On the afternoon of September 6, Franklin Davis drove away from Hebron High School with Shania Gray, a 16-year-old student there. Davis, 30, had arranged the meeting using a fake Facebook profile featuring a picture of a teenage boy. Otherwise, Gray might not have agreed to meet. Davis is accused…
Police are investigating whether a woman found dead in White Rock Lake this afternoon was murdered. Walkers spotted the body on the east side of the lake around Garland Road, a half mile or so south of the Arboretum. The body was recovered by Dallas Fire-Rescue, which turned the investigation…
Theadora Ross asked for leniency. The former senior corporal with Dallas PD, who pleaded guilty in August to stealing $250,000 in would-be reward money from the Dallas Crime Stoppers program she oversaw, argued in a court filing that prison would be too hard on her daughter, who has Down Syndrome…
Early Saturday morning, about 6 a.m., the manager of the Knox Street Apple Store received a call from the alarm company: Someone had breached the store’s inner sanctum, the Genius Room, tripping the alarm. The manager arrived within minutes, but he was too late. Checking the stockroom, he discovered that…
On the night of October 9, Juan Herrera and Willie Jones went to a strip club. They showed up at Dallas Cabaret on Harry Hines Boulevard at about 11:30 p.m., where they paid $20 for their cover. Herrera then went to the bar for drinks when the bouncer, Brian Rodriguez,…
You’ll remember Andrew Rodriguez as the 17-year-old who learned the hard way what Hurst police officer Disraeli Arnold’s knee feels like when it strikes the back of one’s head. The video of that encounter, and Arnold’s expletive-laced threats (“Move and fucking’ die.”), went viral, embarrassing the Hurst Police Department and…
There must be easier ways to make a living than faking car accidents and submitting false insurance claims for those fake car accidents. It also sounds like a ton of work to set up fake chiropractic clinics to generate fraudulent medical records and bills to submit with those fake insurance…
The Morning News’ Tanya Eiserer and WFAA’s Rebecca Lopez teamed up last night for what has to be one of the more bizarre stories to emerge from the Dallas Police Department in recent years. Their reports revealed that Regina Smith, a DPD lieutenant in charge of burglary and theft detectives…
It’s not clear why a Hurst police officer was arresting the 17-year-old shown in the above video, or how much the he was resisting. What is clear is that the he didn’t pose much of a threat when a second cop — who IDs himself as Officer Arnold — sprinted…
It’s the day before Thanksgiving, which means we probably should be explaining to you the proper basting technique or giving you tips on deep frying a turkey without setting your neighborhood ablaze. But we don’t know really know what “basting” is, and we’re not very good at not setting stuff…
Officer J.D. Tippit came home for lunch on November 22, 1963. He rarely ever had time to leave his patrol long enough to do that, and his wife, Marie, scrambled to fix him a turkey sandwich and set the table. “I got to see him one last time,” she said…
Sometimes the Dallas police have to deal with stupid shit. Often said shit’s not quite stupid enough to merit its own story, but at the same time seems a shame to not mention at all. That said, here are a few highlights from the beats of Dallas’ finest. 2 p.m.:…
Pablo Mora was last seen alive on September 30 as he was leaving his home in Oak Lawn. Two weeks later, his car was found at Ray Roberts State Park in Pilot Point. Dallas police sent out an alert around that time looking for information on the whereabouts.of Mora, a…
Early this morning an hour or so before rush hour, as the city was just beginning to rouse, a man wearing jeans and a dark blue jacket was buzzed through the front door of a nondescript storefront on Ferguson Road near its intersection with Shiloh Road. Inside, he pulled a…
Just after midnight on Saturday, an employee of an apartment complex off of Bonnie View Road, not far from Paul Quinn College, was sitting in his car when saw a man in a gray hoodie shooting in the direction of a nearby creek. The man was screaming: “That was my…
Just after noon at Thurgood Marshall Elementary yesterday, Dallas police were called to Thurgood Marshall Elementary, which is in Dallas but part of Richardson ISD. A teacher had just cleared 20 students from her classroom after an 11-year-old boy threatened to cut the throat of a fellow classmate, then placed…
If you direct your browser to 16dollarhouse.com and plunk down $9.97 for an e-book, you can still learn from Ken Robinson ( “poised, measured, insightful and wise” and an AMERICAN, all caps, as the site informs you) how to use adverse possession, a once obscure Texas law, to get a…
When authorities found the body of Robert Dodson II inside a burning SUV at a gas well in rural Johnson County last month, how he wound up there was a mysterious. It was easy to wonder whether it had something to do with a June incident in which a 17-year-old…
A while back, Patrick Kinkade, the chair of TCU’s criminal justice department, drove a filthy Ford Explorer to several full-service car washes in Fort Worth. Each time, he left behind a large amount of loose change in plain view. Often, about a third of the time, some of the money…
On the afternoon of September 6, police officers came to the door of an apartment in the 4300 block of Wyoming Street. They were following a man who lived there, who had just received a disturbing call: his one-year-old child was dead. The police were met at the door by…
At 11:30 Saturday night, Mark Yeh, 19, was walking behind the Auto Zone on Park Lane, about a block from his home, when a green Ford Excursion stopped beside him. Yeh was grabbed and forced into the SUV by a handful of Hispanic men — maybe four, maybe five –…
Last night, Ryan Ahrens showed up at the Davenport Apartments on the Dallas North Tollway to buy a Chevy pickup he’d seen advertised on Craigslist. He caught a ride there with a friend and the friend’s young child, who was buckled into a car seat in the back, and he…
