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By James Hart
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I'm a little torn on this one ...
Posted on September 16, 2008I believe in capitalism, but I'm not sure if a welfare mom should use her state aid to buy candy and then force her kids to sell it. (At a confiscatory markup, no doubt.) The Michigan authorities were less conflicted.
MO baby thief gets 30 years
Posted on September 15, 2008That would be Shannon Torrez, who entered an Alford plea to charges she stabbed a Franklin County woman and stole her 7-day-old girl, Abby. (Mom and baby were both OK, eventually.) (AP Photo/ Sarah Conard)
Meanwhile, in Iowa
Posted on September 15, 2008Girl, 13, arrested for smacking 12-year-old boy with mop handle.
The lawyer who wasn't actually a lawyer
Posted on September 15, 2008A Minnesota man is facing trial in North Dakota for allegedly posing as a lawyer -- and working on cases in 10 different states, including Missouri. He's already told a federal judge that he doesn't actually have a law degree,...
Open Thread ... Monday
Posted on September 15, 2008The Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion, is up and running on a lovely Monday morning! Thanks for spending part of it here! As always, if you've seen an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to...
1 man dead in shooting in the 3300 block of Spruce
Posted on September 15, 2008From KCPD: Tonight (September 15, 2008) at about 7:30pm, KC Police Officers were called to the 3300 block of Spruce on a shooting. On arrival officers were directed to 3307 Spruce where they found a black male suffering from at...
1 critical after shooting Saturday on East 68th
Posted on September 15, 2008From Mark Morris: Kansas City police are investigating a Saturday afternoon shooting that left one man critically wounded. Sgt. Tony Sanders said officers answered a disturbance call about 2 p.m. Saturday in the 3200 block of East 68th Street and...
Have you seen this car?
Posted on September 15, 2008From Gladstone PD: This vehicle was stolen from the driveway of a residence located in the 1600 block of NE 67th Street in Gladstone, MO, on September 6, 2008, between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. 1980 Chevrolet Corvette VT, black with...
Carjacking (sort of) foiled by manual transmission
Posted on September 15, 2008The victim still got beat up pretty badly, but the bad guys didn't get away with his car -- they didn't know how to drive it.
For the love of God, man, just do the dishes!
Posted on September 15, 2008A Texas woman is accused of biting her boyfriend and swinging a sword at him because he didn't do the dishes.
Fetch me the world's tiniest violin!
Posted on September 15, 2008In which a moron sobs over being jail for wearing short shorts and a babydoll T-shirt in court. "I was dressed cute!" Hat Tip: Saw this via QuizLaw!
Dog calls 911 after owner has seizure
Posted on September 15, 2008I'm just trying to imagine what a cat would do in that situation. Hat Tip: Many thanks, FanDanGo!
Wichita abortion doc wants misdemeanors kicked
Posted on September 15, 2008From The Eagle: Lawyers for Wichita abortion provider George Tiller today filed a motion asking a judge to drop misdemeanor charges against him because of alleged misconduct by former Attorney General Phill Kline. In a 153-page brief filed this morning...
UPDATE: Wisconsin man steal veterans' big-screen TV
Posted on September 15, 2008He's a veteran himself, and he says he was stealing it for his disabled wife. The judge didn't care -- sentence is one year in federal prison. Snip: In court documents filed this week, Polak said he first had the...
Fact: Breast massages do NOT stop hair loss
Posted on September 15, 2008A handful of UK woman learned this the hard way. Hat Tip: Saw this via Fark!
Christians' protector uses shotgun's butt to turn atheist attacker's cheek, police say
Posted on September 15, 2008Story is from Colorado Springs, where an atheist man allegedly wanted to behead two women because they're Christians. One of their neighbors got a shotgun and, when the atheist guy came near him, smacked the atheist with the gun's butt...
Is Nebraska's safe-haven law TOO broad?
Posted on September 15, 2008Most states have laws that let mothers leave their newborns or infants at hospitals, firehouses, etc., if they don't want to care for them anymore. Nebraska's, however, covers everybody under age 19. This weekend, a 15-year-old and an 11-year-old were...
Former American Italian Pasta CEO, CFO plead guilty
Posted on September 15, 2008From the SEC: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Kansas City-based American Italian Pasta Company (AIPC) and its former senior executives for engaging in a fraudulent accounting scheme to artificially increase the company?s stock price and mislead investors about...
Vandals break every single window in OR high school
Posted on September 15, 2008That's more than 100 double-pane windows. The no-goodniks also spraypainted a message, along with a middle finger, saying they wanted to give the maintenance guys "something to do." The elementary school was spared, but they got to stay home, too...
Arizona carjacker throws baby from the car
Posted on September 15, 2008Luckily, the thief stopped to do this, and the 4-month-old was in her car seat. She escaped with minor injuries.
Report: Suicide kills about twice as many as homicide
Posted on September 15, 2008But it's not really a huge public concern, David Klepper notes. Snip: ?As a culture in general, we don?t have much compassion for people who die by suicide,? said Marcia Epstein, director of the Headquarters Counseling Center in Lawrence and...
A modest proposal: Arrest hurricane survivors
Posted on September 15, 2008A gem from local blogger RDM: Explain this one to me. If you are given a mandatory evacuation order and decide to ignore that, shouldn?t you be arrested upon rescue? Wait. Hear me out. In town here, if you?re driving...
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on September 15, 2008Scooter, a local blogger, is leading a walk of both downtown KCMO and KCK on Sept. 21. He's organized several similar walks before, and I always hear good things about them. Learn more here.
Patrol recognizes MO women who found missing boy
Posted on September 15, 2008The Missouri Highway Patrol is giving certificates of appreciation to Shelley Tucker and Kacie Luetkemeyer for helping authorities locate Kenyon Brock, a missing Independence boy. (We wrote about him here.) Kenyon's mom took him from his grandma, who had custody,...
Columbia might make it illegal to steal garbage
Posted on September 15, 2008The city council is annoyed because some folks are picking up the bags of recyclables left on curbs, then selling the materials to recyclers. Which, of course, is cutting into the city's profits ... Pictured: Suspect photo
WyCo jail has new administrator
Posted on September 15, 2008Not sure why they're sending this out now ... From WyCo Sheriff: On August 18, 2008 Sheriff Leroy Green Jr. appointed Mr. Jeffrey S. Fewell as the new Administrator of the Wyandotte County Detention Center. Mr. Fewell retired from the...
Should Roberta Borden be a free woman?
Posted on September 15, 2008Thirty years ago, Borden was convicted, with her lover, of shooting her husband through the heart while he was watching TV. The Springfield woman was supposed to serve 50 years before she could qualify for parole but a relatively new...
FBI: Crime dropped in 2007
Posted on September 15, 2008Violent crime was down 0.7 percent -- it had been going up since 2005. For the fifth year in a row, property crime declined. (Car thefts alone were down 8.1 percent.) More here. And here's a creepy statistic: Someone was...
KCPD IDs dead man from 35th and Cleaver II
Posted on September 14, 2008Police say Samuel Story, 23, Kansas City, was found Thursday night. Anyone with information regarding the crime is asked to call the TIPS hotline.
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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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