At 4 a.m. on Tuesday, two men drove a few blocks in a bulldozer to the Walgreens on 1306 N Beckley Avenue. They backed it up, and then rammed the ‘dozer into a side wall, sending hundreds of goods flying off the shelves and creating a cloud of dust. See…
As the boss pointed out in his first-episode review yesterday, Dallas DNA debuts tonight at 9 p.m. on Investigation Discovery. So happens that those who attended Central Dallas Ministries’ 14th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast last week got a sort-of sneak preview of tonight’s premiere: Before the breakfast, where Dallas…
I winced when asked to screen an advance copy of Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery’s new six-part series that adds to the growing legend that is Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. It took Henry Wade decades in office to achieve legendary notoriety, but with the global media fawning over a…
In May of last year, CNN went looking for Wiley Fountain who, in 2003, received a full pardon from Gov. Rick Perry after DNA evidence revealed Fountain did not commit the aggravated sexual assault of which he’d been convicted in 1986. But the network’s Ed Lavandera couldn’t find the 52-year-old,…
View Larger MapFellow Northwest Dallas resident Sharon Boyd directs our attention today to some heretofore unreported news involving a significant piece of the neighborhood: On Monday, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage will conduct hearings concerning several bars located at 2900 Walnut Hill Lane, otherwise known as the patch of land where…
The Dallas City Council’s committees have plenty on their plates today — everything from establishing a trust fund related to the NBA All-Star game to checking in on the Lancaster Corridor, which is in serious need of some upgrading, to parsing over crime stats (according to the Dallas Police Department,…
On September 14, 26-year-old Army Sgt. Wesley Durbin of Hurst was killed at a small patrol base south of Baghdad when he and another soldier, 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson of Florida, were gunned down by a fellow soldier. As The Dallas Morning News noted in September, Durbin was a…
Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch blog wonders this morning, “Is DNA exoneration too real for reality TV?” The show in question, of course, is Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery’s six-part series about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, his office’s Conviction Integrity Unit and the use of DNA to free those who’ve been…
City council candidate Billy MacLeod was assaulted in Deep Ellum early this morning, resulting in a police report naming a “known suspect” who put MacLeod in a “choke hold” and threw him into Elm Street. MacLeod claims the attack was related to the new smoking ordinance, which took effect just…
The Texas Attorney General’s Office sends word this morning that 22 Dallas parents who’ve been court-ordered to pony up child support were arrested by Dallas County constables — and it was the very definition of a “rude awakening,” as the round-up kicked off at 5:30 in the a.m. Says Attorney…
Oscar Black, a 58-year-old cattle rancher outta Weatherford, offered folks a pretty good deal: If you were to give him some of yer money, well, he’d invest it for ya — to the tune of 12 percent in annual returns, hot damn. Only, there was one problem: Black, who owned…
Three years ago, we ran a piece in the paper version of Unfair Park about a scam called BioPerformance Fuel — otherwise known as mothballs you were supposed to drop into your gas tank to rev up mileage per gallon. The Texas Attorney General didn’t take kindly to that. Which…
In 1978, the city of Dallas and Dallas County signed an agreement concerning the operations at the county jail — an agreement that’s been revised four times, most recently in 1997. Which, as far as City Auditor Craig Kinton is concerned in his latest audit, is far too long to…
On Tuesday, Dallas police officer Robert Powell went on KTVT-Channel 11 to apologize to Ryan and Tamisha Moats for detaining them in a Plano hospital parking lot for 13 excrutiating minutes. Powell, placed on administrative leave last week pending a DPD investigation, also insisted he wanted nothing more in the…
Today down in Austin, more than a dozen former Texas prisoners freed using DNA testing made their case in front of Texas legislators concerning myriad related bills sitting before lawmakers, among them fixing the way victims ID would-be offenders using photos of a live lineup, about which we wrote at…
Ryan and Tamisha Moats started off Monday with a Good Morning America exclusive in which Tamisha said she’d forgive Dallas police officer Robert Powell for those excruciating 13 minutes in a Plano hospital parking lot. Then Powell ended Monday with a KTVT-Channel 11 exclusive in which he apologized and said,…
From GMA to NPR, the Ryan Moats-Robert Powell run-in remains the talk of the nation — by which I mean the story’s the subject of this 11-minute Tell Me More story airing on National Public Radio affiliates today. Host Michael Martin interviews at great length Dallas Assistant Police Chief Floyd…
He’s trying to hold on to his job as top cop in DeKalb County, Georgia — which isn’t stopping Terrell Bolton from also pursuing his wrongful termination claim filed against the city of Dallas. But you know who is putting a stop to it? The Supreme Court of the United…
The Ryan Moats-Robert Powell run-in keeps on running — this time to Good Morning America, where Moats and his wife Tamisha sit down for an exclusive with Robin Roberts, though not before a lengthy recap that includes the dash-cam footage and Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s apology. During the course…
I just spoke with Nicholas Cariotis, chief of the Check Division/Task Force on Identity Fraud at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office — and the man charged with prosecuting Bob Sambol, who, as we mentioned this morning, has been accused in an indictment of stealing $300,000 from investor and (former)…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has just sent word that Alvaro Ivan Adame — a 40-year-old lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety who’s worked in the Drivers License Division as a supervisor at offices on Northwest Highway in Dallas and in Wichita Falls — was arrested this morning at…
Given the reaction of Friends of Unfair Park and Friends of Bob Sambol’s this morning, he’s perhaps the least likely most-wanted man in town, but there’s no disputing a Dallas County grand jury’s true bill indictment that landed in our in-box this morning: The namesake of the 16-year-old Bob’s Steak…
