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KCPD to do "Click It Or Ticket" on Wednesday
Posted on November 21, 2008From KCPD: The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department announced today that they are joining other law enforcement agencies for an aggressive ?Click It or Ticket? mobilization prior to the Thanksgiving Day holiday. On November 26th, officers will focus their enforcement...
Is he a sex offender? Or just a dude who likes to run in the nude?
Posted on November 21, 2008A Colorado man -- once a priest, now defrocked -- was convicted of jogging nude around a high-school track early in the morning because he "sweats a lot." Not only did he lose his job, but he also has to...
Lurker tries to grab woman on the street, Olathe PD reports
Posted on November 21, 2008From Olathe PD: On November 21st at approximately 9:03 am officers from the Olathe Police Department were dispatched to the 700 block of W. Loula St. in reference to a reported assault. Upon arrival officers contacted the female victim who...
The return of Nipplegate!?
Posted on November 21, 2008The feds want the Supremes to reimpose a $500K fine on CBS for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction." No word if the high court is going to go along with this ...
Darold Ray Stenson
Posted on November 21, 2008From The AP: In this 2001 photo provided by the Washington State Dept. of Corrections, Darold Ray Stenson is shown. Stenson, who was convicted in 1994 of the 1993 murders of his wife Denise, and business partner Frank Hoerner, is...
What drinking lye does to a person's internal organs
Posted on November 21, 2008Sara wrote an article yesterday about Carly E. Morris, a woman who died after accidentally drinking lye at a meth house. (It was in a soda bottle, and two men have pleaded guilty in the case.) Here's what got cut...
Florida teen kills himself live on webcam
Posted on November 21, 2008Some viewers tried to stop him, some egged him on. From The AP: Someone finally notified the moderator, who traced where the Pembroke Pines teen was located and called police. Biggs was dead by the time they got there.
Did son's medical problems, bills lead dad to murder-suicide?
Posted on November 21, 2008Story is from Wisconsin. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
Who killed Monteze Murrell?
Posted on November 21, 2008KMBC has more about Murrell, a Raytown man who disappeared months ago and whose headless, handless corpse has just been identified in Lafayette County. Here's the story from Russ Pulley.
St. Louis won't do gun buybacks
Posted on November 21, 2008They've cut funding for the program and plan to spend the money on, you know, fighting the rising homicide rate.
Nebraska could amend its safe-haven law today
Posted on November 21, 2008But, the Los Angeles Times notes, nobody has really addressed the other side of the problem: There are a lot of families out there with huge problems -- such as violent, mentally ill children -- and they don't have any...
Do rewards help solve crimes?
Posted on November 21, 2008According to this P-D article, not really. They interview police who say that rewards will draw information from some people, but they also encourage the wacky and the greedy to call, too, which can overwhelm police with false leads.
KSHB: Leavenworth teen shoots Dad to stop him from attacking Mom
Posted on November 21, 2008Dad -- who reportedly drove himself to the hospital in KCK -- will live, though he might face charges.
Never return to the scene of the crime
Posted on November 21, 2008Four people were arrested after a carjacking and chase last night, KMBC reports. The car was stolen near 12th and Woodland and later spotted in KCK, where a chase started. It ended up near 10th and Woodland -- about two...
Drew Peterson's gun rap gets dropped
Posted on November 21, 2008Because prosecutors wouldn't release internal documents explaining why they charged him.
WV cop loses job for Tasering pregnant teen
Posted on November 21, 2008His defense -- she asked him, and the power was set on low -- didn't sway many minds. Also, another guy said the officer Tasered him on his birthday.
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on November 21, 2008In which a TV reporter learns that professional wrestling is very, very real. Hat Tip: Thanks, Mike! Courtesy of the Schmuck Alert blog!
Meanwhile, in Memphis
Posted on November 20, 2008Crooks steal a pink wheelchair from a 5-year-old girl with spina bifida ... then return it the next day. Of course, the chair had been completely disassembled, with each piece put in a bag. Experts say they probably won't be...
Billionaire stole from his clients, gave millions to operas
Posted on November 20, 2008Wow, just like Robin Hood!
Defense attorneys grapple with suspects who WANT to die
Posted on November 20, 2008About 12 percent of the people executed in the U.S. since 1977 basically cooperated with the process. They dropped their appeals or asked for the punishment to be carried out. The AP has a piece here about their lawyers --...
Stuff you can't bring to "Show & Tell"
Posted on November 20, 2008Your totally awesome grenade paperweight, constructed from an old, real-life grenade. Your friends will love it. The police, less so.
TX cheerleaders indicted on hazing charges
Posted on November 20, 2008Just because they allegedly blindfolded some younger girls, tied their hands and covered their mouths with duct tape, then pushed them into a swimming pool ...
Open Thread ... Thursday (Friday Eve)
Posted on November 20, 2008Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments. This is also a good spot to share links, if you've seen an interesting story elsewhere. Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as well as racially...
Where is Taylor Miller?
Posted on November 20, 2008From OP Police: The Overland Park Police are asking for cooperation from the public in regard to a missing 17 year old girl. She was last seen at approximately 9:30 PM on November 19, 2008 on foot near College and...
"You are the kind of boy a girl would kill herself over"
Posted on November 20, 2008Megan Meier's mom testifies at the Lori Drew trial. That headline? It's one of the last things Megan Meier wrote before she committed suicide.
And the baby had a Newport dangling from her lips
Posted on November 20, 2008A DUI stop goes from bad to worse. From the Tampa Tribune: The trooper went inside and found the house was a mess. Hall's daughter, who will turn 2 on Tuesday, walked out of his bedroom with a pack of...
Chicago cop loses 22-year career over $1 bag of stolen trail mix
Posted on November 20, 2008Taken from a Walgreens, the story notes. The officer argued that he'd intended to pay, but got distracted first.
Judge orders 5 more Gitmo prisoners to be released
Posted on November 20, 2008From The AP: A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in a major blow to the Bush administration's strategy to keep terror suspects locked...
Washington judge could lose job for being rude
Posted on November 20, 2008Snip: "I stood there and she was getting the papers ready and I was smiling because I was trying to be pleasant," Kris Mazanti said. "And she asked me do I think this is funny, and I said no, and...
Where is Dana Bruce?
Posted on November 20, 2008KMBC has a piece here about a single mom, age 23, from Sedalia who went missing almost two months ago.
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
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?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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