4 February 2020 | parkcitiespeople.com
Crime S KU L D U G G E RY of the MONTH
HORSE POWER MYSTERY
Which hit first, the Chevrolet Tahoe or the horse-drawn carriage? Officers responded at 9:11 p.m. Dec. 14 to a crash at Lakeside Drive and Lexington Avenue. The Tahoe driver said he was going southbound on Lexington and trying to get between two parked cars on the other side of the road when the horse-drawn carriage carrying 8-10 people northbound on Lakeside Drive tried to go between the same two vehicles and hit his vehicle. The carriage driver said the Tahoe hit the carriage.
UPDATES: DRUG TRAFFICKING INDICTMENT, MURDER ARREST, PARK VANDALISM
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n eleventh person has been indicted in relation to an alleged drug trafficking operation authorities say was led by a Park Cities man. Peter Yin, 36, was included in the eight-count indictment filed Dec. 12. His arraignment was Jan. 9. Gary Bussell, 50, of the Park Cities, Gina Corwin, 51, also a Park Cities resident, Ben Westin, 28, of Carrollton, Scott Perras, 27, of McKinney, William Allbrook, 32, of The Colony, Austin Seymour, 24, of Dallas, Lisa Young, 32, of Dallas, George Wagner III, 46, of Garland, Todd Shewmake, 34, of McKinney, and Yin are accused of involvement in the operation, according to the indictment.
Juan Antonio Cardenas, 19, was arrested on a murder complaint in December, about 11 months after the former Highland Park High School student was shot in a parking garage in the Shops at Park Lane. Cardenas remains in custody in the Dallas County Jail. Another defendant in the case, Rene Eduardo Montanez Jr., 23, was arrested on Jan. 26, 2019, days after Pintucci was found slumped over in the driver’s seat of a white 2002 sedan with a gunshot wound. Pintucci was a former Highland Park High School student but had transferred out in 2018, according to the school district.
Pintucci Murder Arrest
The playground under construction at Bradfield Elementary School at 4300 Southern Avenue was nearly done when a vandal damaged the just-installed rubber safety surface Dec. 7. At the time, an employee of the company in charge of installing the surface told police the vandal likely got in through the
Dallas police have apprehended anJuan Cardenas other suspect (COURTESY PHOTO) in the death of Joseph Anthony Pintucci.
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gate. The employee found shoe imprints across the playground surface and suspected the surface would have to be replaced at a cost of $34,084.24. Highland Park ISD communications director Jon Dahlander, however, said the damage and cost weren’t as significant as first thought, and HP Department of Public Safety spokesman Lt. Lance Koppa said crews finished the repairs at no cost to the district.
HPISD spokeswoman Emily Conklin said the playground opened for use in early January. HPISD officials didn’t provide answers before press time about what additional work had to be done to the playground before it opened. The Highland Park Department of Public Safety had not yet identified the vandal. Visit peoplenewspapers.com for more on these and other crimes. — Compiled by Rachel Snyder
CRIME REPORT DEC. 9 - JAN. 12 DEC. 9
Out of luck: A 19-year-old woman in the 3800 block of Gillon Avenue reported at 12:45 a.m. that she lost her wallet with two credit cards inside. She said it was likely lost in her Denver, Colorado dormitory, but she won’t be able to get in until classes start back in January.
DEC. 11
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Playground Damaged
The Bradfield Elementary School playground is now open after repairs to its vandalized surface. (PHOTO RACHEL SNYDER)
Before 6:11 p.m., a thief broke the window of a woman’s BMW at Highland Park Village and took a $2,700 purse from a shopping bag inside.
DEC. 14
Reported at 9:30 a.m.: A driver knocked over a tree in the 3700 block of Armstrong Parkway.
DEC. 16
Reported at 7:47 p.m.: Two men
DEC. 23
shattered vehicle windows in the Whole Foods parking lot in the 4100 block of Lomo Alto Drive and sped away from the parking lot in another vehicle.
At 2:37 a.m., four men were smoking marijuana in a Mustang in the 7000 block of Westchester Drive.
DEC. 17
DEC. 25
A woman reported at 6:03 p.m. that she lost a diamond ring in the parking lot at Highland Park Village.
DEC. 18
A woman reported at 1:52 p.m. that a crook took her wallet from her unlocked SUV in the 4000 block of Caruth Boulevard and fled on foot.
DEC. 19
Officers didn’t have to go far while responding to a box truck that hit a pole near the Highland Park Department of Public Safety station on Drexel Drive at 10:07 a.m.
Before 10:40 a.m., an uninvited guest went in a home in the 3200 block of Centenary Drive via an unlocked door and took $100, photo equipment, a Nintendo, identifying documents, and more.
JAN. 5
A man reported at 9:22 a.m. that he left his car unlocked in the 4400 block of Fairfax Avenue and returned to it to find a charger and a Carhartt jacket missing. A wrench was taken from a second vehicle.
JAN. 6
A man in the 4200 block of
Amherst Street got an expensive surprise. Before 6:31 p.m., he was charged $61 for a food delivery that he didn’t order.
JAN. 8
Can you porch pirate a bicycle? Before 10:02 p.m., a crook took a $600 Trek 3500 bicycle from the 4300 block of Normandy Avenue.
JAN. 11
Another open garage, another theft: Before 12:50 p.m. an opportunistic crook took a S-works Roubaix bicycle from a home in the 3700 block of Colgate Avenue.
JAN. 12
Who says criminals are afraid of illumination? Before 1:19 p.m., a burglar took 50 recessed can lights from a construction area in the 3400 block of Beverly Drive.