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serve on the board, including Linnie
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The foundation serves as an umbrel-
la nonprofit for the Denton Senior Cen-
ter and for small community groups,
such as the teams that put on the Cinco
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe@ denton rc. com
The Denton Parks Foundation on
Thursday pledged its full cooperation
with a city government investigation in-
to its finances.
In a letter to the city manager’s office,
foundation president Marc Culp in-
cluded a long list of city projects and
community programs the foundation
has helped pay for over the years and
urged the city to complete the investiga-
tion as soon as possible.
“I trust, or at least hope, that the city
understands and appreciates that the
continuation of these ‘good works’ has
been placed in serious jeopardy even if
the foundation is ultimately completely
vindicated as I expect it will be,” Culp
wrote Thursday.
The foundation was created in 1987
as an independent nonprofit organiza-
tion with an all-volunteer board of di-
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Visitors view the vandalized Tom “Pops” Carter sculpture during North
Texas Giving Day on Sept. 14 at the Denton County Courthouse on the
Square, as the Denton Parks Foundation began accepting donations to re-
pair or replace the sculpture.
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TODAY
IN DENTON
Police ID
suspected
sexual
predator
STAR STRAY
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High: 90
Low: 67
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By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
jgill@jdentonrc.com
Montarius Allen Banks has been
known to sexually target women who
smoke cigarettes in Denton County, po-
lice say.
In June 2015, he
exposed himself to a
woman in a Bed Bath
& Beyond parking lot
in Denton after asking
her for a cigarette, ac-
cording to a Denton
police arrest affidavit.
In recent months, he’s
been focusing on
women in Lake Dallas in the Ashleye
Village Apartments, 155 W. Overly
Drive, and the nearby Lake Haven Es-
tates mobile home park at 201N. Shady
Shores Road.
He asks the women for a cigarette,
introduces himself under a false name
and later burglarizes their residence or
exposes himself, according to Lake Dal-
las police spokeswoman Lt. Vikki
Chandler.
In the most recent case, on Sept. 27,
he attempted to sexually assault a wom-
an in her living room at the Ashleye Vil-
lage Apartments, Chandler said. Banks
is still at large, but police have a warrant
for his arrest on charges of burglary of a
habitation with intent to commit a sex-
ual assault and indecent exposure. Oth-
er charges are pending.
Chandler said local police are learn-
ing more about Banks’ activity in recent
months. They’re hying to get him off
the sheet before things get worse.
“We have so many different offenses
now, and we have more witnesses com-
ing forward,” Chandler said. “Were in
the process of returning calls. We have a
lot of people who have seen him in other
places in Lake Dallas, and he’s ap-
proached them with the same method
of operation, asking for a cigarette.”
Chandler said police have been able
to connect Banks to four incidents in
Lake Dallas, all of which have occurred
in the evening hours between Feb. 28
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Photos by Caitlyn Jones/DRC
Cody, a 4-year-old terrier mix, attempts a casual pose outside Jupiter House coffee shop on Thursday. Cody was
named the 2017 Dog Days of Denton spokesdog last October and has served as an unofficial “dog mayor” for the past
year.
The House on Thursday
passed a $4.1 trillion
budget plan that promises
deep cuts to social pro-
grams while paving the
way for a GOP drive to
rewrite the tax code later
this year.
Survivor turned spokesdog for Dog Days of Denton
By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones @ denton rc.com
When Cody strolled up to the table at
Jupiter House on Thursday morning, he
played coy.
He gingerly sniffed my hand, reveal-
ing a slight underbite when I reached up
to scratch between his ears. His terrier
tongue lolled out of his terrier head as he
let his human, 25-year-old Lauri Sulew-
ski, do all the talking.
This was Cody’s third media inter-
view. You could tell he’s gotten the hang
of it. The 4-year-old looked dapper in a
green and blue plaid shirt with a spotted
bow tie situated above his “Dog Days”
medallion. He patiently panted as I took
his photo, knowing frill well this isn’t
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Americans buying seafood
for dinner may inad-
vertently have subsidized
the North Korean govern-
ment as it builds its nucle-
ar weapons program, an
Associated Press investi-
gation has found. Their
pur chases may also have
supported forced labor.
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Lauri Sulewksi adjusts Cody’s outfit on the downtown Square on Thursday
morning. She dressed Cody in a clown costume for Dog Days of Denton last
year, where he was named the official spokesdog of the event.
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White House and NRA open
to (just a little) gun control
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By Erica Werner
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The National Rifle
Association joined the Trump administra-
tion and top congressional Republicans
Thursday in a swift and surprising embrace
of a restriction on Americans’ guns, though
a narrow one: to regulate the “bump stock”
devices the Las Vegas shooter apparently
used to horr ifically lethal effect
The devices, originally intended to help
people with disabilities, fit over the stock
and grip of a semi-automatic rifle and al-
low the weapon to fire continuously, some
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400 to 800 rounds in a single minute.
Bump stocks were found among the gun-
man’s weapons and explain why victims in
Las Vegas heard what sounded like auto-
matic-weapons fire as the shooter rained
bullets from a casino high-rise, slaughter-
ing 58 people in a concert below and
wounding hundreds more.
Thursday’s sudden endorsements of
controls came almost simultaneously
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A device called a “bump stock” is attached to a semi-automatic rifle Wednes-
day at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah.
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