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Senior Investigative Reporter @ NBC5 Dallas-Fort Worth. duPont-Columbia & Peabody Award winning investigative journalist. Opinions mine. RT's not endorsements
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
Joined March 2011
Receiving a 2024 duPont Silver Baton meant a lot - because it highlights the impact local reporting can have to hold those in power to account. Have a story that does that? Enter for #duPont2025 at Deadline July 1. #passingthebaton @columbiajourn.
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Thank you to the Peabody Awards for this incredible recognition - and congratulations to my NBC DFW teammates on "Against All Enemies".
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NBC DFW is a Peabody Award Winner! For 84 years, the Peabody Awards has celebrated #StoriesThatMatter and the visionary voices behind projects that reflect the world around us. Congratulations...
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Thanks to our partners at @NBCNightlyNews for featuring our reporting on how high speeds are claiming too many lives on our roads - and what might be done to change that. @NBCDFW.
.@NBCDFW analyzed federal data and found that, over 5 years, Dallas has the highest traffic fatality rate among America’s 10 largest cities. The number one factor in the deadly wrecks? Speed. @ScottNBC5 reports on the impact of this data and what experts say could help.
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Thank you @DavidZipper for taking time to walk and drive some of Dallas’ most dangerous roads with us - and for sharing your thoughts on how we might begin to make our neighborhoods safer. @NBCDFW #DFWDrivenToDeath.
This is the best series on road safety I’ve ever seen. Last week @nbcdfw ran a multi-part investigation into Dallas' epidemic of car crashes. Rather than blame drivers, the story delves into speed, street design, and Vision Zero's failures. 🧵.
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Exciting news to share! Thank you to the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards jurors for this nomination. I could not be more proud of the NBC DFW team that worked so hard on this documentary. @NBCDFW @NBCUniversal
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Texas DPS reveals a third employee has been suspended in the widening fake inspection scandal inside the agency. Arrest warrant paperwork obtained by NBC5 Investigates details $110,000+ in alleged illicit payments to another DPS staffer. @NBCDFW .
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Arrest warrant affidavits obtained by NBC 5 explain why the Texas Rangers suspected fraudulent inspection stations were getting cover from DPS insiders. The affidavits detail more than $100,000 in...
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RT @columbiajourn: 2023 duPont winners @ScottNBC5 @ParksDigsIn @nbcdfw pushed lawmakers to close a scary Texas loophole: paper license plat….
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Thanks to the team’s persistent reporting, the state will prohibit paper license plates that are being used to create untraceable vehicles linked to serious crimes.
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Great to be in DC with the team to accept a @USCAnnenberg Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism for our documentary project “Against All Enemies”. Powerful to hear the stories of journalists across the country working to counter disinformation. @NBCDFW
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Texas will no longer allow continuing ed. credit for law enforcement classes from a group teaching county sheriffs they outrank the FBI. This comes after a state investigation stemming from questions raised in our reporting of "Against All Enemies".@NBCDFW.
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Group that teaches county sheriffs they outrank the FBI and the president will be prohibited from offering state credit for courses taught to Texas law enforcement officers.
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Records indicate the Allen outlet mall gunman signed his TX driver's license & other docs with a Nazi logo. A reminder law enforcement experts say that mass shooters often leak small clues about ideology or intentions months or years in advance. @NBCDFW .
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New records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates suggest the gunman in the Allen Premium Outlets attack signed his Texas driver’s license and other forms he submitted to the state with a Nazi symbol in his...
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Texas Legislature on the verge of eliminating vehicle safety inspections — but the state would still collect fees we pay for inspections. And in the big DFW counties cars would still need an annual emissions inspection. @NBCDFW .
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The Texas legislature appeared poised Thursday night to eliminate state vehicle safety inspections.
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State records suggest hundreds of fake vehicle inspections were happening right under the nose of an auditor from the state agency in charge of enforcing the inspection rules -- raising questions about TX DPS efforts to combat the problem. @NBCDFW .
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You can watch “Against All Enemies” on our NBC5 Roku and FireTV apps and via our website:
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A big thank you to the Cronkite Awards @USCAnnenberg / @LearCenter for this amazing recognition for our documentary “Against All Enemies”. Congrats to my NBC5 Investigates teammates who worked tirelessly on this project. @NBCDFW.
With disinformation Everywhere All at Once, the 2023 winners of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in TV Political Journalism exemplify why journalism matters more. Congratulations to the winners! . Read the release and watch the winning entries at
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Texas DPS announces a crack down on vehicle inspection stations conducting fake inspections - one week after an NBC5 Investigation revealed major gaps in a state system allowing cars with fake inspections to get real license plates. @NBCDFW
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The Texas Department of Public Safety announced Thursday it is ramping up efforts to crack down on state-licensed vehicle inspection stations that are conducting fake inspections.
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The TX DPS director director is pledging to help fix the gaps we uncovered in the state's vehicle inspection system. As we revealed the state's computer system does not prevent cars with fake safety and emissions inspections from getting plates. @NBCDFW .
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Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw is promising to help fix a major security gap in the state’s vehicle inspection program, a gap first exposed in an exclusive report from NBC 5...
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Among the group - officers from Grand Prairie - a department that lost an officer - killed while pursuing a car with a fraudulent tag. For more than a year our reporting has shown how criminals use fake tags to evade police.
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A sign of how police are fed up with fraudulent paper tags. they have packed a TX House committee hearing on a bill to eliminate paper temporary plates and switch to metal. @NBCDFW
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RT @ChiefScesney: Thank you @ScottNBC5 and @ParksDigsIn for keeping a spotlight on this important issue. Texans would be safer, and insuran….
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Officers have seized dozens of fake tags mirroring the DMV’s new more secure tags as lawmakers consider switching to metal plates.
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First we exposed how millions of Texas cars may have fake state inspections. Now a team of investigators tells us they believe dozens of those vehicles were involved in fatal crashes. @NBCDFW
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After exposing the massive number of cars investigators suspect are on Texas roads without a valid inspection, NBC 5 Investigates is now looking into how many of those cars may have been involved in...
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