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Josh Brent has managed to stay mostly out of the headlines since the blitz of media coverage that followed his indictment on intoxication manslaughter charges in the December 8 death of Cowboys teammate Jerry Brown.

That changed today.

Brent was back in court this morning after prosecutors said he'd violated the terms of his probation by either consuming or being around alcohol. They hoped to have Brent's $100,000 bond revoked and have him sent back to jail.

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You'd think the clerk might have recognized the man as he waited in line at 7:30 Thursday morning. After all, he'd made memorable appearances at the same Ninth Street 7-Eleven twice in the previous 27 hours.

In the first, which happened just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, the 200-pound Hispanic man walked into the store and ask for a pack of Marlboros. When the clerk turned, the suspect jumped over the counter and pulled out a long-bladed knife, ordering the worker to open the register and step back. He made off with $55 cash, plus the cigarettes.

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In October of last year, at around 11:15 p.m., 17-year-old Jake Evans placed a 911 call from his upscale home in Aledo, a tony suburb just outside of Weatherford.

"It's weird," he said, his voice eerily calm as he spoke with the operator. "I wasn't even really angry with them. It just kind of happened. I've been kind of planning on killing for a while now."

According to his written confession, he knocked on sister Mallory's bedroom door and told her their mother had asked for her. He allegedly shot her in the head and in the back when she opened the door, then ran downstairs to the study, where he said he shot his mother, Jamie, three times. Evans says he began to empty the .22 revolver, but heard his 15-year-old sister's moans. He yelled out, "I'm sorry," returned to her bedroom and shot her once more.

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The stretch of trail near where the attack occurred.

White Rock Lake has become a favored hunting ground for knife-wielding bandits. At the end of March, one made off with a cell phone and bicycle from kids walking along the path cutting through the park below the dam. Two weeks later, at almost the same spot, a young couple was confronted by a man with a butcher knife.

Those robbers (or, perhaps, that robber) were lucky not to have run into Leah Peisner. The 25-year-old -- who appears to be a UNT grad, artist and animatronic dinosaur creator -- was walking along the southwestern edge of the lake when she felt a tug on her hair from behind.

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Update at 2:40 p.m.: WFAA's Rebecca Lopez reports that the victim is a Mexican national named Juan Guerrero Chapa believed to be working for a drug cartel.

News 8 has confirmed victim in Southlake shooting is Juan Guerrero Chapa. A mexican natl. believed to work for drug cartel. He's an attorney

— Rebecca Lopez (@rlopezwfaa) May 23, 2013

The FBI, DEA, and Homeland Security are helping with the investigation according to WFAA.

Original post: People just don't get killed in Southlake. Police there last recorded a murder in 1999 and have seen two in the past 20 years. The Dallas Morning News gives the town a perfect 5.0 in its ranking of the area's safest neighborhoods. People especially don't get killed in Southlake in broad daylight at tony Southlake Town Square.

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A Dallas County jury has found Donald Cuba not guilty of rape, The Dallas Morning News' Melissa Repko is reporting. Cuba, a 20-year-old junior, was accused of raping a fellow student in a dorm room early on the morning of February 10, 2012. As we wrote this morning, the trial has offered a few glimpses into the school's secretive on-campus justice system, SMU's preferred method of handling sexual assault complaints.

Although we had anticipated that he might, Cuba didn't take the stand this morning before the defense rested its case. Meanwhile, the prosecution tried to add two lesser charges to the rape charge, assault and unlawful restraint. But Judge Susan Hawk denied those requests.

"You do all or nothing here," she told prosecutors Kendall Castello and Cresta Garland. The witnesses, she said, say "either a sexual assault occurred or it didn't."

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Last fall, 20-year-old SMU junior Donald Cuba was indicted on charges of raping a fellow student in a dorm room. He was one of two SMU students charged with sexual assault that year (both in the same month, in fact). The other student, J.D. Mahaffey, saw his charges dropped by the state back in March. But Cuba's case went to trial Monday morning.

His accuser, who's being referred to as Jan Doe, was one of the first to take the stand. The Dallas Morning News reported that she testified that Cuba pushed her down on a bed, pinned her arms, pushed her shorts and underwear to the side and raped her. Although she didn't physically fight back, she said, "I've since gone back and wished I had."

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Robert Schneider

When Dallas police found Robert Schneider on the wrong side of a six-foot barbed-wire fence at Love Field in March, the 55-year-old at least had the wherewithal not to yell "jihad," or "Jesus" for that matter.

"I'm in there scrapping," he explained according to police records.

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That much was clear from the lengths of copper pipe and plumbing fixtures piled in a shopping cart next to Schneider's car, and from the wire cutters he was carrying, and from the fact that, when the cops showed up, he was laying on an interior roof in the Dalfort Hanger building some 20 feet from a spot in the hangar ceiling from which the copper piping was noticeably missing.

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From left: Mathis, Webb, Buckley and White.

Isaac Bugyendu was already dead when police responded to a shooting call Sunday night on Montana Avenue in Cedar Crest. The 25-year-old's body, pierced by multiple bullets, had been left in the middle of the road, barely a block from the Illinois Avenue 7-Eleven where he was a clerk.

Notably absent from the crime scene was Bugyendu's 2002 Chevy Cavalier, which he'd driven to work but was now missing. Find the car, police figured, and they'd find the killer.

It didn't take long.

At 10:30 Monday morning, just 12 hours after police recovered Bugyendu's body, police officers spotted the Cavalier driving nearby. Four men were inside. Devontae Webb, 17, was driving. His three passengers were Actavione Buckley, 21, Deon White, 18, and Kendrick Mathis, 18.

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Sometimes a chair is just a chair. Sometimes, when it comes in a suspiciously heavy package from Mexico, it's not.

To the naked eye, the UPS parcel contained nothing but an ordinary wooden folding chair and two paintings. Not precisely the "wooden frames" described on the shipping manifest, but nothing that isn't shipped across the country hundreds or thousands of times every day.

But U.S. Customs agents at the UPS distribution center in Louisville, Kentucky were suspicious. Partly because the Dallas-bound package was shipped from Mexico, and partly because, at 50 pounds, it seemed suspiciously heavy.

Agents ran the box through an x-ray scanner, which is how they discovered what was inside. They also discovered that some sections of the chair were denser than others, which was odd, seeing as the wood should have had a consistent density. Drilling into one of the dense sections revealed a white powder: meth.

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