Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
By Bruce Felps An e-mail message arrived via a regular reader a few minutes ago from the Lakewood Neighborhood Association Crime Watch. The message told of a purse-snatching incident at the 7-Eleven location at Abrams Road between Richmond and Prospect avenues. The victim described the event in the e-mail message in a rather defiant way, which [...]
By Bruce Felps According to Dallas police report case No. 127626Y, two women stole the purse of an 82-year-old lady in the parking lot outside the Tom Thumb store at Mockingbird Commons. The theft occurred mid-May as the victim transferred the contents of a shopping cart into her car. Her purse sat in the shopping [...]
By Bruce Felps Parents of students enrolled at J.L. Long Middle School have started a movement to stop campus bullying. According to one parent, the intimidation and abuse is targeted at teachers as well as students.
By Bruce Felps After Saturday, we might or might not have a new mayor depending on whether one of the four candidates pulls in a deciding majority of the vote or we end up with a runoff. One way or the other, though, the Ferguson Road Initiative — part of The Dallas Weed and Seed [...]
By Bruce Felps Word has spread the past couple of days about a mutilated cat, found sliced in two, in Wilshire Heights. Someone found a neighbor’s cat March 29 in the 6200 block of Revere Place, called the neighbor who was out of town, and at the neighbor’s request took the remains to a veterinarian. [...]
By Bruce Felps The usual morning cruise through other local blogs turned up a link to a neighborhood incident reported by CBS-11. A man riding a bike in a shopping center parking lot at Mockingbird Lane and Abrams Road Tuesday afternoon accosted car drivers in the lot. According to the story, he verbally berated at [...]
By Bruce Felps An East Dallas mom last month informed the community — and the state — of her family’s pain inflected by a trusted neighbor who molested the mom’s daughter. She also urged readers to back a Texas Senate bill — introduced by Sen. John Carona, who represents East Dallas — that would close the loopholes [...]
By Bruce Felps Tonight marks the inaugural Northeast Patrol Division’s awards banquet for community volunteers. The dinner and awards ceremony, open to the public, starts with registration at 6 p.m. — the dinner and acknowledgements start at 7 p.m. — at St. James Episcopal Church, Audelia and McCree roads.
By Bruce Felps Lights and noise from a police helicopter last night alerted a neighborhood resident and regular reader of this little community news site, and an item published to the Dallas Morning News website this morning explained the clamor. According to the report, two men sitting in a maroon Jaguar parked outside the Burger [...]
By Bruce Felps KDFW-TV (Fox 4) yesterday reported on an incident along Lower Greenville Avenue in which two men allegedly fired gunshots from a moving car. The situation took place about 2:30 a.m., Sunday, as crowds spilled out of the bars and nightclubs along the strip. According to Fox 4, at least one of the [...]
