Wednesday morning, a woman came into an Arlington pharmacy, demanded narcotics and then shot the pharmacist when he turned her down. At least that’s what Arlington Police said at first. By Wednesday afternoon, the story had changed about what happened at Remco Pharmacy on Division Street. As is apparent from…
Barely one month after the murders of five police officers in the streets of Dallas, the police and fire unions are using those deaths in a ham-fisted attempt to intimidate the City Council on pay issues. Mayor Mike Rawlings blasted the groups at a council briefing Wednesday: “That’s not the…
Kenny Martin stood next to his wife’s driver side window, pointing a Colt .45-caliber revolver at her as she waited in her Jeep at a stoplight at the intersection of Central Avenue and Southlake Boulevard. Linda Martin was speaking on the phone as he aimed. A small balding man, the 52-year-old Martin often…
In a big first step for the city of Dallas’ nascent battle against the thousands of loose dogs believed to be roaming the city, the Dallas Police Department made its first ever felony arrest of a dog owner for an attack by their dog. Alicia Hernandez, 64, is in Dallas County…
The NFL will not bend its rules, not even to let the Cowboys support the beleaguered Dallas Police Department. Since the beginning of training camp, the Cowboys have sported a sticker on the back of their helmets signaling solidarity with the department after the ambush and slaying of 5 officers…
Dallas police are seeking a robbery suspect who bit a store clerk during a robbery late last week. On July 28 at about 1:05 a.m., a black man in a red T-shirt and sneakers entered the 7-Eleven store at 302 North Marsalis Avenue and made a purchase. “When the clerk…
The Dallas Police Department has been hit with everything a big city has to offer so far in 2016. There’s been a well-publicized “spike” in violent crime and the murder rate, a string of robberies in Oak Lawn and a campaign visit by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. And then…
Ezekiel Elliott first training camp as a Dallas Cowboy is going just as one would’ve imagined when the Ohio State running back was selected with the fourth pick of the 2016 NFL Draft. In the run-up to the Cowboys first preseason game on Saturday night, he’s been treated like any…
Dallas police today released a bulletin regarding two very similar robberies of Pokemon Go players near White Rock Lake. The first incident occurred on July 22, 2016 at about 1:05 a.m, when officers responded to a robbery call in the 600 block of E. Lawther. “The victim was robbed at…
Richardson firefighters who came to an office building on the 500 block of E. Arapaho were met with an odd chemical smell, too rancid for a regular fire. The source of the blaze was a nondescript suite with no business name on it, Suite 105. What they found inside on…
Mayor Mike Rawlings invoked the five police officers murdered in Dallas July 7 in an effort to pressure the Dallas Park and Recreation Board to sign a contract Thursday that would turn over control of Fair Park to the mayor’s personal delegate, retired oil executive Walt Humann. “In recent weeks,…
For a while Friday night it seemed like the Next Generation Action Network’s planned protest was going to be a bust. There were more members of the media than protesters at Main Street Garden Park downtown, the gathering site for Dallas’ first organized anti-police brutality protest since the July 7…
The impending release of John Warnock Hinckley Jr., the University Park product who shot President Reagan in 1981, has got me thinking in a little bit different direction. Most of the writing I’m seeing on Hinckley’s release is about the insanity defense used successfully by Hinckley’s lawyers to get him…
Linda Martin, a 55-year-old real estate agent, died at a stoplight in Southlake in late May. Now the man accused of killing her, her estranged husband, is out on bond. Kenneth Martin, 52, posted his $100,000 bail at the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth where he was being held…
It seems that Jay Torres, the DFW-based La Estrella freelancer killed in the backyard of a Garland home last month, was not killed because he was a journalist. Garland Police announced Tuesday afternoon that they are looking for Anibal Edilfredo Chirino Mejia, 23, of Garland. Mejia, police believe, killed Torres over a…
Parked in a 2005 gold Impala, Colton Crews waited in a busy Target parking lot, an AK-47 in the trunk of his car. He’d parked away from other cars, but not too far away, when he arrived just a few minutes earlier on this Saturday afternoon in Carrollton. The 24-year-old…
Last June 17, when organized anti-Trump protesters showed up outside a Donald Trump rally in Dallas, Breitbart, the conservative online news service, described some of the protesters with the headline: “Dallas Anti-Trump Protesters Are Entitled, Vile and Stupid.” Well, at least Micah Johnson, the shooter who killed five Dallas cops three…
Dallas Cowboys superstar running back in waiting Ezekiel Elliott faces accusations that he beat up his ex-girlfriend. In two reports filed with the Columbus, Ohio police department early Friday morning, Tiffany Thompson says that she was attacked by Elliott first last week, when he hit her and left bruises on…
Next Generation Action Network, the primary organization behind the July 7 protest against police brutality that preceded five Dallas police officers being shot to death by Micah Xavier Johnson, has, for the second time since the shooting, postponed the march scheduled for this week. The head of the network, Dominique…
Micah Xavier Johnson started his rampage by pulling his SUV onto Lamar Street. The street was empty, cleared out in anticipation of the police protest march that was just concluding downtown. He parked his vehicle sideways in the street, grill facing El Centro’s east entrance. There, El Centro College Police…
Dominique Alexander, the head of Next Generation Action Network and one of the people behind the protest that preceded July 7 police shootings in downtown Dallas, is not wasting much time. The group’s next protest, he announced Monday afternoon, is going to go on Thursday night, two weeks to the…
Dallas’ police department has received intense scrutiny since Micah Johnson ambushed Dallas police following a march against police brutality on July 7. Our city has a complex history with law enforcement that the Observer has extensively covered. Here’s a quick list of reading material that can help explain the dynamic between the…
