Patrick MichelsOn Wednesday, Dallas Police Chief David Brown released that dash-cam video and called upon the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office to prosecute three officers involved in the beating of Andrew Collins. Thursday evening, the Dallas Police Department sent word: Brown has fired five more officers for alleged offenses dating…
Just got back from Jack Evans Police Headquarters for Chief David Brown’s press conference accompanying the release of dash-cam video in which several officers assaulted Andrew Collins on September 5th. On the video, officers can be seen doing what Chief Brown called “making contact” with Collins — kicking, punching and…
For a while there, life was pretty sweet for Ed Molz III. The financial start-up he formed last August was doing great business, and while his office staff fielded calls from investors around the world, he lived the good life, with shopping for sports cars and getting plastic surgery by…
Jose AyalaLate last week the Dallas Police Department sent word that a passerby had discovered decomposed human remains in a field in the 10000 block of Van Dyke Road, near White Rock Lake. Early this morning, the department said it had identified the body as that of Javier’s popular general…
Last October we got our first look at the new-look Dallas Police Department black-and-whites. And while some Friends of Unfair Park didn’t much care for ’em, the department’s fleet manager said: Tough, everyone else does.One Friend of Unfair Park with a good, strong memory points out this morning that, hey,…
Dallas CountyGreg KitchenOn January 22, a 32-year-old Dallas County Jail inmate named Gregory Kitchen was pepper-sprayed — twice, in the face — by guards who, according to a report released in March, also choked him from behind while kneeling on his back. Less than a minute later, he stopped breathing…
No doubt you’ve at least heard about KTVT-Channel 11’s story that aired last night, in which the CBS owned-and-operated reported that a homeless man from Mexico made it past those security gates and all the way to George W. Bush’s front door. Said Channel 11, which has since yanked the…
Thanks — no, really — to the many Friends of Unfair Park who’ve forwarded Anna Fermanova’s Thursday-night debut on the CW33, for which she’s now an entertainment-gossip correspondent. I’ll leave it to you to review the performance, which is on the other side, though how she squeezes even two minutes…
On Thursday we gave you the no-surprise-there heads-up that, yet again, the Dallas Police Department would be drawing blood from long-weekend drunken drivers who refused to voluntarily turn over a blood or breath sample. Well, the numbers are in: DPD just sent word that 54 people were arrested for driving…
This afternoon’s meeting of the council’s Public Safety Committee should be a particularly good one; its agenda, covering everything from reality teevee shows to neighborhood crime watch groups to the latest crime stats, is action-packed. Andrea, but of course, will liveblog. But the item most likely to generate interest is…
To the list of Dallas-set-or-shot series airing in the fall — The Good Guys, Chase and Lone Star — add another heretofore unknown to us till it appeared on the city council Public Safety Committee’s agenda for Tuesday: Police Women of Dallas. It’ll air on the network formerly known as…
This weekend will mark two months since the last time Lisa Stone was seen in Dallas, and today a billboard went up at the intersection of LBJ Freeway and Northwest Highway with Stone’s photo and information on the $10,000 reward for information regarding her disappearance. The billboard was paid for…
Back in June 2009, then-Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle told then-Dallas Observer-er Kimberly Thorpe why he was (and, no doubt, remains) a big fan of the department’s so-called No-Refusal DWI Initiative, which allows officers who pull over suspected drunk drivers to take and test two vials’ worth of blood. Said…
Back in June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word: Jon Leslie Lyons, a 44-year-old who’d been teaching English at Woodrow Wilson High School for three years, had been arrested and charged with keeping child pornography, some involving children under the age of 5, on his home computer and iPhone.A Dallas…
I know where Andrea’ll be tomorrow at noon: In the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, where council member Delia Jasso will be joined by members of the Dallas Police Department and local rape-victims advocacy and support groups to announce the kickoff of what DPD’s calling a “Sexual Assault Awareness…
Yesterday, Friend of Unfair Park “The Big Guy” directed our attention to a Jalopnik item in which a security guard for Dallas Auto Auction is seen treating someone else’s Corvette ZR1 like it’s his very own hundred-thousand-dollar Hot Wheel. For whatever reason, said security guard not only recorded his burnout…
Although investigators aren’t linking him to the series of white powder mailings throughout North Texas, Michael Wayne Patterson was arrested Thursday by federal law enforcement officers and was detained today pending an August 30 detention hearing, according to U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks. Patterson’s handwriting and fingerprints were found on…
You might recall reading last month about the Mesquite couple found dead in their home, in what police suspected was a murder-suicide. Police found Irene Haggerty, 46, beaten to death at the foot of the steps, while her 52-year-old husband Godfrey Spain was found upstairs where he’d hanged himself. Both…
Tyrone Weatherall, the 35-year-old leader of the “West Side Gator Boys,” pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, according to U.S. Attorney James Jacks. Weatherall’s West Side Gator Boys was a Dallas drug trafficking and criminal street gang that operated as…
So now we know what the Dallas Police Department is charging Michael Laurence Browne with following yesterday’s slow ride that landed on the Love Field runway: evading arrest in a vehicle, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal mischief, aggravated robbery and an outstanding traffic ticket. That’s the laundry list…
No doubt you caught at least some of The Dallas Morning News’s recently wrapped three-part series on Texas’s trouble with properly punishing drunken drivers. Probation instead of prison; back behind the wheel instead of behind bars. Says Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins in a missive his campaign sent out…
This just in from the Dallas Police Department: North Central patrol officer are currently pursuing a stolen Chevy pickup that was taken in a carjacking. That is all the information we have at this time. We will not know anything else until the pursuit ends. KDFW-Channel 4, of course, has…
