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Man accused of stalking women in JoCo
Posted on September 10, 2008KMBC has more details here. Police say he's particularly fond of putting water in their gas tanks.
Cali prison guards want to recall The Arnold
Posted on September 10, 2008The prison guards union, which apparently has a lot of cash, got pantsed by Schwarzenegger during their last contract negotiation. (I'm not sure if they're very happy with the growth of offenders in California's prison system, either.)
Bozo The Clown falls on hard times
Posted on September 10, 2008Police are looking for a man in a red wig and purple scrubs who held up a St. Louis County bank on Tuesday.
If you're going to drive around with a loud stereo ...
Posted on September 10, 2008... maybe you should leave the pot, coke and gun at home.
Al Sharpton to stand trial
Posted on September 10, 2008This stems from those protests he led after the Sean Bell verdict. Al has allowed that he would LIKE to go to jail.
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on September 10, 2008From The AP: An elementary school principal has apologized for making students look inside a bag of human feces and urine. Peyton Elementary Principal Michael Auclaire says he wanted to make a point to the students because someone had been...
VIDEO: Hammer attack on Philly subway
Posted on September 10, 2008The victim wasn't doing a thing, didn't provoke the attack at all, police say. The attacker -- who police say they've arrested -- even had his little boy with him. Police aren't very impressed with the other passengers, who didn't...
Maybe probation isn't for you ...
Posted on September 10, 2008An Ohio man got 180 days in jail for violating his probation. He refused to divorce his "extra wife" and kept smoking pot. Oh, and he killed his cats. Snip: "He said his cats were talking to him and were...
Who was Jimmy Cawthon?
Posted on September 10, 2008From KCPD: On Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at approximately 7pm, KCMO police were called to 11901 Merritt Rd. in regard to a shooting/dead body. Upon arrival, officer?s contacted the calling party (a family member of the victim) who stated he...
NC politico could get jail for stealing $3 watermelon
Posted on September 10, 2008They take felony larceny of ungathered crops VERY seriously in North Carolina ...
Appeals court overturns alleged Klansman's conviction
Posted on September 10, 2008A little over a year ago, James Ford Seale was convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers, Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, in Mississippi. A federal appeals court said the statute of...
Midtown Miscreant v. Prostitutes-As-Victims
Posted on September 10, 2008Double-M argues that most prostitutes are in that line of work because they chose it. Snip: At the end of the day, we all live with the choices we make. You can't preach, threaten or cajole someone into not doing...
MO Highway Patrol names man found dead in rest stop
Posted on September 10, 2008From Glenn Rice: The Missouri Highway Patrol has identified a man found shot to death inside a restroom at a Platte County rest area on Interstate 29 as Valentin G. Kirilchuk, 39, of Springfield.
UPDATE: Escaped inmate hid as suburban mom for 32 years
Posted on September 10, 2008This is the case of Susan LeFevre, who escaped from a Michigan prison after she was sent away on a heroin charge. She moved to San Diego, got married, raised some kids -- and was eventually discovered. A judge has...
Awful Ways To Die, No. 301: Stuck in a window
Posted on September 10, 2008The dead man had gotten locked out of his house and tried to climb in a window, only he got stuck in a position where he couldn't breathe. He suffocated. Snip: The neighborhood is a high-crime area and police said...
Florida man shoots himself in chest to get disability, police say
Posted on September 10, 2008Police say it was all a big scam, but I'm not so sure -- it sounds like SOMETHING is wrong with the dude.
Angry IL wife leaves husband's violin in their drive
Posted on September 10, 2008And it was stolen with two hours, police say. Not sure what the guy did, but he's out $2K -- that's the estimated value of the violin, which was a Stradivarius replica.
Man killed over music on bar's jukebox, WI police say
Posted on September 10, 2008Police say they found the suspect by following a trail of blood to his apartment.
Larry Craig is not giving up
Posted on September 10, 2008The senator, accused of approaching an undercover cop for sex in a Twin Cities airport bathroom, really wants to withdraw his guilty plea. His lawyers have taken the case to a state appeals court, which still sounds pretty skeptical ...
UPDATE: Man says drug dealers hunted him with bows and arrows
Posted on September 10, 2008Story is from Florida. Give the police credit -- they really tried to verify the guy's story, even the parts where he was abducted and set free in the woods, only to be chased by drug dealers with bows and...
How 9/11 changed the NYPD
Posted on September 10, 2008The AP has an interesting story about the NYPD and how it has changed how it does business since 9/11. The city already has more officers than any other department in the country, but they've also thrown more people at...
Verizon worker used customers' lines to call 1-900 chat line
Posted on September 10, 2008Story doesn't say what they were chatting about, but I have theories. Authorities allege the guy tapped into the accounts of 942 customers, making something like 5,000 calls over the course of 15 weeks. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
MO legislator resigns seat, pleads not guilty to sex crime
Posted on September 10, 2008Rep. Scott Muschany is accused of deviate sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl, the daughter of a woman that he allegedly had an affair with.
KS Eagle Scout accused of killing his father
Posted on September 10, 2008Story is from Centerville, in Linn County. The victim was named Robert Wottlin, and the suspect is his 16-year-old son, Christopher. The charge is unintentional but reckless second-degree murder -- we still don't know exactly how it happened, or why.
4 of last 5 KCK homicide suspects were under 16
Posted on September 10, 2008KMBC has the report here. Authorities are saying it's just a spike, rather than a growing trend. Two of the suspects were 13, the others were both 15.
UPDATE: Dead body found at I-29 rest stop
Posted on September 10, 2008From Glenn Rice: The Missouri Highway Patrol was investigating the death of a 39-year-old man whose body was found Monday evening in a pool of blood inside a restroom at a rest area along Interstate 29. The man?s name was...
Dead body found in I-29 rest stop
Posted on September 09, 2008From Sara Shepherd: Authorities were investigating the death of a man found lying in a pool of blood inside a restroom along Interstate 29 tonight. Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers were dispatched to the scene, a rest area just north...
You have to admit: This was a clever hiding spot
Posted on September 09, 2008Alleged flasher tries to hide at nude beach.
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on September 09, 2008Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. This is also a good spot to share links, if you've seen an interesting article somewhere else. Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as...
Ramona Morgan: Guilty
Posted on September 09, 2008From The AP: The Lawrence Journal-World reported on its Web site that Ramona Morgan, 49, was found of two counts of reckless second-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery after a Sept. 11, 2007, accident in a work zone...
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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
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If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
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