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Have we perhaps found Father of The Year?
Posted on September 27, 2008How about a guy who buys his teenage son some beer? No? There are a fair amount of dads who do that, I guess ... How about a guy who bought his kid beer and taunted him into driving fast,...
Why, yes, there IS some junk in my trunk
Posted on September 27, 2008Indiana woman accused of shoplifting had 19 items concealed in her pants, including 10 DVDs, police say. Snip: When informed that she would be patted down by the officer, Yeakey unbuttoned her pants and pulled out 10 DVDs, a Play...
TX authorities had been looking for Sweet Cherry Ann
Posted on September 27, 2008Sweet Cherry Ann Halliburton, who is facing criminal charges after she brought her dead infant son to a Lee's Summit hospital this week, was also being sought in Texas by their child protective service. Authorities are now looking into the...
Sure, we passed this law -- we didn't people were actually going to USE it
Posted on September 27, 2008Dear Nebraska legislators: You passed a law that let parents deposit their children, including those as old as 18, at local hospitals and walk away with clean hands. ("Abandonment," as my grandma used to refer to it.) Yet, when people...
Charges filed in Midtown shooting incident
Posted on September 27, 2008From Tony Rizzo: Charges were filed today against a midtown Kansas City man who allegedly fired shots at several men prompting a police stand-off Friday afternoon. Michael A. Brown, 33, was charged in Jackson County Circuit Court with two counts...
Of course I'm a Dodger -- don't you see this uniform I stole?
Posted on September 27, 2008Another criminal mastermind is undone ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
UPDATE: West Virginia torture case
Posted on September 27, 2008Not sure how many people remember this case, but it garnered a lot of attention when it first broke: A group of people, all white, were accused of torturing a young black woman over the course of several days. Some...
2 off-duty KCK officers dead
Posted on September 27, 2008This is just awful news. From Tony Rizzo: An off-duty Kansas City, Kan., police officer died in an early morning traffic crash today prompting another officer who was driving at the time to later commit suicide, authorities said. Police Chief...
Wrongly convicted man wants Lee's Summit officer fired
Posted on September 26, 2008This is the case of Ted White, who spent five years in prison for a crime (child molestation) that he never committed. On Thursday, White picketed outside Lee's Summit City Hall, demanding that Richard McKinley, who headed up the investigation,...
$187K embezzled from JoCo animal clinics, police say
Posted on September 26, 2008From Grace Hobson: Police were investigating the reported theft of $187,157.98 from two veterinary clinics. A suspect had been identified, and police planned to get help from another investigative agency because of the apparent complexity of the embezzlement case involving...
TX mom charged in JaCo over infant's death
Posted on September 26, 2008From Don Bradley: A Texas woman arraigned Thursday in Independence in the smothering death of her 6-week-old son earlier had two babies who died of what was ruled Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Investigators said they now are looking into those...
Quote of the day
Posted on September 26, 2008"From Day One, he had the gun. He had the power. I was powerless. There wasn't a day when I didn't think he was just going to kill me." -- Shawn Hornbeck, in an interview with "48 Hours Mystery." It's...
Is Lori Drew's luck starting to change?
Posted on September 26, 2008They've pushed back her trial because the judge has some big questions about the charges being filed against her, the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog reports. Among other things, he's not sure the case should be tried in California, even...
Mexico plans to search 10 percent of all vehicles at U.S. border
Posted on September 26, 2008They're looking for guns. Authorities have traced most of the guns used in Mexican crime back to the U.S. This is becoming a bigger problem because the Mexican government has been cracking down on the cartels for the past two...
Feds arrest Tony Alamo
Posted on September 26, 2008This is the gentleman whose property was raided over the weekend in Foulk, Ark., during a search for child porn and evidence of child abuse. The feds accuse him of taking minors across state lines for sexual purposes.
How one clerk's tiny error got a man arrested
Posted on September 26, 2008Story via KSHB. Moral of the story: Do everything right, play by the rules and you can STILL get bitten in the hindquarters.
Do we need mandatory minimums?
Posted on September 26, 2008Several years ago, the U.S. instituted strict sentencing rules for people caught with drugs -- mandatory minimums, so named because judges had almost no leeway. A new poll says that 60 percent of the U.S. public opposes these rules. Keep...
UPDATE: Man charged with farting at policeman
Posted on September 26, 2008This is Day Three of our Fartergate coverage ... and now we hear the charge has been dropped.
Open Thread ... Sweet Merciful Friday
Posted on September 26, 2008Thanks for spending part of your day on the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. Or -- if you've seen an interesting story somewhere else -- feel free to post links in the thread below. Please...
Some things are worth fighting for
Posted on September 26, 2008Man sues for the return of his photos of a naked Marilyn Monroe.
Man with gun demands apology for toddler-wrestling, police say
Posted on September 26, 2008He sounds pretty worked up. That must have been some wrestling match! Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!
REMINDER: National Day of Remembrance
Posted on September 26, 2008The Parents Of Murdered Children are hosting a picnic and balloon release this weekend at Longview Lake to mark the date. The picnic will start at 2 p.m. Saturday, followed by the balloons at 4. It'll be at Shelter House...
No animals were harmed in the commission of this crime
Posted on September 26, 2008A North Dakota man is taking a plea deal after he reportedly shot at a bald-eagle decoy -- leading to a charge of "attempting to take and kill a protected migratory bird," The AP reports. Yep, federal agents actually placed...
Clerk lied to lottery winner about his ticket, police say
Posted on September 26, 2008Unbelievable. Guy wins $800K in the lottery. He goes to the store and asks the clerk to scan his ticket, just to be sure. It's a real winner, all right. Only she tells him that he lost, and SHE keeps...
2 shot near 39th and Broadway, KCPD locking down area
Posted on September 26, 2008UPDATE FROM CHRISTINE AND TONY: The suspect surrendered about 2 this afternoon. UPDATE FROM KCPD: We were called at 1209 pm to the area of 3823 Central to investigate a shooting. Upon arriving we were told the gunman (a 34...
Fact: Police are the masters of understatement
Posted on September 26, 2008From The Capital Times of Madison: Police were told by a 17-year-old girl that a man was urinating at the transfer station, and there were children around. The girl pointed out the culprit, "and the officer noticed he appeared to...
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on September 26, 2008Unless eugenics are illegal in your state ... Louisiana legislator wants to give $1K to poor women who get their tubes tied. (There's also talk of giving tax breaks to college grads so they'll have MORE children.) It's his idea...
How is this not first-degree murder?
Posted on September 26, 2008A while back, we had the story of Kyle Bormann, who shot and killed a college student named Brittany Williams in Omaha back in January. Williams was just sitting in a fast-food drive-through when Bormann, dressed in camouflage, used a...
UPDATE: Dog drags home severed baby foot
Posted on September 26, 2008They're pretty sure it's a bear's foot. Paw. Whatever. Story is from Arkansas.
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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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