Dallas neighborhoods

Crime Report: Lock Your Car and Take Your Louis Vuitton Inside, Park Cities!

By Zachary Dickens / November 4, 2014 /

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but police in the Park Cities largely filled their time last week with two types of incidents: burglars breaking into SUVs to steal third-row seats, and thieves helping themselves to all of the loot that Parkies leave inside their unlocked vehicles. The 3900 and 4000 blocks of Miramar…

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Homefacts App Provides Complete Picture of Neighborhood to Buyers With School Data, Crime Stats, and Demographics, But is it Too Much?

By Joanna England / July 22, 2014 /

    We love a good app here at CandysDirt, and when RealtyTrac announced their new Homefacts app, we had to give it a test. We’ve reviewed several good real estate apps before, and some of them are great for just run-of-the-mill home shopping (Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin), some give you a more visual…

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UPDATED: First Human West Nile Virus Case is Found in Preston Hollow, City Plans Ground Spraying For Affected Area

By Joanna England / July 18, 2014 /

Well, you’ll find us on our way to Lake Tahoe, where there are no disease carrying mosquitoes and the vistas and waters are easy to soak up. (Well, Candy is headed there, and I’m with her in spirit, so that counts, right?) It was an easy decision now that Dallas County Health and Human Services…

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Look Alive, Preston Hollow: Police Are Searching for a Red-Headed Man in a Gray Nissan

By Joanna England / June 4, 2014 /

This just in from Officer Mark Andrew Lutz of Dallas Police Department’s North Central Division: Please assist DPD in locating a person of interest The following incident occurred 06/02/14 at about 2 p.m. in the Preston/Royal area: A teenage girl was walking in the 10800 Block of Camellia Lane when a 2009 Nissan Altima (or similar style…

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Suspicious Tires: Stranded Carrollton Man May Have Plundered Unlocked Highland Park Cars

By Zachary Dickens / June 4, 2014 /

At 2:45 a.m. on May 31, a Highland Park police officer noticed that a white Ford truck was parked in the 4200 block of Edmondson Avenue with its emergency lights flashing. The officer approached the truck and found a 24-year-old Carrollton man standing next to it on the curb. The man said he’d run over…

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