Updated on June 5: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram identifies the victim as Leona Swafford, who was described by relatives as “frail and very religious.” The carjacker remains on the loose. Original post: A neighbor saw the scene unfold: an 84-year-old woman pulls her 2010 Lincoln into the driveway of her…
Update at 3:03 p.m.: Amsterdam owner Mike Scheel called this afternoon to update us on a couple of things. One, he wanted to note that the bar does its best to protect patrons and employs an off-duty Dallas police sergeant. The sergeant was actually working at the bar last night…
When Dallas ISD chief of staff told Superintendent Mike Miles last week that he was facing federal criminal charges, he wasn’t kidding. The indictment, which stems from his three-year tenure as chief information officer at the Atlanta Public School System, was unsealed Monday. The scheme detailed by court documents isn’t…
It may have been just a random prank: two dozen paintballs fired behind the Sonic in a McKinney strip center in the middle of Saturday night. The same could be said of the man whose car was hit while he drove away. But the Council on American-Islamic Relations has another…
Anthony Duane Horne, 25, an HIV-positive man, was charged with aggravated assault for spitting on two Dallas police officers, The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Voice reported yesterday. According to police, when a Dallas County Hospital employee tried to put a spit mask on Horne, who was being booked for…
There are any number of ways to get out of an unhappy marriage. Divorce is the obvious option, but there are others. If your wife happens to be, say, Malaysian, you can frame her for a crime and get her deported. Hiring a hit man is also an option, although…
On May 17, 2011, 17 people, most of them very young, were indicted for drug crimes in and around Flower Mound, a sleepy, prosperous suburban town about 20 miles north of Dallas. Most of the defendants were accused of conspiring to traffic heroin, specifically cheese, that mixture of cold medicine…
Edwon Julian’s case didn’t get much attention when he was arrested in Richardson last July. Now that his trial is under way, the the Metroplex Animal Coalition and Dallas County District Attorney’s Office are working to spread the word. Because Julian allegedly threw his girlfriend’s cat out the window of…
On March 5, the Wichita Falls Police Department took a call from a man who threatened to blow up the federal courthouse in Dallas. Why he was relaying this information to Wichita Falls police, or why he thought it wise to inform law enforcement of his plans, wasn’t clear. But…
There’s really no legitimate reason to ever carry an ice pick in Dallas. That rule applies year-round (ice comes in cubes nowadays), but it’s particularly true in late May, when temps dip to a not-quite-frigid 75 degrees. That point was driven home in extremely painful fashion early this morning at…
You’d think the clerk might have recognized the man as he waited in line at 7:30 Thursday morning. After all, he’d made memorable appearances at the same Ninth Street 7-Eleven twice in the previous 27 hours. In the first, which happened just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, the 200-pound Hispanic…
In October of last year, at around 11:15 p.m., 17-year-old Jake Evans placed a 911 call from his upscale home in Aledo, a tony suburb just outside of Weatherford. “It’s weird,” he said, his voice eerily calm as he spoke with the operator. “I wasn’t even really angry with them…
White Rock Lake has become a favored hunting ground for knife-wielding bandits. At the end of March, one made off with a cell phone and bicycle from kids walking along the path cutting through the park below the dam. Two weeks later, at almost the same spot, a young couple…
Update at 2:40 p.m.: WFAA’s Rebecca Lopez reports that the victim is a Mexican national named Juan Guerrero Chapa believed to be working for a drug cartel. News 8 has confirmed victim in Southlake shooting is Juan Guerrero Chapa. A mexican natl. believed to work for drug cartel. He’s an…
A Dallas County jury has found Donald Cuba not guilty of rape, The Dallas Morning News’ Melissa Repko is reporting. Cuba, a 20-year-old junior, was accused of raping a fellow student in a dorm room early on the morning of February 10, 2012. As we wrote this morning, the trial…
Last fall, 20-year-old SMU junior Donald Cuba was indicted on charges of raping a fellow student in a dorm room. He was one of two SMU students charged with sexual assault that year (both in the same month, in fact). The other student, J.D. Mahaffey, saw his charges dropped by…
Update at 11:20 a.m.DPD and the FBI told The Dallas Morning News the department has been informing the agency of officer-involved shootings: “They do notify us when there is an officer-involved shooting,” Chaumont said. She further confirmed that the bureau had been notified about the Allen shooting. Cited as evidence…
When Dallas police found Robert Schneider on the wrong side of a six-foot barbed-wire fence at Love Field in March, the 55-year-old at least had the wherewithal not to yell “jihad,” or “Jesus” for that matter. “I’m in there scrapping,” he explained according to police records. See also Turns Out,…
Digital rights advocates cheered yesterday after the state House passed a measure requiring police to obtain a search warrant before collecting personal cell phone data. Groups as diverse as the ACLU of Texas and the arch-conservative Texas Eagle Forum have expressed concern that current law, which allows law enforcement agencies…
Isaac Bugyendu was already dead when police responded to a shooting call Sunday night on Montana Avenue in Cedar Crest. The 25-year-old’s body, pierced by multiple bullets, had been left in the middle of the road, barely a block from the Illinois Avenue 7-Eleven where he was a clerk. Notably…
To the naked eye, the UPS parcel contained nothing but an ordinary wooden folding chair and two paintings. Not precisely the “wooden frames” described on the shipping manifest, but nothing that isn’t shipped across the country hundreds or thousands of times every day. But U.S. Customs agents at the UPS…
It started, police say, with a trip to the club on Saturday night. Kassandra Martinez, 20, picked up three of her cousins in her decade-old Passat and set off for Viviana’s Nite Club, near the intersection of Stemmons and Royal Lane. The deal was, Martinez would drive and everyone would…
