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17 DUI arrests at KC checkpoint
Posted on March 14, 2010From KCPD: The Kansas City Missouri Police Department assisted by Jackson County Deputies conducted a Sobriety Checkpoint on March 12, 2010 from 2300 hours to 0400 hours at Truman Road and 71 Highway. Eastbound traffic was checked with a total...
Open Thread ... Weekend Edition
Posted on March 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,...
Woman loses fingers while trying to feed bears
Posted on March 12, 2010In a shocking revelation, police believe she was drunk when she tried to feed the bears and got her fingers bitten off instead.
Pardons sought for slave rescuers
Posted on March 12, 2010In Kentucky, a group of men are trying to get official pardons for 58 people who were convicted of helping slaves escape. Obviously, those people are all dead, but those working for the pardons see it as a way to...
Mmm, snail mucus
Posted on March 12, 2010In January, the feds raided a Miami home after people complained about getting sick from eating the mucus of a Great African Snail. They were "devotees," as AP puts it, of a man who follows an African religion of some...
What a trooper!
Posted on March 12, 2010Several days ago, a former state trooper won a lawsuit that led Springfield to shut down all of its red-light cameras. He was fighting a ticket he received and argued the city's system for handling the tickets wasn't legal. The...
Location, location, location
Posted on March 12, 2010If you're going to rob somebody, maybe you shouldn't do it near the police station's front door.
Open Thread ... Sweet Merciful Friday
Posted on March 12, 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,...
Some headlines just write themselves
Posted on March 12, 2010From Las Cruces, N.M.: Pantsless man, feces found in car If that were my car, I'd halfway wish the guy had stolen it instead. Hat Tip: Many thanks, kybo61!
Suspect goes on the run with wife, 9 kids
Posted on March 12, 2010Tennessee authorities accuse Jeffrey Lynn Cassman, 34, of running an investment scheme. They say he's been on the run with his wife and nine kids for more than a year now. They might be in the southwestern U.S. or out...
SWAT team responds to 'vampire'
Posted on March 12, 2010Seattle police arrested a man who allegedly showed up at a homeless shelter and said he was hungry ... for blood. (Mwa-ha-ha.) Besides his unnatural thirst for Type A through O, the man also had what appeared to be a...
Arrest made in Riverside homicide
Posted on March 12, 2010Platte County has charged 19-year-old Cavona C. Flenoy of KCK in the shooting death of Hassan A. Abbas on Tuesday. Police found Abbas, a Maple Woods student, shot multiple times at his apartment in the 4900 block of Northwest Gateway...
NYPD tows funeral home van with corpse inside
Posted on March 12, 2010The good news is they got the van -- and the body -- back in time for a flight to Florida.
Man who said "move it or lose it" wasn't kidding
Posted on March 12, 2010A Utah man is accused of setting his ex-roommate's 1993 Isuzu Rodeo on fire because the ex-roomie failed to move it from the carport after weeks of requests. From police: After learning about the carport dispute, "It wasn't much of...
Jewelry thief "did it for love"
Posted on March 12, 2010There's no better way to sink a legal defense than publicly confessing to a crowd of reporters. You might have planned to use the proceeds to move to Brazil and get married -- which is a really, really good reason...
Shon Pernice must keep wearing electronic monitor
Posted on March 12, 2010From Glenn Rice: A Clay County judge today ordered a Northland man accused of stealing a neighbor?s handgun to remain on electronic monitoring. Attorneys for Shon Pernice had asked Circuit Judge Shane T. Alexander to remove an electronic monitoring device...
"I'm drunk. Do what you gotta do"
Posted on March 12, 2010In Kingsport, Tenn., a 57-year-old has just received his 10th DUI charge after police allegedly caught him driving 20 mph on the interstate and weaving. (The headline is what he reportedly told them after they stopped him.) Hat Tip: Many...
Cop smells chimney burning marijuana -- leads to $10 million bust
Posted on March 12, 2010New Jersey have shut down the biggest pot-growing operation that's ever been stopped by that state's police after a patrol officer happened to smell someone burning unusable marijuana plants in a nearby chimney. (Police describe his sense of smell as...
Man torched estranged wife's house, Joplin cops say
Posted on March 12, 2010A man named Timothy A. Elsey allegedly burned down his estranged wife's house in Joplin, which killed her two cats and guinea pig, and then sent threatening text messages to her, the Globe reports. The police told the paper that...
Clay Co. sex offender hid for 33 years
Posted on March 12, 2010A sex offender named Berney V. Ferguson Jr., age 71, has finally been captured after 33 years on the run, Glenn Rice reports. A Clay County jury sentenced him to two years for a sex crime, but he disappeared. Authorities...
Report: Insurance fraud spiked last year
Posted on March 12, 2010Less than one-quarter of 1 percent of all U.S. insurance claims get referred for criminal investigation, so it's not widespread. But the number of questionable claims did jump about 14 percent last year. Experts believe the economy is driving a...
Goodbye, Crown Vic
Posted on March 12, 2010Ford Motor Company is retiring the Crown Victoria, which has become the standard vehicle for most U.S. police departments. (The Detroit News says Fords owns about 75 percent of the "police pursuit vehicle business.") The Crown Vic will stay in...
Man threatened Elton John's life, police say
Posted on March 12, 2010In Carrollton, Ga., a man has been arrested after he allegedly called for Elton John's death in a YouTube video, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The suspect, who has run Web sites with lists of abortion doctors and links to webcams...
Kansas AG issues spring-break warning
Posted on March 12, 2010The AG's office is warning college students and others not to let their guard down over spring break next week. It's a reminder, basically, that police haven't caught the party responsible for 13 sexual assaults in Lawrence and Manhattan, cases...
Cops seize "sovereign citizen" license plate
Posted on March 12, 2010In Pendleton, Ind., police seized a "sovereign citizen" license plate from a man claiming to be a diplomat. He reportedly planned to use that instead of a plate issued by the government, what some have come to call "a real...
Elderly man punched kids for fun at Wal-Mart
Posted on March 12, 2010In Columbus, Ohio, a 68-year-old man is accused of roaming his local Wal-Mart and punching kids in the back of the head. (He would hide his keys in his hand for extra oomph, the authorities say.) Why? Because it was...
MISSING: Victoria Irons
Posted on March 12, 2010Police are looking for a missing person named Victoria E. Irons, 39, who was last seen near 24th and Charlotte on March 10. She was wearing a blue coat, jean and tennis shoes, and she was carrying a bag. Her...
Can this marriage be saved?
Posted on March 12, 2010In Cape Girardeau, a man was arrested after his wife came home to find him wrapped in garbage bags, from head to toe. He allegedly had two knives -- one with her name written on the blade, and one with...
'Special delivery' might be sinister
Posted on March 12, 2010Olathe PD is warning the public about a possible scam going around. They've been contacted by people who say they've received calls that claim to be from the federal government or a delivery service. The callers want to know when...
Finger bitten off during drunken melee in Akron
Posted on March 12, 2010See? This is why we have the "no biting" rule in most civilized bar fights.
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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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