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Merriam plans St. Pat's saturation patrol
Posted on March 13, 2008From Merriam PD: The Merriam Police Department will have increased patrol on 03/17/08 and into the early morning hours of 03/18/08 as police work a DUI task force in an effort to decrease the amount of intoxicated drivers on the...
UPDATE on Skittle-Gate
Posted on March 13, 2008Once again, public scorn has accomplished what common sense couldn't. We had a story yesterday about a Connecticut eighth-grader who got suspended and lost his post on the student council because he was caught buying Skittles at school. Well, after...
Maine teen stole bunny, held it for $100 ransom, police say
Posted on March 13, 2008The suspect here is 17 years old. The good news is the bunny rabbit was recovered safely. Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!
JoCo jury can't reach verdict on woman accused of threatening police
Posted on March 13, 2008From Diane Carroll: For the second time, a Johnson County jury failed to reach a verdict regarding an Olathe woman charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. The jury deliberated into Wednesday evening in the case of Kimberly...
TV news crews caught drag-racing
Posted on March 13, 2008Story is from El Paso. Doesn't say if they were racing for pinks or what. Nobody got charged, though one newsie did lose his job over this.
Khandi Busby
Posted on March 13, 2008We had a post about Busby yesterday: She's accused of throwing herself and her two sons off a Dallas overpass during rush hour. Amazingly, nobody died.
Deputies discover 800 dogs inside Arizona house
Posted on March 13, 2008I see a lot of animal-hoarding stories, but this is a record-setter. Most of the animals were smaller dogs, like chihuahuas. But still ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, eephus!
"A moderate risk"
Posted on March 13, 2008In 1999, Buford Furrow Jr. burst into a Jewish daycare and shot five people, including three children. (He also shot a postal worker nearby.) The state of Washington's prison system is going to pay $2.25 million to the kids and...
Guilty verdict in Yelena Guzman homicide
Posted on March 13, 2008From Mark Wiebe: The parents of 2-year-old Yelena Guzman had waited nearly a year to find out if someone would be held accountable for their daughter?s shooting. On Thursday afternoon, Fernando Guzman and Ramona Moreno, with memories of their dying...
20 best songs about prostitution
Posted on March 13, 2008Viewable here, courtesy of Spinner.com. A couple of thoughts ... 1. Wait, "House of the Rising Sun" is about prostitution? 2. How was "Fancy" not in the top five?
Man scammed nearly $2 million from his family, U.S. attorney says
Posted on March 13, 2008S tory is from the U.S. attorney's office in Wichita. David E. Burkholder, 54, San Francisco, Calif., is facing 24 counts of wire fraud. At some point, Barbra Streisand's name was taken in vain. From the press release: ? In...
JoCo DA's office hires new traffic prosecutor
Posted on March 13, 2008From the JoCo DA's Office: Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline today received approval from the Johnson County Board of Commissioners for a budget increase to pay a full-time traffic prosecutor. Kline expects to have a new attorney on staff....
Dallas PD makes a DUI stop the hard way
Posted on March 13, 2008The good news is that nobody was hurt.
Tasha Cole
Posted on March 13, 2008Cole, 17, faces four counts of endangering the welfare of a child after her toddler tested positive for cocaine. (And so did her siblings' kids, ages 2 and 3.) Here's a copy of the probable cause statement, in which we...
Meanwhile, at City Hall
Posted on March 13, 2008Nearly missed this one -- Mayor Funkhouser's proposal for next year's budget would add 20 officers to the police department (which the PD didn't think it could fund) and shut down the Municipal Correctional Institution. Obviously, there's still more haggling...
UPDATE: Should this mother be put on trial?
Posted on March 13, 2008Nope. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Tam and blueberry!
TX wife didn't realize husband was actually a woman
Posted on March 13, 2008She learned the truth by looking through an old high-school yearbook. A judge has granted the wife an annulment.
Massachusetts has a club for convicted murderers
Posted on March 13, 2008There is actually a club for convicted killers, The Lifers' Group, and it's sanctioned by the state's DOC. They want to start a Toastmasters chapter and, ah, lobby the legislature to do away with life without parole. Some people in...
It's always the getaway that trips people up ...
Posted on March 13, 2008Robber holds up Alabama liquor store, but gets hit by a car when he tries to run away with his ill-gotten gains. Maybe the mask cut down on his peripheral vision ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, sexy!
Aussie woman kills boyfriend for turning off her Springsteen
Posted on March 13, 2008They let her cop to manslaughter, probably because they'd been drinking and she didn't REALLY want to kill him. Though she did stab him in the aorta. She's been sentenced to eight years. Snip: Karen Lee Cooper told arresting police:...
TN authorities arrest prison escapee ... 46 year after the jailbreak
Posted on March 13, 2008He's 73 now. And the prison that he escaped from has been shut down.
Yelena Guzman
Posted on March 13, 2008Guzman was only 2 years old when she was killed in a drive-by shooting almost a year ago. Daniel Perez Jr., 17, is on trial for the gang-related shooting this week in KCK. The prosecution was able to rest after,...
Man threatens to kill himself with bottle of Viagra, NV police say
Posted on March 13, 2008At some point, the gentleman allegedly tried to run over an officer with his electric wheelchair. Luckily, the po-po was able to wrestle the Viagra away. From the Nevada Appeal: "I'm not even sure if that could kill someone, but...
KC music teacher accused of throwing chairs, grabbing students' ears
Posted on March 13, 2008From Mike Rice: A Kansas City School District music teacher has been accused of assaulting some of her students. According to media reports, the incident at Trailwoods School, 6201 E. 17th St., occurred Tuesday. The teacher became angry as students...
Melissa Winnie
Posted on March 13, 2008Winnie was a police officer for Holts Summit near Jeff City. She died from a gunshot wound to the head on March 1 while visiting a Mexico PD officer's home. But the authorities aren't ready to call her death a...
The Missouri Method
Posted on March 12, 2008We've written a little about Missouri's approach to handling young offenders: We don't punish so much as we reform. In the early 1980s, the state set up a system of regional "treatment centers" where the young people get counseling, job...
KCPD plans St. Pat's sobriety checkpoint
Posted on March 12, 2008From KCPD: The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on Monday, March 17, 2008 in the midtown part of Kansas City, Missouri. This checkpoint will be preceded with a briefing at the Agnes Police Facility, 1328...
It's hard to grease somebody's palm if they don't have one
Posted on March 12, 2008Vladimir Putin has floated a reasonable proposal for handling corruption in Russia: Just cut off the hands of any officials caught taking bribes. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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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?
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