The city of Dallas is going to be getting some extra help hiring the 549 cops the Dallas Police Department intends to bring on during the next year. Monday afternoon, as part of United States Community Policing Week, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the city of Dallas will…
Since Vandagriff’s murder a few weeks after she started college, police investigators, the public and her friends and family are left to wonder what might have possessed a 30-year-old man who once posted “life is precious” on his Facebook page to murder, mutilate and burn a young woman whom friends and family remember as someone who loved to laugh and everyone loved.
Beginning a week ago Saturday, Sept. 25, eight people have been murdered in the city of Dallas. After the violent week, Dallas’ murder count for 2016 sits at 137, already one more than the 136 total homicides Dallas Police investigated in 2015. Sixty-seven of those murders remain on the police…
Ah, the airport. It’s where national security, the transportation industry, human psychology, aeronautical physics and government personnel collide in an awkward dance. Add into this mix the police who respond to Transportation Security Administration drug-related discoveries, and a collection of travelers that for whatever reason caught their attention. The Dallas…
Guillermo Luviano-Franco, or Silvestre Franco-Luviano — depending on which of his aliases he happens to be using — shouldn’t have been in the United States for the weekend crime spree that ended with his arrest at a Georgetown apartment complex, Hector Gomez, a deputy marshal with the Lone Star Fugitive…
Following two robberies and one sexual assault, the Dallas Police Department has stepped up patrols in the area, Deputy Chief Lonzo Anderson said Wednesday. All three crimes occurred over the last two weeks, Anderson said; the police suspects two young black men between the ages between 15 and 20. Anderson…
Police have detailed the evidence against Charles Bryant, the Haslet man accused of dismembering and burning a TWU student earlier this month. Denton County authorities released multiple search warrants for Bryant’s car and home, detailing items that they say pointed them to Bryant as Jacqueline Vandagriff’s killer. Here are 10 items worth…
So Dallas will solve its loose dog problem by killing more dogs. Good. I could hope for only more thing. I wish they would film the killing of the dogs every week and put the video online. With that video, I wish the city also would post the names, addresses and…
The head of the Dallas Black Police Association joined with police reform activists on Friday in a call for changes at the police department aimed a curbing the misuse of force by officers. Activists must be given “sitting at the table” with police if the city is to find a way…
A little more than two years after Christina Morris disappeared from The Shops at Legacy in Plano, Enrique Arochi, the last person seen with Morris, is going to jail for her kidnapping. Wednesday night, a Collin County jury convicted Arochi after a little more than 17 hours of deliberation. Arochi’s…
Police recreating the chain of events that ended with the murder of 24-year-old Texas Women’s University student Jacqueline Vandagriff produced a grim narrative of a night out gone very wrong. Vandagriff’s body was found burning last Wednesday morning at about 6:30 a.m. in a kiddie pool in Grapevine’s Acorn Woods…
Ron Pinkston, the combative face of the Dallas Police Association, announced Monday that he’ll be stepping down as the police union’s president. The date of his departure: Oct. 4, the same day Dallas Police Chief David Brown is set to step down from his post. Pinkston is a Dallas Police…
Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with the murder of Jacqueline Vandagriff, a Texas Woman’s University student whose charred and dismembered body was found last week. Grapevine police say they have video evidence that the 24-year-old woman left a bar in Denton at about 11 p.m. with Charles Dean Bryant, a…
Gunfire injured a child on Friday during a fight in the parking lot of the Dallas Housing Authority-owned Hidden Ridge Apartments in Lake Highlands. According to the Dallas Police Department, someone shot into a crowd of people, striking the unidentified child. Someone in the crowd then fired at the shooter. The…
Lieutenant Thomas Glover, President of the Black Police Association, sat down with the Observer last week and gave some insight as to why the BPA asked for Chief David Brown’s resignation this past March. While many media outlets painted the BPA’s and other unions’ calls as a response to Brown suddenly…
Friday night Bob Poynter, a University Park firefighter, made a mistake when he went to help his estranged wife, according to Royse City police. Chacey Poynter told him her Jeep was stuck in the mud on Farm to Market Road 35 near County Road 2595 in Royce City. Poynter took his…
The news lately on DART, our regional mass transit agency, is that the city’s elected officials are having major credibility problems with the things DART staff tells them about rail construction projects worth billions of dollars. When I hear about those problems at the big-deal end, a part of me…
Tom Huntley stands in the parking lot of Campisi’s Egyptian restaurant, lost in time. It’s been decades since he’s stood out in front of his former boss’ place. He still recalls standing next to Joe Campisi as he cooked pasta, wearing a sidearm and telling stories. The restaurant, owned by…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s first public statement since announcing his retirement last week was a tour of his time on top of one of the biggest police departments in the United States. He listed all the hits, and most of the misses: July 7, Dixon Circle, community policing, officer…
Late Tuesday, the city attorney of Columbus, Ohio, announced that he would not be filing charges against Dallas Cowboys rookie Ezekiel Elliott for domestic assault. In July, Elliott’s ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson accused him of attacking her in a car, but police didn’t make an arrest. The city reviewed the evidence…
The Columbus, Ohio, city attorney’s office will not prosecute Dallas Cowboys rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott for domestic battery. Tiffany Thompson, Elliott’s ex-girlfriend, had accused the former Ohio State star of injuring her on at least five previous occasions. Early on the morning of July 22, Thompson called Columbus police. Elliott,…
For almost everyone outside Dallas City Hall, David Brown’s Thursday announcement that he would be stepping down as Dallas police chief next month came as a complete shock. For Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, however, the announcement came as no surprise. Brown, they said Thursday, had…
