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Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on August 12, 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,...
KC close to repealing its ban on funeral protests?
Posted on August 12, 2009From Lynn Horsley: A City Council Committee recommended today that the city repeal its ordinance against funeral picketing despite council outrage over the Fred Phelps family?s picketing of military funerals. The council?s Public Safety and Neighborhoods Committee endorsed repealing the...
Independence plans DUI checkpoint, saturation patrol for Friday
Posted on August 12, 2009From KCPD: The Independence Police Traffic Safety Unit will conduct a sobriety checkpoint and DWI saturation patrol on Friday August 14, 2009. The purpose of this operation is to identify and arrest drunk drivers before they injure someone or themselves.
Strange woman holds boys captive during overnight campout, UT cops say
Posted on August 12, 2009Three boys, none older than 11, were having a campout at their families' apartment complex on July 4 when another tenant, a 38-year-old woman, climbed into their tent at 2:30 in the morning. She told them that she was supposed...
Police ID man killed in hair salon on West 24th Street
Posted on August 12, 2009From KCPD: The victim of the homicide in the 900 block of W. 24th St. has been positively identified as 38 year old, Mauro Brito-Pacheco of Gladstone, MO.
Worst Older Brother Ever?
Posted on August 12, 2009A Spanish teenager, 18, allegedly tried to trade nude photos of his 11-year-old sister for a car.
Sexual predator beaten with his own gun, MS police say
Posted on August 12, 2009Near Gulfport, Miss., a man named Vincent Goff is accused of abducting young people, usually couples, over the past few years and sexually assaulting them. Or trying to sexually assault them. In the latest incident, a guy grabbed Goff's shotgun...
KCPD names man killed last night by stray bullet
Posted on August 12, 2009From KCPD: The victim of the homicide in the 3500 block of Wayne has been positively identified as 42-year-old Larry Parker of KCMO.
Man gave tattoos to kids -- they gave him stolen goods, CA police say
Posted on August 12, 2009One of the little buggers gave him a stolen laptop for a tattoo, police say. The tattooist says he didn't know the goods were stolen, nor did he realize the customers' ages -- even though one reportedly had his birthday...
KCK police investigate life-threatening beating
Posted on August 12, 2009From Mark Wiebe: Kansas City, Kan., police are investigating a beating that left a man with life-threatening injuries early this morning. Police responded to a call about 4 a.m. in the 8300 block of Leavenworth Road. When they arrived they...
Do you recognize this man?
Posted on August 12, 2009From Crime Stoppers: The Johnson County Park Police is seeking information regarding a sexual battery that occurred on the Gary Haller Streamway Trail below the dam of Shawnee Mission Park on August 2, 2009 at approximately 1247 hours. The victim...
OK principal set up fight between students at school, police say
Posted on August 12, 2009They allege that she actually encouraged the boys, ages 10 and 11, to fight each other.
OH cops defend throwing down elderly woman with knife
Posted on August 12, 2009In Whitehall, Ohio, police are defending an officer who threw an elderly woman to the ground of a Wal-Mart parking lot because she refused to drop a knife. (The woman is 84 and has Alzheimer's disease.) Warning: The video has...
Where is Hasanni Campbell?
Posted on August 12, 2009Campbell is a 5-year-old with cerebral palsy, who disappeared from his foster dad's car in Oakland. (He'd gotten out and was getting ready to drop the little boy off his aunt, who's also his foster mother.) It's gotten to the...
Gunman fires upon carload of teenagers
Posted on August 12, 2009From Christine: A gunman fired at a carload of teenagers in Kansas City Tuesday night after the driver flashed his headlights at two vehicles blocking the road. No one was hit in the 11:40 p.m. incident in the 6100 block...
Man trapped disabled GF inside box truck, TX police say
Posted on August 12, 2009Just monstrous. Dallas police say Harvey Ray Moss, 50, had beaten his 21-year-old girlfriend, a mentally disabled woman who has the mind of a child, and locked her inside the back of a box truck. (Not just locked -- they...
Prayer vigil planned for Carleton Temple
Posted on August 12, 2009From The Star: The Ad Hoc Group Against Crime has scheduled a 7 p.m. prayer vigil for tonight at 6634 Monroe Avenue, where homicide victim Carleton Temple was found shot to death in his car. He was 26. Kansas City...
Man confesses to kiddie porn, underage sex during job interview -- AT A POLICE DEPARTMENT
Posted on August 12, 2009You probably won't see this on lists advising you what to say during a job interview, but it's probably not a good idea to confess your undying love of underage flesh to any prospective employers. (In this case, the man...
Woman tried to extort Rick Pitino over sex, KY police say
Posted on August 12, 2009Poor Rick Pitino. The Louisville coach was the target of a woman, Karen Sypher, who allegedly tried to extort $10 million from him after they had sex in a restaurant, police there say. She says she was raped, though prosecutors...
MO's Plaid Shirt Robber says he didn't rob banks in South Dakota
Posted on August 12, 2009Rogersville's Joseph Young -- aka the Plaid Shirt Robber -- is accused of robbing 20-plus banks in five states. He's already been sentenced to 20 years for a string of bank jobs he did in West Virginia. South Dakota is...
Exonerated man sues MO county, former sheriff
Posted on August 12, 2009Josh Kezer spent about 16 years in prison for the murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless -- a crime that he didn't commit. He was freed back in February after a court decided that, not only was evidence hidden from the...
OK, maybe we SHOULDN'T have Tasered the elderly man on a tractor
Posted on August 12, 2009The fallout continues in Glenrock, Wyo., where two police officers reportedly Tasered a 76-year-old man who was driving a tractor in a local parade. Those officers, who say the elderly man wasn't following their orders, are now under investigation. During...
Wal-Mart worker threatened to blow up store in Troy, police say
Posted on August 12, 2009The manager says they lost $45,000 during the two hours that his store was closed for the bomb threat, which was unfounded. That seemed a little high to me, especially since this didn't happen until 9 p.m. on a Friday...
U.S. soldier was hitman for Mexican drug cartel, authorities allege
Posted on August 12, 2009Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18, is an Army private. He's accused of killing a cartel member, back in May, who was secretly informing to U.S. authorities. The shooting happened in El Paso. Apodaca, who joined the military last fall, was stationed...
There's something suspicious about 1 man with 40 hamburgers
Posted on August 11, 2009Nice work by Arizona police, who pulled over a foreign national who had a handful of outstanding warrants and, in his vehicles, about 40-plus hamburgers. The man refused to say why he had so many sandwiches. Police decided to do...
Bank robber pointed gun to Michigan woman's head
Posted on August 11, 2009In this image made from surveillance video provided by the Macomb County Sheriff's Department, a man points a handgun to a woman's head during a bank robbery in Harrison Township, Mich. on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. Police say the man...
Why it's always important to ask before borrowing a cigarette
Posted on August 11, 2009The cigarette's rightful owner might come after you with a pair of knives. Story is from Columbia.
Judge not ... lest you be stopped for DUI
Posted on August 11, 2009In Ohio, police stoppped man who flashed his lights and tried to pull over a woman that he thought was driving while intoxicated. As it happens, she was sober, and HE was drunk, Cincinnati 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?
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If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
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