“I don’t want to talk about all that.” The pastor took some letters from the mailbox without glancing over. “What I really want to talk about is getting more people to come to church on Sundays. You want to talk about religion, you can come by anytime.”Yesterday, we got an…
Last time I noted the Dallas Police Department’s concerns over cat killings ‘cross the city, the great Bud Kennedy of the Star-Telegram jumped in the comments and insisted, “Every ‘cat mutilation’ hoax nationwide has turned out to be the work of animal predators.” Far as Bud’s concerned, it’s all the…
In the spirit of this week’s cover on the exoneree compensation scheme and the attorneys who’ve profited handsomely from it, we submit the case of Billy Frederick Allen — a man incarcerated for nearly 26 years for two apparently drug-related University Park murders. In February 2009, the Court of Criminal…
John Wayne was a U.S. marshal, far more than once. He was police lieutenant and then detective, back to back in the 1970s. And, of course, he played a sheriff, repeatedly and quite famously. And now, courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries, proof of his greatest position in law enforcement: an honorary…
When the Dallas Police Department isn’t using its Facebook page to post breaking news about missing persons or arrested officers, it’s sharing quite a bit of departmental history via old photos. Already we’ve peeked at an illustrated history of the department’s sweet rides, and been treated to a gallery featuring…
Had the council not canceled all of its committee meetings through mid-September, at which point Mayor Mike Rawlings will reshuffle the deck chairs, yesterday would have been the first Public Safety Committee since June 20. I asked Dallas Police Department spokesman Senior Corporal Gerardo Monreal if he happened to have…
A little while ago, the Dallas Police Department’s Central Division posted this heads-up to its Facebook page:A homeless black male who possibly goes by the name “Poochy” is stealing puppies and selling them to residents in downtown Dallas along Main Street. The suspect is approx 53 yrs old, 5’6″, 140lbs,…
Actually, it was just one Picasso — along with “real estate, boats and other personal water craft, luxury vehicles, artwork, furniture, antiques, musical instruments, jade, expensive jewelry and wine.” Still. That’s not how Tony Rand and his boys Greg and Bill were supposed to be spending more than 300 investors’…
We’re ahead of the curve here in Texas when it comes to our treatment of the wrongfully convicted. These days, instead of loosing them into a world they barely recognize with empty pockets, we hand them well-deserved golden parachutes worth $160,000 for each year they spent in prison for crimes…
Looking through a stack of federal cases this morning I espied something odd, a file titled USA v. … well, let’s just say an address all of four blocks from my Northwest Dallas house, and a house I drive by at least once a day. A foreclosure, perhaps? A tax…
Twice last summer the Dallas Police Department warned it would enforce, on a limited basis, the once-litigated and gosh-how’d-we-ever-survive-without Section 31-33 of the Dallas City Code, which spells out when the under-17’s can run amok on city streets during nighttime hours. Or, more to the point, when they can’t: not…
On the other side is the Richardson PD bulletin mentioned here this morning, in which police say they’re looking for the “Handsome Guy” bandit who’s hit six area banks, including ones in Dallas, Irving, Plano and Richardson beginning April 19. Says RPD, his most recent stick-em-up was July 14, when…
According to the Dallas City Attorney’s Office, a self-proclaimed church near Northwest Highway and Webb Chapel Road is anything but. Says a complaint filed today in advance of a late-afternoon hearing, whatever Glen Hudson says he’s operating at 3027 W. Northwest Highway, not far from where all those Bachman Lake-area…
Rais Bhuiyan’s attempts to spare the life of Mark Stroman, the white supremacist who shot him in the face and killed two other men he believed to be Muslim in the days following September 11, 2001, have failed: A federal judge down in Austin denied the Dallas man’s petition for…
It was mighty big news last month when Dallas attorney Levi McCathern shot and killed that 880-pound, 14-foot-long alligator along the Trinity River down in Leon County — big enough that it made CNN, matter of fact. Said the proud lawyer for the Dallas Cowboys, “We got a lot of…
Late on July 3 Dallas Police sent word that two men had shot to death an Oak Cliff convenience store owner … over two boxes of onions. As Byron Harris noted a day later, Quick Check Grocery’s Jin Ha was beloved by folks living near the store at Illinois Avenue…
Tomorrow, the steady stream of stories about Rais Bhuiyan’s attempt to save Mark Stroman — the man who shot Bhuiyan in the face and killed two other men in the days following September 11, 2001 — will more than likely come to an end. Tomorrow the former stonecutter and white…
As you’re no doubt well aware by now, Mark Stroman is scheduled to die down in Huntsville on Wednesday for killing Waqar Hasan, a Pakistani father of four who was gunned down on September 15, 2001, while working in southeast Dallas local convenience store; and Vasudev Patel, an Indian Hindu…
Per the Dallas Police Department, the hold-up you see above was captured three nights ago and just two blocks from Unfair Park headquarters, along the 2700 block of Welborn near Oak Lawn and Maple. You know the drill by now: DPD needs help ID’ing the driver of the car seen…
If, by any chance, you spent the first few months of this year blowing lines in the bathroom of various clubs around town, there’s a decent chance the source of your cocaine was Christian “Cri Cri” Ocana, who the feds believe was running a Dallas off-shoot of a nationwide drug…
Late yesterday, our local feds got to brag up a good half-decade’s worth of sleuthing when they announced charges against more than a dozen people in connection with a multi-state cocaine- and heroin-trafficking syndicate based in Forth Worth. The accompanying documents, which Robert shared in yesterday’s post, are a fascinating…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office sends word: Federal authorities have rounded up dozens suspected of trafficking heroin and cocaine from Dallas to Atlanta to Baltimore to Philadelphia to Nashville and all points in between. Those arrested yesterday come from all over, including Dallas and Fort Worth and Mansfield and Grand Prairie;…
