Crime & Police

Dallas police need the public’s help finding a man they believed robbed two Metro PCS stores Wednesday morning in northwest Dallas. At about 10 a.m., according to DPD, a suspect rolled up to the discount cellphone carrier’s outlet in the 10900 block of Webb Chapel Road in a beige, early…

So close but so far away. Jody Warner, the Dallas County prosecutor fired for drunkenly berating an Uber driver over the weekend, nearly made it home before she and the driver had a falling out over directions. Shaun Platt, her Uber driver, ended Warner’s ill-fated ride Friday night about a…

An Arlington man shot by a Mesquite cop last week is finally out of the hospital, but questions remain about the shooting. Lyndo Jones told reporters Tuesday night after his release from Baylor Medical Center in Dallas that he was happy to be going home to see his kids and…

The way the news is these days: In the middle of a storm of disgusting national stories about male sexual predators, we get our own local countercase — a fired Dallas County assistant district attorney, sobbing on camera, offering every conceivable excuse in the book for her terrible behavior with…

Calling in outside experts never was the Dallas way, sadly.

The first trial stemming from the 2015 shootout between rival motorcycle clubs at a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant ended late Friday afternoon when state District Judge Matt Johnson declared a mistrial. Johnson made his decision after jurors told him three times that they were hopelessly deadlocked as to whether Jacob…

When new Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall took over in September, she promised to look at the department from top to bottom. Last month, she announced plans to overhaul the Dallas Police Department’s command staff, drastically reducing the number of deputy and assistant chiefs serving under her. On Thursday,…

Dallas police announced Thursday afternoon that they’ve made an arrest in Monday’s robbery and murder of a 27-year-old woman at a Dollar General in East Oak Cliff. A yet-to-be identified 15-year-old is in police custody for allegedly killing Gabrielle Simmons, a mother of six. On Monday night, a suspect police…

Dallas police are searching for a suspect after a Monday night robbery and murder at a Dollar General store in south Oak Cliff. At about 7:30 p.m., according to police, a man walked into the store with a gym bag and a pistol. He was wearing jeans with jagged cutouts on…

These are strange times, indeed, so I find myself having to say something here at the beginning that I don’t think I could ever have imagined uttering a long time ago: I am not writing this column in order to mock, disparage or make hay somehow of the shooting deaths…

A trucker started a lethal chain of events early Tuesday morning when he stopped his semi on U.S. 75, parking it in the middle northbound lane of the freeway. It’s driver, Dwayne Simon, 37, didn’t put his flashers on, police say, he just left the truck there, in the dark…

Jacob Henderson, crying uncontrollably, told 911 dispatchers that his wife shot her two daughters, 7-year-old Kaylee and her 5-year-old half-sister, Kenlie, in the head. They’d been sleeping in the living room. “What did I do?” she can be heard saying in the background of the 911 call that the Henderson…

Victor Solorzano will be an old man when he gets out of federal prison — if he gets out. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsey sentenced Solorzano, 32, to 567 months (47 years and 3 months) in federal prison Thursday for his role in a southwest Dallas shootout with federal agents…

Barring another appeal, the state of Texas will execute notorious Deep Ellum child killer John Battaglia early next year, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced Tuesday. Battaglia shot his two daughters, Mary Faith and Liberty, in 2001 as their mother listened on the telephone. He’s been on death row…

On Monday afternoon, the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office identified a 19-year-old woman found in the trunk of a wrecked car Sunday morning. At about 10:45 a.m. Sunday, a driver called the Forney Police Department and reported that another driver had fired a shot at his or her car from a…

Dallas police announced Friday afternoon that they’ve made an arrest in two sexual assaults that occurred in downtown Dallas and Deep Ellum over the weekend. The Dallas Police Department says an anonymous tip led officers to arrest Jerly Patrick Graves Bailey Jr., 36, on Thursday on warrants for forgery and…

Earlier this month, picking up a woman at an Uptown bar turned into a nightmare for Daniel King. He told police the woman drugged him and left his apartment with his puppy under her arm. Police released video Thursday night of the suspect heading out of the W with Daisy,…

Dear Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall: When people here talk to you about criminal nuisance abatement ordinances, you need to be very cautious. You came here four months ago from Detroit to take over as our new chief. Detroit has made good use of certain kinds of nuisance laws,…

Wednesday was an especially tough day for Dallas’ police and firefighters. After an afternoon during which they had to shut off much of downtown Dallas so President Donald Trump could travel to and from his $4 million fundraiser at the Belo Mansion, the evening brought further chaos to the city…

The Dallas Police Department released video Monday afternoon of a man police say committed two separate sexual assaults, one downtown Dallas and one in Deep Ellum, early Saturday morning. In the short clip, a man walks beside a woman, one of his victims, the police department says, as she leaves…

Since new Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall took over the job in early September, her department has shown increased flexibility in the ways it gets more officers on the street. For example, her department reassigned  officers to patrol units. On Monday, the Dallas Police Department took another step by announcing…