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JoCo suspect dies about 1 week after suicide attempt
Posted on September 14, 2008From JoCo Sheriff: Marvin Anthony, an 18-year-old inmate from Mission, KS died at Olathe Medical Center today after attempting suicide on September 06, 2008 while in custody at the Olathe Detention Center. A deputy found Anthony with a piece of...
KCPD investigates death near 39th and Bales
Posted on September 14, 2008From KCPD: Officers were called to the 3900 block of Bales on Sunday at about 922am to investigate the need for an ambulance. When they arrived at the home, they found the resident, a female in her 20's dead from...
Mom steals daughter's ID, becomes cheerleader, police say
Posted on September 13, 2008Story is from Wisconsin. The real daughter was living with Grandma in another state, so Mom, age 33, allegedly posed as her. Snip: According to the complaint, Brown wanted to get her high school degree and become a cheerleader because...
Open Thread ... Caturday
Posted on September 13, 2008The Open Thread is up and running this weekend, so feel free to hang out, post off-topic comments or share links, if you've seen something elsewhere. Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as well as racially and sexually...
Who murdered Terrence Timmons?
Posted on September 13, 2008Timmons was the cab driver shot and killed during his first week on the job. Matt Campbell had an excellent profile on his case here -- it's a pretty sad one. Timmons leaves behind a family that relied on him...
1 dead at 35th and Elmwood
Posted on September 13, 2008From The Star: Kansas City police held a suspect in custody this morning for the shooting death of another man at 35th Street and Elmwood Drive. Police were called to the scene about 1:45 a.m. today, where the victim was...
You are officially on notice
Posted on September 12, 2008Remember that guy from the other day? The one who was accused of "rubbing spices into the face of one man and smacking another with an 8-inch sausage"? Well, Cali authorities let him go -- not enough evidence, though they...
Bank robberies soar in New York City
Posted on September 12, 2008They're up 50 percent so far this year, the Daily News reports. NYPD blames the banks themselves because they've tried to be too "friendly-looking" to customers. That means fewer guards and no glass partitions by the tellers. I liked this...
Open Thread ... Sweet Merciful Friday
Posted on September 12, 2008Huzzah! We've survived another week of work! Come celebrate inside the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. Or links, if you've seen an interesting story somewhere else. Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as...
Do you recognize this car?
Posted on September 12, 2008From KCK PD: The two-door silver vehicle observed leaving the area of the shooting which occurred on September 11, 2008, in the 900 block of Homer Avenue has been located and recovered. (This) is a picture similar to the recovered...
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on September 12, 2008I'm sorry, I know it's disgusting. But I think we needed to see this as a public service. See this, young people? You should never get into ipecac-drinking contests with your friends.
KCPD seeks public help in IDing homicide victim
Posted on September 12, 2008From KCPD: The KCMO Police Homicide Unit is attempting to identify the man found at 35th and Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard last night at about 8:00pm. He is reported to be in his mid 20?s, about 200-225lbs and was wearing...
"I didn't know I could get arrested for hitting a cat"
Posted on September 12, 2008Yes, you can, especially if you use a sauce pan.
Laurean to be extradited to the U.S.
Posted on September 12, 2008Story doesn't say if the U.S. has agreed not to execute him, but I assume that's the case. Mexico won't send somebody north if there's a chance they could get the death penalty. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, file)
TX judge orders woman to stop having kids
Posted on September 12, 2008This trick never works ... still, a Texas judge is willing to try. He's ordered one woman to not have anymore kids because her last one was badly beaten by her husband, who's now in prison. It's officially a condition...
Guilty verdict in south KC homicide
Posted on September 12, 2008A Jackson County jury has declared Lamar Quarles guilty of first-degree murder in the case of Derek Orchard, an OP man shot and killed last year in a south KC park. The jury is still considering the other charges, which...
GA mom recruits gang to beat up teenage boy, police say
Posted on September 12, 2008Her daughter accused the boy of sexually assault, though there's no proof of that, police say. Mom allegedly recruited some older kids, who lured him to Mom's house for the beating. Police say she cleaned him up, drove him home...
How to demand ransom without actually kidnapping anybody
Posted on September 12, 2008From the Arizona Republic: Mexican extortion gangs have figured out two ways to bilk people for ransom money without actually kidnapping anyone. In one, virtual kidnappers find out when someone in the United States is traveling to Mexico and demand...
Alleged car burglar forgets to look before he leaps
Posted on September 12, 2008Story is from San Francisco. The suspect was running away from police when he jumped over a wall -- not realizing there was a 200-foot drop on the other side.
U.S. loses $45 billion yearly to deaths from gun crimes, U.N. says
Posted on September 12, 2008They're basing that partly on lost economic productivity if those folks had lived. Little curious why they only counted gun-related deaths as opposed to homicides, period. It's almost like the United Nations has something against firearms.
More power, less red tape for FBI agents?
Posted on September 12, 2008Snip from the Washington Post: The changes would give the FBI's more than 12,000 agents the ability at a much earlier stage to conduct physical surveillance, solicit informants and interview friends of people they are investigating without the approval of...
No first-degree murder charges in Precious Doe case?
Posted on September 12, 2008Attorneys for Harrell Johnson say they want the first-degree charge kicked, The AP reports. Snip: The lawyers for 28-year-old Harrell Johnson, of Muskogee, Okla., say there is no case law to support a first-degree murder charge by omission. Jackson County...
Ex-con, 70, holds up bank so he can go "home"
Posted on September 12, 2008Story is from California ... "These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized." -- Red, from "The Shawshank Redemption"
Quote of the day
Posted on September 12, 2008?Too many people have died to give me the right to wear this hat. I told him ... I will not take it off for you.? -- Bill Scribner, a David City, Neb., city councilman on his refusal to remove...
Joplin police release video of officer hitting suspect
Posted on September 12, 2008We've written about this case before. A Joplin cop resigned after he was accused of hitting a handcuffed prisoner, who had rammed his vehicle into a police cruiser, the Globe reports. Charges were dropped against the suspect, and the city...
KCK man pleads guilty to holding dozens of fake IDs
Posted on September 12, 2008And the tools to make them, the News-Leader reports. The fake driver's licenses were discovered when the guy was pulled over near Joplin back in 2007. He was released on bond and then immediately disappeared. The authorities eventually caught him...
Sentencing today for MO baby thief
Posted on September 12, 2008Shannon Torrez has pleaded no-contest to charges that she stabbed a Franklin County woman and stole her 7-day-old baby back in 2006. Prosecutors are recommending 30 years.
Well, O.J. finally has a jury
Posted on September 12, 2008An all-white jury, it should be noted, though two alternates are black. I can already smell the appeal.
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