Sunday morning, Dallas police officer David Kattner was arrested for allegedly using his authority to coerce a woman into having sex with him while he was in uniform. An arrest affidavit obtained by The Dallas Morning News says Kattner called a woman and told her to follow him to the…
Enrique Arochi was angry, cops say, because one of his friends declined his sexual advances. Not content to end a night that began, he told police, with an Adderall and continued with 10 shots of Captain Morgan’s at a friend’s apartment and three to five beers at a Shops at…
The number of executions and new death sentences continued to drop in the U.S. in 2014, even in Texas, which killed 10 prisoners this year, according to a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center. That’s the lowest number since 1996, when three men received lethal injections. (The 1996…
After hearing testimony on Tuesday about the glee Eric Williams took in killing Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McClellend, McClellend’s wife, Cynthia, and Assistant Prosecutor Mark Hasse, a Rockwall County jury decided Wednesday morning that Williams should be killed by Texas. Williams was convicted of Cynthia McClellend’s murder on December…
Just after midnight Tuesday morning, Dallas police officer Larry Moody shot Jonathan Puckett. It was the 20th time Dallas cops have shot at a civilian so far this year. Puckett was hit in the leg and torso and is being treated for his injuries at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Puckett…
Tuesday morning, one of the last remaining mysteries in the trial of Eric Williams was answered: His estranged wife would indeed participate in the proceedings. Kim Williams took the stand to describe how she and Williams plotted and executed the killings of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McClellend, his wife…
Kory Watkins can’t leave well enough alone. After months of protests by him and his gun-toting, cop-watching buddies, Texas lawmakers seemingly want to give the open-carry extremists exactly what they say they want: the right to wield whatever firearm they damn well please without having to do so much as…
Commissions and consulting fees. That’s what Grapevine-based Dallas Airmotive called the bribes it paid to military officers and government officials in Brazil, Argentina and Peru to keep its maintenance contracts for those countries’ military planes. Many of the payments were for small amounts like $3,000 or $5,000, the biggest was…
Veronica Dunnachie, who Arlington police say shot her husband Russell Dunnachie and his adult daughter Kimberly on Wednesday afternoon, knew her way around firearms. Her Facebook page is filled with pictures of her firing rifles and posing with her fellow Open Carry Tarrant County members. She decided to put that…
In late September 2012, an SMU freshman, just a month into his life on campus, went to university police to report that he’d been sexually assaulted at a frat party. He hoped the school could help — help protect him from his alleged assailant, help save him from further embarrassment…
In a shocking turn of events, Eternal Eden, the afterhours rave held on Saturday nights at Jaguars, a northwest Dallas strip club, may have been a haven for illegal activity, feds say. Authorities recently announced the indictments on firearms and drug charges of 15 people involved with the club. Feds…
Jada Antoine has quite the resume for a hospice nurse. From January 2009 to April 2012, she cared for more than 100 patients while employed by eight Dallas hospice companies. The thing is, Antoine isn’t a nurse. She isn’t licensed as any kind of healthcare provider. Antoine didn’t let that…
Police say Clarence Mallory and Carter Cervantez thought they got away with their first theft — an $18,000 deposit absconded with from the Hulen Mall’s American Eagle’s safe after-hours in August — so they decided to do it again. This time, they were going after a bigger score, the store’s…
Most people don’t realize that Texas has had a pretty cool law on the books since 1985 that bars merchants from charging customers extra for paying by credit card. The famously annoying credit card surcharge feels like it’s everywhere, and Texas is just one of a handful of states where…
For the second week in a row, demonstrators took to Dallas streets to protest an out-of-state grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for killing an unarmed black man. Unlike last week, Dallas police blocked off access to Interstate 35 and kept demonstrators from closing the freeway…
He didn’t do it. That’s what Eric Williams’ defense boiled down to. Despite the storage locker filled with weapons and survival gear, the getaway car bought using an assumed name, the emailed confession that came from his house and the bullet found in his possession that came from the same…
You can’t make this stuff up. Early on the morning of November 25, Kory Watkins, cop-watcher extraordinaire and face of Open Carry Tarrant County, says he was hit by a drunk driver on his way home from a cop watch. The watch’s target? A DWI checkpoint. In Watkins own words…
Stacks of cash, an arsenal of guns and ammo and homemade bombs were among the items investigators seized from the home and storage locker belonging to former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace Eric Williams, a witnesse testified in the second day of Williams’ trial for the murder of Cynthia…
Aaron Rodarte, the Dallas Police Department officer arrested for DWI in Highland Park early Sunday morning, was found passed out in his BMW at the intersection of Mockingbird Lane and Roland Avenue, according to Highland Park police. Officers pounded on Rodarte’s windows to wake him up. When he finally did…
Kelvion Walker, the 20-year-old Dallas man shot by police officer Amy Wilburn as he sat in a car with his hands up in December 2013, has amended his federal lawsuit to claim higher damages against Wilburn after Dallas Police Department brass criticized Wilburn in depositions last week. As Sky Chadde…
The trial of Eric Williams, the former justice of the peace accused of killing the Kaufman County district attorney, the district attorney’s wife and one of the district attorney’s top assistants started Monday morning. The trial is being held at the Rockwall County Courthouse, the venue to which it was…
In late October, Dallas police chief David Brown promised the public that his department would make data from the last 12 years of Dallas police officers shooting people readily available. On Tuesday, just as everyone was checking out for Thanksgiving, Brown made good on his promise. The department has posted…
