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Did MO wife kill husband over gambling losses?
Posted on December 01, 2008The St. Joe paper takes a closer look at a homicide case from that area ...
Columbia police chief seeks arrest of KU football team
Posted on December 01, 2008This is hilarious ...
Teenagers -- as rotten as you suspected
Posted on December 01, 2008A new survey shows that 93 percent of U.S. teenagers feel they have good morals -- even though 30 percent have shoplifted in the last years and 64 percent cheated on a test.
Will the Lori Drew verdict have unintended side effects?
Posted on December 01, 2008If it survives the appeal? Yep. Drew was essentially prosecuted because she broke MySpace's terms of use. Here's what one expert told the Christian Science Monitor: "The CFAA was intended to be used for computer fraud, hackers, etc., it was...
Thank heavens this vicious criminal has been captured
Posted on December 01, 2008Wisconsin teen arrested for allegedly showing naked photos of his ex-girlfriend to some buddies. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!
Do we need Amber Alerts for the elderly?
Posted on December 01, 2008A few states already have them -- "silver alerts." They're usually for elderly men and women who wander away from home because they're suffering from dementia. Officials say they're very useful because they help recover the missing person before they...
9 headless bodies found in Tijuana
Posted on December 01, 2008They had something like 23 homicides there over the weekend. If you were looking for a real War on Drugs, it's actually happening in Mexico.
Were they wearing clean underwear? No.
Posted on December 01, 2008Australian police responded to a fatal wreck where an occupant -- a naked young man -- died. The driver, a young naked woman, was driving and was injured. No word on a cause ... maybe they were just distracted. Hat...
KCK police arrest 2 in carjacking
Posted on December 01, 2008From Mark Wiebe: Two carjacking suspects were taken into custody Sunday after barricading themselves in a house for more than four hours. The incident began at about 4:30 a.m. when police received a report of shots fired near 57th Street...
Chris Orr
Posted on December 01, 2008The Hutch News has a good story here about Chris Orr, a sports writer from Salina who narrowly survived a freak accident two years ago. He and a friend were riding on a doubledecker fan bus when they struck their...
KS kindergarteners raise money for Linwood shooting victim
Posted on December 01, 2008Nice story here about a kindergarten class from Liberal who collected money -- about $53 -- for Katherine Cook, a 5-year-old who was shot in the head while playing in her family's yard in Linwood. The students had been following...
MO bill would ban cellphone use while driving
Posted on December 01, 2008With some exceptions, though the P-D doesn't list what those would be.
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on December 01, 2008At least one deer is sick of this whole "deer season" business. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Patty PV!
Trial starting for man accused of murdering grandpa
Posted on December 01, 2008From the JaCo prosecutor's office: A jury is being selected this afternoon in the trial of a man accused of First Degree Murder in the beating death of his grandfather in December 2006. Justin Lowe (08/05/83) is scheduled to stand...
Uganda police warn men about drugged breasts
Posted on December 01, 2008Uh, yeah, the latest crime wave in Uganda involves lady thieves who smear chloroform on their chests as a way to knock out guys they meet at bars. Snip: "You find the person stripped totally naked and everything is taken...
One Year Later: The Von Maur murders
Posted on December 01, 2008The Omaha World-Herald has a piece here about the mass shooting at the Von Maur there. It's been almost a year since the murders.
1 shot, injured during armored-car robbery in Miami
Posted on December 01, 2008More here from The Miami Herald. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!
Olathe PD investigates robbery at Latino grocery
Posted on November 30, 2008From Bob Cronkleton: Police are looking for two men who robbed a Latino grocery store in Olathe. The crime occurred about 10:50 a.m. Friday at the Latino Y Punto, 909 S. Parker St. The victim, who was not injured, told...
Suspect in Shawnee murder arrested in TX
Posted on November 30, 2008From Bob Cronkleton: Authorities in Texas this evening caught a Shawnee man wanted in the killing of his girlfriend. The arrest came several hours after he fled his burning car. Brandon Nicholas Reed, 23, was arrested about 7:30 p.m. in...
Open Thread ... Weekend Edition
Posted on November 29, 2008Sorry -- the blog won't be back to full strength until Monday. We do, however, have a fresh Open Thread to take your mind off the pain. As always, please follow our standard rules: Please sign your comments, and please...
Who was Peter Fopeano?
Posted on November 28, 2008From Bob Trussell: The theater community was grieving Tuesday for the loss of one of their own ? actor Peter Fopeano. Fopeano was found shot to death Tuesday evening in Kansas City, Kan. Police, responding to reports of shots fired,...
Shawnee police investigating suspicious death
Posted on November 28, 2008From The Star: Shawnee police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman found in her apartment late Thursday night. According to Shawnee police, officers responded about 11:15 p.m. to the 11300 block of West 64th Terrace to check on...
Why did man drive into pack of bicyclists?
Posted on November 28, 2008Well, we don't know. But we do know he admitted to doing it on purpose -- and that he's not allowed to drive on that road anymore. | Sara Shepherd
President pardons MO farmer who accidentally killed three bald eagles
Posted on November 28, 2008He set out tainted hamburger to kill some coyotes, who'd been eating wild turkeys. It worked -- the coyotes died. Unfortunately, so did the eagles and some other birds when they ate the carcasses.
20 years later: Memorial planned for six firefighters killed in explosion
Posted on November 28, 2008Before dawn Nov. 29, 1988, Kansas City firefighters were called to a blaze in a trailer at a construction site -- but they were unaware the trailer they were approaching held 25,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. Six...
Really? You think he might be mentally ill?
Posted on November 28, 2008A Las Vegas man is getting a new trial because, the Nevada Supremes say, he wasn't given a hearing to judge his mental competency. The defendant says he shot his supervisor because the guy was a witch who was casting...
Wisconsin man had 15 DUI convictions
Posted on November 28, 2008But he was able to avoid prison until that last case. (He'd previously gotten shorter stays in jail.) The guy is now 45, clean for five years and has a license again. He says that going to prison and getting...
This is going to end badly ...
Posted on November 28, 2008A Utah sex offender is accused of pulling alongside a school bus and flashing a sign that read, "Do you want to see my penis?"
Open Thread ... Stuck-At-Work Friday Edition
Posted on November 28, 2008The blogging will probably be a light today, as I'm staying home from work. We will try to have a few items, though, for those poor souls stuck in the office. There but for the grace of God ... As...
How is "Kansas City's Most Wanted" doing?
Posted on November 28, 2008Christine Vendel has an update here about the Crime Commission's newspaper, which publicizes the mugshots of local fugitives. So far, 90 people have been captured through the program.
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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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