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A new and entirely inappropriate use of a Taser

Posted on June 26, 2008
A Colorado man allegedly threatened to Taser his girlfriend unless she had sex with him, police said. (For any perverts taking notes at home, this did NOT work.) Snip from the Rocky: Taylor's girlfriend told police that Taylor turned the...

KS man gets life without parole for strangling pregnant teenager

Posted on June 26, 2008
This is the case of Chelsea Brooks, 14, who was killed in 2006 in Butler County. (She'd just completed eighth grade.) Prosecutors said Ted Burnett was hired to do the killing because the unborn child's father was afraid of rape...

NJ schools shut down over ninja sighting

Posted on June 26, 2008
After someone looked out a window and saw a ninja "running through the woods behind an elementary school." Rather than question what the witness was smoking, district officials initiated a lockdown. Turns out there really WAS a ninja -- a...

KCK police intervene in fight over 50-cent doughnuts

Posted on June 26, 2008
KCTV-5 is there! Story is from Tuesday, when a customer tried to return a stale package of doughnuts. (Or "donettes," if my snack-food expertise is correct.) It escalated to an argument and then, allegedly, to the clerk whipping out a...

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The Supremes shoot down the D.C. gun ban

Posted on June 26, 2008
The court says we, as Americans, have the right to possess guns for self-defense and hunting. It was a 5-4 ruling. Some experts were worried this could undo a lot of other gun laws, though Scalia doesn't think so: Scalia...

World's Greatest Getaway

Posted on June 26, 2008
In New York, a burglar was being chased by an apartment super, clad in his pajamas, when a pair of cops showed up. So the burglar yelled, "Stop this crazy guy. He's trying to kill me!" Which is why the...

MI man stabbed Mom with fork, clocked neighbor with frozen chicken, police say

Posted on June 26, 2008
Ten pounds of frozen chicken, it should be noted. Mom got the business end of the fork, apparently, because she refused to give him money, police say. The chicken lady? "He said something nasty to them and they responded in...

FL teacher, age 60, accused of sex with teen students

Posted on June 26, 2008
Mugshot after the jump ...

Open Thread ... Wednesday

Posted on June 25, 2008
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Art Buchwald v. J. Edgar Hoover

Posted on June 25, 2008
Great, great story from CBS News about humorist Art Buchwald's FBI file. You wouldn't think a world-class smartass would be worthy of FBI tracking, but apparently, Buchwald got under J. Edgar Hoover's skin so much that Hoover told the bureau...

The Invisible Businessman

Posted on June 25, 2008
I love it when crooks give themselves Batman-villain-style nicknames. Case in point, Hugh L. Riley Jr., 34, though his fans know him best as "The Invisible Businessman." Ooo-ooh! Spooky! U.S. Attorney John Wood's office says Riley has pleaded guilty to...

The Entwistle Murders

Posted on June 25, 2008
A Massachusetts jury has found a British man guilty of murdering his wife and their 9-month-old daughter -- deaths that defense attorneys claimed were a murder-suicide. It sounds like they had a hard time explaining why Neil Entwistle didn't call...

JoCo Sheriff busts alleged cockfighting operation

Posted on June 25, 2008
From JoCo Sheriff: After a two-year investigation, Sheriff?s Deputies executed a search warrant for a cock fighting operation at 38750 West 151st Street in Rural Johnson County today at 10:00 a.m. Deputies confiscated over 170 Fighting Roosters and large sum...

Because it's been too long since we've had video of stuff exploding

Posted on June 25, 2008

VA authorities cite rapper for using profanity on stage

Posted on June 25, 2008
Story is from Norfolk, and the rapper is Raymond "Boots" Riley of The Coup. (You are perhaps familiar with their records "Kill My Landlord" and "Genocide and Juice"?) He allegedly dropped an F-bomb while introducing another band. The charge is...

What's next for the Jackson County sheriff?

Posted on June 25, 2008
Tom Phillips says he'll retire as Jackson County sheriff on Dec. 31. His new gig? Executive director of the Blue Spring School District's public safety department. Phillips actually helped set up the department, which is its own official law-enforcement agency,...

Sheriff Joe must be a Kobe fan

Posted on June 25, 2008
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., is taking back Shaquille O'Neal's special deputy badge after he recorded a diss track against Kobe Bryant. Sheriff Joe said he wouldn't tolerate the bad language or a "racially derogatory word" included in...

National Crime Prevention Council thinks crime is going to climb again

Posted on June 25, 2008
A few weeks ago, the FBI put out a report saying that violent crime declined in the first half of 2007, following two years of increases. A lot of people were thrilled -- they saw it as a sign that...

Alonzo Washington

Posted on June 25, 2008
The Sun has a profile on the anti-crime activist and his effort to drum up tips online.

Daddy, daughter accused of ex-boyfriend's murder

Posted on June 25, 2008
Shocking story from the Miami Herald about a young woman who told her dad -- a strip-club owner with, prosecutors allege, mob ties -- that her ex-boyfriend had raped her. Only authorities say there's no proof there was ever a...

Dear Criminals: Don't #$%^ with Officer Uffelman

Posted on June 25, 2008
That would be Officer Mark Uffelman of Philly PD. While helping on a homicide case, he and his partner witnessed a street robbery and started chasing the suspects. One of them opened fire on Uffelman, hitting in the left arm....

Shot in the back 3 times, Omaha woman "played dead"

Posted on June 25, 2008
Until the shooter drove off. Then she managed to walk to a nearby house and get help. (Most people in that situation wouldn't "act dead" because they would, in fact, already BE dead.) The story surrounding the shooting is pretty...

Sorry, America, it's unconstitutional to kill child rapists

Posted on June 25, 2008
That's according to the Supremes. Somewhere, Matt Blunt's heart is breaking. More here from the New York Times. Kennedy, who wrote the decision, concluded that execution wasn't proportional to the crime of rape, even if the victim is a child....

MO prison population continues to shrink

Posted on June 25, 2008
From The Star: Missouri?s prison population decreased in fiscal year 2007, marking the third straight semiannual decline ? something no other state has done in that period, new data show. Nationally, the number of prisoners grew 1.6 percent in fiscal...

"Some stories just have to be told"

Posted on June 25, 2008
That hero of the people, Midtown Miscreant, is back with another great post. This time, Double-M starts telling a story about his "seedy past." Snip: He had that big, black-eyed stare that comes with a three- or four-day coke binge....

PETA stands for all animals, even filthy, disease-ridden ones

Posted on June 25, 2008
Fun Fact: Wimbledon organizers have used gunmen to take out neighboring pigeons, so the birds won't annoy players in the tennis touranment. Not-As-Much-Fun Fact: PETA is outraged over the bird shootings, and has written a letter to Wimbledon stating that...

Not remotely crime-related

Posted on June 25, 2008
A Colorado golf course is facing questions after a youth tourney overlapped with a breast-cancer benefit where the caddies were all strippers. Snip: A woman told KUSA-TV the event drew curious questions from her children, who asked her why the...

"A brothel on wheels"

Posted on June 25, 2008
Talk about brazen ... Florida authorities say a madam had a bus drive around Miami Beach, picking up johns, who'd hop aboard for lap dances and other "paid sexual favors." Which is one way to pay for public transit, I...

What NOT to say to an arresting officer

Posted on June 25, 2008
"I will give you guys $200 to let me go right now. Just throw the weed away and you can keep the credit cards." It didn't work out so good for this guy. Probably didn't help that he was dressed...

The Rose Man

Posted on June 25, 2008
Missed this from the other day ... the Post-Dispatch has an interesting story about a homicide victim, Lee Nixon, a local character who made his money selling roses and teddy bears at nightclubs in the small hours, while always nined...

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