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What will jail be like for someone named "The Butt Bandit"?
Posted on December 08, 2008Nebraska folk-hero, Butt Bandit, has been sentenced to 13 months in jail for slathering lotion on his behind and groinal regions, then pressing them upon on the windows of local business.
Public defenders in Sedgwick County stop taking cases
Posted on December 08, 2008Sedgwick is where Wichita is located. The office there says it's lost too many people to take on new work, the Eagle reports: ?We have an obligation to offer ethical representation, and we just can?t keep going on like we?re...
KCK investigates homicide in 1900 block of N. 6th
Posted on December 08, 2008KCK police were called to the scene about 11:47 a.m. today. Two men had been shot -- one was dead, one went to the hospital and was expected to live. Police are looking for two vehicles. The first is a...
2 DUI arrests during MO Highway Patrol enforcement on I-70
Posted on December 08, 2008From the patrol: Captain Robert L. Powell, commanding officer of Troop A, Lee?s Summit, announces the results of the Selective Traffic Enforcement Operation conducted on Interstate 70 in Jackson, Lafayette, and Saline counties on November 29, 2008. Five officers focused...
I bet you those corn dogs went right back on the shelf
Posted on December 08, 2008In Florida, a security guard foiled a shoplifter who tried to steal a package of six corn dogs by stuffing them down the front of his pants. The dogs were recovered, though the thief got away ...
Finally -- some logical thinking on cellphone jammers!
Posted on December 08, 2008Cellphones are one of the biggest problems for prison officials today. They're pretty easy to sneak into a facility, which means the worst offenders can still run their illegal businesses and call hits even while being locked up. There's always...
Drunk, speeding and masturbating -- what could go wrong?
Posted on December 08, 2008From the Beeb: The court heard that Hussain's erect penis was exposed when motorists came to his aid after the crash. Judge Andrew Blake told him: "At the least it must have been a symptom you were not giving your...
Charges filed in Midtown laundry robbery
Posted on December 08, 2008From the JaCo prosecutor: Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar today announced that two men have been charged with First Degree Robbery and Armed Criminal Action in connection with the robbery of The Lost Sock Laundromat at 3527 Main St. Charged...
How puppies saved a missing 3-year-old's life
Posted on December 08, 2008We are a hard-boiled blog ... with a soft, caramel center.
If a policeman gives you permission to smoke ...
Posted on December 08, 2008... he doesn't mean weed.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, others want to plead guilty to 9/11
Posted on December 08, 2008It's not immediately clear if the judge will accept the pleas.
Is a serial rapist at work in Lawrence?
Posted on December 08, 2008From Joe Lambe: Lawrence police announced this morning that they are investigating what may be a serial rapist at work. The man who sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman at her home on Dec. 1 may be the same man involved...
Concealed-carry now allowed in most federal parks
Posted on December 08, 2008It's a last-minute decision from the Bush administration, and the park service isn't very happy about it. Until now, park visitors had to unload their guns and place them somewhere they can't be readily accessed, such as a car trunk,...
A cautionary tale
Posted on December 08, 2008I just really liked this story about a 5-year-old boy who was accidentally left at a gas station in Iowa during a family trip. (Everybody was caravaning in three vehicles, so that's how he accidentally got left behind.)
Blackwater guards to surrender today in Utah
Posted on December 08, 2008The five guards are accused of killing 17 Iraqis. By surrendering in Utah, they might be trying to get the case heard there -- and Utah, being a more conservative state, might be more sympathetic to their arguments.
Cali man scammed $548K from family friends in KS
Posted on December 08, 2008Snip from the Emporia Gazette: In his plea, Burkholder admitted that from 2003 through April 2005, while he was living in California, he fraudulently persuaded his parents in McPherson to raise $548,000 on his behalf from friends and members of...
KC robber asks bank teller to put money in Fritos bag
Posted on December 08, 2008Happened Saturday near 85th and Holmes, KSHB reports. Hat Tip: Saw this via Tony's Kansas City!
Charges still possible for Blackwater contractors in Iraq slayings?
Posted on December 06, 2008Authorities might use a drug law, if you can believe that, to prosecute a group of security contractors accused of slaying several Iraqis unprovoked. Until now, they were in situation where neither Iraqi nor U.S. law really applied.
How bad are the prisons in California?
Posted on December 06, 2008Snip from AP: Three federal judges seem convinced that overcrowding in California prisons is so bad it leads to unconstitutional conditions. Now they must weigh whether ordering the release of nearly a third of the state's inmates would be a...
Lawyer gets 6 months for cursing in court
Posted on December 06, 2008Oh man, the judge hates that. Story is from Ohio.
Open Thread ... Caturday
Posted on December 06, 2008The Open Thread, our blog's outpost for the off-topic, simply will not quit, not even on the weekend! As always, please follow our standard rules: Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as well as racially and sexually abusive...
Former Columbia cop guilty of second-degree murder
Posted on December 06, 2008This is one of the bigger murder cases from Columbia in the past few years. A cop named Steven Rios was accused of killing a college student who threatened to reveal the two men were having an affair. Rios was...
AZ boys stoned, than hanged 4-month-old kitten
Posted on December 06, 2008The boys are 6 and 7, and they will NOT be charged. They used wire from a video-game controller to hang the kitten, the Republic reports. Hat Tip: Many thanks, eephus and FanDanGo!
Bowl Games
Posted on December 05, 2008A New Jersey woman is suing a sports bar after one of their toilet seats broke and she was stuck in the toilet for 20 minutes. The woman weighs about 130 pounds.
Well, that does sound like a bargain
Posted on December 05, 2008Guess how much Texas wants to spend on clearing illegally owned cellphones from its prison cells? That would be $66 million, which would be spent on security cameras and screening equipment. This is obviously a necessary effort -- a lot...
Colorado man accused of criminal libel for posting about ex
Posted on December 05, 2008He says he was just venting when he suggested that she traded sex for legal services. She didn't understand and, thus, contacted the authorities, who are now prosecuting the gentleman for criminal libel. (Something you almost never, ever see done...
More about the Wal-Mart worker trampled by crowd
Posted on December 05, 2008Michael Smerconish of the Philly Daily News has a really good column about the story here. Snip: Take, for example, the New York Times account. The lead: "In a sign of consumer desperation amid a bleak economy, the annual rite...
Nebraska K9 tracks down woman who stole 13 candy bars, police allege
Posted on December 05, 2008I wept because I had no shoes ... until I saw this mugshot of a lady with no eyebrows.
Florida woman accused of shooting "rude" houseguest
Posted on December 05, 2008And by houseguest, we mean a homeless man who'd recently been released from prison. In her defense, the police say, she claims she didn't know the gun was loaded.
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Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
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