Crime & Police

Police have detailed the evidence against Charles Bryant, the Haslet man accused of dismembering and burning a TWU student earlier this month. Denton County authorities released multiple search warrants for Bryant’s car and home, detailing items that they say pointed them to Bryant as Jacqueline Vandagriff’s killer. Here are 10 items worth…

So Dallas will solve its loose dog problem by killing more dogs. Good. I could hope for only more thing. I wish they would film the killing of the dogs every week and put the video online. With that video, I wish the city also would post the names, addresses and…

The head of the Dallas Black Police Association joined with police reform activists on Friday in a call for changes at the police department aimed a curbing the misuse of force by officers. Activists must be given “sitting at the table” with police if the city is to find a way…

A little more than two years after Christina Morris disappeared from The Shops at Legacy in Plano, Enrique Arochi, the last person seen with Morris, is going to jail for her kidnapping. Wednesday night, a Collin County jury convicted Arochi after a little more than 17 hours of deliberation. Arochi’s…

Police recreating the chain of events that ended with the murder of 24-year-old Texas Women’s University student Jacqueline Vandagriff produced a grim narrative of a night out gone very wrong.  Vandagriff’s body was found burning last Wednesday morning at about 6:30 a.m. in a kiddie pool in Grapevine’s Acorn Woods…

Ron Pinkston, the combative face of the Dallas Police Association, announced Monday that he’ll be stepping down as the police union’s president. The date of his departure: Oct. 4, the same day Dallas Police Chief David Brown is set to step down from his post. Pinkston is a Dallas Police…

Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with the murder of Jacqueline Vandagriff, a Texas Woman’s University student whose charred and dismembered body was found last week.  Grapevine police say they have video evidence that the 24-year-old woman left a bar in Denton at about 11 p.m. with Charles Dean Bryant, a…

Gunfire injured a child on Friday during a fight in the parking lot of the Dallas Housing Authority-owned Hidden Ridge Apartments in Lake Highlands. According to the Dallas Police Department, someone shot into a crowd of people, striking the unidentified child. Someone in the crowd then fired at the shooter. The…

Lieutenant Thomas Glover, President of the Black Police Association, sat down with the Observer last week and gave some insight as to why the BPA asked for Chief David Brown’s resignation this past March. While many media outlets painted the BPA’s and other unions’ calls as a response to Brown suddenly…

Friday night Bob Poynter, a University Park firefighter, made a mistake when he went to help his estranged wife, according to Royse City police.  Chacey Poynter told him her Jeep was stuck in the mud on Farm to Market Road 35 near County Road 2595 in Royce City. Poynter took his…

The news lately on DART, our regional mass transit agency, is that the city’s elected officials are having major credibility problems with the things DART staff tells them about rail construction projects worth billions of dollars. When I hear about those problems at the big-deal end, a part of me…

Tom Huntley stands in the parking lot of Campisi’s Egyptian restaurant, lost in time. It’s been decades since he’s stood out in front of his former boss’ place. He still recalls standing next to Joe Campisi as he cooked pasta, wearing a sidearm and telling stories. The restaurant, owned by…

Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s first public statement since announcing his retirement last week was a tour of his time on top of one of the biggest police departments in the United States. He listed all the hits, and most of the misses: July 7, Dixon Circle, community policing, officer…

Late Tuesday, the city attorney of Columbus, Ohio, announced that he would not be filing charges against Dallas Cowboys rookie Ezekiel Elliott for domestic assault. In July, Elliott’s ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson accused him of attacking her in a car, but police didn’t make an arrest. The city reviewed the evidence…

The Columbus, Ohio, city attorney’s office will not prosecute Dallas Cowboys rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott for domestic battery. Tiffany Thompson, Elliott’s ex-girlfriend, had accused the former Ohio State star of injuring her on at least five previous occasions. Early on the morning of July 22, Thompson called Columbus police. Elliott,…

For almost everyone outside Dallas City Hall, David Brown’s Thursday announcement that he would be stepping down as Dallas police chief next month came as a complete shock. For Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, however, the announcement came as no surprise. Brown, they said Thursday, had…

Lawyers for Ethan Couch, the drunk-driving teen who killed four and injured 11 in a 2012 accident, are trying to get their client out of Tarrant County Jail. In April, Couch was ordered to serve almost two years in jail by Judge Wayne Salvant for violating the terms of the…

Jeremy Jeffress is headed to Houston for rehab and will likely miss the rest of the regular season. The Rangers relief pitcher has been on the MLB restricted list since Friday, when he was busted for DWI after leaving the Sisu nightclub in Uptown. Conveniently, Jeffress should be home just in…

The online reviews for Dallas’ Doll House Massage Parlor are heavy on acronyms. Once you decode things, you end up finding stuff out you probably could’ve gone without knowing. The Doll House, according to those reviews and the U.S. Department of Justice, was offering out more than just rubdowns.  Late…

One of the most fascinating things about the Dallas Police Department’s blog, DPDBeat.com, are the action-packed photos and videos the department posts to try to solve unsolved crimes. So far, DPD Beat has featured hammer-wielding thieves busting up an ATM, a massive counterfeit bust and employees fighting back when their…

Jeremy Jeffress did not make an appearance in the Rangers 9-0 win over the Indians on Thursday, but he had a long night nonetheless. Early Friday morning, Dallas police stopped the right-handed reliever in Uptown after he made a lane change without signaling in the 2500 block of Maple Avenue…