There’s really no legitimate reason to ever carry an ice pick in Dallas. That rule applies year-round (ice comes in cubes nowadays), but it’s particularly true in late May, when temps dip to a not-quite-frigid 75 degrees. That point was driven home in extremely painful fashion early this morning at…
You’d think the clerk might have recognized the man as he waited in line at 7:30 Thursday morning. After all, he’d made memorable appearances at the same Ninth Street 7-Eleven twice in the previous 27 hours. In the first, which happened just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, the 200-pound Hispanic…
In October of last year, at around 11:15 p.m., 17-year-old Jake Evans placed a 911 call from his upscale home in Aledo, a tony suburb just outside of Weatherford. “It’s weird,” he said, his voice eerily calm as he spoke with the operator. “I wasn’t even really angry with them…
White Rock Lake has become a favored hunting ground for knife-wielding bandits. At the end of March, one made off with a cell phone and bicycle from kids walking along the path cutting through the park below the dam. Two weeks later, at almost the same spot, a young couple…
Update at 2:40 p.m.: WFAA’s Rebecca Lopez reports that the victim is a Mexican national named Juan Guerrero Chapa believed to be working for a drug cartel. News 8 has confirmed victim in Southlake shooting is Juan Guerrero Chapa. A mexican natl. believed to work for drug cartel. He’s an…
A Dallas County jury has found Donald Cuba not guilty of rape, The Dallas Morning News’ Melissa Repko is reporting. Cuba, a 20-year-old junior, was accused of raping a fellow student in a dorm room early on the morning of February 10, 2012. As we wrote this morning, the trial…
Last fall, 20-year-old SMU junior Donald Cuba was indicted on charges of raping a fellow student in a dorm room. He was one of two SMU students charged with sexual assault that year (both in the same month, in fact). The other student, J.D. Mahaffey, saw his charges dropped by…
Update at 11:20 a.m.DPD and the FBI told The Dallas Morning News the department has been informing the agency of officer-involved shootings: “They do notify us when there is an officer-involved shooting,” Chaumont said. She further confirmed that the bureau had been notified about the Allen shooting. Cited as evidence…
When Dallas police found Robert Schneider on the wrong side of a six-foot barbed-wire fence at Love Field in March, the 55-year-old at least had the wherewithal not to yell “jihad,” or “Jesus” for that matter. “I’m in there scrapping,” he explained according to police records. See also Turns Out,…
Digital rights advocates cheered yesterday after the state House passed a measure requiring police to obtain a search warrant before collecting personal cell phone data. Groups as diverse as the ACLU of Texas and the arch-conservative Texas Eagle Forum have expressed concern that current law, which allows law enforcement agencies…
Isaac Bugyendu was already dead when police responded to a shooting call Sunday night on Montana Avenue in Cedar Crest. The 25-year-old’s body, pierced by multiple bullets, had been left in the middle of the road, barely a block from the Illinois Avenue 7-Eleven where he was a clerk. Notably…
To the naked eye, the UPS parcel contained nothing but an ordinary wooden folding chair and two paintings. Not precisely the “wooden frames” described on the shipping manifest, but nothing that isn’t shipped across the country hundreds or thousands of times every day. But U.S. Customs agents at the UPS…
It started, police say, with a trip to the club on Saturday night. Kassandra Martinez, 20, picked up three of her cousins in her decade-old Passat and set off for Viviana’s Nite Club, near the intersection of Stemmons and Royal Lane. The deal was, Martinez would drive and everyone would…
A 1-year-old child died after being left in a locked car in the parking lot of Frank Guzick Elementary School in Pleasant Grove. The child’s mother is a teacher at the school, according to a statement from Dallas ISD. A statement from the Dallas Police Department says that a witness…
The Morning News broke the news this morning that officials had narrowed the cause of last month’s deadly West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion to one of three things: a golf cart, an electrical short, or criminal activity. That wasn’t terribly narrow, but there was a press conference scheduled this afternoon,…
It’s 5:30 on a Wednesday morning, and you’re broke. Maybe you’re short on rent. Maybe you need some beer. Either way you need to get some cash. It’s too early to rob a bank. They’re all closed. So are jewelry stores. All-night convenience stores have too little cash at this…
By most accounts, Steve Abraira did a decent job as Dallas’ fire chief. He served for five years, was well-respected by the rank-and-file, and ran a department with no glaring issues. But somewhere along the line, he crossed City Manager Mary Suhm, who issued an ultimatum: resign or be fired…
On Monday, Irving police investigators were tipped off that a U-Haul truck containing a sizable batch of drugs was parked somewhere inside the city. They found the truck in front of a closed business on Irving Boulevard, so officers set up shop, hanging back and watching to see if someone…
Police don’t make a habit of blasting out the names and faces of 17-year-old crime suspects, but the Irving Police Department made an exception for Travis Lekas. The Nimitz High School student was arrested Monday on charges that he drugged a fellow student and forced her into prostitution. According to…
Yesterday, the Dallas Police Department has blanketed its Facebook page with a portrait and brief biography of every officer killed in the line of duty over the past 121 years. The procession of 80 mostly young faces is a somber reminder of how dangerous a job policing is. A handful…
Last Saturday, the folks taking in the new George W. Bush Presidential Center were briefly under the frightening misimpression that it had come under terrorist attack, as reports of an “active shooter” put the center and SMU on lockdown. Among the visitors were Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The…
If there’s one thing everyone in America can agree on this morning, it’s that Kermit Gosnell is disgusting and belongs in an especially dank and fetid section of some sort of subterranean prison. In a case that millions of talking heads have been shouting at you about from your TV,…
