It was almost one year ago the feds introduced us to 25-year-old Jesse William McGraw — otherwise known as “GhostExodus,” founder and the, uh, leader of the Electronik Tribulation Army. You remember McGraw: He’s the former night-shift security guard at the W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic on N. Central Expressway who…
A Friend of Unfair Park now living in NYC directs our attention to The Daily Beast’s compendium of The Most Corrupt States (which several TDB readers are taking issue with, since Illinois comes in way down at No. 47). And, after factoring in such things as the number of corrupt…
A Vietnam veteran accused of forcing a 6-year-old girl into his car to ride on his lap became the first to sign on for Dallas County’s new veterans court program on Tuesday, with a chance to avoid having a conviction on his record if he completes a six-month treatment program…
Last night, the Dallas Police Department sent word that it has apprehended the man responsible for the purse-snatchings and shooting downtown early Thursday morning. According to a missive from Sgt. Warren Mitchell, a DPD spokesman, investigators received a tip Saturday afternoon about a suspect already wanted on an outstanding burglary…
The Dallas Police Department’s still searching for the man responsible for shooting a 63-year-old AT&T employee in the head this morning as she and a colleague were walking to work shortly before 6. But DPD now believes that, yes, this same man is responsible for two other robberies downtown –…
This just in from Senior Corporal Kevin Janse in the Dallas Police Department’s Media Relations Office:There was a downtown shooting this morning at approximately 5:50 a.m. An AT&T employee was walking with a co-worker to work at 208 S. Akard when a black male suspect approached complainant and shot her…
This twosome likes hitting the CVS at 4207 Lemmon Avenue, between Wycliff and Douglas; twice in recent weeks they’ve jumped the counter and loaded shopping bags with cartons of smokes. Then they took it down the street to the RaceTrac. The clerk seen during the first robbery is clearly not…
So says a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office that just landed in the in-box. His name is Brion Gary Randall, and according to the feds, on May 18 the 48-year-old will plead guilty in Dallas federal court to running a handful of scams between 2004 and last July…
It’s been six months since Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle gathered up friends and family at police headquarters to announce he’d be leaving his post. This morning, after cramming a mile run and 15 man makers into one last CrossFit routine, the 59-year-old chief sounded more sure than ever when…
A couple of notable press releases from the U.S. Attorney’s Office just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, the most recent of which has to do with a former Internal Revenue Service employee sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 16 months in the federal hoosegow for…
According to court documents, on the evening of September 23, 2005, Dallas Police officer Kent Wolverton received a call for help from a fellow officer at the Larry Johnson Recreation Center on Dixon Avenue near Fair Park. Wolverton would later insist “that he heard screaming in the background of the…
By now you’ve no doubt heard: In the wee small hours of this morning, 18-year-old Daniel Stanley went to the Tiferet Israel cemetery at Buckner and Scyene, dug up a corpse and used a hatchet to chop off a foot. According to the Dallas police press release, it was Stanley…
Hours after news began circulating on Facebook that the Dallas Police Department’s own David O. Brown would be taking over as chief next week, the city’s new top cop stepped before cameras and reporters, and about 20 gathered police officers, to give the news a more personal touch. Saying he…
Seriously.Update: Here’s Mary Suhm’s more formal announcement to the city council and mayor, via a memo given them this morning:Chief Brown Memo April 28 2010…
Back in January, the paper version of Unfair Park featured Megan Feldman’s story on a specialized Dallas County court that’s connecting ex-prostitues with treatment and, provided they stick with their rehabilitation program, keeping them out of prison.Tuesday morning we learned about Dallas County’s plans to help ease jail overcrowding with another…
Which, I’ll assume, is the point of this new promo made by Frisco-based Filmspire Productions. Kinda like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. But something’s missing. Can’t quite put my finger on it…
A few follow-ups with which to begin the day:Sam went to Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s retirement wingding in the Cedars yesterday, where the commish announced he’d be consulting for and teaching at the W.W. Caruth Jr. Police Institute at the University of North Texas at Dallas. In its press…
Some news and notes while we wrap up some wrap-ups:On Sunday we noted that U.K. reports have Tom Hicks this close to becoming a sports-team owner without a sports team. Overseas papers insist that at any moment now, Hicks and Liverpool FC co-owner George Gillett will announce they’ve hired Barclays…
Long story short: Back in December, D ran a story by former Observer-er Tom Korosec about the city’s efforts to shut down nine brothelsmassage parlors, among them the Cleopatra Day Spa, Moon Night, The Passion, 333 Bodyworks and 7th Heaven starring Stephen Collins. Around the same time, the massage parlors…
Speaking of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins …This week, SMU hosted a Media and Human Rights Symposium that featured among its guests Watkins, a few profs and even a noted Oscar-winning filmmaker. Watkins delivered his presentation on Wednesday, and during his speech he spoke at great length about his…
We were there in October of last year, when the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the I.R.S., the U.S. Secret Service and Texas Air National Guard — and every other law-enforcing abbreviation — showed off the guns, drugs and money hauled in after they busted up the meth-trafficking members of…
Noticed on the KTVT last night that Coach, the maker of luxury handbags and not Craig T. Nelson, has sued Best of Dallas winner Sam Moon in Dallas federal court. You can see where this is headed: trademark infringement, copyright infringement and false advertising allegations, for starters. And though the…
