Caraway Sentenced To 4 Years, 8 Months in Bribery Scheme
Once considered one of the most influential leaders in Dallas, Dwaine Caraway was sentenced this afternoon to 4 years and 8 months in federal prison.
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Once considered one of the most influential leaders in Dallas, Dwaine Caraway was sentenced this afternoon to 4 years and 8 months in federal prison.
In a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney's Office last August, Caraway admitted to taking the money. At the time, he was the second most powerful person in Dallas city government.
A 24-year-old Dallas man pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping and conspiracy charges in connection with his involvement in a scheme using Grindr to target gay men for violent crimes.
The inmates' lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice argued that Native American spiritual beliefs regard hair as an extension of the soul.
In 1995, at age 20, Richard Miles went to prison for murder. He maintained his innocence, and spent nearly 15 years trying to clear his name.
A Dallas man accused of killing his landlord, entombing him in a concrete slab in the backyard and then posing as the victim to sell the house has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen has been sentenced by a federal judge in Manhattan to three years in federal prison.
A driver was sentenced to 55 years in prison Friday for causing a church bus crash in South Texas that killed 13 people.
A psychologist has determined a suspect in a 2013 stabbing attack at an East Texas hospital that left a nurse and a visitor dead is competent to stand trial.
A convicted child rapist was sentenced to death for killing a female corrections officer.
Former New York Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner is scheduled to be released from prison three months early.
Texas prison system officials are changing system policy to help fit toothless inmates with dentures.
Authorities say bananas donated to a Texas prison turned out to have nearly $18 million worth of cocaine hidden inside the boxes.
A Texas woman has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for her role in what investigators called a "virtual kidnapping" extortion scam.
A former Texas parole officer faces up to 20 years in federal prison for accepting payoffs in exchange for letting other people provide urine samples for some convicts.
Roy Oliver was released from the Dallas County Jail and turned over to authorities at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice James "Jay" H. Byrd Unit in Huntsville, Texas early Monday morning.
George Papadopoulos apologized for his actions, telling a judge that he had made a "dreadful mistake" and was eager for redemption.
Jordan Edwards' family said the jury that convicted former Balch Springs officer Roy Oliver of murder, was too lenient in the punishment, deciding on 15 years in prison.
A 26-year-old North Texas man must serve life in federal prison after he was convicted of helping run a sex trafficking ring exploiting underage girls.
Donald Ozumba was found guilty of sexual assault.
Police in Dallas are searching for the mother of a newborn who was found on the ground next to a dumpster.
Attorneys for 50-year-old prisoner Rodney Reed sought the new testing on items investigators collected related to the 1996 abduction, rape and strangling of 19-year-old Stacy Stites.
A South Texas sheriff's captain has lost his job after authorities found he falsified his time sheet by indicating he was working when he was actually mowing the fields at a county airport and then selling the bales of hay.
An inmate who was being transferred from Garland Jail in route to Dallas County jumped out of the van and fled.
Two Texas death row inmates are pushing for the state to ban forensic hypnosis in criminal cases.
