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47 child prostitutes freed during nationwide crackdown
Posted on October 28, 2008Operation Cross Country II was a three-day project that started last Thursday and led to the arrest of 73 pimps and more than 518 adult prostitutues. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Twinkie!
MO man made his son, GF's boy fight, police say
Posted on October 28, 2008Over a bicycle, the Post-Dispatch reports. (Story is from Wentzville.) The man's girlfriend and father, though, say police are blowing things out of proportion.
FL man accused of assault with doughnut, knives
Posted on October 28, 2008He allegedly threw a doughnut at a bicyclist, who then chased him down. Doughnut Man is then accused of pulling a knife. From the bicyclist's mom: "I said, 'What kind of doughnut was it?' He said, 'A glazed doughnut.' You'd...
Amber Alert kiddo found safe in KCMO
Posted on October 28, 2008From KCPD: KCPD Police Officers have found three parties, two of which are those listed in the Amber Alert issued by Independence Police Department (on today?s date) in an orange colored vehicle about 8:03am this morning at 1301 East Armour...
Involuntary manslaughter charge for fatal wreck
Posted on October 28, 2008From the JaCo Prosecutor: Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar announced today that Dale L. Thomas () has been charged with First Degree Involuntary Manslaughter in connection with a car crash that claimed the life of a 23-year-old Independence woman early...
Authorities considering charges in 8-year-old's Uzi death
Posted on October 28, 2008This is the case from Massachusetts where the kid was firing an Uzi, but lost control and shot himself in the head. Snip: Bennett says he's looking into whether anyone committed a reckless or wanton act when they allowed the...
More charges for Shirley Riggs
Posted on October 28, 2008From Kevin Hoffmann: An Independence woman, who allegedly fled with her four children, sparking an Amber Alert and a nationwide search, now faces more criminal charges. A Jackson County grand jury has indicted Shirley A. Riggs with four counts of...
Secret Service investigating Sarah Palin effigy in West Hollywood
Posted on October 28, 2008The local law, however, says the dummy doesn't break any state laws. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)
Paige Alley speaks
Posted on October 28, 2008Alley and her boyfriend, Levi Carlson, were the subject of an Amber Alert several days ago, until they were finally located in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She gave an interview to KSHB, and while the whole thing is interesting, I especially...
2 charged in OP home robbery
Posted on October 28, 2008From Joe Lambe: Johnson County prosecutors today charged two Kansas City, Kan., men with an Overland Park home invasion robbery early Monday. Darrell Mays, 19, and Ronnie Kearney, 18, had their first court appearances today on one count of aggravated...
KC man was killed over a woman, prosecutors say
Posted on October 28, 2008From the JaCo Prosecutor's Office: Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar today announced Robert Thomas Jr. (08/03/82) has been charged with Second Degree Murder and Armed Criminal Action. The charges stem from the Oct. 25 shooting that claimed the life of...
How a tipster foiled the alleged Obama assassination plot
Posted on October 28, 2008From the Memphis Commerical Appeal: The unidentified woman told authorities her daughter had just acted as the driver for a planned burglary across the county line in Crockett County that was abandoned when two neo-Nazi skinheads chickened out at the...
Sorry, it's my first day ...
Posted on October 28, 2008Massachusetts boy runs into car -- tells police it's because he's just tried marijuana. Hat Tip: Saw this via Fark!
3 tickets during JoCo school-bus enforcement
Posted on October 28, 2008From the JoCo Sheriff: During School Bus Safety Week October 19, 2008 to October 25, 2008 Johnson County Sheriff?s Deputies were riding local school district buses. They were not on their way to school but instead were looking for people...
Miladin Kovacevic
Posted on October 28, 2008Kovacevic is a Serbian national who allegedly beat a U.S. college student into a coma, then fled to his native country, where he's got a contract with a regional basketball league. The U.S. desperately wants to extradite the guy back...
"Brokeback Bandit" captured in OK while using limo in getaway, FBI says
Posted on October 28, 2008Uh, yeah, about that nickname ... "We don't know his sexual orientation," FBI spokeswoman Robbie Burroughs told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "The name was because of his cowboy hat." The nickname was not meant to be offensive, according to the FBI...
Amateur "stakeout" goes horribly, horribly wrong
Posted on October 28, 2008From Kevin Hoffmann: An owner of a Raytown car lot is recovering in a hospital after being shot by an associate while staking out his own business. According to police, two men who owned a car lot in the 8900...
Home intruder cooks woman's dog alive in her stove
Posted on October 28, 2008What a terrible story ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
OH dad admits to shocking sons with electric dog collar
Posted on October 28, 2008Police learned about the case after one of the kids WALKED TWO DAYS to get to another family member ...
If you think faking your death would be a cool prank ...
Posted on October 28, 2008... maybe you should reconsider. Joe Watkins, proprietor of the Chicken Ranch restaurant in Kentucky, lay down in a pool of "blood" so an employee would think he'd been murdered, police allege. She did -- and ran out screaming. He...
UPDATE: Jennifer Hudson's nephew still missing
Posted on October 27, 2008What an awful story. The singer's mom and brother are dead, and the authorities still can't find her nephew, Julian King, age 7. Hudson is offering $100K as reward for his return. Here's a page that includes the latest updates...
UPDATE: Missing teens Paige and Levi are safe!
Posted on October 27, 2008They were in the last place anyone looks from anybody, Iowa. From Meredith Rodriguez: The two Missouri teen-agers who disappeared after a high school football game more than a week ago were found this afternoon in Council Bluffs, Iowa. ?Paige...
UPDATE: 2 dead at Lawrence homeless camp
Posted on October 27, 2008From The Star: Police have identified no signs of foul play in the deaths of two men found inside a tent Friday near the Kansas River. Their names and a cause of death have not been released, but police confirmed...
Boy, 8, accidentally shoots himself in the head with Uzi
Posted on October 27, 2008Story is from Massachusetts. Apparently, the gun was just too powerful for him: "Witnesses state that he was shooting the weapon down range when the force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he...
?Do you think seeing this would help??
Posted on October 27, 2008Mary Sanchez has a great column this morning about the Duane Harvey Funeral Home and mortician Larry Love, one of the men there who's mentoring Frank, 18, a young man who did two years on an involuntary manslaughter rap. Every...
JoCo Commissioner accused of stealing yard signs
Posted on October 27, 2008From Meredith Rodriguez: Olathe police cited Johnson County Commissioner John M. Toplikar on a charge of misdemeanor theft over the weekend. The crime: stealing two of his opponent?s campaign signs. ?You always think it?s a campaign worker or kids or...
OP police arrest 2 in early-morning robbery
Posted on October 27, 2008From OP Police: On October 27, 2008 at approximately 12:45 am, the Overland Park Police Department was dispatched to a reported armed robbery at the apartment complex in the 13600 block of King. Officers arrived and confirmed an armed robbery...
Groom-to-be sets hotel on fire to avoid wedding, police say
Posted on October 27, 2008Story is from Japan. I think this is sweet, actually -- it sounds like he's trying to spare her feelings ... by endangering hundreds of people and causing massive amounts of property damage, but nevertheless, very sweet.
Stuff You Can't Get in Kansas City: Morphine beer
Posted on October 27, 2008No, really, I just drink it for the taste.
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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...
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It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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