Crime & Police

Carrollton police have arrested a Dallas man they believe worked with five others to steal more than $500,000 from drivers whose identities they stole off at gas station pumps across North and East Texas. According to Carrollton cops, Yoandi Valdez, 33, worked with a crew that installed internal skimmers on…

The Dallas FBI needs the public’s help identifying a gang of bank robbers the bureau is calling the “Country Boy Bandits” after a string of bank robberies in North Texas. An unknown number of robbers and a getaway driver have hit six banks and convenience stores in Fort Worth and…

The Dallas Police Department needs the public’s help identifying a suspect in a Wednesday morning shooting in the parking lot of a Dallas strip club. The shooting, which took place at about 5:15 a.m., left one man dead and a woman wounded in the leg, according to police. In the…

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson will not go to trial on charges that he backed his truck into a woman and brandished a weapon during a dispute over a parking space on July 4. According to a report from KRLD’s L.P. Phillips, a Collin County grand jury declined to indict…

The Texas Department of Public Safety discontinued the Amber Alert for Richardson 3-year-old Sherin Mathews late Monday afternoon. Richardson police said they are continuing the search, but the Texas Department of Public Safety cut off the alert because there was no suspect or vehicle description. Wesley Mathews, Sherin’s father, posted…

New Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall will execute a major shakeup of her department in order to get more cops on the street and streamline the Dallas Police Department’s command structure. Hall plans to cut down from nine assistant chiefs to two or three and from 14 deputy chiefs…

A 3-year-old Richardson girl remains missing Monday morning after her father sent her outside as a punishment late night on Saturday, according to police. Richardson police arrested the girl’s father, Wesley Mathews, Saturday night for abandoning or endangering a child, a second degree felony. Mathews sent his daughter Sherin Mathews…

The Dallas Police Department released video Wednesday afternoon of three suspects in an early Saturday morning sexual assault. Just before 3 a.m. Saturday, two men approached a woman at a Chase Bank ATM on Wheatland Road in Duncanville. The men, caught on security cameras at the ATM and a nearby…

Nearly sixth months after Miguel Sotelo-Trujillo’s murder, Dallas police announced Monday afternoon that they’ve made an arrest. The Dallas Police Department has charged Alex Thomas Delrio with killing Sotelo-Trujillo on April 20 after a Regal Row drag race. According to DPD, Sotelo-Trujillo and his brother headed home after watching street races…

Early in the evening of Sunday, Sept. 10, Spencer Hight stopped by a local bar, according to Plano police. He chatted up the staff, who knew him well. Then he brandished a knife and a pistol, trying to show off for the employees. Instead, he scaring them enough that one…

For North Texans struggling to keep current on their mortgages, the offer must’ve sounded too good to be true. And it was. Rather than continue paying their current mortgages, homeowners could get new loans with better terms and stay in their houses. This supposed lifeline, peddled by Bruce Hawkins of…

“Little Chris” didn’t even make it a month on the state of Texas’ 10 most wanted list. Dallas police announced Tuesday afternoon that Los Angeles Police Department officer have arrested Christopher Gonzalez, 18, who has been on the Texas’ most wanted list since Aug. 23. According to the Dallas Police…

A 20-year-old Frisco man pleaded guilty Monday to hate crime charges stemming from a series of home invasions targeting gay men in Dallas’ northern suburbs. Chancler Encalade admitted that he and two other men targeted a Plano man in January because of his sexual orientation. Encalade faces up to life…

Two star-crossed North Texas lovers are set to spend time in federal prison after Collin County Sheriff’s Office employees foiled their plan to exchange a greeting card soaked in liquid methamphetamine. Amanda Lynn Mollison, 29, mailed the card to  Justin Chadwick Brown, 39, in October 2016. Workers at the Collin County…

Newly appointed Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall spoke about human trafficking Thursday afternoon during a lecture titled “Protecting Our Daughters and Sons” through Southern Methodist University’s Embrey Human Rights Program. Her speech, the first appearance of her tenure, only lasted a few minutes. Hall, who previously served as deputy chief…

A rash of home invasions in South Dallas has police probing for possible connections. Pairs of armed thieves have struck four times in the past two days, with three offenses reported on the same day. The latest attack happened at 4 a.m. Thursday in the 3300 block of Idaho Avenue, where…

Dallas County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Next Generation Action Network head Dominque Alexander on Thursday morning at his home in North Dallas on theft charges stemming from a 2016 dispute with an employer. Police took Alexander to Denton County Jail, where he was booked and released on $1,500 bail. Alexander is…

Luca, a search-and-rescue dog, had been retired for more than two years when he saved a man with dementia from drowning in the Trinity River. Officer Cole Brock of the Fort Worth Police Department bought Luca when the pup was just 8 weeks old. Soon after noticing how smart he…

A Dallas County Grand Jury indicted three men Thursday in the aggravated kidnapping of Lancaster 13-year-old Shavon Randle, bringing a summer saga that began with a drug robbery and ended with two murders one step closer to its end. Desmond Jones, 22; Devontae Owens, 24; and Laquon Wilkerson, 30, are charged…

This part is easy for any of us to get. You have a loved one, partner, spouse, kid, weird neighbor — somebody whom you love and count on to be a regular part of your life. You sit down to the dinner table, and that chair is empty because, as…