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Car burglars love Blue Springs
Posted on December 16, 2009Bob Cronkleton has a report here about a wave of car break-ins in Blue Springs: Police are investigating a string of vehicle break-ins in parking lots in a Blue Springs business area. Items valued at about $2,300 were stolen, including...
Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on December 16, 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,...
Convicted legislator tries to copyright name
Posted on December 16, 2009Ted Klaudt, a former South Dakota legislator serving time for sexually assaulting two of his foster daughters, contacted media outlets there and warned that he'd copyrighted his own name. Anybody who wants to use his name would have to contact...
Doctor, wife go shoplifting for fun, Wis. cops say
Posted on December 16, 2009He makes about $150,000 per year, he reportedly told officers. The stolen goods were worth about $1,500.
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on December 16, 2009In Chile, a lady Olympic weightlifter went into labor during a workout -- which was a surprise, because she didn't know she was pregnant. The kiddo was 6 months along. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Jen!
Elderly woman's death wasn't reported for months
Posted on December 16, 2009In Wilmington, N.C., police are investigating the death of an elderly woman who, coroners estimate, died back in May. Nobody reported her death until yesterday -- even though caretakers had been going into her house pretty much every day, police...
Could you forgive Michelle Kehoe?
Posted on December 16, 2009Yesterday in Independence, Iowa, a woman named Michelle Kehoe was sentenced to life without parole for an unspeakable crime: She drove her two young sons into the woods and tried to murder them, then slit her own throat. One boy...
83-year-old accused of meth trafficking
Posted on December 16, 2009From AP: The Missouri State Highway Patrol says an 83-year-old Lebanon man faces drug charges after law officers found methamphetamine in his home. The patrol said Tuesday that local, state and federal officers found crystal methamphetamine, three shotguns and a...
Did 9/11 lead to the financial meltdown?
Posted on December 16, 2009After 9/11, the federal government spent most of its energy working on terror and national security cases -- with good reason. But there was less energy for investigations into financial frauds, USA Today reports. From the fiscal years 2003 to...
Can meditation "fix" repeat offenders?
Posted on December 16, 2009Near St. Louis, there's a nonprofit called Enlightened Sentencing Project that offers parolees training in Transcendental Stress Management. Judges say the program does such a good job helping convicts that, more and more, they're requiring probationers and parolees to attend...
Stolen money gets mailed back to bank
Posted on December 16, 2009In West Newton, Pa., someone has mailed back an envelope full of cash that was stolen from a bank there earlier this month, the authorities say. About 80 percent of the original take was returned. Investigators assume the robber or...
Cops accused of cover-up in racial beating
Posted on December 16, 2009In July 2008, an illegal immigrant named Luis Ramirez was fatally injured during a brawl with a group of teenage football players in Shenandoah, Pa. Three teens were prosecuted on state charges and avoided conviction on the most serious charges,...
Woman flashes breasts at motorists -- until one runs over her
Posted on December 16, 2009The story is from New Zealand. A word of caution from the woman: Ms Dudfield says she has learned her lesson, and has a message for others considering drunken dares. "Don't be me. Don't be stupid, don't get drunk and...
Should Kan. ban texting-while-driving?
Posted on December 16, 2009There's a new bill in the Kansas legislature that would ban texting-while-driving for motorists of all ages, David Klepper says. (Though it's still legal to talk on your cellphone while driving -- unless you're 16 1/2 or younger. Kansas law...
Man shoots arrow into suspect's buttock, Wash. police say
Posted on December 16, 2009In Kelso, Wash., a man with a compound bow interrupted an apparent break-in at a vacant house and chased a suspect for three blocks before finally shooting the guy in the behind with an arrow, police say.
Mo. trooper shoots suspect in KCK house
Posted on December 16, 2009From Meredith Rodriguez: A Missouri Highway Patrol trooper shot a suspect inside a Kansas City, Kan., house Tuesday. The suspect was taken to a hospital and later arrested after the 3 p.m. shooting in the 1100 block of Metropolitan Ave....
Highlights from yesterday's police chase
Posted on December 16, 2009This is the pursuit that ran down I-35 and ended outside an apartment complex northwest of Metcalf and Shawnee Mission Parkway. (I was driving south when it went through -- that was the first time I'd seen a pursuit on...
Mother of The Year?
Posted on December 16, 2009A North Carolina woman, 22, is being sent to prison because she put her 2-year-old son in a boiling pot of water. He was being punished for being constipated. Hat Tip: Many thanks, cripjak!
Woman pleads guilty to having noisy sex
Posted on December 16, 2009The BBC has a report about a 48-year-old woman who drew complaints from neighbors and her postman for making loud, "unnatural" noises when she had sex. Which she did on a nearly daily basis. For hours at a time. Hat...
Va. man killed his wife over Christmas lights
Posted on December 16, 2009He's been sentenced to life in prison. He told the authorities that he wanted to take the lights down, but she disagreed. He ended up shooting her on Jan. 16.
Wrongly convicted man freed after 28 years
Posted on December 16, 2009Thanks to new DNA tests, which showed that Donald Eugene Gates did not rape and murder a college student in 1981 in Washington, D.C. His conviction had been based partly on a hair analysis that experts now say isn't really...
How a rabbit saved a woman from domestic violence
Posted on December 16, 2009This story just about broke my heart ...
Iowa woman jailed for not returning 53 DVDs to library
Posted on December 16, 2009The library says the DVDs were worth a total $1,360, which means they cost about $25 each. I assume they were all packaged with a $10 bill when the woman checked them out.
Burglary suspects arrested in Prairie Village
Posted on December 16, 2009From PV Police: At approximately 11:15 AM on December 15, 2009, Prairie Village Police Officers were dispatched to a residential burglary in progress in the 7700 block of Windsor St. The victim provided arriving officers with a suspect and vehicle...
20K animals seized from exotic pets company
Posted on December 16, 2009Imagine the aroma ... Hundreds of rodents were crammed in small containers covered with wire, and many had killed and eaten each other, Davies said. Other animals were kept in feeding troughs, and there were numerous stacked shipping containers still...
Ohio daycare accused of putting sleep aid in kids' candy
Posted on December 16, 2009The kiddos were allegedly dosed with melatonin. Police are still investigating the allegations.
Guilty verdict in shooting rampage at Jewish center
Posted on December 16, 2009In Seattle, a jury has convicted a man named Naveed Haq for going on a shooting spree at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in 2006. He killed one person and wounded five others. His defense had argued that Haq...
Could new software help stop child porn online?
Posted on December 16, 2009Microsoft has come up with a new program that, basically, tracks down child pornography online. Most online searches are based on text. Even when you search for a photo online, you're usually searching for words and captions associated with that...
That was $400 well spent
Posted on December 15, 2009In Boston, a man wanted for drug trafficking allegedly paid another guy $400 to maim his fingertips so that police wouldn't be able to identify him from his fingerprints. The man is now in custody. How did they identify him?...
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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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