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Should 17-year-olds be put in adult prisons?
Posted on April 14, 2010In Wisconsin, state legislators are considering a bill that would put 17-year-old offenders in the state's juvenile detention system, not the adult prisons, The Capital Times reports. It's inspiring a debate on what's the best way to handle younger prisoners...
Naked man arrested for punching deacon, cops say
Posted on April 14, 2010Story is from a church in Las Vegas. It's not clear when the suspect got naked; he originally appeared wearing sweatpants and one shoe. Snip: "I don't know when he took his clothes off actually. I've seen some very strange...
Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on April 14, 2010Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. If you've seen an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to post a link below. As always, please follow our standard rules: Please sign your comments,...
Why do 'amateur superheroes' think they can fight crime?
Posted on April 13, 2010The New York Post has a nifty feature about average people who like to dress up like superheroes and "fight crime" in real life. (We already have people who dress up in costumes and fight crime. We call them "police.")...
Fugitive hid in Branson for 26 years
Posted on April 13, 2010Oscar Richardson has pleaded guilty to escaping the Florida correctional system in 1979 and eventually moving to Branson, where he lived under the name of "Eugene Ward" and didn't really bother anybody. He hid out for 26 years. Thanks to...
Daddy isn't allowed to babysit anymore
Posted on April 13, 2010I swear, you leave your infants outside a strip club in an illegally parked vehicle ONE TIME, and everybody thinks you're a terrible father or something ...
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on April 13, 2010Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. If you've seen an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to post a link below. As always, please follow our standard rules: Please sign your comments,...
'Door-to-door meat salesman' is a real job
Posted on April 13, 2010Police in Athens, Tenn., have arrested a door-to-door meat salesman, not for selling meat door-to-door, but for swallowing a half-burned joint as officers watched. (Keep in mind, I'm not from the South, so door-to-door meat salesman could conceivably be some...
'Exotica told the victim to lie face down on his bed'
Posted on April 13, 2010In Madison, Wis., police are looking for Exotica and Mrs. Unique, two supposed masseuses who advertise via the Internet, after they allegedly grabbed a customer's money -- several hundreds worth -- and fled. Police took two bottles of body lotion...
Despite all my rage, the deputy put me in a dog cage
Posted on April 13, 2010You might enjoy reading this: A man is suing a Missouri deputy after the man was put in a K9 dog cage when authorities needed to take him from jail to the courthouse. The man had allegedly escaped from a...
Boy Scouts lose $1.4 million sex-abuse case
Posted on April 13, 2010In Oregon, a jury has sided with a man who was molested when he was a Boy Scout and have awarded him $1.4 million. Part of the case involved internal files on "problem" volunteers, kept by the Boy Scouts to...
'What we have here ... '
Posted on April 13, 2010From Shawnee PD: Some of you may remember this case from March 2, 2010. A subject reported she lost her handgun in the Wal-Mart Parking lot. She called to say she had located the gun in her spare bedroom. Apparently...
Police find 'person of interest' in Shawnee slaying
Posted on April 13, 2010A few days ago, police said they wanted to question a local man, Michael Lewis, in the Curley Tyler homicide from Easter. (Tyler's son found him dead inside Tyler's Escalade, parked outside his apartment complex in Shawnee.) Lewis has been...
Who killed Kikilia Morton and Marco Summers?
Posted on April 13, 2010It's been five years since Kikilia Morton and Marco Summers were killed in the 11600 block of Bennington, in south Kansas City. Police found them in a truck that had crashed on March 11 of that year; someone had apparently...
Charges dropped against K2 distributor
Posted on April 13, 2010In Jefferson County, Kan., the local prosecutor has dropped all criminal charges against the owner of Bouncing Bear Botanicals, whose Oskaloosa warehouse was raided in February. It happened about the same time as a raid on a Lawrence shop that...
Village no longer missing its idiot
Posted on April 13, 2010Not a crime, just funny: The good people of Story, Ind., home of the Story Inn, have elected a local bartender to be their Village Idiot after she reportedly set her own hair on fire. (Sort of a cautionary tale...
Man wears garbage bags, threatens wife
Posted on April 13, 2010A Cape Girardeau man has pleaded guilty after authorities say he threatened to kill his wife. Specifically, he wrapped himself in garbage bags from neck to toes -- because he didn't want to get covered with her blood -- and...
Dirty house mistaken for drug lab
Posted on April 13, 2010After her tenants moved out, a landlord in Westland, Mich., called the cops because the place smelled like ammonia, which can be a sign of a meth lab. As it happens, the ammonia smell was from all of the cat...
Keep your eye on the birdies
Posted on April 13, 2010From AP: This undated file photo provided by the Department of Justice shows detained suspect Sony Dong, with songbirds strapped to his legs at Los Angeles International Airport. On Monday, April 12, 2010, Duc Le, pleaded guilty to conspiracy for...
Thou shalt not bear false witness
Posted on April 13, 2010A pastor from Leavenworth, Marvin Clay, has been sentenced to three years for lying to federal investigators, who were looking into an arson at the Sunflower Missionary Baptist Church in 2008, the U.S. Attorney for Kansas reports. Clay knew that...
Got your nose!
Posted on April 13, 2010In Oklahoma City, a bar employee allegedly used a sword to cut off a customer's nose at a bar. I understand that bars sometimes have to cut off rowdy patrons, but I feel they might have gone too far here....
If I electrify my nipples, will you give me a free Mountain Dew?
Posted on April 13, 2010Best Part: ?The one thing I remember him saying is, ?What will you give me if I clip these to my nipples?? ?Nothing.? ?Give me a Mountain Dew, Kelley,?? the teacher can be seen telling police during the recorded interview.
Should adopted kid's mom be charged?
Posted on April 13, 2010It's still not clear if charges will be filed against Torry Hansen, a Tennessee woman who allegedly had her adopted son, age 7, shipped back to Russia after he threatened to burn down their house, with Hansen and her family...
Keep the change, sweetheart
Posted on April 13, 2010Stacy Griffin-Lowery, a former accountant for the Missouri Veterans Commission, pleaded guilty to ripping off the state to the tune of $17,665. (By putting personal expenses on state credit cards.) As it happens, the Holts Summit woman probably stole $108,000,...
KCPD plans sobriety checkpoint
Posted on April 13, 2010It's scheduled for sometime this weekend, as early as Friday night.
Could we really have zero traffic deaths?
Posted on April 13, 2010Traffic deaths keep reaching new lows, but there's a movement now to reduce that number to zero, USA Today reports. Which seems impossible. There are a handful of states, including Minnesota and Utah, have adopted policies to try just that,...
Body donation business ruled biohazard
Posted on April 13, 2010Recently, a number of body parts -- including several heads and a torso -- was shipped to a medical-waste-disposal company in KCK, which led to criminal charges being filed against the owner of a "body donation" company in Albuquerque. The...
Where is Branson Perry?
Posted on April 11, 2010It's been nine years today since Branson Perry disappeared from the town of Skidmore in northwest Missouri. Perry, then 20, was cleaning up his father's house so it would be ready when his dad came home from the hospital. A...
Spring, when the Plaza is full of pepper spray
Posted on April 11, 2010KCPD reportedly spent Saturday night wrangling large crowds on the Country Club Plaza and used pepper spray in some cases. (In his report, Tony Rizzo uses the term "awash with pepper spray.") Officers say they had reports of fights, some...
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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?
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