DALLAS (AP) – State agents have raided the Dallas offices of adult classified ad portal Backpage.com and arrested Chief Executive Officer Carl Ferrer following allegations that adult and child sex-trafficking victims were forced into prostitution through escort ads posted on the site.… MORE
Yearly Archives: 2016
North Texas Officers Find Dozens of People Held Captive in Homes
IRVING, Texas (AP) – Nine men have been charged with aggravated kidnapping after dozens of people were found being held against their will in what were supposedly drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.… MORE
Red Cross Shelters Are Filling Up As Hurricane Matthew Hammers the Southern East Coast
Titusville (WBAP/KLIF News) – Almost three thousand people are waiting out Hurricane Matthew in Red Cross shelters along the East Coast from Florida into the Carolinas. The Red Cross’ Dan Halyburton said volunteers at shelters just West of Cocoa Beach near Cape Canaveral will move into storm-ravaged areas once they’re declared safe by law enforcement. He…… MORE
Warrant Service Turns Into Shots Fired, House Fire
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – Ft. Worth police officers looking for a man wanted for car theft and assault instead find themselves in a shots fired situation. Sergeant Marc Povero says officers went to the house on Haltom Road, thinking the suspect was there. “When our officers arrived, they contacted two people that came to the…… MORE
Brenda Delgado Extradited Back to US from Mexico
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The woman investigators say was behind the murder-for-hire plot of a Dallas dentist has been extradited back to the United States from Mexico. Brenda Delgado faces Capital Murder charges for allegedly orchestrating the murder of Kendra Hatcher in an Uptown Dallas parking garage over a year ago. Delgado fled the US after…… MORE