After conversations with some of the city’s top criminal attorneys and having invested a decent amount of time in reading stuff on the Internet, I have rendered myself qualified, in my own opinion, to offer the following non-legal and inexpert advice: Persons accused of capital crimes in Texas who may…
Listening to the Dallas City Council talk to the chief of police yesterday about smoke shops and convenience stores, thinking about Bill Clinton getting protested by Black Lives Matters, remembering a visit to our offices here last week by a group of Serbian prosecutors, I believe that I have discovered…
Three years ago this month, Dallas police officers Bryan Burgess and Michael Puckett were on a late-night patrol in South Dallas when they noticed a man behind Kwick Stop Liquor, later identified as 51-year-old Fred Bradford, riding his bicycle without a helmet and generally looking furtive. Burgess pulled behind Bradford…
Thursday, the Dallas Police Department announced that they were looking for a man who “stripped completely naked, began to masturbate, exposed his anus to the victim and then fled on foot,” from a Dallas construction site on Tuesday, April 5. The next day, the man returned to the construction site:…
Before dying at the hospital from self-inflicted stab wounds, McCann Utu Jr. told police he was murderer. The 19-year-old told a police dispatcher that he’d “committed murder” and “killed them,” Plano police said Friday, after he is believed to have stabbed his mother, Stacy Fawcett, and his 17-year-old brother Josiah Utu to death…
The water Brenda Delgado is swimming in just got a lot hotter. Following the murder of Dallas dentist Kendra Hatcher, Delgado, 33, was quickly identified as the alleged mastermind behind the killing. Hatcher’s boyfriend at the time of her death was Delgado’s ex. Police say that Delgado, steaming with jealousy,…
Maybe it’s just verbal jujitsu. Maybe, when Greg Hardy, as he did Monday, says that he’s never laid a hand on a woman, he means just that — that he’s never laid a hand on a woman in the way that your uncle’s congregation lays hands on members who’ve gone…
Just after midnight on March 2, Alvin Jerome Joseph Jr. was walking his dog through the sea of apartments in Northeast Dallas where Skillman Street and Audelia Road briefly join when, for no reason police have been able to discern, a gunman shot him in the face. He died the…
A bad wig, sometimes black and other times gray, and dark sunglasses seems like a weak disguise for a bank robber to wear. It’s not the most interesting disguise compared with the New York bank robber who dressed up as Darth Vader, the Illinois bank robber who wore a nun…
Chase Stone and his friends were out Sunday, he says, to enjoy to beautiful weather and the start of riding season with a group motorcycle ride. As the riders traveled through Fort Worth, one of the group’s support vehicles, traveling with the caravan of motorcycles to help out in case…
The Cleveland Browns, who selected Johnny Manziel with the 22nd pick of the 2014 NFL Draft, have released the former Texas A&M quarterback. Hopefully, the wheels have not started turning in Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ head. Jones coveted Manziel in 2014. His son Stephen Jones reportedly talked Jones out making…
Two men accused of orchestrating the killing of Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa, the one-time attorney for Mexico’s Gulf Cartel who was gunned down in 2013 in Southlake, have been connected by federal law enforcement to as many as a dozen additional murders. Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Cepeda, 59, and his son Jesus…
Rape: another important topic falls off the map of sanity. Now people are demonizing a North Texas lawmaker because she said rape and booze might have something to do with each other. So does that mean somebody actually thinks there’s a planet out there somewhere in the rant-o-verse where rape…
On February 5, Dallas Police Chief David Brown delivered some bad news to the City Council’s Public Safety Committee. Through the first month of 2016, violent crime was up by 26 percent over the previous year. There’d been one fewer murders, but the number of rapes (13 percent) robberies (21…
Denton County Sheriff William B. Travis is losing endorsements faster than blood pouring from a bullet wound. A state representative, Denton county officials, mayors and mayors pro tem from several cities and a couple of Denton County constables have withdrawn their support, and the future of the sheriff’s campaign is…
Denton County Sheriff William B. Travis sits in his office, surrounded partially by confiscated weapons, clinging to a folder of old court documents. Inside are details of a case that has haunted him since the late ’90s and may well ruin his chances for re-election this March. He’s spent weeks…
Leonys Martin might not be a Ranger anymore — he was signed early in the 2015/2016 offseason by the Seattle Mariners — but the Cuban center fielder’s saga continues to be one of the most interesting things about the team. Friday morning Martin’s former agent Bart Hernandez was arrested on…
Ethan Couch, the affluenza-afflicted drunk driving teen who killed four people in a 2013 Tarrant County crash, is finally getting his day in adult court. Couch’s juvenile probation would’ve expired in April, on his 19th birthday. Friday morning — in front of his father, Fred Couch, and the families of…
United Development Funding is having a no good, terrible, very bad month. A visit from FBI agents yesterday is the latest trouble for the embattled firm. During the first week of February, Kyle Bass, who runs Dallas’ Heyman Capital hedge fund, shorted UDF’s Nasdaq stock, basically betting that UDF’s stock…
Police broke up a phone scam in Georgia, aimed squarely at North Texas, that originated in a Georgia prison. The result is that the Flower Mound Police Department closed 53 officer impersonation cases Wednesday. Each of the cases involved inmates using a Flower Mound officer’s name in an attempt to…
Tent City, the sprawling homeless encampment beneath Interstate 45 just southeast of downtown, has claimed its second victim in a month. Dallas police responded to a stabbing call at Tent City just before 6 p.m. on Tuesday. There, in a patch of dirt near Hickory Street, they found the body…
Avi Adelman is a free man. Dallas Area Rapid Transit informed Adelman on Tuesday that the agency is dropping criminal trespassing charges. Adelman, a self-described citizen journalist and well-known gadfly, was arrested by DART police while photographing an incident at Rosa Parks Plaza, a transit hub in downtown Dallas. “A…
