Crime & Police

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…

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…