The armed robbery yesterday afternoon of the the Oak Lawn headquarters Trivie wasn’t a random holdup. The app-maker’s office is on the third floor of a plain retail-and-office building between Hall Street and Rawlins, hardly an obvious target, and the robbers were methodical. According to police, three of them, all…
When federal prosecutors announced yesterday that Refugio “Cuco” Ramirez-Garcia will spend the next 20 years in federal prison for helping run a pair of heroin-distribution conspiracies, they gave a shout-out to the local law enforcement agencies who helped bring him down. That’s standard practice. What’s unusual about Ramirez-Garcia’s case is…
Even for the most financially and technologically challenged, receiving a personal email from Dallas Police Chief David Brown asking for cash sets off all sorts of alarm bells, alarm bells like He’s not the NSA — how did he get my email address? and Wouldn’t it be easier to shake…
Werner Eric Brauss is long gone. The real estate dealmaker fled the country in 2009 as the market collapsed, leaving behind a pile of unpaid debt to investors and Las Vegas casinos and the feds’ hopes of an easy prosecution. The chance that Brauss will leave the Brazilian coast, where…
At the end of September, researchers at Sam Houston State University’s Crime Victims’ Institute compiled a study of sexual assault resources offered by 74 Texas colleges and universities for the state legislature. The results were underwhelming. On the bright side, most of the schools had on-campus clinics offering pregnancy testing…
Arthur Dawson left his Oak Cliff apartment at 9:45 p.m. on Halloween night, headed for the MS Express convenience store around the corner at Chaucer Place and Camp Wisdom Road. He didn’t make it back to the apartment complex until 11 p.m., when a neighbor spotted him staggering on the…
Unlike most of the separatist groups that are currently en vogue, the folks behind the republic State of Texas do not call for secession. They don’t need to, having already established a parallel state government on the theory that, in conjunction with their counterparts in the other 49 states, they…
An HIV diagnosis is no longer the death sentence it once was. With early detection and proper treatment, those infected with the virus can fight off AIDS for decades — unless, that is, the patient happens to be in a relationship with 37-year-old Larry Dunn of Irving. Prosecutors say that…
The members of the One Nation Motorcycle Club were in a hurry last week, and for good reason. They were headed to the Ricky Bobby Sports Saloon (no, not that Ricky Bobby), one of Fort Worth’s newest breastaurants. So maybe their speedometers did occasionally inch above the officially posted 60…
The big surprise that emerged from this summer’s arrest of Arlington police officer Thomas Kantzos wasn’t that he’d been using steroids, nor that he’d once had them delivered to his squad car, nor that he repeatedly tipped off his dealer as a local drug task force was preparing to move…
The IRS still hasn’t said why federal agents raided the Preston Hollow home of Straight Line Automotive Group founder Jeremy Wiggains in August, ultimately leaving the $3.3-million McMansion toting several boxes of documents. Pretty much all that could be gleaned at the time came from the bankruptcy filing he’d made…
Attention white people: It might be time to take heed of all those stay-away-from-Fair Park warnings you heard growing up, because when you take the pop-country stylings of Jason Aldean, whose Night Train Tour made a stop at Gexa Energy Pavilion Saturday night, and mix in a little alcohol, you…
On Saturday afternoon, Lorenzo Cantu was playing with friends in the backyard of his home in the 3100 block of Conroe Street while his mother made preparations for his birthday party. At some point, he left the backyard and wandered across the street and greeted a dog who was sniffing…
The California Crossing Dam doesn’t look like much, just a few hunks of concrete anchored in the Trinity River in far Northwest Dallas, but it’s important. The water that pools up behind it is processed at the Bachman Water Treatment Plant, which is a key component of the city’s water…
Tom Corea, the disgraced, disbarred Dallas trial lawyer who pleaded guilty this week to stealing money from clients, has a new canvas for his renowned penis graffiti: the walls of a state penitentiary. State District Judge Mike Snipes sentenced Corea to 25 years in prison on Thursday. According to The…
The Dallas police officer who shot an unarmed, mentally ill man in the stomach has been fired, Dallas Police Chief Brown announced at a news conference today. Brown also said that the police officer, Cardan Spencer, would face a first degree felony charge of aggravated assault, but the department later…
When William Chance’s parents died, in 2008 and 2009, he wanted to honor them properly. As a practitioner of a pan-Native American faith derived from the tribes of the Great Plains — his grandmother was a Cheyenne from Montana — this required a lock of their hair about the thickness…
Here’s what’s happened since video surfaced of Dallas police officer Cardan Spence shooting a mentally ill 52-year-old in the stomach, apparently for standing up from the chair he was sitting in: activists have called for a civil rights investigation; The Dallas Morning News has written a hand-wringing paean to the…
In infomercials, attorney Tom Corea seemed to have a passion for the legal system. But sitting in the back of a police car, he was more candid. Justice, he told the police officers, is “a scam.” Dark words coming from a Dallas attorney known for advertising his “zealous advocacy and…
The Motel 6 Fair Park is the type of place certain southern Dallas pastors fear will be neglected by app-based vehicle-for-hire services like Uber. It’s south of Interstate 30, offers weekly rates and is right next to a Furr’s cafeteria, which suggests a paucity of the affluent smartphone addicts such…
With the pace of modern life being what it is, it’s become all but impossible to find time for a leisurely sit-down meal or an old-fashioned holdup-style heist. Thank goodness then for the fast-food drive-thru, which offers fast, convenient service to on-the-go burger lovers and time-pressed armed robbers alike. Now,…
They don’t last long these days in the media relations office at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. First, longtime public information director Michelle Lyons resigned last year after being demoted and accused of fudging her time sheets. This was after she responded to a media request from a blog…
