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Dallas HERO Misleads With Image of Officers

Tim Rogers — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:47:13 +0000

Dallas HERO is the group associated with hotelier Monty Bennett that collected enough signatures to force the inclusion of three city of Dallas charter amendments on your November ballot. To read more about this complicated issue and why the majority of the Council tried to thwart the proposed amendments, read our Bethany Erickson’s reporting. Today … Continued

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A Story About a Stolen Cadillac and DPD’s Indifference to Catching the Bad Guys

Tim Rogers — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:35:35 +0000

I know this guy. He’s a bigwig chief medical officer for a company. He’s also a cycling fanatic (a detail whose inclusion will make sense in a minute). The guy sent me an email about an experience he had yesterday with some car thieves and the Dallas Police Department. I asked him if I could … Continued

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UTD Continues to Go Hard After Student Protestors

Tim Rogers — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:33:39 +0000

Mousa Najjar was on his way to pick up a friend from DFW Airport on June 27 when a Texas Department of Public Safety State Trooper pulled him over for a routine traffic stop. The officer arrested Najjar on warrants for criminal trespassing and disruption of a meeting or procession. This came as a surprise … Continued

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Irving Man Sentenced for $7 Million COVID Testing Fraud

Will Maddox — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:08:36 +0000

Terrance Bernard was sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay $7 million in restitution in a healthcare fraud plot where he used stolen identification information to submit claims to insurers for COVID-19 tests that were never performed. The Irving resident admitted that he and his co-conspirators obtained private patient information such as name, birth … Continued

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Retired Cook Children’s Chaplain Gets 60 Years for Child Pornography

Will Maddox — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:13:49 +0000

A retired Cook Children’s Health Care System chaplain who recorded himself sexually abusing a minor has been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for child pornography, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District announced today. Michael Downs, 71, was charged in March after a 17-year-old minor told her aunt he had abused her and … Continued

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Methodist Clinic Shooting a Reminder of Healthcare’s Balancing Act

Will Maddox — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Last Tuesday, a man walked into a Methodist Health System clinic in Cedar Hill where his ex-girlfriend worked with a long rifle. His ex-girlfriend was working at the time of the attack, and he allegedly shot a physician before fleeing. He crashed his car before engaging in a shootout with police and ended up in the hospital … Continued

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Fairview Police Chief Resigns, Points Finger at Town Manager

Tim Rogers — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:12:20 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the police chief of Fairview, Granver Tolliver, getting placed on administrative leave. The quickly growing Collin County town sandwiched between Allen and McKinney made it difficult for me to confirm that fact. They hired the aptly named lawyer David Overcash, with Wolfe, Tidwell & McCoy, to stall … Continued

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The Phone Call That Brought Me a Killer Story

Zoe Roberts — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:12:35 +0000

You never know when your editor has a killer story. I never ignore calls when the name “Tim Rogers” pops up on my phone, because it can only mean one of two things: one, my house is on fire. (The Rogerses live across the street from me.) But most likely, it’s that Tim has come … Continued

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Fairview Police Chief Placed on Administrative Leave

Tim Rogers — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:20:34 +0000

I’ll get to the police chief’s current employment status in a moment. But first I want to talk about the town of Fairview, Texas, population 10,683, with a police force of 13. It has become a reporting beat that I never wanted. This whole thing started when a businessman last year complained to me about … Continued

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Allen Police Release Body Cam Video From Outlet Mall Shooting

Tim Rogers — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 18:21:07 +0000

Warning: this is graphic material. Be thoughtful about how or whether you consume it. A grand jury no-billed the Allen cop who shot and killed the gunman at the Allen Premium Outlets on May 6. That means the jury determined the officer was justified in using lethal force. So the Allen Police Department released the … Continued

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DMN Gets Marijuana Story Right—And Very Wrong

Tim Rogers — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:01:05 +0000

Today the Dallas Morning News published a story with the headline “Black People Make Up Most Arrests for Small Amounts of Marijuana in Dallas, Report Says.” The first sentence: “A new report by Dallas’ top police watchdog and activists shows Black people are overrepresented in low-level marijuana arrests, spurring calls for an expansion of the … Continued

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Dallas Police Will Divert These Calls To Try To Improve Response Times

Bethany Erickson — Wed, 17 May 2023 16:10:28 +0000

Dallas police will soon move to an incident reporting system that it says will free up about 135,000 patrol hours but it also means that reporting some incidents will not initially put you in contact with an officer. In a memo sent to the Dallas City Council Friday, Deputy City Manager Jon Fortune said incidents … Continued

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