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Plot to pose as West Virginia governor undone by poor spelling, grammar, cops say
Posted on September 17, 2009A West Virginia man is accused of an identity-theft scam where he encouraged people online to send job applications (and their personal information) to him so they could be considered for government jobs in West Virginia, police say. As part...
UPDATE: Woman arrested for spanking stranger's child
Posted on September 17, 2009You really need to watch this, if only so you can see the accused "demonstrate" on a TV reporter: "Stop crying, Boo-Boo."
Man accused of molesting boys at MO camp
Posted on September 17, 2009Several of them, the authorities allege, over the space of nine years at the Kanakuk Kamps near Branson. The accused has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors say the abuse usually started with naked Bible study in the man's hot tub.
Lawyer accused of bear-hugging fellow attorney, MA cops say
Posted on September 17, 2009You wouldn't think a bear hug could be pervy, but you need to read how the victim / hugged person describes it: She previously told Lawrence police Officer Kevin Schiavone that she was chatting with three other attorneys when LeBlanc...
German teen attacks high school with ax, Molotov cocktails
Posted on September 17, 2009The important thing is that he didn't shoot anybody, though he himself did get one in the gut.
Was Wal-Mart right to report parents for kids' nude photos?
Posted on September 17, 2009In Peoria, Ariz., a couple is suing Wal-Mart and the state because the store called police when workers found photos of naked kids on a memory stick that the couple had left to be processed. The naked kids were their...
Local woman accused of animal abuse
Posted on September 17, 2009From Glenn Rice: A 39-year-old Independence woman has been charged with 17 counts of animal abuse after authorities found dead and malnourished animals inside her abandoned home. Sarah E. McBride told authorities that she had left the animals at the....
Meth user threatened partygoers with sword, Utah police say
Posted on September 17, 2009He found the sword in a garden, of all places. From the Salt Lake Tribune: After initially denying possession of the sword, the man told police he had it "but only to protect himself," according to the booking statement. It...
Co-worker threatened KS trooper's life in phone calls, feds allege
Posted on September 17, 2009Timothy L. Wyrick of Bonner Springs, who works a motorist assist technician for the patrol, is accused of making threatening phone calls to a Kansas Highway Patrol officer, both on his cell and home phones, the U.S. Attorney for Kansas...
Accuser takes back story of gang rape at Hofstra
Posted on September 17, 2009Five men had been accused of the crime -- the four who had been arrested were released last night. The accuser, also a Hofstra student, has been suspended, and the prosecutor is considering criminal charges. (I feel a little weird...
Scott Roeder trial probably won't start Monday
Posted on September 17, 2009Roeder is accused of murdering abortion provider George Tiller at his church in Wichita. The attorneys haven't settled on a new date yet.
UPDATE: Executioners couldn't find usable vein in convict's body
Posted on September 17, 2009This could be one of the rare cases where heroin use helped save someone's life -- for a week, at least. Romell Broom, who was convicted of abducting, raping and killing a teenage girl, even tried to help the execution...
All that and 100 bags of chips
Posted on September 17, 2009In Memphis, police are searching for a burglar who stole 100 bags of chips from a Subway. According to the paper's report, it doesn't sound like he took anything else, just chips.
No appeal for convict -- even though judge, prosecutor had affair
Posted on September 17, 2009In Texas, the state criminal-appeals court is refusing to hear the case of Charles Dean Hood, who was convicted of a double murder back in 1990, the Dallas Morning News reports. He was sentenced to death, and his attorneys want...
KC girls killed in same house, years apart
Posted on September 17, 2009KSHB has a piece here about Charmaine Johnson, a Northeast High student killed in a gun accident at her home this weekend, and Fayeshia Scaife, a teenager killed at the same house in 2004.
Report: 4 million-plus sites show child porn
Posted on September 17, 2009That depressing statistic is courtesy of the Internet Watch Foundation, whose research was heavily quoted during a U.N. presentation yesterday. Other notes: - It's not just a "hobby" -- it's an industry that does $3 billion to $20 billion every...
UPDATE: Nebraska trooper fired after joining KKK affiliate
Posted on September 17, 2009Just a quick update on Robert Henderson, a Nebraska state trooper who was fired after he joined the Knights Party, a white supermacist group affiliated with the Klan. (That case went all the way to the state's Supreme Court, which...
KCPD joins Twitter
Posted on September 17, 2009They're going to use it to release alerts on traffic, missing persons and other breaking news. Their page is http://twitter.com/kcpolice.
The morning roundup
Posted on September 17, 2009Kansas City police are looking for a teenager who reportedly escaped the Northwest Regional Youth Center earlier this morning, KSHB reports. Overland Park has arrested two women accused of prostitution, 41 notes. The family of police Sgt. James Leach are...
Lawrence woman murdered ex-boyfriend, MO police say
Posted on September 17, 2009Annette Cross of Lawrence has been arrested for allegedly driving to Howell County, Mo., with another person and killing her ex-boyfriend, Andrew Day, the Journal-World reports. The authorities haven't listed a motive yet. Day was reportedly shot four times --...
UPDATE: Man accused of stealing piggyback ride
Posted on September 17, 2009He's turned himself in, and -- wow, that is a fetching mugshot. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
Some headlines just write themselves
Posted on September 17, 2009"Man In Stolen Miniskirt Wanted To Impress Wife"
UPDATE: Teen says she'll be killed for converting to Christianity
Posted on September 16, 2009Just a quick update on the case of Rifqa Bary, an Ohio teen who ran away to Florida because she feared her Muslim parents would literally kill her for converting to Christianity. (She sought refuge with a Christian family that...
FBI, ATF no longer BFFs
Posted on September 16, 2009The two agencies won't cooperate on investigations, refuse to train together and won't share information -- to such a degree that an inspector general report is being issued on the matter, the AP reports. As you might imagine, outside observers...
Leavenworth mayor requests leniency for convicted drug trafficker
Posted on September 16, 2009He's an old friend of hers, Dawn Bormann reports: In the letter, which included the city?s logo, Baker said that she believes Trinkle has positive traits. ?If he were given, for example, a 15 year sentence rather than 30 years,...
MO moonshiners ordered to pay $9K tax bill
Posted on September 16, 2009Moonshining is wrong ... but we would still like to tax the money you earned.
Teen drove around with dead friend for hours, police say
Posted on September 16, 2009More proof that guys don't really talk when they hang out ...
Men killed pregnant woman, then sent photos to her sister, Pa. cops say
Posted on September 16, 2009The woman was allegedly killed over the weekend at a rooming house in Bradford, Pa., authorities say. They were alerted by the woman's sister, who was sent photos of the crime scene on her cellphone. Two men are in custody.
Mother Of The Year?
Posted on September 16, 2009An Ohio woman is accused of holding down a 6-year-old and ordering her son, age 5, to punch him in the face, police say.
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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...
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It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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