The Brief<\/p>\n
Multiple local and federal law enforcement agencies raided the Paris Adult Book Store on Harry Hines Boulevard Friday morning.<\/p>\n
The Dallas Police Department has confirmed the operation is part of a joint effort but has not yet disclosed the specific nature of the probe.<\/p>\n
It is currently unclear what prompted the raid or if any arrests have been made, as officials decline to comment on the active investigation.<\/p>\n
DALLAS – Law enforcement officials raided an adult bookstore on Harry Hines Boulevard in Dallas on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
The Dallas Police Department confirmed the raid at the Paris Adult Book Store in the 11100 block of Harry Hines Boulevard was a coordinated effort between multiple local and federal law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n
Images from FOX 4 photographers and SKY 4 showed Dallas Police Chief David Comeaux was at the scene with his police and vice officers, as well as officers from Homeland Security, the IRS and possibly other agencies.<\/p>\n
A home in Plano was also raided Friday morning. Records show the owner of the home owns sexually-oriented businesses.<\/p>\n
The raid comes a week after Dallas police and the Department of Justice announced Project Safe Neighborhood, a crime-stopping initiative in Northwest Dallas.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
DPD would not release any information about the raid because the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Federal agents and Dallas police would not say if the owner of the Plano home been arrested, or what they were doing at the house.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
“As is standard practice, law enforcement agencies do not comment on ongoing investigations. Additional information will be released when it becomes appropriate,” the department said in an update.<\/p>\n
The backstory<\/p>\n
Paris Adult Book Store is located in a reported hub for prostitution and sex trafficking.<\/p>\n
In 2024, a sex worker named Caleigha Zangari was picked up in Paris’ parking lot by a driver and was later murdered. The suspect, Naasson Hazzard, is now serving life in prison.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
The information in this story comes from the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Multiple local and federal law enforcement agencies raided the Paris Adult Book Store on Harry Hines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[67386,67388,102,104,103,4081,67387,67385,54961],"class_list":["post-165568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-adult-book-store","tag-adult-bookstore","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-friday-morning","tag-harry-hines-boulevard","tag-law-enforcement-agencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}