Abe Spear came to Dallas on September 20 to back Nashville musician Josh Thompson at a gig at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. The 30-year-old Spear is a veteran banjo player who’d tasted modest success as part of the bluegrass group King Wilkie before joining up with…
Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration released a list of all the city and state entities who have applied for a license to fly unmanned aerial drones. That list was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), an organization that champions…
At 8:15 last night, Uthit Worawut and a friend were walking toward DART’s Hatcher Station in South Dallas when police say Traymill Cherry walked up to them pointing a .40-caliber handgun. Worawut, whose is listed on police reports as a resident of The Bridge, was carrying $230 cash, but Cherry…
A hearing to determine if Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins committed prosecutorial misconduct was postponed today after Watkins refused to appear in court. The allegations were brought by attorneys of Al Hill III, who was charged with mortgage fraud by the DA’s office shortly before a legal dispute with…
In the early hours of November 16, 2012, Leroy Dukes was making his nightly rounds as part of the nighttime custodial crew cleaning American First National Bank in Arlington when he glanced inside one of the trash cans behind the teller counter. There, according to a criminal complaint filed recently…
Last October, in a particularly brutal and senseless act of violence, Derrick Birdow crashed a Mercury Grand Marquis through the side of Greater Sweethome Missionary Baptist Church and proceeded to fatally bludgeon its 53-year-old pastor, the Reverend Danny Kirk Sr., with an electric guitar. Police weren’t sure why Birdow murdered…
Police are on the lookout for a 6’2″, 300-pound Hispanic man who conducted a brief but successful raid on the Victoria’s Secret at Mockingbird Station. According to a police report, the man walked into the store through the front door, grabbed 20 sets of pajamas — a $700 value –…
In 2007, Dallas County came to the realization that throwing hookers in jail, as was the standard practice, was an expensive and not-very-effective way of addressing prostitution. So police, courts, and health providers teamed up to develop the Prostitution Diversion Initiative, a program aimed at treating women rather than punishing…
Last week a jury found 68-year-old Jackie Don Burke guilty of one count of unlicensed sale of firearms. According to Burke’s own records he sold 135 firearms in 14 months, because if you’re gonna do it then why not do it big? One of those firearms was a pistol the…
From SMU’s crime logs, we bring you a brief, somewhat disturbing, deeply weird police report: at 8:18 last night, campus police reported that a student was “was assaulted and held against his will” at the university’s Sigma Phi Epsilon house. The case is being classified as “Aggravated Assault/Aggravated Kidnapping/Personal Hazing…
On Saturday night, a few minutes before 8 p.m., 20-year-old Shatara Robinson was walking from the CityPlace DART station to a restaurant on McKinney Avenue, where she was planning to meet family for dinner. She was on the sidewalk when she was approached by Rodney Jones, a wild-haired 46-year-old dressed…
At 4 a.m., an Officer Zane Murray with the Dallas Police Department spotted two men along Stemmons Freeway loading bridge-building materials — $6,400 in large aluminum plates and overhang brackets belonging to Archer Western, a TxDOT contractor — from a construction site into the bed of their 18-year old Dodge…
Stacey Hargraves was pulling in $300 per week from his job in the sanitation department at Mary Kay, but it never seemed to stretch far enough to support his wife, children and his propensity to gamble and go to sporting events. And so, according to the FBI, he walked into…
Larry Lake and his wife, Kathy, were living a comfortable life in the Dallas suburbs until October 2010, when federal agents abruptly descended on their Colleyville home and left with some $6 million in cash. The money, it seems, was legit, simply the revenue from Lakes’ companies, namely Grapevine Drug…
Over the past few months, we’ve brought you sporadic updates on Cody Wilson, a UT Austin law student who heads up a group called Defense Distributed. They want to make a printable gun, an ambition that’s brought much hand-wringing and even got their rented 3-D printer repo-ed back in October…
The Morning News sat down this morning for a jailhouse interview with Chung Kim, the 75-year-old charged with murdering his upstairs neighbors on Monday, and his version of events differs somewhat from the police’s narrative, which is that he became enraged when dog shit landed on his porch and hunted…
Back in December, freshman state representative Jason Villalba, who hails from North Dallas, got a lot of attention for his plan to file a bill allowing Texas school teachers to carry guns. The bill, which he’s calling the Protection of Texas Children Act, would allow certain school district employees to…
Yesterday afternoon, at the mobile home they share on Lawson Road in the Rylie neighborhood of Dallas, 52-year-old Warren Miller and his wife began to argue. At issue, police say, was $20 that had been left in the living room. The argument escalated into something more serious when police say…
On an August night in 1998, Douglas Feldman pulled his Harley up next to an 18-wheeler that had just cut him off on a highway in Plano. Feldman shot and killed the driver, Robert Everett, then paused on his way home to murder an Exxon tanker driver named Nicholas Velasquez…
At 5:30 yesterday, a 13-year-old student at Dallas’ Anderson Middle School was at a Dixon Avenue apartment complex selling candy for a school fundraiser when she was grabbed by the neck from behind. The attacker, whom the girl identified as a seventh grader at Anderson, briefly choked her, then pulled…
Chung Kim had lived below Jamie Stafford and Michelle Jackson at the Sable Ridge Apartments in Northeast Dallas for two years when witnesses and police say an ongoing dispute over noise — the 31-year-old couple had five children — and dog crap pushed Kim over the edge. At 8 a.m…
At around midnight last night, neighbors in the Dallas Power & Light building called police to complain of loud music coming from Kamiel Moore’s apartment. Officers pounded on the door several times before Moore opened it. They told her that neighbors were complaining about the noise and asked to see…
