The same year as the two murders, Dallas police officer Bryan Riser was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of assault family violence causing bodily injury to an ex-girlfriend.
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A Dallas police officer is behind bars this morning, accused of orchestrating the 2017 murders of two people including a 31-year-old woman who was acting as a police informant.
Murder charges were announced Thursday against 36-year-old Bryan Riser, a 13-year veteran of the city s police force. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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Dallas Police Chief Edgardo Garcia outlined the allegations against the officer during a press conference, alleging that Riser had hired someone to kidnap and kill both Albert Douglas, 61, and Liza Saenz, 31.
DALLAS The Dallas Police Department allowed an officer to continue patrolling for more than a year while investigating whether he ordered two people to be killed because it didn’t want to tip him off, the city’s former police chief said. Former Police Chief U. Renee Hall, who left the department at the end of […]
A Dallas police officer was arrested Thursday on two counts of capital murder, more than a year and a half after a man told investigators that he kidnapped and killed two people at the officer's instruction in 2017, authorities said. Bryan Riser, a 13-year veteran of the force, was arrested Thursday morning and taken to…