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Dallas PD Needs Help Finding Driver Who Killed a Man in Cedar Springs Crosswalk Friday

By Robert WilonskyNovember 28, 2011

The Dallas Police report says, simply, “TRAFFIC FATALITY #78.” There is a time and date: 10:30 p.m. Friday. A location too: 4100 Cedar Springs. But the DPD has no further information, which is why it’s asking for help as it attempts to ID whoever was driving the SUV that struck…

Veteran Dallas Police Officer Weighs In On UC-Davis Pepper-Spraying, Policing in General

By Robert WilonskyNovember 23, 2011

A few years back, Lt. Max Geron was one of the Dallas Police Department’s spokespersons, but he’s quick to remind in his missive to The Atlantic that what he has to say on the subject of Lt. John Pike’s pepper-spraying of peaceful demonstrators on the UC-Davis campus last week are…

After 48 Years, DPD Honors Clerk Who Alerted Them to Lee Harvey Oswald’s Whereabouts

By Leslie MinoraNovember 22, 2011

After John Kennedy was shot in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, Johnny Calvin Brewer was listening to the radio while working behind the cash register at Hardy’s Shoe Store on West Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. At around 1:15 p.m., the radio broadcaster announced that another gunshot had been…

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NatGeo’s Dallas Reality Show Pitch: “Gripping, Gritty Long-View Into World of Incarceration”

By Robert WilonskyNovember 22, 2011

Just a couple of weeks back some Brits asked Dallas County for the okee-doke to film a 3D programme in the county jail for a couple of days, to which the commissioners courts said: Sure, fine. But the request going before Dallas County higher-ups today is much, much bigger –…

Will Seth Winder Ever Stand Trial (Again) For Allegedly Killing, Dismembering Dallas Man?

By Brantley HargroveNovember 21, 2011

Denton County Judge Bruce McFarling declared a mistrial Friday when it was found that Seth Winder of The Colony — who is accused of allegedly murdering and dismembering his lover in the man’s Far North Dallas apartment — hadn’t been taking and/or receiving his meds. In fact, defense attorney Derek…

Breaking: Mistrial Just Declared in Trial of Colony Man Accused of Murdering His Lover

By Brantley HargroveNovember 18, 2011

His family, defense attorneys — even the bailiffs and the transport drivers — noticed something was different about Seth Winder, who is standing trial in a Denton County court for allegedly murdering his 38-year-old lover Richard Hernandez in 2008, dismembering his body and disposing of him in a dumpster at…

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In Day Two of Murder Trial, The Strange Stuff Found At Alleged Murderer’s Campsite

By Brantley HargroveNovember 17, 2011

As if this case wasn’t already weird enough, it got weirder on Wednesday in Denton County court. According to prosecutors, in September 2008 Seth Winder murdered his lover, a beloved, longtime Walmart employee named Richard Hernandez. Then he allegedly dismembered him. Why? Haven’t gotten there yet. Winder apparently has a…

Protestor Accused of Assaulting Cop Now Accused of Punching a Fellow Occupier

By Robert WilonskyNovember 16, 2011

Earlier this morning, Occupy Dallas posted to its website an item headlined: “OccupyDallas supporter assaulted.” That supporter: Glynn Wilcox, who was among those who helped hash out the agreement between City Hall and the protesters that allowed them to camp out behind Dallas City Hall.And according to the account, written…

At Opening of Dallas Murder Trial, Defense Pins Partial Blame on The First 48

By Brantley HargroveNovember 16, 2011

Sometime late in the night of September 3, 2008, prosecutors say The Colony resident Seth Winder, then 29, murdered his lover, dismembered his body, and hauled the pieces out to the dumpster of the victim’s North Dallas apartment complex. Richard Hernadez’s friends at Walmart on Frankford and Marsh in Far…

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DPD Chief Puts Officer Who Shoved Protester on Restricted Duty, Opens Investigation

By Robert WilonskyNovember 11, 2011

This morning, Brantley spoke with ​Stephen Benavides, the protester who spent several days in jail on charges that he assaulted a police officer and resisted arrest. We also posted that video now making the rounds in which Benavides can clearly be seen being shoved off a planter by an off-duty…

Pretty Sure Stealing from a Catholic School Will Get You More Than a Ruler to the Knuckles

By Robert WilonskyNovember 10, 2011

The video you see above was taken by surveillance cameras at St. Cecilia Catholic School on Mary Cliff, just off Davis and Hampton in Oak Cliff. It’s a couple of months old — from September 17, according to the Dallas Police — and was shot during the early-morning hours that…

So Close to Getting Away With Armored Truck Robbery, This Is What Finally Did Them In

By Robert WilonskyNovember 8, 2011

The U.S. Attorney’s Office sends word that a man named Ennis Harris Jackson will be going to federal prison for more than 17 years for his role in holding up a Loomis armored truck in May 2010 outside a Mesquite Bank of America branch. Jackson was sentenced yesterday by U.S…

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British “Factual Programme” Makers Want to Shoot 3D Documentary in Dallas County Jail

By Robert WilonskyNovember 8, 2011

Electric Sky’s filmography is extremely large and extraordinarily varied, its titles ranging from Hookers for Jesus (about a born-again Vegas prostitute) to The Ronnie Wood Show (a talk show starring, of course, the Rolling Stone) to A 3D Guide to Belly Dancing (a 3D guide to belly dancing). To that…

After 14 Years in Prison, Dale Duke Is Cleared of Sexual Abuse Conviction and Free At Last

By Leslie MinoraNovember 4, 2011

As a free man for the first time in 14 years, Dale Duke tightly embraced his tearful mother. His every move followed by a swarm of cameras, the wrongfully imprisoned man, now 60, exited the packed courtroom of District Judge Susan Hawk with his parents, lawyer and supporters from his…

Tomorrow, Dallas DA Craig Watkins to Ask Judge to Free Innocent Man in Prison Since ’97

By Robert WilonskyNovember 3, 2011

On April 30, 1992, Dale Lincoln Duke was indicted by a Dallas County grand jury on the charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Four months later, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and its Conviction Integrity Unit, Duke waived his right to a jury trial and…

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DPD: Man Guilty of One Sexual Assault Responsible For Another at Occupy Dallas Site

By Anna MerlanNovember 1, 2011

One week ago we got Occupy Dallas’s side of the story concerning the sexual assault that took place at its encampment behind Dallas City Hall. Today, we get the official version from the Dallas Police Department, which is reporting that it has arrested Richard Wayne Armstrong, a 24-year-old “non-compliant registered…

First Charged With Misdemeanor, Garland Man Faces Federal Time For Pointing Laser at Planes

By Robert WilonskyOctober 31, 2011

Back in June, you may recall, KXAS-Channel 5 ran an interview with one Sammy Ladymon of Garland, who was busted for shining a green laser into the cockpit of a Southwest plane bound for Love Field — right before he did the same thing to an FBI pilot on his…

Arlington Man Gets 14 Months in Prison for “Ethnically Motivated” Arson at Mosque

By Robert WilonskyOctober 25, 2011

In February, you may recall, 34-year-old Henry Clay Glaspell walked into federal court in Fort Worth and admitted: He was the man who, on July 25, 2010, set fire to the playground equipment and spray-painted “explicit images” and “obscene anti-Muslim graffiti” in the parking lot at the Dar El-Eman Islamic…

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Occupy Dallas Protestors Arrested for Blocking Entrance to Chase Bank Branch Downtown

By Robert WilonskyOctober 24, 2011

So happened that Anna was hanging out at Chase Tower earlier today awaiting Occupy Dallasites who said they were going to parade, two by two, into the bank to close their accounts and transfer their dough into a credit union. Which is why Anna was joined by two very bored…

Plano’s Anna Fermanova, Who’s Not a “Sexy Spy,” Gets Four Months in a Federal Prison

By Robert WilonskyOctober 24, 2011

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from or thought about Anna Fermanova, the so-called “sexy Russian spy” from Plano who said she wasn’t (well, at least the spy part) but nevertheless pleaded guilty in January to a single count of violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. Today, though,…

73-Year-Old Dallas Man Convicted In International Telecom Swindle Worth $60 Mil

By Robert WilonskyOctober 21, 2011

Michael Signoretto is 73, and as of today the Dallas man faces up to 40 years in federal prison for his role in defrauding two British telecommunications companies out of of more than $60 million. Signoretto, who was just found guilty by a federal jury, didn’t do this alone. He…

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Lewisville Basketball Coach Calls Cops to His Apartment, Winds Up Accused of Trafficking

By Joe ToneOctober 21, 2011

Today’s lesson, boys and girls, courtesy of WFAA’s Craig Civale and the Lewisville police: When you appear to be running a racket that involves importing a high school basketball player from Mexico only to force him to sell gourmet popcorn at suburban big box stores, it’s probably a bad idea…

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