U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement What this photo of the T. Don Hutto detention center doesn’t adequately communicate is the smell of urine and fear. This month brings some interesting and troubling tidbits on our favorite immigrant detention center, the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility — which, as you…
Tomorrow, Shared Hope International, which investigates and documents incidents of sex trafficking across the country, will release the first in a series of reports that detail how 10 American cities respond to victims of the sex trade. Tomorrow’s report focuses on Las Vegas, and an assessment of the Dallas-Fort Worth…
The owners of Texas Hydroponics on Elm Street — right next door to the Sons of Hermann, of course — are offering $300 to anyone who can ID the dumpster-defacing vandals seen in this 10-minute video. I’ll be honest: I didn’t think I’d make it through 38 seconds of the…
On Friday we showed you the Bedford Police Department’s recruitment video — seems only fair, then, to post today the Dallas Police Department’s help-wanted ad, posted this morning to YouTube. Among the endless advancement opportunities: You get to ride bikes, ride horses, wear dreads and buy drugs. Where do I…
Maybe you read a little something about a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy’s patrol car getting a love tap Tuesday night from a drunk driver. Happened around 8 p.m. on State Highway 310, just north of Interstate 20. Thankfully, the Associated Press is distributing, courtesy the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, a…
Adrian Estaban Sanchez Heredia After the jump, a media release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office — this one, involving today’s guilty plea of 49-year-old Adrian Estaban Sanchez Heredia, a cocaine trafficker who smuggled the drugs from Mexico to Dallas via Laredo. As in: In documents filed in Court, Heredia admitted…
After the jump, an e-mail from Sergeant Walter Clifton of the DPD’s Central Patrol Division concerning a rash of car break-ins ’round the Lower Greenville area — and, hey, just in time for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade this weekend. Though, spoiler alert, this opening paragraph may provide some clues…
This, of course, is not Charles Cooper Burgess, who clearly came in last using the good leads Today comes word that U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn had some not very nice things to say about 52-year-old Charles Cooper Burgess. Like, oh, he’s a “slick talker.” And a “con and…
A Friend of Unfair Park who’s looking to do you a solid points our attention to this missive from the City of Dallas — a little something about the 2008 Statewide Warrant Roundup. As in, “Beginning Feb.16, officers will arrest people with outstanding warrants pending before their respective municipal courts.”…
Former Dallas County District Attorney Bill Hill, now in the defending bidness Not that I would pimp my former boss for my current one, but my old colleague and pal John Council at Texas Lawyer brings word that ex-Dallas County District Attorney Bill Hill has risen from the politically expired,…
View Larger Map For such a short, pleasant-looking street, Chapel Creek Drive — off Webb Chapel Road, just south of Walnut Hill Lane — has a fairly lengthy list of criminal activity, according to this morning’s Daily Crime Report. Since Thursday alone, the Dallas police have been called to six…
Just got off the phone with the attorney for Chrissy Haley, the wife of former Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Todd Haley who, in 2006, found a rat in her Southlake McDonald’s salad. Seems her case against the grotesque golden arches won’t be going to trial this month after all. “All…
In May 2000, Brent Wagman pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud — something to do with his pocketing $30 million in worthless high interest corporate notes sold to retirees and other elderly folks across the U.S. and A. Wagman ran several companies out of a Dallas office, among…
At around 11 a.m. yesterday, Dallas police were called to the 2100 block of Hickory Street. Why? Funny I should ask. From the Daily Crime Report, quickly becoming the day’s must-read missive, this assault: “SUSP HIT COMPL IN THE BACK WITH CHICKEN LEG, COMPL FELT OFFENDED.” Or, as we call…
Raul Rodriguez The very definition of “shock probation”: Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins was shocked to find out that Raul Rodriguez — who provided the Texas Seven with a getaway vehicle upon their escape from the John B. Connally Unit, shortly before they gunned down Irving police officer Aubrey…
Karl Chamberlain is awaiting execution for the 1991 rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dallas woman. The Santa Fe Reporter this morning has a story about Karl Chamberlain — a New Mexico man awaiting execution in Texas for the 1991 rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dallas woman. According to…
Every day I get an e-mail from Daily Crime Report for my neighborhood, otherwise known as Northwest Division Sector 530. Here’s the most recent one, which includes plenty of burglarized vehicles and homes, several aggravated assaults and acts of “criminal mischief,” an “unexplained death” and this gem: “Unknown suspect tried…
Rick Reed, former Dallas County prosecutor now interested in becoming the Travis County District Attorney From The Texas Observer comes a sneak peek at the race for Travis County District Attorney — the most powerful prosecutor in Texas, with the power to go after state elected officials. Among the fab…
Scott Henson, our pal dishing out Grits for Breakfast, points out this Dallas Morning News story from yesterday, about $9-mil-plus being spent on overtime pay at the Dallas County jails, and wonders if that ain’t just the tip of the penal iceberg. After all, Henson asks, what happens in February…
Shortly before Charles Chatman was freed from prison last week, after becoming the 15th Dallas County man exonerated by DNA evidence since 2001, State District Court Judge John Creuzot treated him to a T-bone steak — after teaching Chatman how to use the knife he’d been denied in prison. In…
Yesterday, The Dallas Morning News reported that the Dallas Police Department and the University of North Texas are teaming up to create a crime-fighting institute. According to the story, the goal of the institute is to “train the next generation of Police Department leaders” by helping them get college degrees,…
At noon today, the city council’s Public Safety Committee will meet at City Hall, and among the items on the agenda is “Proposed Adjustments to Sworn Disqualifiers.” In short, the committee will discuss whether the Dallas Police Department should lighten up on folks who want to become cops. There are…
