The man who knocked on David Goldman’s door at 9:30 last night didn’t look like trouble. He was fairly young, in his mid-20s, “dressed neat, clean-shaven and (with) a good haircut,” the 76-year-old later told police, and he asked the price on the 1996 Mercedes for sale in the driveway…
It was a really nice day yesterday, wasn’t it? Not too windy, not too hot, not too humid. Perfect Sunday weather, all the better to sit in the park, feel the fresh air, and, with any luck, not have some asshole come along and kick you in the face. See…
Typically, Dallas saves its wilder side for the weekend. That’s when, once the booze and drugs are flowing in earnest, the weird crimes tend to happen. But the weekend arrived early, with police reporting an armed diaper bag robbery, a Craigslist heist and a low-budget movie production scaring the bejesus…
Updated below. Original story, 10:05 a.m.: An EMT and incident commander with West Emergency Medical Services was arrested early this morning on charges of possessing a “destructive device,” multiple media outlets are reporting. Bryce Reed, 31, is in federal custody. There are two different interpretations of the arrest being presented:…
It was always one of the pieces in Eric Williams’ story that didn’t quite fit a narrative with an otherwise tidy motive for murder. The disgraced former justice of the peace had appealed his April 2012 conviction on burglary charges, prosecuted vigorously by slain Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland…
It wasn’t quite heard around the world, but the shot fired by The Liberator, the plastic gun that University of Texas law student Cody Wilson designed and fabricated using a 3-D printer, was witnessed by a lot of people. It proved beyond a doubt that the gun works. What people…
Village Fair is Dallas ISD’s alternative school, where the district sends those students deemed too disruptive or unruly to function in mainstream classrooms. That it experiences its share of discipline problems is a given. But even there, the iron rule of Texas education applies: Don’t mess with the STAAR test…
The Dallas Police Department still hasn’t given a very satisfying explanation for why it took officers so long to respond to an armed robbery and shooting at a West Dallas grocery on Sunday. Partly it was the 911 caller’s heavy accent, partly that officers were working what they thought was…
Schramms Ammo & Weapons plies its trade out of a Sunnyvale storefront, but the official headquarters listed on state incorporation papers is owner Jeffrey Schramm’s home on Park Chase Circle in Mesquite. It probably goes without saying that Schramm takes his work home with him and keeps a small arsenal…
On Sunday night, four men tried to rob Pepe’s Grocery on Bernal Drive in West Dallas. One of them was carrying an assault rifle, but the manager of the closed store drew first, hitting his target with two shots from his .38. The would-be robbers fled, leaving a trail of…
Last Thursday, Alicia Moore’s friends and family members braved the rain for a somber vigil to call for the 16-year-old’s killer to step forward. The murderer’s identity was a mystery. She had last been seen alive on the afternoon of November 2 stepping off the school bus near her family’s…
SMU has come under fire in recent months for its “non-adversarial” process for handling on-campus sexual assaults, but it’s the actions of another local university that have earned censure from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Education just levied an $82,500 fine against the University of Texas of Arlington…
Mark Farmer had his red backpack with him in the early hours of last Friday when police found him at Infinity 13 tattoo studio at Skillman and LBJ. They unzipped that backpack and found a few thousand dollars worth of tattoo needles, parts and ink, plus a bag of weed…
The man the FBI has dubbed the “Mesh Mask Bandit” struck first on New Year’s Eve, robbing a Northwest Highway BBVA Compass at gunpoint. Since then, he’s robbed an average of about one bank a week, at first sticking to Dallas proper but eventually working his way out to Garland,…
Ruben Martinez Jiminez wasn’t yelling “Jihad” when police found him Sunday in a secure area of Love Field, as the arrest warrant said. That would have been screaming. What Jiminez was saying was “Jesus.” Federal prosecutors explain why in a criminal complaint filed yesterday afternoon: Jiminez was on a mission…
It’s thirsty work being Rick Perry. You have to stand in the warm May sun outside a gun shop and wax poetic about the virtues of firearms, laissez-faire capitalism and how much California blows. It’s no wonder then that you would promptly hightail it across town to the local brewery…
The Wire, David Simon’s epic examination of power, corruption and narcotics in a major American city, was not set in Texas. It couldn’t have been. Not because cities here don’t have those things (they do) but because local police departments aren’t allowed to go around wiretapping drug dealers. Under current…
The official logo of Gun Barrel City, a small town on the banks of the Cedar Creek Reservoir, is a pair of crossed revolvers. Its slogan is “We Shoot Straight With You.” One of its main drags is Gun Barrel Lane, where you’ll find the Carry Right Gun Shop. Its…
Last year, the Arlington Police Department bought a pair of teeny tiny adorable drones, which the FAA gave them the go-ahead to fly back in March. The APD was stoked, dubbing their new toys their “Aviation Unit” and issuing an FAQ about how the drones would never be used for…
On the morning of March 18, police were called to Gerald Canepa’s modest brick home in Oak Cliff. Inside, they found the 68-year-old’s body, naked and lifeless. It was clear from the stab wounds that he’d been murdered. His TV, two computers and DVD collection were gone. The friend or…
Ryan Ball didn’t know that porn legend Jenna Jameson was having her birthday party at Le Vu on Friday night, or so he claims in his recap of the night on Reddit. He and a pair of friends just wanted to have a couple of drinks and settled on the…
From time to time, when police have a particularly busy weekend, we like to compile some of the more interesting happenings into a quick crime digest. We think of it as a public service. How else would readers know not to visit the Stults Elementary playground at 1 a.m., or…
