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AL quadriplegic accused of making child porn
Posted on April 30, 2008By secretly videotaping girls as they took showers at his house, police say.
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on April 29, 2008Thanks again for spending time on the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. Or if you've seen an interesting story elsewhere, feel free to post a link below! Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity,...
Were dozens of drownings actually murders?
Posted on April 29, 2008Initially, I had a hard time believing this story, but ABC News generally knows what it's talking about ... They're calling them the Smiley Face Murders. Two retired New York police detectives believe that 40 young men did not drown,...
Dear Criminals: Always remember to leave the crime scene
Posted on April 29, 2008Boston police say a man who vandalized a church there was actually still in the building, asleep, when officers arrived. Snip: Police allege 47-year-old Charles Martin of West Roxbury resisted arrest and kicked an officer in the groin. A search...
What's so hard about lemonade?
Posted on April 29, 2008A Michigan college professor accidentally bought his 7-year-old kiddo a bottle of Mike's Hard Lemonade when they went to a Tigers game. For the churchgoing among us, the "hard" in "hard lemonade" means that it has been infused with alcohol....
A $50K reward, but nobody is talking
Posted on April 29, 2008Christmas Eve 2006. Two crooks break into Missouri Poster and Banner, a business in North Kansas City, at 5 in the morning, owner Jerry Barham says. He should know -- he was there when they crept inside. He still remembers...
FBI: The child pornographers are winning
Posted on April 29, 2008Over the past few years, the FBI has made fighting online kiddie porn one of its top priorities and dedicated more agents to tracking down the people who trade these images online. The number of cases has skyrocketed, too, from...
More companies use GPS to thwart thieves
Posted on April 29, 2008GPS devices are getting small enough now for some companies to hide the gadgets on their products, as a way to catch thieves who steal the goods (especially tools, appliances and expensive equipment) before they reach their final destinations.
School-plot suspect wanted to go to Heaven ... and kill Jesus, police say
Posted on April 29, 2008They think he might need a psychological evaluation. You think?
IL college student dies in fireworks prank
Posted on April 29, 2008Three college students got six-month sentences for shoving Roman candles under another student's door -- causing a fire that killed him. Hat Tip: Many thanks, FanDanGo!
MO man tried to steal T-shirts from store while lovah applied for job, police say
Posted on April 29, 2008Story is from Springfield. Police say the suspect was also holding his girlfriend's 8-month-old -- whom he promptly dropped when the store staff tried to grab him.
Elderly IL woman was trapped under husband's dead body at least 2 days
Posted on April 29, 2008Luckily, her newspaper carrier checked on her and rescued her.
K9 officer fights to get job back -- kicking the dog was part of training, he says
Posted on April 29, 2008This is the first I've heard of anything like this, but I don't have any experience training police dogs, either ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM
No. 18
Posted on April 29, 2008Meet James Lee Woodard, who spent 27 years in prison for a murder that he never committed. He is the 18th person in his county -- not in his state, in his county -- to be exonerated, thanks to DNA....
Wisconsin thieves hate the elderly
Posted on April 29, 2008First, we had a story about a thief stealing a 52-inch TV from a veterans hospital in Milwaukee. The same thing's happened again, only at a senior-housing complex. Hat Tip: Many thanks, goshel!
Shooting victim, age 5, gets to go home
Posted on April 29, 2008Katherine Cook, 5, was shot in the head while playing outside her home in Oswego back in February. (Leavenworth authorities aren't sure who fired or why.) After several weeks in the hospital, Cook is back home, KMBC reports.
Shopper pulls gun on grocery-store managers, who PULL their guns, police say
Posted on April 29, 2008Story is from Florida. Nobody got shot, which is the good news. Really liked the Sun-Sentinel's lead: Memo to shoppers: Next time Mr. Whipple tells you to stop squeezing the Charmin, pay attention. He might be packing heat.
KC man used toy gun to hold up auto-parts store, police say
Posted on April 29, 2008Jordan D. Hoffman, 21, is accused of stealing almost $300 from a CarQuest Auto Parts store at 36th and Main, using a toy gun to threaten the clerk, Jackson County prosecutors say. According to the probable cause, police found Hoffman...
NM man uses sword to steal tequila from Sam's Club, police say
Posted on April 29, 2008To be specific, it was two bottles of Patron. He attracted the attention of store management after he initially tried hiding them in his pants, police say.
Local bloggers talk about the FLDS case
Posted on April 29, 2008Midtown Miscreant wants prosecutors to drop the hammer: So much for calls of religious tolerance and allegations that outsiders "Just don't understand" the religious beliefs of the Pedophile band of scumbags at the Yearning for Zion ranch. Half of the...
A child's letters to vicious killers ...
Posted on April 29, 2008Great piece from Radar magazine, which had one of its writers pose as a 10-year-old boy named Billy and write letters to famous murderers ... the vast majority of whom wrote back. Specifically, Billy wanted to know if he should...
Wife cried rape -- but she was actually with her secret lover, authorities say
Posted on April 29, 2008Texas authorities accuse Tracy Roberson of involuntary manslaughter because, after her husband caught her with another man, she allegedly cried rape. Which led her husband to fire four shots at Devin LaSalle, killing him. Roberson's husband has already been cleared...
MO bill would make sex offenders renew their drivers licenses every year
Posted on April 29, 2008Which would be a pretty handy way to keep track of where they're abiding -- though I'm sure it'd be fairly easy to outwit. The Missouri Senate's judiciary committee approved the bill yesterday, but they stripped out a measure that...
"The dude died slow"
Posted on April 29, 2008Mark Morris has an update here on the murder trial of Gary Eye, 21, and Steven Sandstrom, 22, who are accused of killing William D. McCay back in 2005. Prosecutors allege that McCay was killed because he was black. (The...
MO man pleads guilty to murdering son, age 9
Posted on April 29, 2008Awful story from the Jeff City paper. Douglas D. Lueckenotte also wanted to kill his 16-year-old son, who grabbed Lueckenotte's rifle and broke it before going and getting his own gun.
IL man accused of attacking neighbors with shovel, then bow and arrow
Posted on April 29, 2008Alcohol might have been a factor ... From the P-D: A 27-year-old man reported that Yount appeared to be intoxicated when he arrived home shortly after midnight and he helped him into his house. He said five minutes later Yount...
Should hate-crime laws cover the homeless?
Posted on April 29, 2008Last year was one of the worst ever for violence against homeless people -- something like 28 homeless men and women were murdered in 2007. (Often by young adults.) Which is leading some states to consider tougher laws against attacking...
Man tried to leave baby at Florida strip club, authorities say
Posted on April 29, 2008The police got involved, but imagine for a moment if the strippers had raised the child as their own, the same way those gorillas did Tarzan. Hat Tip: Many thanks to the Uncanny JUNGLE JIM!
FL teacher arrested 3 times in 6 weeks for having sex with students
Posted on April 29, 2008Unbelievable ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
A new low
Posted on April 29, 2008NYPD's internal affairs office is investigating after Sean Bell's fiancee's family reportedly received a crank call after they returned from court last week. Snip: "Ha, ha, ha," someone said in a 1:15 p.m. Friday phone call to the home of...
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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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