John Portillo, Jeffrey Pike and Justin Forster, all national leaders of the Bandidos motorcycle gang have been arrested on federal racketeering and drug charges related to a Portillo-ordered war the group waged against the rival Cossacks, according to federal authorities. Beginning in 2013, the Bandidos, under the leadership of Portillo,…
In all the discussion surrounding Texas’ open-carry law when it was being considered by the state legislature last spring, the issue of individual liberty and Second Amendment rights came up a lot. The notion that allowing handguns to be carried en plein air might seriously reduce crime was a comparatively…
Amidst all the hand-wringing, disgust and anger, one of the most striking things about the case of Ethan Couch — the kid whose family was so affluent and free of boundaries, his lawyers claimed, that he didn’t know the consequences of his actions — is how undignified the family acted…
Half of the Couch duo is back in the United States. Ethan’s Couch’s mom Tonya, having been denied the injunction against deportation granted her son by Mexican authorities, was flown to Los Angeles late Wednesday by Mexican immigration officials. The United States Marshals took her into custody at the airport…
Let’s catch our breath and count to 10 on that Ethan Couch story. Everybody from the Tarrant County sheriff to the D.A. to the U.S. marshal is on TV talking about what a guilty son of a bitch the little bastard is and how fast they’re going to put him…
Ethan Couch — looking like a direct-to-video movie villain — was caught in Puerto Vallata, Mexico yesterday. The 18-year-old, on the run after apparently violating his probation for killing four in a drunk driving incident, is being held on an immigration detainer by Mexican authorities. He and his mother, Tonya…
According to information first reported by CNN, Tarrant County’s Ethan Couch and his mother Tonya have been arrested in the Mexican beach resort town of Puerto Vallarta. Couch, sentenced to 10 years probation in 2013 four killing four in a drunk driving incident, has been on the run since video…
Many people think 18-year-old affluenza-boy Ethan Couch and his enabling mom, 48-year-old Tonya, won’t last long on the lam — too spoiled, too rich, too in need of 1,500-thread-count Egyptian cotton bed sheets. But, hey, some people do manage to elude even the world’s best Wyatt Earps for a very…
Despite chasing thousands of leads and making sure their man’s face is plastered all over media outlets across the country, Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said Monday that his office has had no luck tracking down Ethan Couch, the “affluenza”-stricken teen fugitive who was given probation for killing four in a…
Ethan Couch is in the wind. Just don’t expect him to stay that way for long. A judge handed the “affluenza”-inflicted teen 10 years probation in 2013 for killing four people while driving drunk. The judge, Jean Boyd, apparently bought Couch’s defense team’s contention that he wasn’t responsible for his…
Crime and more cops in the Oak Lawn neighborhood weren’t the only things on the minds of demonstrators who rallied outside City Hall this weekend. Somewhere near the end of the gathering in front of Dallas police headquarters, the demonstrators, there to protest 12 violent attacks near the Cedar Springs…
Good news if you’re Rachel Dolezal or Navin Johnson. State troopers, at the direction of the Texas Department of Public Safety, are now going to classify you as being a part of whatever race you tell them you are. The change comes after an Austin TV (KXAN) station discovered that…
People who want to work for Dallas County and have a criminal record will now have a much easier time getting a foot in the door. The county will no longer ask questions about applicants’ criminal backgrounds on initial job applications. The move comes after a bill by Dallas state…
Not only has Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy neglected to show any remorse for allegedly beating his ex-girlfriend Nicole Holder, he’s made it clear this week that he doesn’t even believe he did anything wrong. First, a brief recap. In May 2014, Holder told police that Hardy choked her,…
You and I saw the stories. Dallas defensive end Greg Hardy’s girlfriend had ditched out on prosecutors so that, even though he had already been convicted of beating her, the court tossed out the case against him on appeal, and he walked. We saw later that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones…
File under mysteries of the soul: that the suicide of the widow is somehow heavier to bear than the savage random murder of her husband. And then again, that’s nonsense. Who are we, strangers, to assign weight or relative value to the death of Patti Stevens, who committed carbon monoxide…
Just curious. In the wake of Monday’s random machete murder of a jogger on White Rock Trail, police have offered pieces of advice. Carry identification. I assume that would make it easier for them to identify my body. Don’t run alone. Sound advice. Even better, run only in the company…
Dallas County appears to be about to get itself into another mess centered on the county’s entering into contracts with some of the entities that underpin the nation’s prodigious prison-industrial complex. Last year, the county almost banned in-person visits as part of a plan to implement widespread video visitation at…
Princeton sits in an ocean of cookie-cutter suburbs about 40 miles northeast of Dallas, at the edge of a gold coast of development washing away horse country. To the west is McKinney; to the east, Farmersville. In between, there’s Princeton, where they love God, country and family and the divorce…
An Ellis County grand jury has indicted eight people, including seven volunteer firefighters, on charges arising from the sexual assault of a trainee firefighter, who in March reported that he’d been anally penetrated with a link of chorizo as part of an initiation ritual in January. Ellis County called in…
It’s been more than five months since Barking Dog Avi Adelman, formerly of Lower Greenville, currently of what we’ll refer to as Greater Junius Heights, raced to the Santa Fe Trail to take pictures of a cop who collapsed. The cop revived, spent a couple of weeks in the hospital, and…
John Cornyn really, really doesn’t want you to get that copy of Catcher in the Rye you’ve had your eye on, the one signed by John Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman. Texas’ senior U.S. senator graced Dallas police headquarters Wednesday to promote something that’s been a pet cause of his for…
