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Woman throws bag of urine at officers, police say

Posted on July 23, 2010
A California woman -- accused of trying to run over her ex's brother -- allegedly threw her urostomy bag at the police who tried to arrest her.

I bet he's really sorry now

Posted on July 23, 2010
A British thief sent an apology note to an elderly woman, along with the 160 pounds he stole from her and 40 extra. That probably would have been the end of it, but he was VERY remorseful, so much so...

Attention, Kmart shoppers ...

Posted on July 23, 2010
A man named Oliver Gillom, Jr. has pleaded guilty to an incident in May, when he allegedly went into a Leavenworth Kmart and made threatening comments over the store's intercom "that he was going to kill somebody and whoever didn?t...

UK child killer is in trouble again

Posted on July 23, 2010
When he was 10 years old, Jon Venables was convicted of a terrible crime. With another boy, he abducted a 2-year-old named James Bulger and beat the toddler to death. Now a grown man, Venables is in trouble again. He's...

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Has Foxy Brown bottomed out?

Posted on July 22, 2010
Rapper Foxy Brown is accused of violating a protection order after she allegedly mooned another woman.

Pa. man dug up dead twin for elderly neighbor, authorities allege

Posted on July 22, 2010
You might remember the strange case of 91-year-old Jean Stevens, a Pennsylvania woman who had the corpses of her dead husband and late twin sitting in her house, where she'd regularly talk to them. Authorities have charged a neighbor and...

Thursday's Open Thread

Posted on July 22, 2010
Welcome 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,...

'Color Me Badd' singer arrested

Posted on July 22, 2010
From AP: Bryan Abrams poses backstage at the Sixth Annual Soul Train Awards where his group, "Color Me Badd," won an award for Best R&B/Soul Single by a Group, in Los Angeles, in this March 10, 1992 file photo. Honolulu...

Man accused of Lee's Summit holdups

Posted on July 22, 2010
Lee's Summit police have arrested a man in connection with three convenience-store robberies in the past month. Sean Hunley, 33, is facing charges in a robbery Tuesday at a Temp Stop, as well as holdups on June 27 and July...

KC students risking deportation to get DREAM Act passed?

Posted on July 22, 2010
Three students from the Kansas City area were arrested Tuesday in Washington, D.C. -- and are theoretically risking deportation -- as they press Congress to pass the DREAM Act, which would let younger illegal immigrants become U.S. citizens if they...

Raytown passes new youth curfew

Posted on July 22, 2010
The new curfew is 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Fox 4 reports. Hat Tip: Saw this via Tony's Kansas City!

KCPD finds more blue meth

Posted on July 22, 2010
At Chief Jim Corwin's blog, there's a post about KCPD officers seizing more blue meth in their Shoal Creek patrol area. The blue meth isn't any more potent than regular meth, in case that's a factor while you're out purchasing...

Operators are standing by ...

Posted on July 22, 2010
A city councilman in Minnesota had a unique response when cops asked for a phone number, the Star-Tribune reports: But according to a police report, when New Prague officers found him drunk on his knees in the grass earlier this...

Extortion scheme involved Wal-Mart, Mexican assassins, feds allege

Posted on July 22, 2010
The Star-Tribune's James Walsh has an EPIC story about an alleged extortion plot involving Mexican hit men hired by Wal-Mart, the Samoan mafia, an exotic dancer from Guam, her love child and a fearful farm family from Granite Falls, Minn....

The Barefoot Bandit's secret origin

Posted on July 22, 2010
The New York Times has an article about the "early days" of Colton Harris-Moore, the 19-year-old accused of being the Barefoot Bandit. It's not much of a secret origin: He had a crappy childhood, according to people who knew him....

98 percent of all statistics are made up

Posted on July 22, 2010
We see a lot of reports here that try to put a number on crime -- cocaine supply up XX percent, X million people are involved in human trafficking, etc. Slate's Jack Shafer writes about a new book, "Sex, Drugs,...

KC officer hit during traffic stop

Posted on July 22, 2010
A KCPD officer was hit by a car during an incident yesterday afternoon near 23rd and Topping, Christine Vendel reports. Police were trying to stop a Jeep Cherokee that had been reported stolen, and after the officer got hit and...

KCK releases pix of recovered items

Posted on July 22, 2010
On July 1, KCK police recovered a big trove of stolen goods at a house there. Now, the department has posted a photo gallery of those items online. (Including that sweet-looking pistol, above.) There are a lot of tools, lawnmowers,...

Should this man have been charged?

Posted on July 22, 2010
In Bethlehem, N.Y., a pharmaceutical executive is facing criminal charges after he chased down and tackled a teenager who'd been playing Ding-Dong-Ditch. The man also made the boy wait until police showed up. Read that again, if you need to....

Robber keeps apologizing during holdup

Posted on July 22, 2010
A gunman stole 22 morphine tablets from a pharmacy in suburban St. Louis earlier this week, and according to the victim, he kept apologizing during the robbery. He said he needed the morphine "for a sick friend."

Cheerleading isn't a sport, judge rules

Posted on July 22, 2010
At least not when it comes to Title IX. (Not a crime, just an interesting case.)

Police: East St. Louis warehouse was turned into torture chamber

Posted on July 22, 2010
In East St. Louis, police are investigating a gruesome murder where -- investigators believe -- a warehouse was turned into a torture chamber. A dismembered, burning corpse was recently found along the waterfront, and two homeless men, one of whom...

DUI checkpoint planned for Platte Co.

Posted on July 22, 2010
From Bob Cronkleton: The Missouri Highway Patrol will conduct a sobriety checkpoint in Platte County by the end of this month. A time and location for the checkpoint was not disclosed, although the highway patrol said it would be held...

U.S. considers ban on 'crush videos'

Posted on July 22, 2010
Congress is trying to outlaw crush videos -- movies that show animals being crushed and killed, often for fetish purposes. There used to be a law doing just that, but the U.S. Supreme Court struck it down because it interfered...

Police: Kids were killed for being autistic

Posted on July 22, 2010
A woman from Irving, Texas, is accused of strangling her two young children because they're autistic, police allege. In a 911 call, the woman reportedly told a dispatcher that she wanted "normal kids."

Suspect made threatening comments about 'South Park,' feds allege

Posted on July 22, 2010
U.S. authorities have arrested a man named Zachary Chesser, who's accused of leaving threatening online comments about South Park. (After the show almost showed the Prophet Muhammad on one episode.) The authorities say they stopped Chesser as he was trying...

DOJ: Firings of U.S. attorneys were political, not criminal

Posted on July 22, 2010
The Justice Department says there was no criminal activity when the Bush administration fired nine U.S. attorneys a few years ago. Critics claimed the firings were done to influence criminal investigations, but a DOJ review says there's no evidence to...

1 injured in shooting at KC mall

Posted on July 21, 2010
From KCPD: Today at approximately 4:45pm, KCMO police were called to the Landing Mall (Meyer and Paseo) in regard to a shooting. Upon arrival a victim was located inside the mall suffering from a gunshot wound to his left leg....

Frisbee golfers chased by man with chain saw, S.C. police say

Posted on July 13, 2010
A South Carolina man is accused of chasing two college students -- who were trying to play Frisbee golf -- while he was holding a chain saw on Friday. The man was charged in May with using a chain saw...

OP's game plan for fighting crime

Posted on July 13, 2010
Chief John Douglass' blog has a 147-page analysis, available in PDF, of crime trends in Overland Park and what police plan to do about it. It'll be the topic of discussion of a city council meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday...

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