas Tribune has indeed posted a snippet of editor-in-chief Evan Smith’s interview with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins conducted this morning down in Austin. And, as promised, Watkins does indeed say, rather emphatically, that his office’s investigation into the doings of Constables Jaime Cortes and Derrick…
