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Open Thread ... Monday
Posted on August 25, 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 story somewhere else. Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as...
Defendant pleads guilty in KCK pot ring
Posted on August 25, 2008Silverio Ruiz, 23, says he and his associates "handled" more than 6,000 pounds of weed, U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren's office reports.
Salina drug raid is surprisingly successful
Posted on August 25, 2008It happened at a trailer park there. From the Journal: An agent was stationed behind the trailer at Lot 18 when officers knocked and announced their presence, he said. Apparently, the residents of Lot 17 thought their trailer was being...
25 years for OP man's murder
Posted on August 25, 2008From Joe Lambe: One of two men charged in the May 2007 shooting death of 37-year-old Overland Park man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison. Antonio E. Smith, 19, was tried earlier this year in the shooting and...
MO Highway Patrol announces DUI results from Clay County
Posted on August 25, 2008From the Missouri Highway Patrol: Captain Robert L. Powell, commanding officer of Troop A, announces the results of two sobriety checkpoints conducted in Clay County on August 22 and 23, 2008. The checkpoints were a joint effort with the Kansas...
Who was Jesse R. Williams?
Posted on August 25, 2008KCPD says that Williams, 53, was shot and killed Saturday night while walking near 36th and Benton. Not much information available about the shooter -- only that police are looking for a white Nissan Maxima.
You might be a bad father if ...
Posted on August 25, 2008... your 5-year-old jumps from a moving car rather than let your intoxicated behind drive her home. Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!
Guilty verdict in murder at the Legends
Posted on August 25, 2008From the WyCo DA: A Wyandotte County District Court jury returned a verdict Friday night in the trial Taurus Adams. The jury found Adams, age 32, guilty of First Degree Murder in connection with the December 23, 2007, shooting death...
Do you know this woman?
Posted on August 25, 2008From OP Police: The Overland Park Police Department is releasing a photo of the suspect vehicle used in the robbery on August 15, 2008. This was the robbery that occurred in the Wal-Mart parking lot in the 7700 block of...
Skinhead wanted to kill man so he could earn tattoo
Posted on August 25, 2008Awful story from Philly, where a man named Thomas Gibison has been sentenced to 12 1/2 to 25 years in prison for his part in a 1989 homicide. He's accused of conspiring to kill a black man so he could...
Will new device put cadaver dogs out of work?
Posted on August 25, 2008Cadaver dogs aren't 100 percent -- sometimes, they miss a scent. Sometimes, they just plain refuse to work. So now researchers are working on a device that can sniff out decomposing bodies, the Nashville Tennessean reports. Once it's ready for...
Cali man made racist threats over CB radio, police say
Posted on August 25, 2008He was trying to chase a new neighbor -- a black man -- out of the area. This is the first time I've seen CB radio used as a medium for hate speech ...
Dear Naked Bicyclist
Posted on August 25, 2008I guess it's one thing if YOU decide to ride around sans clothing. But don't you think it's a bit much to make your 3-year-old get naked, too? Canadian police think so. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
Neighbors waited 30 minutes to report stabbing, NY police say
Posted on August 25, 2008Even though the victim, who ended up dying, was screaming for help. Snip: "One neighbor said she ignored the cries because she thought the victim had been drinking."
KCPD names victims from triple shooting
Posted on August 25, 2008From KCPD: The two homicide victims? have been positively identified as 20-year-old KCMO resident Lamonte Curtis and 16-year-old KCMO resident Jazmine Stiggers. The third shooting victim, a 41-year-old female, is in serious but stable condition at a local hospital...
JaCo Sheriff names weekend homicide victim
Posted on August 25, 2008From Russ Pulley: The Jackson County Sheriff?s Office this morning released the name of a rural Jackson County homicide victim and her suspected killer. The body of Michelle D. Grush, 24, was discovered Sunday morning at 501. S. Sunny Nook...
Good Samaritan was actually a dirtbag
Posted on August 25, 2008From Joe Lambe: A woman in her 20s pretended to help an 86-year-old woman pump gas and then grabbed the older woman?s purse, police said today. The incident happened Saturday on the 8600 block of College Boulevard, police said. The...
Where was Aalim Lankford?
Posted on August 25, 2008Um, at his girlfriend's house. The good news is that he's OK. Hat Tip: Alonzo Washington and Tony's Kansas City had this from over the weekend ...
Dad dies trying to get his kids out of locked car
Posted on August 25, 2008Awful story from the Charlotte area, where a couple accidentally locked their kids and their keys inside the family vehicle. Dad got a butcher knife, which he was going to use to pry open a window. Only he fell on...
Da Brat gets three years in prison
Posted on August 25, 2008For hitting a waitress in the head with a rum bottle. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Man robs c-store ... then comes back for porn magazines
Posted on August 25, 2008Story is from Florida ...
JoCo Sheriff releases totals from DUI checkpoints
Posted on August 25, 2008From JoCo Sheriff: Friday Night in Overland Park: 601 cars went through the lane, 10 DUI arrests, 2 Drug arrests, 2 Transporting an Open Container. Saturday Night in Olathe: 537 Cars went through the lane, 14 DUI arrests, 3 Drug...
Can a dog be a murder weapon?
Posted on August 25, 2008I'm not sure how many people remember this case, but I followed it back when it happened ... A San Francisco couple was convicted of second-degree murder after their dogs, Presa Canarios, mauled their neighbor to death. The dog owners...
Shooting victim from 12th and Shawnee dies
Posted on August 25, 2008From KCK PD: The double shooting which occurred on Friday, August 22, 2008, at S. 12th Street and Shawnee Avenue has been reclassified as a homicide. Kansas City, Kansas resident Onesy Viengvilayvong, Asian male, 03-03-1953, died at a local hospital....
TX couple tried to trade sex with their kid for used car, FBI reports
Posted on August 25, 2008They wanted an apartment, too, and child-care for their other kiddo, whom they also planned to eventually prostitute, the authorities allege.
2 dead, 1 injured in shooting at 26th and Bellefontaine
Posted on August 24, 2008From KCPD: On Saturday August 23, 2008 at about 7:00pm KCMO Police Officers were dispatched to 26th and Bellefontaine on a shooting. On arrival officers found three shooting victims on the porch of a residence who advised they had been...
JaCo Sheriff investigates woman's death near Buckner
Posted on August 24, 2008From The Star: A woman?s body was found at a residence in an unincorporated area of eastern Jackson County this morning. Deputies were called to the scene southeast of Buckner about 6:45 a.m. and found the body, which had obvious...
Man beats his pastor with air hose because of text messages
Posted on August 23, 2008To the man's wife and other churchgoers' wives, he alleges. The pastor, who got smacked before Bible study denies it. The suspect says he wanted to stop things before they got out of hand. Too late ... Story is from...
Boss fired worker ... then fed him to lions
Posted on August 23, 2008Unbelievable story from South Africa.
Open Thread ... Caturday
Posted on August 23, 2008Thanks for visiting the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion! Or feel free to share links, if you've seen an interesting story somewhere else. Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as well as racially...
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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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