After nearly two days of deliberations, a Dallas County jury found a former Farmers Branch police officer guilty of murder and aggravated assault Tuesday afternoon. Ken Johnson, 37, shot two teenagers in March 2016 after he caught them breaking into his Chevy Tahoe at his Farmers Branch apartment complex. Sheriff’s…
Sometimes, Dallas cops get the guy. So far in 2017, the Dallas Police Department has captured a serial rapist, quickly arrested a 15-year-old who shot and killed a mother of six during an early November robbery and tracked down Earl Wayne Humphries, a man police believe committed two similar murders of day…
A 17-year-old and a swarm of yet-to-be identified accomplices lured four men to a vacant Pleasant Grove apartment Tuesday before robbing and beating them, according to the Dallas Police Department. DPD arrested the teenTuesday, but they aren’t releasing his name because they’re looking into his possible involvement in several similar…
A former Dallas County jailer pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in a Dallas federal courtroom to one count of enticement of minor. Kevin Scott Morris, 44, will be sentenced April 4 to a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison, closing a sordid saga that lasted the better part…
Two North Texas men spun an elaborate tale involving the Illuminati, the NBA and Under Armour in order to defraud a would-be real estate investor out of nearly $1 million, according to Dallas’ U.S. Attorney’s Office. Dallas’ Joshua Pugh and Frisco’s Glenn Clifton will appear at a detention hearing Tuesday…
Among the biggest immediate challenges faced by Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall is the riddle of the Dallas Police Department’s recruitment and retention. The department hemorrhaged officers in early 2017 as the tenure of her predecessor ended, dipping from 3,700 officers at the department’s peak to about 3,000 officers, a 10-year…
Competitors and attendees of the Call of Duty World League tournament evacuated Dallas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center twice this weekend after anonymous bomb threats. Dallas police confirmed that they received a second bomb threat against the convention center Sunday afternoon, prompting another evacuation of the building and a second interruption to…
A Dallas County grand jury indicted two Dallas Police Department officers Thursday for their role in the death of Tony Timpa. Both officers are charged with misdemeanor deadly conduct. On August 10, 2016, Timpa panicked in the parking lot of the New Fine Arts adult video store at 1720 Mockingbird…
One week after finding out he’d be hanging onto his deputy chief position during a shakeup of the Dallas Police Department, Vernon Hale is leaving. Hale, who was set to become head of DPD’s Tactical Support Division, will instead resign and move to the Galveston Police Department on Jan. 2. “I…
A Dallas County Grand Jury has indicted Derick Wiley, a former officer for the Mesquite Police Department, for shooting Lyndo Jones last month as Jones attempted to disable his truck’s alarm system. The grand jury charged Wiley with aggravated assault by a public servant, a felony punishable by five to…
Women in uptown have been assaulted four times in the last 14 months, and police believe it could be the work of one perpetrator. While the crimes share a set of circumstances — they each occurred between 12:45 and 2:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning as the victim walked toward…
A Dallas County judge ruled Tuesday afternoon that the parents of a Richardson toddler found dead in October will not be allowed to see their other daughter even if they successfully post bail. Judge Cheryl Lee Shannon found that “aggravated circumstances” surrounding the death of 3-year-old Sherin Mathews necessitated that Wesley…
On Thursday morning, Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall finalized the leadership reorganization she promised in October. Multiple deputy and assistant chiefs in the Dallas Police Department, including two finalists for DPD’s top job, will be demoted to majors, among other changes. Hall’s plan goes into effect Dec. 13. When…
Despite the silence of Wesley and Sini Mathews, a Wednesday afternoon custody hearing spoke volumes about what their daughter allegedly endured at their hands after her adoption from India in 2016. Prosecutors seeking to terminate Wesley Mathews’ custody of the couple’s other daughter detailed the abuse and inattention they say…
We all know this. When a poor person disappears, it’s less an event than when a rich person does. The police are less likely to be stirred to action. The media will pay less attention. Black, white or Hispanic, that’s not even what counts. Poor and nobody. That’s the epitaph…
An unidentified man is dead after rolling his car several times at the conclusion of a police chase in Dallas on Tuesday, Garland police announced. Just after 3 a.m., Garland police officers spotted a gray Acura sedan heading south on Shiloh Road near Forest Lane. The car didn’t have a…
A 21-year-old Arlington man’s weekend full of interactions with Arlington police ended with him being shot and taken to the hospital, police said Monday afternoon. An Arlington Police Department officer shot William Hall Dodd at the Parks Mall on Sunday after responding to a shoplifting call from a Sunglass Hut…
A Dallas police officer fired for shooting a mentally ill man during a 2013 call will serve two years probation after reaching a plea agreement. Cardan Spencer shot Bobby Bennett on Oct. 14, 2013, after Bennett’s mother called 911 to ask that police go to her home in Rylie to…
According to the FBI, robbers raid about 300 Texas banks each year. This year’s numbers won’t come out until next summer, but DFW has seen a bumper crop of high-visibility or otherwise unusual bank capers. Let’s take a look at some of the most memorable. January: Serial robbers hit nine…
Every time I see a reference to FBI agent James Hosty and the burned Lee Harvey Oswald memo, I feel this twinge somewhere in the vicinity of my wallet. I guess I’ll go to my grave thinking I should have made at least a few bucks off that one. Hosty…
Amanda Clairmont was a makeup artist. She had created a new Instagram account to showcase her work two weeks before she was found murdered in a vacant parking lot in Corinth, a suburb of 21,000 people about 30 miles north of Dallas. “Follow my new makeup Instagram account and support…
On Thursday afternoon, Richardson police arrested the mother of a toddler found dead in a culvert near her family’s home last month. Sini Mathews, the mother of Sherin Mathews, is in Richardson City Jail, charged with abandoning or endangering a child, a state jail felony. Police found Sherin Mathews body…
