The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office Human Trafficking Unit has announced that it conducted a sex-trafficking sting in late February that netted 21 suspects who were charged with solicitation of...
Retired Hospital Chaplain Gets 60 Years for Child Sex Abuse
A retired hospital chaplain has been handed a 60-year sentence for child sex abuse charges after a criminal complaint was made earlier this year. Michael Downs, a former chaplain at Cook Children’s...
Dallas Jury Awards Victim $450K in Revenge Porn Suit
A woman was awarded a hefty sum after a Dallas County jury ruled in her favor in a revenge porn suit filed against her blackmailer. Last week jurors opted unanimously to award Sadaf Khan of...
Local Driver Hits ‘Animal,’ Police Find Human Body in Car
An allegedly intoxicated man drove roughly 40 miles with a dead body in his passenger seat over the weekend after incorrectly assuming he had run over an animal. White Settlement police discovered a...
Two Sunday Night Shootings Miles Apart Connected, Police Say
A preliminary investigation into two Sunday night shootings in Arlington and Forney has suggested that they share a common thread. On December 17, the bodies of two individuals were found fatally...
Local Teen Fatally Shot During Alleged Apartment Break-In
A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot while allegedly attempting to break into an apartment in Fort Worth in the early hours of Thursday. Fort Worth police responded twice to the scene of an alleged...
Shooting Occurs After Dallas Church Christmas Program
Dallas police are investigating a shooting that happened Thursday evening in a church parking lot. A man was hospitalized after sustaining non-life-threatening injuries after shots were fired in a...
Downtown Crime Keeps Ticking Up Ahead of New Year
Crime in Downtown Dallas has been on the rise this year, with City data indicating there has been an increase of more than 7% in overall offenses in the area. According to the City of Dallas crime...
Minority Women, Girls Comprise Majority of Assault Victims
Just over half of Dallas' assault victims this year have been women and girls of color, according to data maintained by the City of Dallas. Citywide, there have been 24,753 assault offenses...
Local Police Search for Two Suspects in Shooting
An officer-involved shooting in the early hours of Thursday has resulted in one person's death, three arrests, and a search for two suspects by Mesquite police. Police reported that a shooting...
Dallas Jury Finds Woman Guilty of Murdering Seattle Woman
A Dallas jury found Lisa Dykes guilty of killing Marisela Botello-Valadez in 2020 and sentenced her to life in prison after deliberating for just a few hours on Wednesday. Dykes stood accused of...
Woman Arrested Out of State in Connection to Local Murder
A woman will soon be extradited to Texas, where she will face charges related to the fatal shooting of another woman in her Fort Worth home earlier this month. Fort Worth police reported that...
County Hands Out Its First Murder Charge for Fentanyl Death
Tarrant County prosecutors are pursuing murder charges against a man accused of peddling a fentanyl-laced drug that led to a fatal overdose. Jacob Lindsay was rebooked into Tarrant County Jail on...
Burglary Suspect Reportedly Shoots Himself Before Capture
A burglary suspect reportedly died Tuesday night of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a shootout with Fort Worth police. Four patrol officers were dispatched to the 700 block of North Beach...
Creuzot Drops Murder Charges in High Profile Case
Prosecutors at the Dallas County District Attorney's Office dropped murder charges against two of the three suspects in the murder of a Seattle woman in October 2020. As previously reported by The...
Mystery Raid in Dallas Suburb Alarms Neighbors
The FBI and local police conducted an early Monday morning raid on a rented home in a well-off suburb of Dallas, where they hauled away several luxury vehicles and a motorcycle. Authorities from the...
Same-Sex Domestic Disturbance Results in Police Shooting
A Grand Prairie police officer shot a woman to death over the weekend following a domestic violence call. The officer, who has not been identified by authorities, was placed on administrative leave...
Cowtown Adopts Gunshot Audio Sensors
The City of Fort Worth has opted to upgrade its system of Flock cameras throughout the city, adding sensors purportedly capable of detecting gunshots. Cities across North Texas have adopted several...
Blacks, Hispanics Continue to Suffer From Dallas Murder Rate
As murders continue to climb in Dallas this year, the majority of victims continue to be people of color. Citywide, as of December 8, there have been 230 murders or non-negligent manslaughter cases,...
Hit-and-Run Leads to Fatal Crash Moments Later
A driver fleeing the scene of a minor automobile crash on Thursday evening was killed in a second collision moments later, the Dallas Police Department reported. Police responded to a report of a...
Chief Garcia Criticizes Justice System After Family’s Murder
The head of Dallas police had some harsh words for the way the justice system handles violent criminals after five members of a family were shot, four of whom died. Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia...