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Olathe plans extra traffic enforcement over Thanksgiving
Posted on November 17, 2008From Olathe PD: Olathe Police Department along with other area police agencies, is going to be participating in the Kansas Thanksgiving Traffic Enforcement Campaign, held November 24-30. A grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation will enable this department to...
Why Australia has the world's best health care
Posted on November 17, 2008Authorities are investigating several Australian brothels that allegedly performed sex acts for their clients, then billed their health insurance as "massages." How do you like them apples, Canada?
The Lawnmower Man
Posted on November 17, 2008A New York man is facing a slew of charges for driving his riding lawnmower while under the influence of marijuana, police say. His friend, who was driving on the hood, is charged with not wearing a seat belt. Hat...
Charges filed in weekend KC homicide
Posted on November 17, 2008From the JaCo prosecutor's office: Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar today announced that Alphonzo M. Tunley (05/01/76) has been charged with Second Degree Murder and Armed Criminal Action in connection with the shooting death of a woman described as his...
Baby Fight Club
Posted on November 17, 2008A soldier from Fort Bragg is accused of videotaping his toddlers fighting and then posting the clip to YouTube. Then Mama found out ... "My ex-husband told me that they had been fighting for two days and they finally just...
KCPD names victim from weekend homicide
Posted on November 17, 2008This is the case involving the woman shot to death in the 4300 block of Bellefontaine. From KCPD: The victim has been positively identified as 38-year-old Dacia Wright of Raytown, MO. Her 32-year-old boyfriend is in custody and charges are...
Marine faked his death to avoid Iraq, police say
Posted on November 17, 2008They caught Lance Hering on Sunday, about two years after he went missing. A friend had claimed that Hering had fallen into a canyon while climbing, which led to the Boulder area's largest-ever search. The friend eventually confessed that it...
Laid-off worker accused of killing 3 coworkers
Posted on November 17, 2008Missed this from last week. A man named Jing Hua Wu is accused of shooting his former company's CEO, VP of operations and human resources chief. He'd been fired that morning, then came back in the afternoon to request a...
Not without my laptop
Posted on November 17, 2008Great story here about a law student who was willing to let a bat-wielding burglar steal his guitars and wallet ... but not his laptop. Snip: "I was like, 'Dude, no -- please, no!" Botsios said. "I have all my...
It's not what you think ...
Posted on November 17, 2008"Hummer kills man after fight at Arizona bar"
OK, it turns out you ARE married after all ...
Posted on November 17, 2008Lovely story from France, where the courts annulled the marriage between two Muslims after it was discovered the wife was NOT a virgin. There were some cries of sexism and unfairness, but the couple accepted the verdict and moved on....
I'm not a lawyer, but there might be grounds for a mistrial ...
Posted on November 17, 2008A juror in a Las Vegas murder trial is accused of sending sexy notes to the defendant and visiting him in jail. Snip: In the letters, Ramirez writes that she's a sex addict and wants to touch him "and see...
Prisoner mails himself out of prison
Posted on November 17, 2008Story is from Germany, where the inmate was working in a prison shop. At the end of the day, he hid inside a large box being shipped to a store and, once the truck had left the prison grounds, cut...
Meanwhile, in Joplin
Posted on November 17, 2008A man who got $5K after a Joplin cop allegedly used excessive force against him is now facing a new criminal charge ...
UPDATE: 2 dead after O'Fallon hostage situation
Posted on November 17, 2008Gary Sheets, the man who reportedly killed his ex-girlfriend during a standoff Friday at a medical facility in O'Fallon, had a criminal record before this. He sexually assaulted another girlfriend who broke up with him. St. Charles County Bomb Squad....
MO hunters find decomposing remains ... in something
Posted on November 17, 2008Happened in LaClede County. Not many other details available yet, though, the story seems to assume they're human. From the News-Leader: Sheriff Richard Wrinkle said the hunters found the container in a patch of timber. "When they got up next...
How the SWAT team "dresses for success"
Posted on November 17, 2008If you get a second, the FBI has a really cool interactive graphic showing the kind of gear that its SWAT team members wear in the field.
Two MO boys, ages 12 and 13, accused of $100K in vandalism
Posted on November 17, 2008Story is from Hannibal, where the kids are accused of smashing the local baseball team's clubhouse. From the Courier-Post: Security camera footage taken inside the building shows the two males gaining entry through a broken window on the east side...
I'd like to apologize now for not having pictures of this
Posted on November 17, 2008"School bus runs over hood of car" -- for the kids on this bus, this was probably the most awesome day of their school year.
MO Highway Patrol gets ready for Thanksgiving
Posted on November 17, 2008The patrol is going to be putting extra officers on the road from 6 p.m. next Wednesday through midnight the Sunday after. (Which happens to be the official counting period for Thanksgiving-related wrecks.) By the way, if you need help...
Motorist flees authorities, crashes into tree
Posted on November 17, 2008From Karen Dillon: A 47-year-old man was hospitalized Saturday night after he led police on a chase and crashed his truck into a tree. Wayne A. Thomas was admitted to the University of Kansas Medical Center. His condition was unknown,...
I think we'd see a huge decrease in burglaries if ...
Posted on November 17, 2008... more people owned "guard cougars." Hat Tip: Saw this via Fark!
"Jason" fails to rob bank on Truman Road
Posted on November 17, 2008The FBI says a white guy in a hockey mask, along with a black cohort, tried to rob the Central Bank at 3740 Truman Road on Monday afternoon. They couldn't get into the building, though: "This is one of those...
Burglar falls 20 feet while breaking into PA store
Posted on November 17, 2008It's OK -- he's a cat burglar, so he landed on his feet.
Like hitting two birds with one stone
Posted on November 17, 2008Only this time, it was two drunks and one DUI stop ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, Patty PV and Jay Tee!
There are limits to just how crazy you can get in Vegas
Posted on November 17, 2008From The AP: Las Vegas police say a 42-year-old man killed himself after a "bizarre" crime spree in which he groped two women, shot at a boy on a bicycle, tried to kidnap four people and run over two men...
MO man accused of bringing girl, 15, to Louisiana for sex
Posted on November 17, 2008Not sure where the girl is from. He's 39 and from Buffalo, and was doing contract work in St. Bernard Parish.
Woman in knife case sues Olathe PD for shooting her
Posted on November 17, 2008From Joe Lambe: The lawsuit, filed in federal court Friday on behalf of Kimberly Hudson, seeks unspecified damages from the two police officers, the police chief and the city of Olathe. A police spokesman declined comment today. According to the...
WI woman pleads no-contest to leaving corpse on toilet for two months
Posted on November 17, 2008The defendant, 36, reportedly left the dead woman, 90, on the toilet because their sect leader told her to. (Apparently, the Almighty was supposed to intervene at some point and resurrect the woman.) The authorities suggested there was a more...
Mark Cuban accused of insider trading
Posted on November 17, 2008From CNN: According to the SEC, Cuban sold 600,000 shares of Internet search company Mamma.com in June 2004 using non-public information. Cuban is accused of calling his broker and instructing him to sell all of his stock from Mamma.com after...
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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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