An edict from the Justice Department to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives paved the way Monday for tighter regulation of repeat purchases of semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines in border states. The feds’ faces were liberally slathered with egg in May after a bunch of assault…
Twice we’ve written about Rais Bhuiyan, who, on September 21, 2001, was working behind the counter of a Pleasant Grove Texaco station when a man with a shotgun entered the store and shot him in the face. Bhuiyan, who was 27 at the time, thought he was being robbed. He…
Looks like at 11:18 this morning, John Wiley Price attorney Billy Ravkind, or someone in his office, faxed to Channel 5 the search warrant issued on June 24 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Stickney. It’s a seven-page catalog of everyone and everything with whom the county commissioner’s done bidness since…
One week ago today the Dallas Police Department sent word that it had fired three officers — one of whom, Lavar Horne, was also arrested last week for having kept a handgun and tossed some weed seized during a traffic stop. Well, the DPD just sent word that it’s arrested…
Beginning ’round 9ish last night, my Northwest Dallas neighborhood sounded like a war zone — more than usual, anyhow. (As one Facebook friend put it, it turned into a parlor game: Firework or Gunshot?) Clearly, news of the countywide burn ban and threats of Class C misdemeanor tickets for shooting…
Less than a month ago, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office dropped a small bomb shell amongst those who follow courthouse doings: Terri Moore, Craig Watkins’s first assistant, and Mike Ware, head of the Conviction Integrity Unit, would be stepping down July 1. At which point, Watkins promised, he’d announce…
Speaking of the wrongly imprisoned …On Saturday, we stopped to take note — belatedly — of the passing of Randall Dale Adams, whose October death didn’t reach newspapers till late last week. Adams, of course, was freed from prison in ’89 following the release of Errol Morris’s documentary The Thin…
Yet again, the Dallas Police Department sends an email saying there’s a press release on Facebook — so many hoops, but so worth it. The department says Chief David Brown’s fired three officers, including Senior Corporal Cat Lafitte, otherwise known as the artist who took to Facebook in February to…
Twice today, including just moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent notes to media asking for the public’s help in finding the driver of a red 1999 Ford F150 who police say was responsible for a fatal hit-and-run yesterday at Northwest Highway and the Dallas North Tollway. According to police,…
Schutze is taking in commissioners court this morning; it’s part of his summer local-government internship program. I see John Wiley Price got there early — why, there’s a Channel 8 cameraman chatting him up as he walks into work ’round 5:30 in the a.m. First and only question’s about all…
I sent one of our interns, Alex Scott, to the law offices of on-and-off John Wiley Price attorney Billy Ravkind about two hours ago. Turns out, John Wiley Price was there — had been all morning. Moments ago he came out and spoke. And this is what he said:The Dallas…
Speaking of the innocent spending time behind bars …Meet Hilliard Fields. On August 27, 1997, Fields, who was then in his mid-20s, told prosecutors he was guilty of sexually assaulting a minor. Fields was also facing an unrelated drug charge, and authorities told him: Look, just plead guilty to both…
“It’s an Everyman’s story. It’s the story of someone slipping through the cracks — if you like, a nonfiction Twilight Zone episode.” That was filmmaker Errol Morris talking, in 1988, about his documentary The Thin Blue Line — otherwise known as the film that proved Randall Dale Adams did not…
On its Facebook page this morning, the Dallas Police Department has posted an estimable visual history of its squad cars, beginning with the 1928 Model A. My father, a parts man his whole life, could do without the AMC Matador, wishes he had the ’56 Fairlane pictured above and is…
Moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent a note telling media types to head to its Facebook page for a very special announcement. OK. Let’s see … Ah. “Dallas Police Make Second Arrest in Biker Incident.” And by “biker incident,” of course, the DPD’s referring to the parade of motorcyclists…
On Fourth of July weekend in 2008, Don “Dunn” Hardge, an 18-year-old member of Dallas’s DFW Mafia gang, stashed his AK-47 in his friend’s trunk and walked into an Oak Cliff club. It was a sticky night, made stickier by the presence of nearly 200 sweaty teenage bodies packed into…
On September 21, 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, then 27 years old, was working behind the cash register of a Texaco station in Pleasant Grove when a man wearing a bandanna, sunglasses and a baseball cap walked into the station holding a gun.Bhuiyan, a slight, soft-spoken man with big eyes and a thatch…
Above is a video just posted by the Dallas Police Department in which two men smash-n-grab the Brook Mays on John Carpenter, stealing as many instruments as they can get their mitts on in the wee small hours of June 7. But it’s a two-parter: A few hours later they’re…
As you might have heard, just a few folks have skipped work to hang out in downtown today to pay homage to a group of very tall men (and one of-average-height Puerto Rican). But with an hour to go, traffic’s an issue: Dallas PD reports that the Jefferson Street Viaduct…
The man seen at right is Thomas Michael Roberts, a 35-year-old Dallas Police say was among the parade of motorcyclists responsible for shutting down and spray-painting Central Expressway on Memorial Day. No doubt you’ve seen the video, which went from YouTube to Channel 5 Monday night — and led DPD…
Since we caught up with him last, not a whole lot has changed for Michael Manos, the aspiring nightlife starlet and entertainer who threw extravagant parties back in those halcyon days of Bella and Billy Zane in 2009. Then, not a whole changes after three more months at Lew Sterrett…
Every year or so we get word of yet another crime map out there. Here’s the latest: Trulia’s Beta-testing, color-coded “heat” map, which, says the Chicago Sun-Times, is a collaboration between EveryBlock.com, CrimeReports.com and SpotCrime.com intended to allow “home buyers, sellers and renters to look at citywide crime trends in…
