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Man, 59, tricked teen girls into sex using Tarot cards, police report
Posted on July 02, 2009Three teenage girls say they were all tricked into having sex with a man named Hector Ayala. Two girls say he "predicted" dark futures for them after he read their Tarot cards, and said those fates could only be prevented...
WA police advise the public to not buy meat from strange men in bars
Posted on July 02, 2009If someone asks if you'd like to buy some steaks that he shoplifted from a grocery store and hid in his pants, just say no. Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!
Say, what's doing with Gary Coleman?
Posted on July 02, 2009He's been busy getting locked out of his house, courtesy of his wife, who now faces a couple of criminal charges, Utah police say. (One of the charges is domestic violence / criminal mischief, but it doesn't sound like she...
Should KCPD have bought 100+ cars during budget crisis?
Posted on July 01, 2009Dave Helling has a piece this morning about some Kansas City councilmembers upset over KCPD's purchase of $2.1 million in new vehicles -- which are all in storage and won't be on the street for months. They're especially annoyed because...
Dear KS motorists: The left lane is for passing
Posted on July 01, 2009Whoo-hoo! The highway patrol starts enforcing my new favorite law today! One law applies only to multi-lane highways outside the limits of any city. If the highway has at least two lanes in each direction, drivers may use the far...
WI bar holds "free beer" fund-raiser for drunken driver whose passenger died
Posted on July 01, 2009Complete with bikini motorcycle wash and bachelor auction. This has raised some amount of controversy. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!
KCK sees nine homicides in eight days
Posted on July 01, 2009Until last week, KCK was actually on pace to have a pretty quiet year, at least as far as homicides are concerned. (While a year with any murders is too many, the last couple of years, actually, have been less...
To save his job, Spanish man hired hitman to kill his boss, police say
Posted on July 01, 2009"So, can you tell us why you left your last place of employment?"
Blind teen hacker staged phony hostage situation
Posted on July 01, 2009Matthew Weigman, aka Li'l Hacker, is going to spend 11 years in federal prison, thanks to a guilty plea. He was widely regarded as one of the country's best "phone hackers" -- someone who's able to get into phone company...
Mom let kids, ages 8 and 9, ride on car hood, police say
Posted on July 01, 2009I'm sorry, but that's illegal even in Tennessee, ma'am.
A new low
Posted on July 01, 2009In Ohio, two mothers are accused of sending their special-needs children to go knock on doors and ask for donations so they could attend a special camp. There was no camp, police say. The mothers were using the cash to...
Homicide suspect had blog about "getting even," FL police say
Posted on July 01, 2009Dianne Parker, a Florida massage therapist, is accused of carving up a client -- a former policeman -- who owed her money.(Horseback riders found his torso, sans head and limbs, in February.) Police are making a lot of the fact...
Police say it was a suspiciously "happy meal" ...
Posted on July 01, 2009Connecticut police say teen sold marijuana, hid it in a Chicken McNugget box.
Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on July 01, 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,...
Woman pours bleach throughout boyfriend's apartment, FL police say
Posted on July 01, 2009After she found "information about female friends on his computer," nwfdailynews.com reports. The suspect, who has a baby with the victim, is from Alabama, where they apparently don't tolerate that kind of crap.
Who killed the Luetjens: We've got the probable cause
Posted on July 01, 2009Benton County has sent over the probable cause statement in the triple homicide from Cole Camp. Robert Blurton is accused of killing his relatives, Don and Sharon Luetjen, and their 15-year-old granddaughter Taron. The document has large sections that have...
And they call it puppy love
Posted on July 01, 2009In Iowa, police searched a suspect's laptop for child porn and found something comparably nasty -- video of the suspect's wife engaging in sex acts with their three dogs. She's getting probation. Probably having her name attached to this crime...
The most sordid thing you will read today
Posted on July 01, 2009From the Denver Post: A three-way sexual encounter led to violence, with a woman stabbing two men with a knife as they wrestled on the floor, police said. The good news: The baby slept through the whole thing. Hat Tip:...
"Do you feel like dying today?"
Posted on July 01, 2009Man cuts his brother with a broken piece of a lamp -- they were together for their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Story is from Wisconsin. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
KS woman testifies that she watched toddler being beaten to death
Posted on July 01, 2009Story is from Wichita.
Policeman uses "Marco Polo" to find hiding suspect
Posted on July 01, 2009Must be seen to be believed ...
KCPD chief's arguments for DUI checkpoints
Posted on July 01, 2009Corwin's arguments are (A) the money comes from grants, not local money, (B) the checkpoints help deter and educat drunk drivers and (C) almost 80 percent of KCMO's traffic deaths this year involve DUIs. Hat Tip: Saw this via Tony's...
KS man tried to buy sex with 11-year-old girl
Posted on July 01, 2009Missed this from the other day: An Ottawa man named Richard J. Oflyng has pleaded guilty to commercial sex trafficking of a child, a federal charge. Oflyng was caught via a Craigslist ad placed as part of a sting. As...
Woman hid pliers in her bra while she burgled trailer park, GA cops say
Posted on July 01, 2009Yes, Virginia, there is a mugshot.
Pack of wild dogs ate 96-year-old man, Alabama sheriff says
Posted on July 01, 2009It's not clear whether the dogs actually killed him. They might have just found his body. The authorities say they could only find the man's bones, no other remains.
Car salesman acts as his own lawyer -- nature takes its course
Posted on July 01, 2009He got convicted of perjury, after he took photos of a different intersection and tried to pass them off as the one where he got a traffic ticket. (The San Francisco Chronicle says he even switched street signs at the...
Teen stole from ambulance while paramedics helped his mom, TN police say
Posted on July 01, 2009They say he took about $5,000 in medical equipment, including an oxygen tank and an oxygen sensor machine. Oh, and a paramedic's purse.
Save the day
Posted on July 01, 2009Not remotely crime-related ... just so amazing to see. A local construction worker, suspended from a crane, rescues a woman who fell into the Des Moines River near the Center Street Dam in downtown Des Moines, Iowa Tuesday, June 30,...
"My red hair took over"
Posted on July 01, 2009In Salina, a convenience-store clerk -- who has red hair -- said that she got so angry about a customer who stole gas that she hunted him down and demanded $30.84 in payment. Which, everyone should be reminded, is NOT...
A burglar must have made all of those phone-sex calls!
Posted on July 01, 2009A Florida woman, 73, called police because, she said, a burglar had apparently broken into her home and placed $150 worth of calls to phone-sex lines. Upon investigation, police discovered the calls were all made when the woman's husband was...
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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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