Crime & Police

Despite the silence of Wesley and Sini Mathews, a Wednesday afternoon custody hearing spoke volumes about what their daughter allegedly endured at their hands after her adoption from India in 2016. Prosecutors seeking to terminate Wesley Mathews’ custody of the couple’s other daughter detailed the abuse and inattention they say…

We all know this. When a poor person disappears, it’s less an event than when a rich person does. The police are less likely to be stirred to action. The media will pay less attention. Black, white or Hispanic, that’s not even what counts. Poor and nobody. That’s the epitaph…

An unidentified man is dead after rolling his car several times at the conclusion of a police chase in Dallas on Tuesday, Garland police announced. Just after 3 a.m., Garland police officers spotted a gray Acura sedan heading south on Shiloh Road near Forest Lane. The car didn’t have a…

A 21-year-old Arlington man’s weekend full of interactions with Arlington police ended with him being shot and taken to the hospital, police said Monday afternoon. An Arlington Police Department officer shot William Hall Dodd at the Parks Mall on Sunday after responding to a shoplifting call from a Sunglass Hut…

According to the FBI, robbers raid about 300 Texas banks each year. This year’s numbers won’t come out until next summer, but DFW has seen a bumper crop of high-visibility or otherwise unusual bank capers. Let’s take a look at some of the most memorable. January: Serial robbers hit nine…

Every time I see a reference to FBI agent James Hosty and the burned Lee Harvey Oswald memo, I feel this twinge somewhere in the vicinity of my wallet. I guess I’ll go to my grave thinking I should have made at least a few bucks off that one. Hosty…

Amanda Clairmont was a makeup artist. She had created a new Instagram account to showcase her work two weeks before she was found murdered in a vacant parking lot in Corinth, a suburb of 21,000 people about 30 miles north of Dallas. “Follow my new makeup Instagram account and support…

On Thursday afternoon, Richardson police arrested the mother of a toddler found dead in a culvert near her family’s home last month. Sini Mathews, the mother of Sherin Mathews, is in Richardson City Jail, charged with abandoning or endangering a child, a state jail felony. Police found Sherin Mathews body…

Dallas police need the public’s help finding a man they believed robbed two Metro PCS stores Wednesday morning in northwest Dallas. At about 10 a.m., according to DPD, a suspect rolled up to the discount cellphone carrier’s outlet in the 10900 block of Webb Chapel Road in a beige, early…

So close but so far away. Jody Warner, the Dallas County prosecutor fired for drunkenly berating an Uber driver over the weekend, nearly made it home before she and the driver had a falling out over directions. Shaun Platt, her Uber driver, ended Warner’s ill-fated ride Friday night about a…

An Arlington man shot by a Mesquite cop last week is finally out of the hospital, but questions remain about the shooting. Lyndo Jones told reporters Tuesday night after his release from Baylor Medical Center in Dallas that he was happy to be going home to see his kids and…

The way the news is these days: In the middle of a storm of disgusting national stories about male sexual predators, we get our own local countercase — a fired Dallas County assistant district attorney, sobbing on camera, offering every conceivable excuse in the book for her terrible behavior with…

Calling in outside experts never was the Dallas way, sadly.

The first trial stemming from the 2015 shootout between rival motorcycle clubs at a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant ended late Friday afternoon when state District Judge Matt Johnson declared a mistrial. Johnson made his decision after jurors told him three times that they were hopelessly deadlocked as to whether Jacob…

When new Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall took over in September, she promised to look at the department from top to bottom. Last month, she announced plans to overhaul the Dallas Police Department’s command staff, drastically reducing the number of deputy and assistant chiefs serving under her. On Thursday,…

Dallas police announced Thursday afternoon that they’ve made an arrest in Monday’s robbery and murder of a 27-year-old woman at a Dollar General in East Oak Cliff. A yet-to-be identified 15-year-old is in police custody for allegedly killing Gabrielle Simmons, a mother of six. On Monday night, a suspect police…

Dallas police are searching for a suspect after a Monday night robbery and murder at a Dollar General store in south Oak Cliff. At about 7:30 p.m., according to police, a man walked into the store with a gym bag and a pistol. He was wearing jeans with jagged cutouts on…

These are strange times, indeed, so I find myself having to say something here at the beginning that I don’t think I could ever have imagined uttering a long time ago: I am not writing this column in order to mock, disparage or make hay somehow of the shooting deaths…

A trucker started a lethal chain of events early Tuesday morning when he stopped his semi on U.S. 75, parking it in the middle northbound lane of the freeway. It’s driver, Dwayne Simon, 37, didn’t put his flashers on, police say, he just left the truck there, in the dark…

Jacob Henderson, crying uncontrollably, told 911 dispatchers that his wife shot her two daughters, 7-year-old Kaylee and her 5-year-old half-sister, Kenlie, in the head. They’d been sleeping in the living room. “What did I do?” she can be heard saying in the background of the 911 call that the Henderson…

Victor Solorzano will be an old man when he gets out of federal prison — if he gets out. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsey sentenced Solorzano, 32, to 567 months (47 years and 3 months) in federal prison Thursday for his role in a southwest Dallas shootout with federal agents…