An internal call diversion memo intended for Dallas Police Department dispatch personnel was rescinded today after social media outrage.
The memo for 911 Call Center staff regarding KPMG’s recommendations to divert certain Priority 4 calls to the Dallas Online Reporting System (DORS) or an Expediter was released to the public on social media.
The memorandum was sent prematurely per Dallas Police. The department is still in the evaluation phase on this item and will have further dialogue on recommendations and next steps. Therefore, the actions set out in the memorandum have been rescinded at this time.
The controversy comes less than a week after Chief Eddie Garcia was introduced to the public in his first press conference.
Call Diversion Memo
The internal memo showed several types of calls which would go undispatch in most cases by Dallas Police.
There are several call types listed for nonresponse including runaways and interference with child custody that propensity for violence.
A David Finn post on Boxing Day – December 26 – has people angry, but Dallas District Attorney John Creuzot sharing it has them ready to rumble on social media.
Finn is representing Philip Baldenegro in the criminal trial related to the robbery and murder of Carlos Arajeni-Arriaza Morillo. The case against co-defendant Zephi Trevino recently had Jamie Lee Curtis take out a full page ad in the Dallas Morning News.
Finn accuses Trevino of engineering the robbery despite her family protests she is a victim of sexual trafficking.
Finn’s post appears to be defending his client on the court steps as opposed to court chambers, but the real outrage came when DA Creuzot shared the David Finn post on his personal Facebook account page.
Texas code forbids prosecutors from speaking about cases against minors so how close this skirts this prohibition is yet to be determined. This case does appear to be tarnishing the Hollywood reputation of Creuzot who has won national ink for ‘prosecution reform’.
Several members of the group or supporters attacked and questioned Creuzot. One went so far as to say his career was “over.”
Trevino is scheduled to have a certification hearing next week on January 4, 2021 to determine if she can stand trial as an adult.
The David Finn Post
The full David Finn posts are below. While he has openly disclosed his home address, we have redacted that over threats of violence Mr. Finn has received.
Zephi Trevino, is a Texas teen is accused of Capital Murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a man that occurred when she was 16. Dallas District Attorney John Creuzot intends to charge her as an adult pending a January 4, 2021 hearing.
Her mother and other advocates, including Jamie Lee Curtis and Kim Kardashian West, say she is a victim of sex trafficking, not a killer.
Zephaniah Trevino, now 17, is one of three people charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of Carlos Arajeni-Arriaza Morillo, 24. He was killed in a Grand Prarie apartment in August 2019.
Murder victim Carlos Arajeni-Arriaza Morillo
Another defendant, Philip Baldenegro, then 18, admitted to fatally shooting Morillo and shooting and injuring another man as part of a robbery attempt. He and Jesse Martinez, then 19, are all charged in the case.
“She brought the guys to the apartment and set the whole thing up,” said Finn.
Zephi Trevino’s parents and Baldenegro’s attorney agree the men were there to have sex with Zephi, but Zephi’s parents claim Baldenegro was forcing their daughter to have sex for money.
Baldenegro’s attorney says his client admits he pulled the trigger, but he is not a pimp.
“She is no victim. My client Philip Baldenegro is 19 and I think she was 16 at the time. They had a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship that is born out on my client’s cellphone,” said Finn.
“She engineered, organized, executed the entire plan,” Finn said.
Murder suspects Philip Baldenegro and Jesse Martinez
Zephi Trevino Background
Zephaniah, or “Zephi” as she’s known to friends and family, was a typical teenager in her Grand Prairie, Texas community. Kind, outgoing, and the youngest of four siblings raised in a loving home, she was involved in activities from her church worship team to pitching for her high school softball team.
Trevino’s mom, Crystal Trevino, told local media her daughter was offered a plea deal that would give her 10 years in prison, but declined.
Crystal said her daughter played sports and was involved in her church before she fell in with the wrong crowd, saying the plight of her daughter Zephi Trevino is “a mother’s worst nightmare.”
Zephi Trevino Case
Crystal Trevino says her daughter was offered a ten year plea deal, which she declined. She faces up to 40 years in prison. Trevino’s case has caught the attention of numerous celebrities.
Civil rights lawyer Justin Moore is helping the family and helped get the attention of Jason Flom, a founding board member of The Innocence Project.
Flom says he thinks Dallas District Attorney John Creuzot should take a closer look at the case.
“On what planet does it make sense that we are going to charge her with capital murder? It’s a disastrously failed social policy,” Flom said.
The Innocence Project, has helped secure the release of hundreds of wrongfully convicted people.
Zephi Trevino, John Creuzot, and Dominque Alexander
The case also presents an interesting challenge for Creuzot.
Recently, former Chief of Police Reneé Hall was reported to be in an inappropriate relationship with convicted felon and local activist Dominique Alexander. The public report hastened Hall’s exit as police chief and her depature was announced less than twenty-four hours after the report.
Creuzot has not been seen out front on sex trafficking issues unlike the local US Attorney’s Office who recently arrested a local man for sex trafficking. Additionally, like Reneé Hall, Creuzot is known to be friendly with Dominque Alexander and there are multiple sources who indicate Creuzot made a nonprosecution with Alexander and Next Generation Action Network in return for not endangering his election campaign with Alexander’s activism in certain neighborhoods.
John Creuzot and his office are prohibited from speaking about the Trevino case, but he is noticable silent on relationships with both Alexander and Judge Audrey Moorehead, recently arrested for DWI.
Dallas appears to be repeating the Reneé Hall errors by naming RaShall M. Brackney a finalist for Dallas Police Chief. Hall has officially left her duties as police chief under a cloud of questions from her own officers. She accelerated her departure timeline after we reported on inappropriate behavior between she and convicted felon Dominique Alexander.
In October, the Interim Minister and Board for the Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville wrote a letter to Brackney – a reported “expert on harm reduction, procedural and restorative justice practices, and community-police relations” about what appears on its face to be a case of racial profiling by her officers. Her response was a press conference where she called for the termination of both the church pastor and the entire board.
Brackney’s full press conference can be seen here.
Brackney comes to Dallas as local neo nazis act with impunity vandalizing city property and Dallas City Council can not decide if they will hold police accountable or just defund them in line with social-justice activists’ wishes.
Meanwhile Brackney is considered a finalist for our top cop role – coming from a department that has a bad history of dealing with protests and counter protests.
Dallas has a long history of protests and Dallas Police in responding, but the thinking of TC Broadnax on this one is confusing – especially given the recent problems with Reneé Hall.
As a person on social media noted “of all the people in the world to go to war with, I feel like “the reverend at the unitarian church” was a bad choice for the Charlottesville Police Department.”
Brackney History
Brackney’s Charlottesville biography states prior to her appointment as the Chief of Police she retired as a 30-year veteran from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and served as the former Chief of Police of the George Washington University.
Comment was sough from Charlottesville Police public information unit, but there has been no response as of time of publish.
A source in Austin reports State Representative Terry Meza‘s Texas HB196 will be a focus for the Texas legislature in the upcoming session starting in January 2021. One Republican said it was “better than Christmas.”
Meza seen here with Beto O’Rourke – the former candidate who said Hell yes, we‘re going to take away your guns.
Meza sparked a backlash when she proposed changes to the state’s “castle doctrine,” through Texas HB196, which allows the use of deadly force to protect property.
Facebook has numerous posts attributed to Meza regarding HB196. Calls and emails to her office were not returned so these statements have not been validated.
Privately Republicans are rejoicing saying Democrats have stepped in the muck again.
The point to rising crime numbers throughout Dallas and other cities including officers being attacked and the Democrats filing a bill to stop citizens and home owners from protecting their own property.
One legislative staffer said Denton County had to arrest Dallas’ serial killer because their police chief is in a relationship with a BLM activist with a felony record. Instead of protecting the public, they are filing HB196 which looks to protect criminals.
Some Democrats complain too continuing a pattern of infighting since Election Day when Democrats failed in their expectations to be leading the state house in 2021.
We just lost every winnable seat possible and we have state reps thinking HB196 will bring the suburbs back to voting for us. Democrats continue to say ‘we did it‘ while losing winnable races.
Dallas County criminal court judge Audrey Moorehead was arrested Tuesday night on a charge of driving under the influence, according to Farmers Branch police records.
About 10:43 p.m., Farmers Branch Police officers were called to the 13500 block of Midway Road. Upon arriving on scene they found a white Cadillac had struck a light pole. Judge Audrey Faye Moorehead was placed under arrest on a DWI charge and taken to the Farmers Branch jail.
Moorehead was released on bond the following day. It has not been determined if Judge Moorehead presided over other criminal cases in the days that followed.
Audrey Moorehead
Moorehead assumed office in Dallas County in 2018. She presides over County Criminal Court 3 and is also listed as member of the Dallas Bar Association Board of Directors.
Moorehead did not face opposition in the 2018 Democratic Party primary, but looks to have insider status. Earlier in the year statewide Democrats nominated Terri Hodge to be a representative of the Democratic Party in the Electoral College.
Hodge had previously served a year in prison for felony tax evasion secondary to bribery.
There were four unrelated Friday night shootings in approximately twenty-three minutes that Dallas Police responded. The result is two people dead and two more injured.
Friday Night Shootings – A Reflection Of Larger Trend
Dallas has been a hotbed of crime all year long, prior to COVID19 becoming a contributing factor.
Earlier in the year members of City Council cut police overtime for arts and environmental projects despite Dallas’s murder and violent crime rates. Locally Dallas is on pace for more murders this year than last which broke local records.
Despite pledging to serve the remainder of 2020, her resignation was announced earlier today with Lonzo Anderson, appointed Interim Chief of Police starting December 15, 2020.
City officials from the Mayor’s Office and City Manager’s Office continue to avoid questions about her tenure or the most recent allegations.
Reneé Hall Runs Away Again
Hall has been under heavy criticism since it was learned she was not providing proper supervision to officers during the June Gorge Floyd protests and lied about the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge events both at the time and later in official After Action Reports.
Hall’s resignation has led to thirty-six applicants for the Chief of Police position.
City Manager T.C. Broadnax invited the group of seven candidates chosen from a pool of thirty-six applicants from across the U.S. The candidates named finalists are:
Albert Martinez – Director of Security for Dallas Catholic Dioceses/Former DPD Deputy Chief
Avery Moore – Assistant Police Chief, Dallas Police Department
Eddie Garcia – Chief of Police, San Jose, California
Jeff Spivey – Chief of Police, City of Irving, Texas
Malik Aziz – Major, Dallas Police Department
Reuben Ramirez – Deputy Chief, Dallas Police Department
RaShall Brackney – Chief of Police, Charlottesville, Virginia
Interviews between candidates and council members will be pre-recorded and published on the city’s social media and cable TV next week.
An additional fifty-five organizations ranging from police unions to neighborhood nonprofits will participate in stakeholder panel interviews with the candidates beginning December 15, 2020.
Broadnax says he expects to select and appoint the next chief before the end of the year.
Mayor Johnson has recently emphasized public safety including his state of the city address: “We need more robust law enforcement strategies,” Johnson said in his speech at Fair Park, in South Dallas. “The violent crime reduction plan that I asked for last year simply has not worked. … It is my expectation that whoever becomes the next police chief will be accountable to you and will work with you to make our city safer.”
An alleged Dallas serial killer arrested in Denton is linked to a shooting there. The Dallas police department announced they had arrested possible serial killer in connection to shootings in Dallas, Celina, Frisco, Prosper, and Denton.
Dallas Serial Killer Arrested Is Jeremy Harris
Harris, who police have described as an alleged “serial killer”, is accused of four murders in North Texas. The include the death of Southern Methodist University (SMU) student Jaden Urrea.
Jeremy Harris, who is 31, is also linked to at least four deaths — three in Dallas and one in Celina — after his arrest earlier this week. He was taken into custody after police found a victim, 60-year-old Blair Carter, dead inside a burning home in Celina on Wednesday.
Now, Harris has been charged with three other murders in Dallas, which police described as random killings.
Harris is being held in the Collin County Jail, and his bail is set at $3 million with four murder charges pending.
Harris may be linked to the shooting of two parents picking up their child earlier this week.
Two parents were shot Sunday night – victims of another reckless gun crime after an accident in 5900 block of Forest Lane in North Dallas. They were on their way to pick up their two year old child from a childcare provider per Dallas Police.
The parents are a 32-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman. They got into a car accident at around 9 p.m. near the Dallas North Tollway. The couple was on the way to their childcare provider.
The driver of the second vehicle, a 20-year-old man, shot the couple, police said. He remains at-large.
Two Parents Shot Today – Violent Crime, Murder Well Up Over 2019
There were 219 homicides in Dallas in all of 2019. The Dallas Police Department dashboard currently lists 233 as of November 16, 2020 with 45 days left in November.
Earlier this year the Dallas City Council voted to defund Dallas Police Department’s overtime budget removing officers from the street and reprogramming those dollars into bike lanes and solar power systems.
Additionally, Dallas Police officers have been openly attacked and Community Police Oversight Board appointees have taken to vigilantism.
