A couple of notable press releases from the U.S. Attorney’s Office just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, the most recent of which has to do with a former Internal Revenue Service employee sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 16 months in the federal hoosegow for…
According to court documents, on the evening of September 23, 2005, Dallas Police officer Kent Wolverton received a call for help from a fellow officer at the Larry Johnson Recreation Center on Dixon Avenue near Fair Park. Wolverton would later insist “that he heard screaming in the background of the…
By now you’ve no doubt heard: In the wee small hours of this morning, 18-year-old Daniel Stanley went to the Tiferet Israel cemetery at Buckner and Scyene, dug up a corpse and used a hatchet to chop off a foot. According to the Dallas police press release, it was Stanley…
Hours after news began circulating on Facebook that the Dallas Police Department’s own David O. Brown would be taking over as chief next week, the city’s new top cop stepped before cameras and reporters, and about 20 gathered police officers, to give the news a more personal touch. Saying he…
Seriously.Update: Here’s Mary Suhm’s more formal announcement to the city council and mayor, via a memo given them this morning:Chief Brown Memo April 28 2010…
Back in January, the paper version of Unfair Park featured Megan Feldman’s story on a specialized Dallas County court that’s connecting ex-prostitues with treatment and, provided they stick with their rehabilitation program, keeping them out of prison.Tuesday morning we learned about Dallas County’s plans to help ease jail overcrowding with another…
Which, I’ll assume, is the point of this new promo made by Frisco-based Filmspire Productions. Kinda like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. But something’s missing. Can’t quite put my finger on it…
A few follow-ups with which to begin the day:Sam went to Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s retirement wingding in the Cedars yesterday, where the commish announced he’d be consulting for and teaching at the W.W. Caruth Jr. Police Institute at the University of North Texas at Dallas. In its press…
Some news and notes while we wrap up some wrap-ups:On Sunday we noted that U.K. reports have Tom Hicks this close to becoming a sports-team owner without a sports team. Overseas papers insist that at any moment now, Hicks and Liverpool FC co-owner George Gillett will announce they’ve hired Barclays…
Long story short: Back in December, D ran a story by former Observer-er Tom Korosec about the city’s efforts to shut down nine brothelsmassage parlors, among them the Cleopatra Day Spa, Moon Night, The Passion, 333 Bodyworks and 7th Heaven starring Stephen Collins. Around the same time, the massage parlors…
Speaking of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins …This week, SMU hosted a Media and Human Rights Symposium that featured among its guests Watkins, a few profs and even a noted Oscar-winning filmmaker. Watkins delivered his presentation on Wednesday, and during his speech he spoke at great length about his…
We were there in October of last year, when the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the I.R.S., the U.S. Secret Service and Texas Air National Guard — and every other law-enforcing abbreviation — showed off the guns, drugs and money hauled in after they busted up the meth-trafficking members of…
Noticed on the KTVT last night that Coach, the maker of luxury handbags and not Craig T. Nelson, has sued Best of Dallas winner Sam Moon in Dallas federal court. You can see where this is headed: trademark infringement, copyright infringement and false advertising allegations, for starters. And though the…
So, yes, I did indeed head over to 1500 Marilla for today’s Public Safety Committee meeting, where the highlights had very little to do with crime-stat bookkeeping. Instead, I filed my notepad with excerpts from one of Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway regularly scheduled sermons, this one dealing with everything…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word: On Saturday afternoon, a 27-year-old Plano man named Erlyndon J. Lo, was arrested by FBI agents at his home on charges that he threatened to use deadly force to stop an abortion at the Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center on Greenville Avenue and Lovers…
Now I know why I heard all those sirens early Saturday morning, then found a puddle of smashed glass at the Marsh and Merrill intersection not far from the house: DWI arrest! And, according to an excitable Avi Adelman, not just any DWI arrest but one apparently involving the owner…
Pretty sure one of us will be at City Hall this afternoon as the council finally gets back from its three week leave of absence. Though about hitting up Landmark Commission for a slice of Bama Pie, but if nothing else it might be worth a visit to the Public…
Pete’s headed out to Dallas Police HQ for a 4:30 press conference, during which the department will announce that, sure enough, it’s charging Erykah Badu with something for that “Window Seat” striptease filmed in Dealey Plaza in mid-March.”Yes, we are going to charge her,” DPD spokesman Senior Corporal Kevin Janse…
Last night, the city of Dallas held a reception and dinner at the Trinity River Audubon Center where the six candidates to replace outgoing Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle underwent what City Manager Mary Suhm referred to as “speed dating.” Three of the would-be chiefs come from outside the DPD,…
A couple of news and notes before I head out to butter my unleavened bread …A Friend of Unfair Park takes note of New York State Sen. Eric Adams’s latest initiative: “Stop the Sag.” Which only puts New York about three years behind Dallas and, more to the point, council…
If you don’t recall the name Chynna Stone, maybe you remember what happened to her on April 18, 2008: At 3:30 that Friday afternoon, the SMU sophomore was sitting on the couch in her apartment living room on McFarlin Avenue when a very drunk and very stoned 24-year-old Brian Michael…
This morning’s New York Times heralds the debut of the F.B.I.’s Web site featuring the most-wanted bank robbers in New York and New Jersey. Of course, that’s old news ’round these here parts: The bureau launched its first Bandit Tracker site in Dallas back in ’07, and officials say it…
