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Newsby Staff WriterJune 17, 2008

Officer in El Paso Toy Gun Case Placed on Leave

The El Paso Police Department on Monday identified an officer involved in the fatal shooting of a 48-year-old man, who allegedly displayed a weapon that was later found to be a toy gun, department officials said.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 13, 2008

Dallas PD to Begin Testing for Steroid Use

The Dallas Police Department plans to start testing officers for illegal anabolic steroids use on July 1. Police officials said they had been researching incorporating testing for steroids as part of their random drug testing program for at least a year, said Acting Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 6, 2008

Dallas Detectives Battle Metal Thieves

"This crime is a commodity, profit-driven crime, with the price of copper so high that people are willing to risk arrest to do the crime," said Dallas police Lt. Richard Dwyer, who commands the four-detective unit that investigates metal thefts.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 20, 2008

Houston METRO K-9s Win Narcotic Detection Awards

Officers from the K-9 unit of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, brought home two awards from the National Narcotic Detector Dog Association seminar held earlier this month in Angleton, Texas.

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Articlesby Dean ScovilleFebruary 1, 2008

Shots Fired: Fort Worth, Texas 11•09•1994

Within seconds of their arrival, the breach man hit the door and the teams streamed inside. Daniels and Johnson targeted the room furthest inside the house.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 4, 2008

Dallas Police Ask DA to Prosecute Two Officers

The Dallas Police Department has asked the district attorney's office to prosecute two officers accused of holding country music singer Steve Holy and a friend at gunpoint on Dec. 27.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 20, 2007

Port of Corpus Christi Officer Killed at Firing Range

A Port of Corpus Christi police officer died from a gunshot wound earlier this week while he and another officer were zeroing in a rifle on the agency's range.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 5, 2007

Four San Antonio Officers Suspended Over Body Searches

The patrons are also suing in federal court, claiming that the officers violated their civil rights and searched them without probable cause.

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Articlesby Police StaffDecember 1, 2005

Does Community Policing Work?

If there is a sacred cow grazing in the field of law enforcement, it can be named in two words: community policing.

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Articlesby Dean ScovilleSeptember 1, 2005

Shots Fired: Grand Prairie, Texas 01/04/2005

Possessing a rough-hewn face and a rawboned build, Richard Johnson, 31, of Grand Prairie, Texas, was already wanted for a series of aggravated robberies in Ft. Worth by the time he took up a gun and fired a couple of shots at his mother. She escaped unharmed. But then Johnson turned things up a notch, stabbing himself in the stomach and setting fire to the converted mobile home they shared.

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