Federal Bureau of Investigation

Rape Is Way Up in Dallas, Only Partly Because the FBI Made Police Keep Better Count

The first three months of 2014 have been exceptionally peaceful ones in Dallas. Robberies have dropped by 15 percent compared with the same period last year. Aggravated assaults are down 12 percent, murders a whopping 30 percent. There are still nine months to go, but the city is on pace for the sec ... More >>

Junk Science Review: Texas to Examine Microscopic Hair Analysis in Criminal Convictions

Less than a year since the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would review the "highly unreliable" results of microscopic hair analysis in federal cases, the State Forensic Science Commission will do the same in Texas. In cases nationally where DNA has later exonerated the wrongfully imprisoned ... More >>

University Park's Erika Perdue Pleads Guilty to Distributing Child Porn

Last January, an FBI agent based in Maryland was cruising through a peer-to-peer file-sharing network in search of child porn. There, he stumbled upon a user named "Classybitch," who offered him access to several hundred videos and images with file names like "Taboo Incest - Grampa Fucks Sleeping Gi ... More >>

The FBI Is Looking for the Regular Joe Bandit, Needs to Get More Creative with Nicknames

He's held up five North Texas banks in six months. Each time, he wears a plain ball cap and glasses or sunglasses and calmly hands over a note and demands cash. His preference is for bank branches tucked inside grocery stores and Walmarts, always in the suburbs. He's shown a weapon at least once and ... More >>

Dallas Police Haven't Delivered on Promise to Work with the FBI on Officer-Involved Shootings

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 shootin ... More >>

Carrollton Man Gets 36 Months in Federal Prison for Selling Crappy Counterfeit Cellphone Accessories

The iPhone cases with crooked "Chanel" logos you see over at your local cellphone accessory store or mall kiosk could be evidence of an international criminal conspiracy, according to the feds. A Carrollton resident, Shiraz Sherali Odhwani, 54, has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison and o ... More >>

Is Barrett Brown the Threatening One, or Is It the Guys Who Locked Him Up?

After the "Anonymous Spokesman's"arrest, toeing the line between speech and threats.

Three Weeks After FBI Raid, Feds Indict Barrett Brown

Three weeks after the FBI raided the Dallas apartment of Barrett Brown, an affiliate of the hacker group Anonymous, the other shoe has finally dropped. The U.S. Attorney's Office filed an indictment today, charging Brown with Internet threats, conspiracy to make publicly available restricted persona ... More >>

Anonymous' Barrett Brown Writes Letter from Prison, Claims the FBI Broke His Ribs

It's been almost two weeks since law enforcement swept into a Dallas apartment and arrested Barrett Brown, frontman for that merry band of hackers at Anonymous, for threatening an FBI agent on YouTube. Brown was taken briefly to Dallas County Jail before being released to the FBI and reportedly sent ... More >>

In the Wake of Texas Baby Theft, the FBI Declares Infant Abductions a "Violent Trend"

On an otherwise ordinary April afternoon, 30-year-old nurse Verna McClain walked up to Kala Golden in the parking lot of a Spring, Texas, pediatric clinic and shot and killed Golden as she snatched a 3-day-old child from her arms, according to police. The infant was recovered unharmed about six hour ... More >>

A Local Scooby-Doo Enthusiast Keeps Sending White Powder to Churches and Schools

It's always unsettling when envelopes containing white powder start showing up in mailboxes, because even though it's probably baking soda, it could always be good ol' anthrax. The 20-plus powder-filled letters that showed up at schools, childhood development centers and aerospace-related businesses ... More >>

Police Say a Man with a Mohawk, a Fedora and Two Guns Just Robbed a Mutual of Omaha

The FBI and Friends are at a Mutual of Omaha bank branch this afternoon, after an armed gunman made off with a plastic bag full of loot. The industrious folks at DFW Police Scanner report: An unknown suspect just robbed the Mutual of Omaha Bank at gunpoint. Susp is a black male about 5'8" mid 40's ... More >>

Paranoia Grips Dallas County Government Workers -- For Good Reason

​Maybe you've been following the saga of Lisa Chambers, the Dallas County homeland security director who was canned this week over who knows what. The only part of it I'm really personally interested in is the paranoid part, because I happen to be paranoid myself. It's like a club. We paranoid pe ... More >>

John Wiley Price Investigation: Sure, We're Speculating Here, But It's Informed Speculation

​Look, I hate it when people tell me stuff and then won't tell me how they know it. I generally apply about a 50 percent discount to information like that. So I'm about to do the same thing to you: tell you a bunch of stuff I have been learning about the ongoing FBI public corruption investiga ... More >>

No One Seems Terribly Interested in Confirming or Denying Feds' Search at Parkland Wednesday

​Part of what we do in the reporting biz is look for the anomalous response. I emailed Parkland Hospital earlier this afternoon asking about information I received that the FBI showed up there last night with search warrants related to the Commissioner John Wiley Price investigation.Candace White ... More >>

Maurine Dickey Would Like to Apologize For Her Comments Made During FBI Raid

One of the first people with whom I spoke Monday morning, following news that federal agents had swarmed Dallas County HQ, was Commissioner Maurine Dickey. Some of what she said that morning had been repeated myriad times since. Like, say, her response to the news that FBI agents were in John Wiley ... More >>

Arlington Man Pleads Guilty to "Ethnically Motivated" Attacks on Mosque Last Summer

​Last July, you may recall, the FBI and Arlington Police Department confirmed that they were investigating a series of incidents at the Dar El-Eman Islamic Center on Mansfield Road in Arlington, where a playground was set on fire and "explicit images" were spray-painted on the parking lot. Said an ... More >>

When Local Government Officials Admit to Breaking the Law: The Latest from U.S. Attorney

​Moments ago, the U.S. Attorney's Office sent word in two back-to-back e-mails that two former government employees -- one, an agent in the Dallas FBI office; the other, a city of Garland risk management adjuster -- have copped to breaking the law. Let's begin with the FBI agent.Her name is Ann Co ... More >>

ACLU Wants to Know How the FBI Profiles Ethnic Communities.

In a Report Released Today, FBI Says Hate Crimes Are Up in U.S., Down in Dallas

​New statistics collected by the FBI show fewer hate crimes being committed in Dallas in 2008 compared with 2007. According to 2008 Hate Crime Statistics, which was released today, Dallas reported 17 hate crimes, which include crimes motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity o ... More >>

A Week Later, More Questions Than Answers Concerning FBI's Data Center Raids

Less than a week after that FBI raid at a 2323 Bryan Street data center that left dozens of innocent companies and Internet service providers in the dark, Wired's Threat Level offers the most complete picture of what went down. From information gleaned from court docs (including the 39-page affidavi ... More >>

So, What Led FBI Agents to Raid a Downtown Office Building Yesterday Morning?

KTVT-Channel 11 ran a piece last night concerning an early-Thursday-morning FBI raid at 2323 Bryan Street downtown, site of an enormous Internet server hub. The shutdown, in fact, led to the temporary disabling of a significant number of Web sites yesterday. The feds specifically seized the computer ... More >>

U.S. Attorney Set to Announce Arrest in "Amarillo White Powder Letters" Investigation

Last night, the U.S. Attorney's Office sent word that at 11 a.m. today there would a media conference at the Earle Cabell Federal Building downtown "to announce developments in a pending investigation." This morning, a second missive arrived with further details: Acting U.S. Attorney James Jacks; Ro ... More >>

Way to Support the FBI There, Deborah Lee Stinson. Allegedly.

Interesting media release this afternoon from the U.S. Attorney's Office, about how 55-year-old Dallas-based FBI "support employee" Deborah Lee Stinson and her 27-year-old son Mark have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The entire narrative, as usual, is after the jump, but the feds ... More >>

During FBI Sweep, Eight Arrested -- And a "High-Risk Child" Was Returned Home

FBI Director Robert Mueller, announcing the arrests and recoveries made during Operation Cross Country The Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced that from June 18 to 23, it had law enforcement agencies from across the country involved in a so-called "national enforcement action" called Ope ... More >>

In Dallas, You May Not Be Murdered. But Your Stuff'll Get Stolen.

Yesterday, during our weekly staff meeting, the question was raised concerning the FBI's Uniform Crime Report for 2007, a preliminary version of which was released last week. We wondered if perhaps we'd missed it in The News; all I can find concerning the report's release is this very general Associ ... More >>

Leprechaun Bandit Admits Stealing

This week, the so-called “Leprechaun Bandit,” 27-year-old Richard Earl Kemp of Fort Worth, pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of bank robbery. He faces up to 40 years in prison, where he’s sure to get plenty of ridicule from bank robbers who thought ahead and ended up with cool nick ... More >>

Tracy Rowlett's Tired of the FBI Investigation at City Hall

Crime Happens (Or: You Could Be Next)

According to the F.B.I., if you live in Dallas you might wanna buy one of these. Might save you and the cops a lot of time down the road. Saw this story in the morning paper about yesterday's F.B.I. report on the rise in violent crime last year. Lots of numbers, hard to add 'em all up: "The Dallas P ... More >>

I Do (Have to Testify)

After posting the note below about the impending Don Hill-Sheila Farrington nuptials, we received several e-mails asking the very same thing Unfair Park's been wondering since first learning of the happy couple's news last week: Should a federal grand jury actually indict the mayor pro tem or his fo ... More >>

Tick-tock

Waiting for Fed-o

Paper Trails

Morning News waits and waits to acknowledge CBS-11's scoop of an ethically challenged state rep

Kink Lit

Damn

The Morning News puts it all together

The Ride, Stupid

Instead of calling for riots, just say where you got your car

Rough Skies

Larry Wansley--former Marine, cop and FBI agent--has his biggest task ahead of him: making American Airlines safe from terrorism

Tick Tock

It's time to start asking the tough questions

Mystery of St. Luke

Was an influential Dallas black church desecrated by racists?

Shut Up, Fido

The Morning News and pals want the FBI to call off its dogs at DISD. But the feds have not yet begun to bite.

If they only had a brain

DISD's Wicked Witch of the West may be going, but we're not out of the woods just yet, Dorothy

His good name

Former FBI honcho Oliver "Buck" Revell fights against conspiracy buffs who accuse him of mass murder

Wading in

The FBI looks into DFW's pollution woes

The perfect crime

DISD crooks continue to elude an FBI probe

Calling the cows home

Hey, somebody ring former Chief Click and see if he remembers where he put his intelligence unit

Out of the frying pan

DISD's new superintendent leaves behind an FBI investigation in San Francisco to deal with Dallas' own probe

Blood Vow

When investigators uncovered the bodies of a Dallas mother and her young son in a makeshift Oklahoma grave, FBI agent Tase Bailey swore to bring the killer to justice

Night & Day

April 8-14, 1999

Down but not out

An FBI probe and an adverse court ruling may force a Dallas anti-poverty agency to close its doors

Reader beware

Combatants in DISD's political battles play spin-the-media

Perotnoia

The great mystery of Perot's 1992 presidential bid was his sudden decision to quit the race. Biographer Gerald Posner found that Perot was a victim of a shadowy soldier of fortune-- and his own delusions.