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Aim4Peace still looking for $300K

Posted on March 10, 2010
As we noted yesterday, Aim4Peace -- a program that tries to prevent shootings and homicides -- has gotten a $300,000 pledge from KCPD. There's been some question where the group was going to find money to survive next year. Kansas...

KC man's death ruled a homicide

Posted on March 10, 2010
From Tony Rizzo: The death of a man whose body was found Jan. 16 in a Kansas City apartment has been ruled a homicide, police said Tuesday. Police discovered James M. Elrod?s body on the living room floor in an...

Angels flying too close to the ground

Posted on March 10, 2010
Three years ago, the Guardian Angels -- a volunteer crime-fighting group with chapters across the country -- decided to establish one in Kansas City. Today, the group has five members, and while they're doing their best, they say it's been...

Lindsay Lohan would like $100 million, please

Posted on March 10, 2010
Not a crime in the legal sense, though your sense of good taste might feel assaulted: Lindsay Lohan, star of "Herbie: Fully Loaded," is suing E*Trade Financial over a commercial that includes a jab that, Lohan feels, paints her as...

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What was recorded on Mohler tape?

Posted on March 10, 2010
If you're following the Mohler case in Lafayette County, Don Bradley and Laura Bauer have an overview of the case this morning. The most interesting bit is this: One day last fall, a 25-year-old man ? supposedly wearing a wire...

Metro Squad works Riverside homicide

Posted on March 10, 2010
From Riverside PD: On 03/09/10 at 7:20 p.m. Riverside Police were dispatched to The El Chaparral apartment complex located in the 4900 block of NW Gateway Drive in reference to an unresponsive male victim. Officers arrived and found a male...

Midnight Knitter terrorizes New Jersey

Posted on March 10, 2010
Well, maybe not "terrorize" but whoever's been knitting sweaters for tree branches and light poles is technically breaking the law, police say. I find them guilty of whimsy. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City , Dale Gerhard)

Riverside homicide victim was college student

Posted on March 10, 2010
From Bob Cronkleton: Police identified the man found dead with apparent gunshot wounds inside a Riverside apartment as Hassan Abbas, 32. Abbas, who was from the Sudan, was a student at Metropolitan Community College?Maple Woods, according to police. A roommate...

Now, THAT is a lovely tattoo

Posted on March 10, 2010
I would be remiss if I didn't pass along the above photo. It's a tattoo belonging to Crystal Patton, the woman charged today in connection with this week's police chase. "Haywood" apparently refers to the man charge, Jeff Haywood, who...

MISSING: Donald Dudley

Posted on March 10, 2010
From KCPD: DONALD L. DUDLEY, BM. 37 YOA, 5?11, 202#, BLK, BRO. Last seen wearing white t-shirt and brown pants. Last seen on 3-8-2010 walking south from 6915 Jackson Street. He hasn't been seen or heard from since. His family...

Charges filed in this week's police chase

Posted on March 10, 2010
From the WyCo DA: Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome A. Gorman this morning charged two individuals in connection with the March 8, 2010, automobile pursuit which began in Kansas City, Missouri (north of the river) and ending with the driver...

KC mom allegedly burned son with iron

Posted on March 10, 2010
A Kansas City woman, Helen E. Settles, is accused of using an iron to burn her 18-year-old son, who is mentally disabled, Bob Cronkleton reports. The police were called after school staff noticed the injury.

An update on the Waldo rapist

Posted on March 10, 2010
The team investigating the rapes is now working out of the city's emergency operations center, which is usually used for storms, though it sounds like a space issue more than anything: They've got 27 investigators working on leads, which have...

Report: Some cops struggle after war service

Posted on March 10, 2010
Several law-enforcement officers are also reserve members of the military, and some are having trouble readjusting to being a cop after serving as a soldier, the AP reports. The two jobs are very different, and some officers have reported responding....

Kan. governor signs K2 ban

Posted on March 10, 2010
From David Klepper: Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson signed into law a prohibition on synthetic marijuana today, making the Sunflower State the first in the land to ban the substances. HB 2411 will make it illegal to buy, sell or possess...

Are open-carry advocates helping or hurting gun rights?

Posted on March 09, 2010
The New York Times has a piece here about open-carry advocates. Most states have laws allowing gun owners to openly carry weapons in public, but it has the effect of, well, freaking some people out. In recent years, open-carry advocates...

Highway patrol to offer church safety seminars

Posted on March 09, 2010
The Missouri Highway Patrol is starting to offer church safety training to congregations in Troop A, the patrol area that includes Kansas City and the surrounding suburbs. The class is for church leaders, not entire congregations. Anyone who's interested in...

Hustler wants photos of headless corpse

Posted on March 09, 2010
In Georgia, a freelance writer working for Hustler is trying to get crime-scene photos of a young woman, Meredith Emerson, who was killed while hiking near Blood Mountain. In the photos, she's both decapitated and nude. The state's bureau of...

Burglary suspects found sleeping at crime scene

Posted on March 09, 2010
That's like Rule No. 1 of getaways: You actually have to try and get away from the police.

Man laughs when cops Taser him

Posted on March 09, 2010
Pepper spray finally slowed him down, police say. Somebody make a note of that. When he tries to take over the world, as all super-villains do, it'll be important to remember his weaknesses.

Open Thread ... Tuesday

Posted on March 09, 2010
Welcome 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,...

Pay up, or the corpse gets it

Posted on March 09, 2010
In Cyprus, they've found the body of Tassos Papadopoulos, the former president, about three months after it was stolen. The justice minister says the grave robbery was part of an extortion scheme, though Papadopoulos' family denies getting any ransom demands...

Signed, sealed, arrested

Posted on March 09, 2010
In Holiday, Fla., police stopped a woman who was allegedly driving drunk and toting around a stash of marijuana. She might have a hard time denying that it's hers: The green plastic box was labeled with her name, "Rebekah's pot."...

'Lonely mom' arrested in Tampa

Posted on March 09, 2010
In Tampa, a 45-year-old woman was arrested after she allegedly let her daughter, age 14, stay home for nearly half the school year, the St. Pete Times reports. It's a sad story, actually. The woman is believed to be desperately...

Sticks aren't money, even in Oklahoma

Posted on March 09, 2010
An Oklahoma City man apparently got into trouble for doing doughnuts with his truck, which got stuck. When he went to the county jail, he tried to pay to have the charges dropped. His offer? A branch from "the last...

FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" turns 60 this month

Posted on March 09, 2010
The list, which is one of the bureau's best-known publicity tools, came out of a card game between J. Edgar Hoover and the head of a wire service. Wikipedia has a history and basic rundown of the list here. And...

Stoned woman tries to climb in police car, officers say

Posted on March 09, 2010
Story is from Sheboygan, Wis. The suspect also ran into a senior living center and busted a sliding door, authorities allege. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!

Man in stolen car asks cop for directions, police say

Posted on March 09, 2010
It's hard work being a criminal genius. It's too bad there wasn't a stolen Garmin handy.

Aim4Peace gets a boost from KCPD

Posted on March 09, 2010
Yael Abouhalkah notes something that I missed the other day: KCPD plans to put $300,000 into Aim4Peace, a program that tries to prevent shootings and homicides. It's modeled on an organization in Chicago, CeaseFire, that's gotten good results and won...

Rapper Lil Wayne gets 1 year in jail

Posted on March 09, 2010
From AP: Rapper Lil Wayne listens to the judge's sentencing inside the courtroom, with his attorney Stacey Richman by his side at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, March 8, 2010, in New York. Lil Wayne was sentenced Monday to a year...

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