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Man's apartment smelled like a dead body, NYPD police say
Posted on September 09, 2009When officers investigated, they didn't locate a body, though -- just garbage stacked from floor to ceiling. Instead of the coroner, they called a haz-mat team. The tenant doesn't have face charges, though he was taken away for a mental-health...
Missouri AG wants to require prescriptions for some cold medicines
Posted on September 09, 2009I missed this from the other day: Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster says it's time to require prescriptions for over-the-counter meds containing pseudoephedrine -- presumably through a statewide law. Pseudoephedrine is the active ingredient in Sudafed, Claritin D ...
Charges filed in Shirleen Brown homicide
Posted on September 09, 2009Brown was the woman shot and killed Monday night near Admiral and Tracy in Kansas City. Jackson County prosecutors have charged her boyfriend, a homeless man named Felix Rodriguez. The 61-year-old is facing charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal...
The morning roundup
Posted on September 09, 2009A young man was shot during an apparent driveby shooting last night in the 7000 block of E. 111th Terrace. Several shots were fired into the residence, and at least one hit the victim, who was in his bedroom at...
Shooter injures 2, takes out back window of KCPD squad car
Posted on September 08, 2009From Glenn Rice: Two persons were seriously wounded Monday evening and the rear window of a Kansas City police squad car was shot out. The shooting was reported around 9 p.m. in the 5300 block of Brooklyn Avenue. The officer...
The morning roundup
Posted on September 08, 2009A woman was shot and killed about 8:30 last night near Tracy and Admiral in Kansas City. Not many details yet, but will be checking on this one later. Three people were hurt in a driveby shooting near 9th and...
UPDATE: Missing boy, 6, was hidden in secret room
Posted on September 08, 2009We've got a little more about Richard Chekevdia, a missing boy who was found in a secret room hidden behind a wall in his grandmother's house in southern Illinois. Grandma, who's been charged, made bond and told Good Morning America...
Racist who killed one, wounded five says he's sorry
Posted on September 08, 2009Buford O. Furrow Jr. killed a postal worker and injured five people -- three of them little kids -- during an attack on a Jewish community center near Los Angeles. Furrow, who's doing life without any chance of parole, says...
Ashcroft can be sued by wrongfully detained suspects, appeals court says
Posted on September 08, 2009If they can prove his direct involvement. The case is part of the post-9/11 effort to track down possible terrorists on U.S. soil. The man who wants to sue is a U.S. citizen named Abdullah al-Kidd, who was considered a...
Who is Phillip Garrido?
Posted on September 08, 2009Garrido -- the man accused of abducting Jaycee Dugard and holding her prisoner for 18 years -- is the subject of an AP profile here. Again, he's innocent until proven guilty in the Dugard case. However, he *has* been found...
$500K worth of high-grade pot left in street -- OK cops suspect lovers' spat
Posted on September 08, 2009They aren't saying WHY they think it was an angry ex who left the 236 plants, all in pots, scattered down a street -- they just say it's pretty clear that someone wanted the weed to be found. They are...
World's Greatest Dad?
Posted on September 08, 2009In St. Paul, a 30-year-old man is accused of smacking his 4-year-old son for wearing a blue shirt -- the color of a rival gang. It probably didn't help that Dad was on drugs at the time, a family member...
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on September 08, 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,...
Will these men ever be able to have a normal life? Do they deserve to?
Posted on September 08, 2009Back in 2001, two boys from Florida, ages 12 and 13, beat their dad to death while he was sleeping, set their house on fire and then went to stay with a convicted sex offender. (They'd been abandoned years earlier...
KCPD releases results from "You Drink & Drive, You Lose" campaign
Posted on September 08, 2009From KCPD: The KCPD DUI Section recently focused extra enforcement efforts on impaired driving laws during the statewide You Drink & Drive You Lose campaign conducted August 21-September 7, 2009. During this effort DUI Section and officers assigned to other...
Arizona dad had his daughter's boyfriend murdered, police allege
Posted on September 08, 2009The body of Ricky Flores was found in a shallow grave about two weeks after the 16-year-old was reported missing. Arizona authorities have charged the father of Flores' girlfriend, who allegedly hired two other people to kill the boy. Flores...
7 people killed on MO roads over Labor Day holiday -- none in Troop A
Posted on September 08, 2009Compared to nine last year. The patrol says its officers worked over 300 crashes during the holiday. Troop F, which covers the Jeff City area, reported the most fatalities, three. More details here. In Kansas, the preliminary count is one...
Driveby shooting injured 5 people, not 3
Posted on September 08, 2009A couple of them were grazes. Christine has the details here.
KC police release more details about last night's homicide
Posted on September 08, 2009This involves the woman shot and killed near Admiral and Tracy. This is what Christine has right now: Police said the couple was arguing about the boyfriend ?trying to cheat? on the girlfriend, according to police reports. The reports gave...
Man arrested for throwing jellyfish on teenagers, FL cops say
Posted on September 08, 2009The man -- who was described only as having been drinking since 9 a.m. -- also pretended to drown in the ocean before he started "throwing sea creatures," the St. Pete Times reports.
Feds investigating New Orleans cops over post-Katrina actions?
Posted on September 08, 2009The Times-Picayune reports that federal authorities are investigating a couple of incidents that immediately followed Hurricane Katrina. One -- which resulted in state charges that were later dismissed -- involves NOPD officers allegedly firing on civilians on a bridge, thinking...
KCPD identifies man killed in officer-involved shooting
Posted on September 08, 2009From KCPD: The suspect who was shot and killed by police on 09/06/2009 near 113th Street and Sycamore has been positively identified as 36-year-old Exae Chavez-Gutierrez of Grandview, MO. The two officer?s involved have 28 years and 13 years of...
Chargers player accused of choking Tila Tequila
Posted on September 08, 2009Shawne Merriman, a linebacker for the San Diego Chargers, is accused of choking and restraining reality TV star Tila Tequila when she tried to leave his house this weekend. Merriman says he was trying to stop her from driving drunk...
He looks pretty smug for a guy allegedly arrested in fishnets and lingerie
Posted on September 08, 2009The Smoking Gun clues us in ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!
Britain convicts 3 in airline bombing plot
Posted on September 08, 2009And four others pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Remember how everybody was prohibited from bringing liquids aboard airplanes a couple of years ago? This is why.
How to make a monkey of speed-enforcement cameras
Posted on September 08, 2009Lovely story from Phoenix, where authorities have set up a battery of cameras to catch motorists who break the speed limit. One man refuses to pay because the photos all show a man wearing a monkey mask behind the wheel...
Wichita launches "mental health court"
Posted on September 08, 2009Sort of like drug court, but for people with mental-health issues. Here's how the goodhearted people at the AP explain it: The court will act as a diversion program for mentally ill people facing trial. It will allow them to...
Man suspected of killing eight women over 21 years in Milwaukee
Posted on September 08, 2009At this point, Walter E. Ellis has only been charged in two homicides, though authorities say more charges are coming. His DNA has been tied to nine different victims, though police think somebody else actually killed the ninth victim, the...
Strange woman kissed boy, 6, and told him he was sexy, CA cops say
Posted on September 08, 2009The poor kid and his mom were walking across a parking lot when the suspect allegedly showed up, planted a "passionate" kiss on him and then told the boy he was sexy before running off. Police tracked her down to...
College students arrested for playing game after Bible study
Posted on September 08, 2009The incident happened in Knoxville, where 17 college guys were playing a modified game of tag called "Fugitive" after their Bible study, the Campus Crusade for Christ reports. The police, however, say the guys were playing "Fuzion," a kind of...
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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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