The Dallas Police Department is shocked tonight as DPD loses Qualified Immunity in the case involving the death of Tony Timpa.
On Wednesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled that Dallas police officers violated a mentally ill man’s constitutional rights when they pinned him to the ground for fourteen minutes and that they might be liable for his death.
DPD Loses Qualified Immunity: Start Of Trend?
It is unclear if the Timpa decision will lead to others.
In the June 2020 George Floyd protests, Dallas officers injured numerous protestors leading to an After Action Report with a number of excuses, but no blame.
In addition to assaulting protestors, several bystanders were injured also.
A Mesquite Police Officer killed Friday afternoon at the Albertson’s on Beltline Road near LBJ 635 in East Dallas County. The shooting occured just before 2:00PM, Friday, December 2, 2021.
Both officer and suspect were transported to Baylore University Medical Center – the officer with two gunshot wounds, the suspect with one. The suspect is currently in critical condition. Neither the officer, nor the suspect, has been identified.
Mesquite police Chief David Gill did not take questions at the Friday afternoon news conference, but said, “This was a senseless act of violence that ripped a loving father and husband from his family.”
Mesquite Police Officer Killed Near Dallas Officer Attack
An unsealed letter went home to parents a Chapel Hill Preparatory School was found in possession of a student at their bus stop. The student had a gun At Marshall Prep, but there was “no danger” to students at Chapel Hill Prep. The letter came from Dallas Independent School District’s principal, Zenaida Martinez.
The letter above was circulated on social media and was verified by multiple parents who expressed concern that it was in a “tend home” folder, usually reserved for PTA fundraising literature or class assignment notices.
One parent called it a “casual letter. Normalizing it.” Other Side Dallas has been unable to locate a similar letter to Marsh Preparatory Academy parents and Dallas schools staff does not respond to requests for comment.
Gun At Marshall Prep
The latest incident is one of a growing number. Earlier in the year, multiple reports stated there were individuals on campus at Dealey Montessori with firearms during a COVID9 mask mandate protest.
Prior to that protest the organizer’s business had tweeted out the question which is better the AK47 or M16 in a blog post which seemed unrelated to the men’s salon business and fully related to the school protest.
Jenna Ryan – the Dallas area realtor who participated in what some call the January 6th insurrection – is going to jail.
The Texas realtor who said she would not be jailed for participating in the 6 January Capitol riots because she is white, is now looking at two months behind bars plus a $1000 fine.
Ryan made headlines when she bragged about taking a private jet to the insurrection and called it “one of the best days of my life.”
In sentencing memors, prosecutors cited her attitude in the tweet below as a key reason for imprisonment.
“A defendant who believes she is immune from strict punishment because of her race and physical appearance may reoffend because the consequences for wrongdoing will never, in the defendant’s mind, be severe even when severity is merited,” the memo states.
“Perhaps the most compelling need for specific deterrence arises from the defendant’s misguided belief that she is above the law, or at least insulated from incarceration.”
Jenna Ryan Impacts Dallas City Council Races
An article on Candace Evans’ Candy’s Dirt noted Ryan’s involvement with the January 6 insurrection was noted as a reason conservatives would not support Candace Evans in the May city council election.
Evans had a clearly superior knowledge on land use and real estate issues in the race.
Instead local groups pushed Barry Wernick who was later criticized as surrounding his campaign with Dallas area QAnon supporters.
An American Airlines flight attendant assaulted on a flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on its way to John Wayne Airport in Orange County was punched twice, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing in Denver.
A photo tweeted by a passenger shows the man who was arrested sitting inside the terminal at the airport in Denver. He is seen handcuffed and wearing a mask.
“We are outraged by the reports of what took place on board. Acts of violence against our team members are not tolerated by American Airlines. We are working with law enforcement to support our team member and pursue prosecution, and the individual involved in this incident will not be allowed to travel with us in the future,” American Airlines said in a statement.
“If you’re not prepared to wear a mask, you’re not prepared to fly, that’s the moral of the story,” said Mackenzie Rose, a passenger on the flight who tweeted the detainment photo.
American Airlines Flight Attendant Assaulted – Mask Issues Continue
American Airlines has said it will abide by the federal requirement for passengers to wear masks over ruling Governor Abbott’s executive order prohibiting private mandates.
The issue is spilling over into other areas of life here in Dallas though.
Two weeks ago the owners of the Gents Place salon organized a child abuse at protest at Dealey Montessori arguing their children were being abused by Principal Beth Wing for the Dallas ISD mask mandate.
Those actions have led Dallas ISD to keep speakers off tonight’s Board of Trustees agenda.
Ken Kalthoff of NBC5 reported that Marian Brown’s office, the Dallas County Sheriff Lost $600000 in inmate commissary funds.
The FBI is currently investigating whether or not the funds were stolen or if this is an accounting error.
Dallas County Commissioners were alerted to a problem at this week’s County Commissioner’s meeting. A Sheriff’s Department employee discovered problems dating over six years, spanning both Sheriff Lupe Valdez and Sheriff Brown’s administrations.
The County Auditor found more than three hundred inmate debit cards totaling $699,993 were issued in excess of the inmates’ trust fund balances. The county program vendor for the program returned $97,390.79 with a check earlier this summer.
Sheriff Lost $600000 – More In Credibility
Commissioner John Wiley Price said other problems occurred prior to the current sheriff. Price has previously been accused of crimes by the FBI and had a federal trial of his own.
It is unclear if County Commissioners will hire Erin Nealy Cox to uncover issues when she completes her investigation of the City of Dallas IT loss.
Dallas Cowboys Safety Kazee isn’t safe after being arrested early Tuesday morning for driving while under the influence.
Kazee was pulled over by Dallas suburban law enforcement for a traffic violation in The Colony around 3:00AM. Colony Police noticed physical signs that Kazee had been drinking. After being questioned he told the officer that he had consumed alcohol earlier in the evening.
Damontae Kazee was detained after failing a field sobriety test, and his DWI charge is a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense. The 28-year-old posted a $2,500 bond on Tuesday and was released from The Colony Municipal Jail at 12:34 p.m.
Cowboys Safety Kazee New To Team
The first year safety joined the Dallas Cowboys this year after signing a one year deal worth just over $1M. He follows coach Dan Quinn from the Atlanta Falcons where he spent his first four years.
Adam McGough acted immediately this morning on Dealey fear of the planned protest by the Davis family.
Minutes after being texted by OSD, he responded “I have brought this concern to top DPD leadership.”
So far he is the only person to respond.
As reported earlier this morning, the Davis’ business tweeted earlier this week a message about choosing between an AK47 and M16 on a business account unrelated to hair salon services for men.
It is unclear why this guest post happened two days prior to their planned protest.
In am email, Dallas Police Deputy Chief Rick Watson states “This is the first I have heard about this information.” This counters a claim by DISD‘s Chief of School Leadership Tiffany Huitt that police would be on scene to maintain order.
Dealey Fear By Students
Since we published this morning an eighth grade parent emailed a screenshot from a cellphone parent monitoring app.
In the cellular text conversation – reported to be three Dealey students – one states “people are talking about them coming with weapons that wont happen right?”
The conversation’s participants are redacted for privacy per the parent source’s condition for publishing.
We will update if Dallas ISD or Dallas Police respond to us.
The Dallas data loss report dropped late Thursday in a quiet press release. The report aims to answer questions about the 20TB+ loss of data that is halting prosecutions of murder suspects and interupting city functions.
A press release noted a review and analysis conducted into the mass data loss first discovered by the City in April 2021, the City of Dallas IT Department Thursday provided City Manager TC Broadnax a report giving further details around the events leading to the data loss, the efforts to recover data, and making recommendations for changes to reduce the risk of potential future data loss.
Broadnax noted in a statement, “The City understands the seriousness and potential impacts of this data loss and we are committed to improving how we manage our data to ensure its security and integrity,” said City Manager TC Broadnax. “In this report, our IT Department provides a path forward with a series of direct and actionable recommendations to improve our management of data and guard against any future data loss.”
The statement continues that the report confirms that the City lost 20.9 terabytes (TB) of data, totaling 8.26 million individual files in two events during the month of March 2021. The report cites actions taken by a City IT employee as the cause of the archive deletions and examines other factors and conditions contributing to the events. The data loss impacted archive files of the Dallas Police Department (DPD) and consisted of archived images, videos, audio files, case notes and other administrative documents gathered by the Department. Additionally, it delineates thorough reviews conducted of other backup and archive processes and confirms that other City systems were unaffected by these events.
Data Loss Report Out, But No Answers
The report does not address employee disciplinary actions, nor does it describe the details of any investigatory actions completed or underway related to the data loss. Multiple sources confirm an investigation by the Dallas Field Office of the FBI.
Jennifer Lynne Faith, the Oak Cliff woman whose boyfriend allegedly shot her husband to death, has been charged with orchestrating the murder, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah announced today.
Ms. Faith, 49, was charged Tuesday via superseding indictment with use of interstate commerce in the commission of murder-for-hire. The new charge carries a potential death penalty. She was previously charged with obstruction of justice, to which she entered a plea of not guilty.
Ms. Faith’s boyfriend, Darrin Ruben Lopez, 49, allegedly gunned down her husband, American Airlines technology director Jamie Faith, on October 9, 2020 at his Oak Cliff home.
Mr. Lopez was previously charged by the state with murder and by the feds with a gun crime, to which he also entered a plea of not guilty.
Court documents unsealed today are damning for Ms. Faith showing she used two phony email accounts to correspond with Mr. Lopez, assuming the identities of her own husband and one of her friends in order to falsely convince Mr. Lopez that her husband was physically and sexually abusing her.
“Ms. Faith’s alleged murder-for-hire scheme was depraved and calculated. She preyed on her boyfriend’s protective instinct and his pocketbook in order to convince him to execute her husband,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah.
“Jamie Faith’s brutal murder was a tragedy. His death has been a double blow to his family and friends, who had just begun to absorb the news of his murder when they were confronted with evidence of his wife’s alleged involvement. We are committed to getting justice for Jamie – and to holding both Ms. Faith and Mr. Lopez accountable for their alleged crimes.”
“Although the indictment of Ms. Faith is a win for law enforcement, I can’t help but think of the pain associated with so many others in this investigation. ATF is grateful to the Dallas Police Department for their dogged efforts in bringing this case to justice. ATF will not waver in its fight against violent crime in North Texas and beyond,” stated ATF Dallas Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey C. Boshek II.
According to the superseding indictment, Ms. Faith allegedly created the fake Gmail account in her husband’s name on April 9, 2020. Posing as Mr. Faith, Ms. Faith emailed Mr. Lopez multiple times during the spring and summer of 2020, taunting Mr. Lopez with details of extreme physical and sexual abuse that had never actually occurred. (Investigators have found absolutely no evidence of domestic or sexual violence by Jamie Faith.) Ms. Faith repeatedly attached fake photos of injuries as bogus proof of the abuse.
“I am telling you to stay away from my family,” she wrote in an email to Mr. Lopez on April 10 while posing as Mr. Faith.
“Enjoy knowing you can’t do a [expletive] thing about it,” she wrote in another email to Mr. Lopez on May 9, attaching close-up photos of purported injuries.
Ms. Faith allegedly created the fake Gmail account in her friend’s name on May 13. Posing as that friend, Ms. Faith sent multiple emails to Mr. Lopez’s personal email account falsely claiming that Mr. Faith was physically and sexually abusing her. Ms. Faith downloaded stock images of injuries from the internet and attached those images to her emails.
“Jamie slapped Jen … then he sent the pic of him choking her,” she wrote in an email to Mr. Lopez on May 13 while posing as her friend. “I am asking if you are willing to get involved and help Jen get out of this situation.”
“Jamie is abusing Jen today,” she wrote in another email to Mr. Lopez. “Any ideas how we can help her?”
“I know I won’t feel better about her situation until she is out of the house away from him or she lets me put a bullet in Jamie’s head,” Mr. Lopez replied by email on May 20.
“I am also very concerned and if it were up to me, I would tell you to go for it with your idea — lol; I’ll give you an alibi,” Ms. Faith responded, still posing as her friend.
“Darrin, I talked to Jenn – he’s burning her, among other things,” she continued in another email sent to Mr. Lopez on July 26.
On Oct. 8, Mr. Lopez allegedly drove from his home in Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee, to the Faiths’ home in Dallas, where he laid in wait until the early morning hours of Oct. 9. When Mr. and Ms. Faith emerged from their home to walk the family dog, Mr. Lopez allegedly approached Mr. Faith from behind and shot him seven times – three times in the head, three times in the torso, and one time in the groin – before fleeing the scene in his black Nissan Titan pickup truck with a distinctive “T” decal on the back window.
In the days following the murder, the pair exchanged multiple text messages about removing the decal from Mr. Lopez’s truck – messages they later attempted to delete.
On October 10, an associate of Ms. Faith created a GoFundMe account to raise money for the deceased’s family. Ms. Faith allegedly withdrew approximately $58,000 from the fund, which she used to pay for purchases made on two credit cards she gave to Mr. Lopez. She also used the credit cards to pay for expenses for Mr. Lopez and his family, purchase airline tickets for Mr. Lopez and his daughters, and pay FedEx to ship Mr. Lopez a large screen television.
On November 11, Ms. Faith initiated a life insurance claim seeking approximately $629,000 in death benefits from Met Life. She repeatedly updated Mr. Lopez as to the status of the claim:
“Ok, so life insurance. They aren’t processing the claim yet because when they spoke to Det Walton in November, he told them I couldn’t be ruled out as a suspect,” she texted Mr. Lopez (as herself) on December 29.
“Oh no,” Mr. Lopez texted back.
On January 10, 2021, law enforcement agents asked Ms. Faith to come in for an interview. She immediately texted Mr. Lopez in Tennessee:
“Detective called. He wants me in for an interview tomorrow. He said he wants to go over the investigation and go through some things to start moving things forward. I’m a ball of nerves now,” she wrote.
“You don’t need to be,” Mr. Lopez responded. “Just keep saying what you have been … you will be fine.”
“If asked about you, you are an old friend going through a divorce,” Ms. Faith replied. “Don’t text me Monday, I am going to factory reset my phone on Sunday night after deleting texts. Just thinking in case they pulled phone records and ask.”
On January 11, Mr. Lopez was arrested in Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee. Law enforcement agents located the .45 caliber handgun used to kill Jamie Faith inside a satchel in Mr. Lopez’s residence. Jamie Faith’s blood was recovered on the firearm.
The following week, Jennifer Lynne Faith allegedly transferred a total of $118,000 from her checking account into an account belonging to a third party. A few days later, she asked another individual to transmit a message to Mr. Lopez:
“I’ve just needed to be cautious because every communication is being monitored,” she said. “Please tell him ASAP that I will always be his.”
“Please stay strong for US,” Mr. Lopez, who was in custody, responded via the individual. “Your knight always.”
Indictments are merely allegations of criminal conduct, not evidence. Like all defendants, both Ms. Faith and Mr. Lopez are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
If convicted, Jennifer Lynne Faith faces up to life in federal prison, and could be subject to the death penalty. Mr. Lopez faces up to ten years in federal prison on the firearm charge and up to life in a state penitentiary on the Dallas County murder charge.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives’ Dallas Field Division and the Dallas Police Department’s Homicide Unit conducted the investigation with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office, Homeland Security Investigations, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee. NDTX Assistant U.S. Attorney Rick Calvert, Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Briggs and Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian McKay are prosecuting the case.
Jennifer Lynne Faith Played Victim Widow For Cameras
Jennifer Lynne Faith made a desperate plea to find her husband’s killer a year ago, but is now accused of orchestrating the crime with the help of her boyfriend.
Jennifer Lynne Faith said last year that she was “not supposed to be widowed at 48.” She urged the killer to come forward saying, “I just hope that at some point, maybe this person can recognise the gravity of what they’ve done and [can] feel some sort of guilt.”
The same month, the US Attorney’s Office was investigating neo-Nazis painting swastikas in Dallas.
