Update at 10:23 a.m.: Police have identified the suspected shooter as 41-year-old Ferdinand Glen Smith, who has been charged with murder. He’s being identified in media reports as Karen Smith’s husband. Update at 12:42 p.m.: The Morning News reports that the Ferdinand Smith has a history of abusing his wife…
On Sunday afternoon, 74-year-old Dale Jordan was napping in his living room when he awoke to find a man dressed in all black creeping through his Red Bird apartment. When he ran to the kitchen to grab a knife, the man fled to the rear bedroom and back out the…
Maybe Jamie Elias and Adan Zermeno were stoked that their Dallas Stars would soon return and couldn’t wait to hit the ice to celebrate. Or maybe it was mere coincidence that their burglary spree came just as the NHL lockout was coming to an end. Either way, they found themselves…
Late last week the Hurst Police Department announced that officer Disraeli Arnold, who delivered a flying knee during the arrest 17-year-old Andrew Rodriguez for a trespassing warrant, would be “suspended indefinitely,” which the police chief has said basically means “fired.” The reason for Arnold’s termination wasn’t the flying knee, which…
A Dallas woman’s day got off to a terrible start around 7 this morning, when a man jumped into the driver’s side of the parked car she was sitting in and demanded money from her. Things devolved from there. Police say the woman was sitting in the passenger’s seat of…
Yesterday, Kenneth Howard Lee celebrated his 58th birthday. Or perhaps he didn’t celebrate it at all; police reports tend to be silent on things like that. What we do know is that around 2 a.m. today, shortly after his special day was over, Lee was pepper-sprayed and then taken to…
At 3:30 p.m. yesterday, 36-year-old Terry Varghese was riding his bicycle when he turned onto the Dallas North Tollway service road. That turned out to be a bad idea. Shortly after he made the turn, a car pulled alongside Varghese and its driver began shouting obscenities. “Are you crazy?” the…
On December 6, Damien Falgoust went out for post-game drinks with his kickball teammates at the Knox Street Pub. At 1:30 a.m., he got into a cab and headed for his condo off Lower Greenville. He never made it. An hour later he was found a couple of blocks away,…
First of all, a salute to all the hard-working pizza men and women out there who show up to strangers’ homes in sketchy neighborhoods carrying cash and delicious foodstuffs. It’s thankless work, and dangerous. Take last night, for instance. At 10:30 p.m., a Pizza Hut driver was delivering some pies…
On Wednesday afternoon, an employee at the Half Price Books mothership on Northwest Highway watched a customer as she picked out a selection of audiobooks, concealed them under her shirt, and nonchalantly walked out the back door. Darrell Stevens, a Dallas police officer working an off-duty security job at the…
At the beginning of the week, the Tarrant County DA’s office announced that it will not be pursuing criminal charges against Hurst police officer Disraeli Arnold for his conduct during the November arrest of 17-year-old Andrew Rodriguez on a four-year-old trespassing warrant. Arnold, you’ll recall, delivered a flying knee to…
On New Year’s Eve, nine minutes before the ball dropped on Times Square, police arrived at the Adolphus Hotel, Room 1809, to find the body of 28-year-old Patric Turner. It’s not clear from the police report if there were other people in the room, or drugs or alcohol, just that…
An early-morning police standoff that brought out the SWAT team and shut down DART’s Westmoreland Station is now officially over: RT @keatonfoxnbc5: #BREAKING: Dallas Sheriff’s Office confirms suspect took his own life in this standoff in Oak Cliff.— NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) January 2, 2013…
If you’re in Fort Worth and you head down Loop 820 until you’re just about in North Richland Hills, you’ll find a little place called Redneck Heaven. The name is a self-conscious, somewhat tongue-in-cheek reappropriation of a term often used to disparage white Southerners — on the bar’s website, you’ll…
Back in November, Hurst 17-year-old Andrew Rodriguez was being arrested by Officer M. Jimenez on an outstanding trespassing warrant. Rodriguez was lying on the ground with his hands behind his back when another officer, Disraeli Arnold, decided to assist with the arrest. Arnold did that by taking a flying leap…
Last month, in one of the more bizarre stories to emerge from the Dallas Police Department in recent years, it came to light that the officer in charge burglary and theft detectives in the southwest and northwest patrol units, Lt. Regina Smith was moonlighting as a rapper using the handle…
The holidays can do strange things to people. Case in point: around 2:40 this morning, police were called to the 4000 block of Trinity Mills Road in North Dallas, where, per the police report, callers had reported that two white males were walking in a westerly direction whilst “throwing objects…
View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com. On Christmas Eve, a burglar broke into Billy MacLeod’s house on Akard Street in the Cedars, crept under his Christmas tree, and unwrapped and then stole Christmas gifts, specifically a pair of laptops and an iPhone 4s. A terrible, Grinch-y thing to do. It’s the…
If the security guard wasn’t suspicious when a bald, heavily tattooed Hispanic man walked into the Victoria’s Secret at Mockingbird Station early yesterday afternoon — those post-Christmas sales are admittedly hard to pass up — she soon became so as she watched him walk to a display and grab, oh,…
It’s been just about a year since aerial photographs revealed a large plume of what turned out to be blood flowing down Cedar Creek and into the Trinity River. The blood came from pigs, specifically pigs that were being slaughtered at a plant run by Columbia Meat Packing Co. The…
Early yesterday afternoon, about 1:30 p.m., police chased a stolen car from Red Oak, through DeSoto and into southeast Oak Cliff, nearly a dozen miles as the crow flies. They wound up on a mostly empty stretch of Camp Wisdom Road. It’s not clear from a DPD incident report whether…
Last time we checked in with Steven Lawayne Nelson, the scent of flame retardant and his screams were carried into the courtroom shortly after the jury handed him a death sentence. In October, the 25-year-old convicted killer of a beloved, young Arlington preacher — and suspect in the murder of…
