A trio of truck thefts from Dr Pepper distributors around Texas in the last few months have all ended the same way — with the trucks abandoned just hours after they were stolen, somewhere between Dallas and Fort Worth, with loads of beverage gone missing. In early February, according to…
Mexican folk artist Jesús “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira died in 1979, leaving behind an estimable collection of works — some of which, over the years, have turned up at auction at places like Sotheby’s and New York’s Swann Galleries. But according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, most landed in the possession…
As The Musers might say, count the red flags in this story: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that on Tuesday, it stopped two 22-year-old Japanese citizens at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport who were on their way from Jamaica to California. They were carrying with them 11 vacuum-packed boxes…
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department rarely posts videos to the YouTube, and when it does it’s usually something unusual — like, say, this eerie dash-cam smash-em-up. And then there’s this morning’s find, initially posted a few weeks ago: a mini-doc in which you follow along as a man (actor Fernando…
The Dallas Police Department just sent word — not to mention the video you see above: Two men hit the Galleria Bachendorf’s yesterday around 8 p.m., getting away with close to $100,000 in jewels in a very short amount of time. (The police report says they got away with diamond…
Since the beginning of the year, two reports have documented how Texas’s school districts punish their students: Texas Appleseed’s Ticketing, Arrest & Use of Force in Schools How the Myth of the “Blackboard Jungle” Reshaped School Disciplinary Policy, released in January as part of its Texas’ School-to-Prison Pipeline series, and…
As you no doubt recall, Doug Havard — the former Winston School and SMU student who skipped town after being arrested on charges of counterfeiting, selling GHB and armed robbery, among many others — was brought back to the U.S. a few days ago following a six-year prison vacay in…
The strange, sordid story of Carlos Ortiz Jr., a longtime FBI Special Agent in the Dallas Division, was well documented last August following his arrest for plotting to kill Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge, Robert E. Casey Jr. Long story short: The 49-year-old Red Oak resident, accused by his…
Spencer Barasch is a partner at the downtown Dallas law firm Andrews Kurth, where he is in charge of the corporate governance and securities enforcement team. But before that, and for close to 20 years, he worked for the Fort Worth office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including a…
Marisol Valles became an instant media star last October, when she took over as police chief of Práxedis G. Guerrero, a town near Juarez. She was just 20 years old, a criminology student and a mother, and the job she was taking only opened up when her predecessor was beheaded…
Last night, a Dallas Police Department spokesman sent an e-mail to media members containing three thing: recaps of weekend incidents involving Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant and corner Bryan McCann, along with incident reports detailing what led to McCann’s arrest downtown in the wee small hours of the 19th…
Over the weekend news broke that Doug Havard is back in the country — nine years after the former SMU student was arrested on charges of counterfeiting, selling GHB and armed robbery, but bullet points on a longer laundry list of crimes of which he’s been accused. Havard was extradited…
For those who do not recall the name Jesse William McGraw, a brief refresher: He’s the 26-year-old Arlington man Formerly Known as GhostExodus of the Electronik Tribulation Army who was arrested in June 2009 for hacking into 14 computers at the W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic on N. Central Expressway, where…
For the next three weeks, the Dallas Police Department will focus its attention on these mostly southern-sector neighborhoods near Bruton Road & Masters Drive, Hatcher Street & Scyene Road, Sunnyvale Street & Custer Drive, Beacon Street & Columbia Avenue and Polk Street & Twelfth Street. Says the DPD, it’s part…
For those who’ve forgotten the now-legendary tale of Nathan Wayne Pugh, a 49-year-old Sachse man, allow me to recap. On July 26, Pugh went into the Wells Fargo at 4332 Lemon Avenue carrying a bag from a fast-food restaurant. He walked up to the teller and told her, “I want…
Forthcoming at some point this morning, a second slide show’s worth of photos from the festivities on Greenville Avenue Saturday. (Update: Check out Sam’s choice pics, including one of an arrest.) Till then, here’s the first 40. And Nick also shot some video that’s available on the other side, for…
Via the Facebook, the city of Dallas’s Office of Emergency Management directs our attention to this just-posted crime-prevention PSA made by Dallas Area Rapid Transit titled Always Be Alert, the hilarious prequel to the better-known Always Be Closing…
As you’re no doubt aware, Lisa Stone disappeared last June — and, still, Dallas Police have no idea what has become of the 52-year-old Mesquite High School graduate, whose friends (Facebook and otherwise) continue to search for answers. Some of those friends appeared on CBS’s The Early Show this morning,…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word: This morning, FBI agents arrested John David McAllister, a sergeant with the Mesquite Police Department — and the head of its four-man Narcotics Unit. Says the release, back in December the feds got a tip that McAllister was skimming off the top during…
Last week, the Dallas Police Department used its Facebook page to show dash-cam footage from January 27 in which Officer Quaitemes Williams is seen kicking and pepper-spraying Rodarick Lyles, who’d been pulled over by another officer for driving with a suspended license. Williams, as you no doubt recall, was fired…
Just less than a year ago, The Paper Version of Unfair Park recounted the story of Michael Manos, an ex-con from Poughkeepsie who jumped parole and started a series of more glamorous new lives, under a series of unlikely assumed names, from Houston to Atlanta to, eventually, Dallas, running all…
Moments ago, the Department of Justice announced that an investigation by the FBI’s Dallas Joint Terrorism Task Force has led to the arrest of 20-year-old Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, who was born in Saudi Arabia but came to the United States in 2008 on a student visa so he could attend…
