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That truck looks VERY familiar
Posted on October 30, 2008In Texas, a police officer was directing traffic after a concert when he saw a thief driving HIS truck away ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, Patty PV!
KSHB: Could Amber Alert teens have been found sooner?
Posted on October 30, 2008Interesting followup to those two Clinton County teenagers who went missing and were later found near Omaha. (Paige Alley and Levi Carlson are now safe, sound and back home.) As it turns out, their car was towed by police the...
More on alleged mortgage fraud in Lee's Summit
Posted on October 30, 2008Here's more from Mark Morris.
2 charged in Legends Suzuki arson
Posted on October 29, 2008From Mark Wiebe: Two Wyandotte County 16-year-olds were charged today with setting fire to the Legends Suzuki car dealership in Kansas City, Kan. Brady Burton, of Edwardsville, and Katrina Nicole Chrisp, of Bonner Springs, were charged with arson in the...
MO man is trying to fight red-light cameras in court
Posted on October 29, 2008Story is from Springfield, where a man accused of running a red light is fighting the ticket in court, saying the cameras are unconstitutional. (He lost in municipal court last month and wants a criminal trial, but the city prosecutor...
KMBC: Shootout at the Stop-N-Go
Posted on October 29, 2008The one at 12th and Central in KCK, KMBC reports. Happened a little after midnight. There were three bad guys wearing Halloween masks, and nobody got hurt. Police don't think the robbers got away with any cash, either.
KS man orders pregnant teen's murder -- gets life in prison
Posted on October 29, 2008A-freaking-mazing. Elgin Ray Robinson Jr. -- who was convicted of ordering the death of pregnant teen Chelsea Brooks -- will NOT be put to death. Brooks, 14, was nine months pregnant with his child, and he was afraid of going...
"Next time, I just got to pay attention"
Posted on October 29, 2008Remember Frederick Darrington Jr., the teenager who pleaded guilty to a federal count of carjacking? Well, he would like a take-backsy. Mark Morris explains: ?Next time, I just got to pay attention,? Darrington wrote in his motion to Chief U.S....
How bad is the U.S. economy?
Posted on October 29, 2008More illegal immigrants are saying, meh, we'd rather take our chances back home.
KY man, 82, accused of trading pills for sex
Posted on October 29, 2008Oxycontin and knockoff Xanax, Bluegrass Beat reports. What's hilarious is that when police came to his house, they saw a bunch of young women and were afraid THEY were taking advantage of HIM.
Does this really need to be a law?
Posted on October 29, 2008You might remember a story we had earlier in the week: An 8-year-old accidentally shot himself in the head at a Massachusetts gun range when he was allowed to fire an Uzi. Now? Legislators want to make it a crime...
Actually, pimping IS easier ...
Posted on October 29, 2008In Boston, drug dealers are so scared of federal arrest that many of them are getting into a safer line of work: prostitution. Many of the dealers-turned-pimps trade in girls as young as 14, the Boston Globe reports.
Down these mean streets ...
Posted on October 29, 2008From The AP: This photo released by Daniel Watson shows a crime scene photo taken by photographer Delmar Watson on Oct. 24, 1951. In this photo Sgt. R.R. Christopher and officer G.E. Foster examine the body of John Bradley, whose...
Suspected car thief drives stolen car to courthouse, police say
Posted on October 29, 2008Story is from California. Even better, he got pinched for animal cruelty because he left a bunch of Yorkshire terriers in the car. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Jay Tee!
Teen gets 18 months for putting grandma in gangsta rap video
Posted on October 29, 2008The exact charge was elder abuse -- she apparently suffers from senility. The best part: The 85-year-old grandmother can be seen in the video holding a handgun, wearing a black mask and threatening to shoot "all the pigs."
UPDATE on Hudson family murders
Posted on October 29, 2008It sounds like the suspect in the case shouldn't have been on the street in the first place.
Mom, Dad abandoned infant outside Las Vegas casino, police say
Posted on October 29, 2008What, they couldn't just go to Nebraska?
Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on October 29, 2008Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. If you see an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to post a link below! Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as well as...
Cali cop accidentally shoots, kills resident in his own yard
Posted on October 29, 2008What a tragic story. The cop was chasing burglars, and the homeowner, who heard a racket, came outside -- carrying either a shower rod or a broomstick, the Los Angeles Times reports. The officer shot him twice in the chest....
Cute kids, ugly ads?
Posted on October 29, 2008In Dallas, a shelter for abused women is running a series of public-service ads featuring a picture of a cute kid -- and a really provocative message, like "When I grow up, I'll beat my wife" and "One day my...
Best line ever
Posted on October 29, 2008In Sheboygan, police say an intoxicated man kicked a hole in the front door of another guy's house. They're pretty sure he doesn't know the victim ... ... he did not recognize the homeowner when he came to the door,...
Meanwhile, in Chicago
Posted on October 29, 2008With 436 homicides this year, Chicago is leading the nation in murders, even before singer Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew were killed last week. City leaders are vowing to stop the killing -- their plans include a 150-man gang...
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed men are Bert and Ernie
Posted on October 29, 2008This might be the weirdest thing I've ever found on the Internet, courtesy of the Weird Universe blog: A German parody of Bert and Ernie, only they each have one eye and Ernie helps Bert OD.
Assault with centipedes!
Posted on October 29, 2008Some of them are poisonous, so this is actually a very scary story. Really.
Who pulls a knife on a 6-year-old?
Posted on October 29, 2008From Joe Lambe: Overland Park police on Tuesday arrested a teen for pulling a knife on a 6-year-old boy and threatening to kill him. The incident happened outside on the 9700 block of 85th Street at about 5 p.m., police...
"I'm like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon"
Posted on October 29, 2008In Los Angeles, a judge has cleared Mario Rocha, who spent 10 years behind bars, of a 1996 murder. Rocha, who was just 16 at the time, was sentenced to 25 years, but an appeals court found that his lawyer...
Midtown Miscreant
Posted on October 29, 2008Part Two: ... It was as close as I've ever come to killing someone, and I came close. In the end, I did what most people do, I moved on, I let it alone. The past rears its ugly head...
Michael Schlax
Posted on October 29, 2008From the Platte County prosecutor: A Platte County jury found a man guilty on October 28 of all five counts related to a police chase that ended in a car wreck. Michael W. Schlax, 28, of Kansas City, KS, was...
Shopper, 71, fires at robber during KC robbery
Posted on October 29, 2008Happened about 6 p.m. Sunday at a Family Dollar on Stadium Drive. The robber, who had two handguns, was leaving the store with the cash register in his arms. A shopper thought the man was coming back toward him, so...
17 indicted in alleged mortgage-fraud scheme
Posted on October 29, 2008From Mark Morris: A Kansas City federal grand jury indicted 17 people today in an alleged $12.6 million mortgage fraud scheme centered on Lee?s Summit and Raymore. According to the indictment, the conspirators engineered the sale and purchase of new....
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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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