State vs. Hector Alvarado Flores
Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child under 14
Lead: Blake Penfield
2nd Chair: Kalle Riner
DA Investigators: Edwin Gibson
DA Victim Advocate: Flor De La Fuente
Investigating Agency: Carrollton Police Department
The defendant was found guilty of continuously sexually abusing a child under the age of 14.
GUILTY and sentenced to 99 years in prison.
State vs. Raphael Jefferson
Murder
Lead: Travis Wiles
2nd Chair: Sasha Stribling
DA Investigator: Duane Glenn
Investigating Agency: Dallas Police Department
The victim was in the car with his 9-month-old child waiting for his child’s mother to get her nails done at the neighborhood nail salon. The defendant, angry about being robbed by the mother the previous night, shot the victim through the car door. The shooting was witnessed by the mother, her sister, and an independent witness. The child’s mother is currently in jail out of state and did not appear at trial. The sister, whose testimony was accompanied by considerable credibility issues, was the only other person who could identify the defendant as the shooter. Additional evidence presented at trial assisted the jury in corroborating various elements of the sister’s testimony, ultimately leading to a conviction.
GUILTY and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
State vs. Phillip Lincoln
Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon
Lead: Michael Chang
2nd Chair: Jui Kothare
DA Investigator: Bonita Morgan, Alexander Lipsey, Eddie Lopez
Investigating Agency: Dallas Police Department
The defendant was previously convicted of an attempted family violence with previous conviction offense and was arrested with a gun in the backseat. The defendant had multiple convictions for family violence in the past.
GUILTY and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
State vs. Aaron Linwood
Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Young Child
Lead: Klarissa Diaz
2nd Chair: Ward Weber
DA Investigator: Raphael Vela
DA Victim Advocate: Leslie Gutierrez
Investigating Agency: Dallas Police Department
The defendant was found guilty and convicted of the lesser offense of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child Under 14.
GUILTY and sentenced to 23 years in prison.
State vs. Derek Harper
Murder
Lead: Stephen Duplantis
2nd Chair: Brandi Mitchell
DA Investigator: Eugene Reyes
Investigating Agency: Dallas Police Department
The victim and defendant were a couple and lived together for four months. The murder occurred as they were breaking up and the victim was gathering his things to move out. Two interior BLINK cameras captured footage of the two interacting over the course of the evening but not the shooting itself. The defendant is seen on camera assaulting the victim a few times. Security video provided by the apartment complex shows the defendant pulling the victim back into the apartment by his neck 90 seconds before the 911 call. The defendant claimed that the victim grabbed a butcher knife and tried to stab him leaving him no choice but to shoot in self-defense. Neither had a prior criminal history.
GUILTY and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
State. Vs. Charles Ibarra
Tampering with Governmental Record
Lead: Scott Wells
2nd Chair: London Daniels
DA Investigator: Kevin Feinglas
On February 17, 2021, during an ice storm, the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center was converted into a homeless shelter for all those without shelter. The Dallas City Marshals Office was assigned to police the center. At approximately 2:00 p.m., Dallas City Marshals were alerted to a women’s bathroom due to an individual possibly smoking a cigarette in one of the stalls. As the Marshals were escorting that person out of the center, Ofc. Charles Ibarra slammed that individual to the ground before arresting him for Disorderly Conduct and Resisting Arrest. In the police reports, Ofc. Ibarra wrote the individual caused a disturbance as he was leaving the center and resisted arrest.
A short time after the arrest, however, the Dallas Police Department received an anonymous tip that Ofc. Ibarra’s report did not list the body camera footage that was available, and Mr. Ibarra used excessive force when making the arrest. Ofc. Ibarra was indicted for the State Jail Felony of Tampering with Governmental Record. On Friday, March 1, 2024, the jury returned a guilty verdict for the lesser included offense of the misdemeanor charge of Tampering with Governmental Record. He was sentenced to nine (9) months probation with anger management as a condition of his probationary sentence.
GUILTY of Tampering with Governmental Record and sentenced to nine months’ probation with anger management as a condition of his probationary sentence.
