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Good Samaritan gets mugged by homeless man he helped
Posted on July 24, 2009A California man met a homeless guy outside a restaurant, and because the guy was hungry, the man took him inside and bought him dinner. Afterwards? The homeless guy beat up his benefactor outside the restaurant and stole his money,...
Open Thread ... Sweet Merciful Friday
Posted on July 24, 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,...
Federal judge kicks suit over MO town's red-light cameras
Posted on July 24, 2009The town in question is Arnold, Mo., near St. Louis. The lawsuit alleged the lights were part of a racketeering conspiracy. The judge, however, said there wasn't enough evidence that any federal laws were violated, the AP reports.
Why were charges dropped in the Dwight Gill homicide?
Posted on July 24, 2009At the Pitch's Plog, Nadia Pflaum has a piece about the case and why Jackson County dropped its case against Birmingham White. The money quote: But in the case file, (public defender) DuPree found three pages of notes that had...
Cop accused of racial profiling teaches about racial profiling
Posted on July 24, 2009James Crowley, the Cambridge police sergeant who arrested Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., actually teaches other officers about racial profiling and how to avoid it. Crowley's chief and several other police came to his defense yesterday, saying he...
Here comes the cavalry
Posted on July 24, 2009KCPD's Mounted Patrol paid a visit yesterday to 12-year-old Jordan Bunnell, who is awaiting a liver transplant at Children's Mercy. Jordan loves horses, but it's been weeks since she's been able to visit her own horse back in Dodge City....
Naked man has sex with teen, flees on red bicycle, FL cops say
Posted on July 24, 2009The Smoking Gun should win an award for this one. PLEASE NOTE: This might not be safe for work. Hat Tip: Many thanks to our Upper Midwest correspondent, Jay Tee!
Roethlisberger says he didn't do it
Posted on July 24, 2009In a civil suit, the Pittsburgh QB has been accused of sexually assaulting a casino worker in Nevada, where he was appearing for a golf tournament. Why is this a civil suit, and not a criminal case? Take it away,...
Woman almost raped in Shawnee park, police say
Posted on July 24, 2009Shawnee police have arrested a suspect in an attempted rape in Gum Springs Park -- it reportedly happened a little before 8 this morning. A man grabbed a woman who was walking in the park and threatened her with a...
Robber hits Country Club Bank in Leawood
Posted on July 24, 2009The Country Club Bank at 13451 Briar in Leawood was robbed about 9:15 this morning by a man who demanded money, but didn't show a weapon, the FBI reports The robber was a black man in his early 20s with...
13 years for stealing 2 TVs from Wal-Mart
Posted on July 24, 2009On the bright side for the defendant, the court didn't cut off his hands, like they occasionally do in Saudi Arabia. From Platte County prosecutors: A Kansas City man who walked out of the fire exit of a Platte County...
KCPD cuts back "take-home" vehicles -- could save $179K per year
Posted on July 24, 2009Sara will have a full report later, but here's the department release. In a nutshell, 60 police vehicles won't be "take-home" vehicles anymore. It's a reduction of 15 percent or so. From KCPD: The Kansas City Missouri Police Department will...
Woman fails driving test, so BF beats up her test-giver, cops say
Posted on July 24, 2009Story is from Canada, den of iniquity.
Charges filed in the Hatchet Man robberies
Posted on July 24, 2009From Independence PD: As a result of combined efforts of Independence and Kansas City, MO police detectives Vincent W. Williams, 54 years old, has been charged with 1st Degree Robbery and Armed Criminal Action. On 7-21-09 at about 8:41 PM,...
UPDATE: Vehicle kills OP woman doing work in her yard
Posted on July 24, 2009Maybe the driver's medication was to blame? From Joe Lambe: Medication taken by a driver might have contributed to an accident Saturday when the driver went off the road and killed a 70-year-old woman, Overland Park police reported this morning....
Judge raises Shon Pernice's bond, but won't revoke it
Posted on July 24, 2009Just got back from Clay County, where prosecutors were trying to get Shon Pernice's bond revoked in a case where he's accused of stealing a neighbor's gun. They argued that his recent indictment over a July Fourth incident, when he...
Repo man's helper roughed up teen -- the wrong teen, police say
Posted on July 24, 2009KCTV has a piece about a bail bondsman accused of assaulting a teenager whose car was being repossessed in Excelsior Springs. (The bondsman was reportedly helping a friend who's a repo guy.) Sadly, they were repossessing the wrong person's car,...
Vandals deface innocent Canadian sign
Posted on July 24, 2009Turning the sign into something that is not innocent at all.
Cavalcade of Hippies
Posted on July 24, 2009I was remiss yesterday in not getting the mugshots of the Rainbow Family, a group of hippies who were arrested for allegedly sleeping on the Boulder Public Library's roof in Boulder, Colo. But we do have those photos today. More...
Quote of the day
Posted on July 24, 2009?I have never encountered a case similar to this one. It is very much out of the ordinary to have someone urinating on someone else's chair.? Hat Tip: Many thanks, Chuck!
Matchmaker, matchmaker, get me a kidney
Posted on July 24, 2009In New Jersey, 44 people -- including mayors, state legislators, regulatory inspectors and some rabbis -- were arrested in a wide-ranging corruption investigation yesterday. A lot of it's your standard corruption shenanigans over bribes and access. But one suspect is...
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on July 24, 2009Naked German fornicators nearly killed by lightning bolt. (I suppose there's the whole "having sex in public" thing, which is illegal ...)
"This is something out of a horror film"
Posted on July 24, 2009IL man accused of kidnapping his ex-wife, biting a chunk out of her face. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Tim P!
Obama invites cop, Henry Louis Gates Jr. to White House for a beer
Posted on July 24, 2009No, really, he said it. Exactly what this heated discussion over race and justice needs: some alcohol.
Patty doesn't smile anymore
Posted on July 24, 2009The AP has been moving a lot of black-and-white images from its archives lately. Today's topic: Patty Hearst, who apparently got into trouble for smiling in the press. The original cutline: Patty Hearst, left, seated in the rear seat of...
Rhode Island allows teens to work as strippers
Posted on July 23, 2009This came to light when police were called about a 16-year-old girl dancing at Cheaters Gentlemen's Club in Providence. Adult entertainment is regulated by locals, and Providence never wrote an ordinance about the matter.
Cases dropped in killings of 2 KC teenagers
Posted on July 23, 2009From Christine Vendel: Jackson County prosecutors confirmed Wednesday that they have dismissed murder charges against two men in the killings of two high school students last year. Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar said his office dropped the charges because of witness problems...
KC gets red-light cameras at 2 more locations -- and then stops
Posted on July 23, 2009Cameras will go live at I-435 and Wornall and also at I-435 and 23rd by July 31. The city says that'll be it for a while.
Guilty verdict in Leavenworth homicide
Posted on July 23, 2009From Mark Wiebe: A Leavenworth County jury found a 32-year-old man guilty today of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting of Ruben Rodriguez, a release from County Attorney Todd Thompson said. Matthew Astorga, of rural Leavenworth County, was accused...
St. Louis woman kept mentally disabled teen as sex slave
Posted on July 23, 2009The defendant had talked the victim, age 18, into moving into her house so the young woman could be cared for -- instead, she was often tortured. The sentence for the defendant is 20 years.
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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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