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Fact: A dryer is no place for a Ding Dong
Posted on March 05, 2008A Fed Ex driver is accused of putting Ding Dong cakes in a Missouri laundromat's dryers. Only the owner says everything was caught on surveillance tape. The plot was foiled by an alert customer who spotted the cakes before starting...
What's the matter with Kansas grand juries?
Posted on March 05, 2008Not only did a Johnson County grand jury refuse to indict Overland Park Planned Parenthood, that same grand jury thinks Kansas needs to reconsider letting the public call grand juries by petition. From Diane Carroll: Johnson County grand jurors, who....
Child molester jumps to his death after being convicted
Posted on March 05, 2008Story is from California. The prosecutor had tried to get him into custody immediately after the verdict because she feared he'd do something like this. The judge refused, and during a break, the man killed himself.
Man accused of MO chainsaw attack gets committed
Posted on March 05, 2008This is the case where a man allegedly used a chainsaw and a knife to attack four others at a homeless shelter in New Bloomfield, Mo. Matthew J. Watkins isn't competent to stand trial, an exam determined. So he's been...
Former city manager accused of drugging wife's drinks so he could have sex with her
Posted on March 05, 2008Story is from Ottawa, Kan. Weldon Padgett, the former city manager, is accused of putting sedatives in his wife's drinks so he could have sex with her. (She started suspecting something when she started to have a series of blackouts.)...
A reasonable proposal
Posted on March 05, 2008Here's a great idea from Iowa: Drivers under 18 wouldn't be allowed to have any passengers unless those passengers are their siblings or a parent is riding shotgun. The state's legislature is considering such a bill right now. If passed,...
UPDATE on Arkansas cop accused of Tasering cow
Posted on March 05, 2008He's been suspended for 10 days without pay. What's great is that he actually shocked himself while Tasering the cow, who appeared unfazed. And his chief, who conducted the investigation into the cow-Tasering? He actually saw the video back when...
U.S. wrecks cost $160 billion per year
Posted on March 05, 2008That's including everything -- property damage, lost wages, medical treatment, etc. It's in a new report from AAA, which wants the government to treat auto accidents as a serious public-health problem. (About 43K people die every year in crashes.) The...
Should we really trust jailhouse informants?
Posted on March 05, 2008The inimitable Midtown Miscreant talks a little about the John Henry Horton case. (Which, by the way, has gone to the jury.) Double-M thinks Horton probably killed Lizabeth Wilson, but he's not exactly thrilled about the prosecution's use of jailhouse...
A Good Samaritan dies for $5 and change
Posted on March 05, 2008When two thieves ran off with a Starbucks tip jar from a St. Louis-area store, Roger Kreutz ran after them. He ended up under their getaway car, and about 2 a.m. this morning, he died from the injuries he suffered....
That's a lot of traffic tickets ... and overtime
Posted on March 05, 2008Lovely story from the Detroit area about a police officer who wrote almost 2,400 tickets last year for stop-sign violations. (About nine per day.) A TV station there notes that every time an officer gets subpoenaed while off-duty, he gets...
"Bodies Revealed"
Posted on March 05, 2008Local blogger RDM has a great post here about injured servicemen and the "Bodies Revealed" exhibit at Union Station. Instead of putting on display dead corpses from dissenting Chinamen, how about we bring in some of these veterans from the...
Elvis impersonator accused of showing up to court drunk, in costume
Posted on March 05, 2008The really disturbing part? He was there on a stalking charge. How would you like to be the poor creature being hunted by an Elvis impersonator? Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2
MO bill would force juvenile offenders to give DNA samples
Posted on March 04, 2008If they're found guilty of something that would be treated as a felony if they were adults, The AP reports. The measure has gotten initial approval from the state senate. The sponsoring senator would really like to collect DNA from...
Midtown Miscreant visits Dog Patch
Posted on March 04, 2008And lives to tell the tale. Here's one bon mot in a blog entry chock-a-block with them: Never drive through Dog Patch at night. It's dark as my first wife's heart.
Morgue File: Jan. 31, 1966
Posted on March 04, 2008From the original cutline: THE FIRST ROLL CALL and inspection in the new No. 1 district police headquarters building at 717 Admiral Boulevard was carried out at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the squad room. At the left is Sgt....
Should the First Amendment protect spam?
Posted on March 04, 2008The Virginia Supremes say no -- they've upheld the sentence of a spammer who was sentenced to nine years in prison under the state's anti-spam law. (Jeremy D. Jaynes was considered the eighth-worst spammer in the world at one point,...
Unspeakable
Posted on March 04, 2008Just awful: A Syrian man beheads his 15-month-old nephew in a Saudi supermarket because he got in a fight with the kid's parents, police report. Hat Tip: Saw this via Nice Deb -- many thanks, ma'am. (She calls it "The...
World's Luckiest Woman foils street robbery
Posted on March 04, 2008Story is from Arizona. A guy with a shotgun approaches a woman on the street and demands her money, but the woman keeps asking him if he's serious. He eventually just gives up. Which is different from most robbers, who...
JoCo grand jury declines to indict OP Planned Parenthood
Posted on March 04, 2008So I guess this makes the debate over patient records sort of pointless now. Planned Parenthood was thrilled, though we didn't get much reaction yesterday from the groups who wanted to see the organization face a criminal indictment. Of course,...
DA seeks death penalty in Knoxville monstrosity
Posted on March 04, 2008This is the case of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian, who were brutally tortured and killed in a carjacking almost a year ago. The prosecutors say they're going to seek the death penalty for all four suspects. (A fifth person...
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on March 04, 2008Thanks for spending part of your Tuesday on the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. This is also a good place to share links to interesting stories you might have seen somewhere else. Please sign your...
Meals on Wheels gets carjacked
Posted on March 04, 2008At Lexington and Brooklyn in KCMO. This van, which was full of hot lunches, belonged to the Don Bosco Center. It's a white 1995 Chevy cargo van. Christine has more here.
KC man accused of shooting teenager in the leg
Posted on March 04, 2008From Christine Vendel: Jackson County prosecutors today accused a 42-year-old man of shooting a 15-year-old boy in the leg as the boy walked along a sidewalk last week. Prosecutors charged John E. Davis of Kansas City with first-degree assault and...
Chattanooga police investigate whiffle-ball fight
Posted on March 04, 2008Son, whiffle ball is not a good reason for going to jail.
Wisconsin parents use MySpace to ruin daughter's life
Posted on March 04, 2008Lovely story from the State of Necrophilia, where a Wausau couple left their daughter at home while they traveled to Minnesota. Though they were out-of-state, the parents kept an eye on their kiddo by checking her MySpace page. Which is...
Who was Rafael Vazquez?
Posted on March 04, 2008Vazquez, a paramedic, was killed in the mass shooting yesterday at a Wendy's in Florida. When he was killed, he was exchanging a toy for his kid.
CT boys, age 7 and 8, planned to stab their bus driver, police say
Posted on March 04, 2008If the children are our future, then we are @#$^ing doomed. Hat Tip: Many thanks, sexy!
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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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