Last week, Dallas police released a video showing a clerk at a Pleasant Grove convenience store being stabbed and beaten with a hammer. The attacker then took an unknown amount of cash and walked nonchalantly from the store, leaving the clerk bleeding on the floor. Police have now identified the…
For the third time in four months, former self-proclaimed Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown has been indicted on federal charges, this time for concealing evidence. Brown has already been charged with a laundry list of crimes. He was arrested in September, after a raid on his Dallas apartment, then charged in…
If you visit the website of DarkSide After Hours, you’ll still find crudely designed event posters advertising 2 a.m. raves and boasts about “the club too krunk to be locked into one location.” Fueling the party was a never-ending buffet of ketamine, LSD, MDMA, Ecstasy, mushrooms and marijuana, as undercover…
Just after midnight on Tuesday, Cowboys nose tackle Jay Ratliff was driving his Ford pickup along State Highway 114 in Grapevine when police say he drunkenly crashed into an 18-wheeler, then a highway barrier. No one was injured. Ratliff, 31, refused a Breathalyzer test before bonding out of the Grapevine…
In a federal courtroom in Fort Worth today, Ryan Walker Grant learned that he will have exactly 10 years in federal prison to ponder just where exactly he went wrong. After all, his plot to murder Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck and attorney Tom Brandt after the city effectively shut down…
Agents of nearly a dozen federal and local law enforcement agencies busted a large drug ring this week, arresting a dozen people and seizing 600 marijuana plants and 25 pounds of hydroponic weed. The sweep — conducted by Dallas PD, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security and the IRS,…
Just before midnight last night, an Uptown resident received a frantic text message from her friend: He had just been hit by a car and had fallen into Turtle Creek. He didn’t think he was going to make it. The friend immediately called police, who dispatched several units to canvass…
At 7 p.m., a 41-year-old Dallas woman stepped onto an elevator at Founders Plaza that was already occupied by two men, one of whom police identified as 20-year-old JC Gholston. When the elevator reached the second floor, Gholston stepped in front of the woman, pulled out a black CO2-powered pistol…
A clerk was working alone at the AZ Mart convenience store on Military Parkway in Pleasant Grove when a man walked in. He was a regular customer, police say, but this time he carried a large knife and demanded cash. When the money didn’t immediately appear, the man stabbed the…
Last Thursday, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency received a tip from someone in Brownsville, Texas: A Dallas-bound freight shipment described on shipping manifests as a collection of scales and metal plates actually seemed to contain something else entirely. The shipment was picked up that day from International Welding…
Israel Keyes, an itinerant construction worker and Army vet, spent much of the past decade crisscrossing the United States, carrying out kidnappings, robbing banks, and murdering at least eight people, according to Time. His crime spree came to an end on March 13, when he was pulled over in Lufkin…
Two years ago, Joey Dauben was full-time small-town muckraker, publishing the Ellis County Observer and a string of other small papers, blending investigative stories with vicious gossip and baseless speculation at a rate of speed that thrilled and enraged his target audience. He focused intensely on child pornography and child…
At 5:30 yesterday afternoon, two dogs attacked 29-year-old Jermaine Jones as he walked down Copeland Street, a few blocks southeast of Fair Park. Jones swung at one of the dogs, a gray pit bull, but missed. The other dog, a brown-and-white mutt, then moved in for the kill, biting Jones…
A lot has happened to Barrett Brown since heavily armed federal agents raided his Dallas apartment and threw him in jail: The Anonymous-affiliated hacktivist was indicted on charges of threatening an FBI agent via loopy YouTube rant, then doxing said agent by publishing his personal information on the Internet; his…
Update at 12:29 p.m.: The Morning News Tanya Eiserer reports that Silva has confessed to the murder, telling police that, “I killed him because he put a flower on my door and tonight he had on a red hat so I decided I was going to kill him.” Original post:…
Over much of the past year, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and local law enforcement agencies have been carrying out the largest offensive against pill mills Texas has ever seen. Dubbed “Operation King of the Pill,” the effort involves dozens of officers swarming medical offices suspected of illegally distributing addictive…
Dallas police had a busy weekend, as they always do. There were lots of reports of petty theft, minor assaults, and traffic accidents. There were also these gems, pulled from the weekend’s police reports: Saturday, 2:30 a.m.: Michael Stewart, 46, told police he had arranged an all-male threesome with two…
Fort Worth Police were mum when Martin Herrmann, a 50-year-old former agent with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, was arrested late last month on a charge of improper photography/visual recording. The TABC offered only slightly more information, telling the Star-Telegram that Herrmann had been fired in November for failing to…
Here’s something they don’t tell you when you stroll into University Park: You’re perfectly welcome to piss or shit wherever you please. That’s the law, anyways. The city apparently lacks an ordinance, standard among modern municipalities, banning public urination or defecation. It’s an omission city officials can no longer ignore,…
Just after 8 p.m. yesterday, two men crept into Apartment 318 at McCallum Corners, a no-frills complex off Coit Road near the George Bush Turnpike. Police say they were after the half pound of marijuana inside, and quite possibly the $2,000 cash that was stuffed inside a purple bag inside…
Jesus Ventura’s strange and very public criminal saga began back in March, when the 37-year-old firefighter and paramedic walked into a firehouse and started waving a pistol around. The gun went off, although no one was injured, and Ventura fled; he was arrested a week or so later at his…
On October 2 at 5 a.m., a delivery driver spotted a wrecked Chevrolet Silverado behind the Mayflower Place shopping center in Hurst. When police arrived to inspect the vehicle, they spotted two gun cases that contained a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol and a Hawk Industries 12-gauge shotgun. That didn’t…
