Crime & Police

Barring another appeal, the state of Texas will execute notorious Deep Ellum child killer John Battaglia early next year, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced Tuesday. Battaglia shot his two daughters, Mary Faith and Liberty, in 2001 as their mother listened on the telephone. He’s been on death row…

On Monday afternoon, the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office identified a 19-year-old woman found in the trunk of a wrecked car Sunday morning. At about 10:45 a.m. Sunday, a driver called the Forney Police Department and reported that another driver had fired a shot at his or her car from a…

Dallas police announced Friday afternoon that they’ve made an arrest in two sexual assaults that occurred in downtown Dallas and Deep Ellum over the weekend. The Dallas Police Department says an anonymous tip led officers to arrest Jerly Patrick Graves Bailey Jr., 36, on Thursday on warrants for forgery and…

Earlier this month, picking up a woman at an Uptown bar turned into a nightmare for Daniel King. He told police the woman drugged him and left his apartment with his puppy under her arm. Police released video Thursday night of the suspect heading out of the W with Daisy,…

Dear Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall: When people here talk to you about criminal nuisance abatement ordinances, you need to be very cautious. You came here four months ago from Detroit to take over as our new chief. Detroit has made good use of certain kinds of nuisance laws,…

Wednesday was an especially tough day for Dallas’ police and firefighters. After an afternoon during which they had to shut off much of downtown Dallas so President Donald Trump could travel to and from his $4 million fundraiser at the Belo Mansion, the evening brought further chaos to the city…

The Dallas Police Department released video Monday afternoon of a man police say committed two separate sexual assaults, one downtown Dallas and one in Deep Ellum, early Saturday morning. In the short clip, a man walks beside a woman, one of his victims, the police department says, as she leaves…

Since new Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall took over the job in early September, her department has shown increased flexibility in the ways it gets more officers on the street. For example, her department reassigned  officers to patrol units. On Monday, the Dallas Police Department took another step by announcing…

Carrollton police have arrested a Dallas man they believe worked with five others to steal more than $500,000 from drivers whose identities they stole off at gas station pumps across North and East Texas. According to Carrollton cops, Yoandi Valdez, 33, worked with a crew that installed internal skimmers on…

The Dallas FBI needs the public’s help identifying a gang of bank robbers the bureau is calling the “Country Boy Bandits” after a string of bank robberies in North Texas. An unknown number of robbers and a getaway driver have hit six banks and convenience stores in Fort Worth and…

The Dallas Police Department needs the public’s help identifying a suspect in a Wednesday morning shooting in the parking lot of a Dallas strip club. The shooting, which took place at about 5:15 a.m., left one man dead and a woman wounded in the leg, according to police. In the…

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson will not go to trial on charges that he backed his truck into a woman and brandished a weapon during a dispute over a parking space on July 4. According to a report from KRLD’s L.P. Phillips, a Collin County grand jury declined to indict…

The Texas Department of Public Safety discontinued the Amber Alert for Richardson 3-year-old Sherin Mathews late Monday afternoon. Richardson police said they are continuing the search, but the Texas Department of Public Safety cut off the alert because there was no suspect or vehicle description. Wesley Mathews, Sherin’s father, posted…

New Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall will execute a major shakeup of her department in order to get more cops on the street and streamline the Dallas Police Department’s command structure. Hall plans to cut down from nine assistant chiefs to two or three and from 14 deputy chiefs…

A 3-year-old Richardson girl remains missing Monday morning after her father sent her outside as a punishment late night on Saturday, according to police. Richardson police arrested the girl’s father, Wesley Mathews, Saturday night for abandoning or endangering a child, a second degree felony. Mathews sent his daughter Sherin Mathews…

The Dallas Police Department released video Wednesday afternoon of three suspects in an early Saturday morning sexual assault. Just before 3 a.m. Saturday, two men approached a woman at a Chase Bank ATM on Wheatland Road in Duncanville. The men, caught on security cameras at the ATM and a nearby…

Nearly sixth months after Miguel Sotelo-Trujillo’s murder, Dallas police announced Monday afternoon that they’ve made an arrest. The Dallas Police Department has charged Alex Thomas Delrio with killing Sotelo-Trujillo on April 20 after a Regal Row drag race. According to DPD, Sotelo-Trujillo and his brother headed home after watching street races…

Early in the evening of Sunday, Sept. 10, Spencer Hight stopped by a local bar, according to Plano police. He chatted up the staff, who knew him well. Then he brandished a knife and a pistol, trying to show off for the employees. Instead, he scaring them enough that one…

For North Texans struggling to keep current on their mortgages, the offer must’ve sounded too good to be true. And it was. Rather than continue paying their current mortgages, homeowners could get new loans with better terms and stay in their houses. This supposed lifeline, peddled by Bruce Hawkins of…