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OP woman accused of killing newborn
Posted on December 23, 2009Joe Lambe has a report about Alice Zeorlin, 25, an Overland Park woman who's accused of killing her secret newborn by putting the baby in garbage bags in a fridge. Zeorlin had a preliminary hearing yesterday and will stand trial...
Coming soon to a seedy neighborhood near you
Posted on December 23, 2009Plans are being made for a nationwide tour of the Stripper-Mobile.
Mother of the Year?
Posted on December 23, 2009What kind of woman leaves her 5-month-old under a porch so she can go Christmas shopping at Walgreens?
Man lit himself on fire, jumped off cliff
Posted on December 23, 2009Story is from Dana Point, Calif. -- it's one of the more unusual suicides that I've read about.
If the economy tanked, shouldn't crime have gone UP?
Posted on December 22, 2009The Crime Report, a web site from John Jay College, has a post here about the crime stats released yesterday by the FBI. It's been received knowledge that, whenever the economy sours, crime rates usually increase. Only the feds say...
Convicted killer still wants sex change on taxpayers' dime
Posted on December 22, 2009Michelle Kosilek -- born Robert -- went to prison after killing her wife back in 1990. Kosilek wants the state to pay for a sex-change operation, which will help her anxiety and depression, her lawyers say. Denying her that surgery,...
Scott Roeder isn't going anywhere
Posted on December 22, 2009The judge has decided to keep the trial in Sedgwick County, despite defense arguments that pretrial publicity has made it impossible to get a fair trial there.
How a good man became a carjacker
Posted on December 22, 2009The Des Moines Register has a story about a man named Richard Neil Brown, who apparently killed himself after he stole a 2009 Impala from an elderly man. Brown, who leaves behind a wife and a young daughter, had lost...
N.Y. teen accused of horse buggery
Posted on December 22, 2009Like, on several occasions. As the police put it, "This guy makes Michael Vick look like a charter member of PETA." Hat Tip: Many thanks, cripjak!
Police explain why officers shot dog
Posted on December 22, 2009KMBC has a piece about KCPD explaining why its officers shot and killed a dog during a standoff this weekend. (Neighbors apparently caught that on video.) The department says that officers were worried the animal might complicate their entry into...
A ray of hope for Roman Polanski?
Posted on December 22, 2009Or "Roaming Roman," as we call him at my house. As reported yesterday, an appeal court in California rejected Polanski's efforts to get his original sex-crime case dismissed. But the court also suggested there might be another way for Polanski...
Feds prosecute more immigration crimes, report says
Posted on December 22, 2009Federal prosecutors handled more cases than ever during the 2009 fiscal year -- experiencing a jump of nearly 9 percent, the New York Times reports. They're especially busy with immigration violations. Snip: Much of the spike, immigration experts say, arises...
KCK man killed in apparent domestic dispute
Posted on December 22, 2009UPDATED, from KCKPD: The victim from the homicide that occurred on Monday, December 21, 2009 in the 2900 Block of Hutchings Street has been identified. Wesley U. Smith, black male, DOB 03/24/1956 was a Kansas City, Kansas resident. The victim?s...
Now, THAT is a lovely mugshot
Posted on December 22, 2009Not sure what the police are thinking: He sure doesn't LOOK like someone who would threaten to blow up a post office.
Baby stroller used to steal iPods, OP police say
Posted on December 22, 2009From OPPD: Overland Park Police are asking for assistance in identifying three suspects who stole 11 IPods from inside a display counter of a retail store and then concealed them in a baby stroller. Total value of the loss $4,500.00....
Man admits to driving forklift while drunk
Posted on December 22, 2009You see, officer, I got my truck stuck in this ditch. Then my buddy, his truck got stuck while he was trying to pull ME out. And that's when I decided to get the forklift ... Hat Tip: Saw this...
We've got nothing to hide, nope, not a thing
Posted on December 22, 2009The Philly Daily News has a report about a respected police officer who's now facing charges of sexual assault. The department learned about the allegations in 2007 and arrested the man last month, one day after he retired. There was...
Holiday Cab rides again
Posted on December 22, 2009Holiday Cab -- the program that gives partiers a free / discounted cab ride home from local bars -- will run from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Dec. 26 through Dec. 31, KMBC reports. The first $25 of the cab...
Cabbie cheated out of $3,000 fare
Posted on December 22, 2009A Miami cab driver agreed to drive a man from that city to Memphis so the man could make it home for Christmas, a ride that would cost about $3,000. Over the phone, the passenger's girlfriend said that she would...
Off with their ears and noses, Pakistani court rules
Posted on December 22, 2009In Pakistan, a court has ordered authorities to cut off the ears and noses of two brothers who reportedly did the same thing to a female cousin, who'd refused to marry one of them. The brothers were also sentenced to...
UK priest suggests shoplifting
Posted on December 22, 2009But only if you're in financial straits! He says that shoplifting is better than, say, whoring oneself or selling drugs. Snip: "My advice as a Christian priest is to shoplift," Jones reportedly told churchgoers during his Sunday sermon. "I do...
What were the dumbest crimes of 2009?
Posted on December 22, 2009I'm working on a year-in-review post for next week, and I wanted to pick your brain: What were the dumbest crimes of 2009? They don't necessarily need to have appeared on Crime Scene before, though please post a link so...
Dear 911, my kid won't stop playing video games
Posted on December 22, 2009A mother in Boston called 911 because her 14-year-old son wouldn't stop playing Grand Theft Auto at 2:30 in the morning. Amazingly, Mom was not hauled off to jail. Instead, the officers talked the kid into going to bed. Hat...
You can run, but -- well, I guess you CAN hide
Posted on December 22, 2009A Florida fugitive was allegedly arrested over the weekend near Ridgedale, Mo., on the Arkansas border -- where he's been living in secret for the past 31 years. His girlfriend / baby mother had no idea of his past as...
Elderly man learns he was a "black market baby"
Posted on December 22, 2009Interesting story here about an Oklahoma man who learns that his birth mother, desperately poor during the Great Depression, sold him for a typewriter and money to pay her hospital bill.
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on December 22, 2009Welcome 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,...
Crime dropped in first half of 2009, report says
Posted on December 21, 2009The FBI has released a report with preliminary crime statistics for the first six months of 2009, and the results are pretty positive. Violent crime overall was down 4.4 percent, and property crime was down 6.1 percent compared to the...
UPDATE: Boy had dozens of needles shoved in his body
Posted on December 21, 2009Just a quick update about the Brazilian boy who had to have dozens of needles removed from his body. Stepdad, who was already a suspect, has allegedly confessed. He says he did it because he wanted to spite the boy's...
Have sex with my wife, or else!
Posted on December 21, 2009This next story will blow your mind: A Minnesota man is accused of forcing another man to have sex with his wife -- and using a gun, a knife and a crowbar as incentive. There's a lot to summarize here,...
Cat found glued to Minn. highway
Posted on December 21, 2009Luckily, a couple of kind passersby found the poor beast and pried it from the roadway, then took it to a shelter. Hat Tip: Many thanks, cripjak!
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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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