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Comprehensive crime news information, crime prevention tips and crime analysis about the Kansas City area.
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By James Hart
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Posted on June 18, 2009A city council in Florida passed a new dress code requiring municipal employees to wear underwear, not stink and avoid wearing clothes that (A) have profanities printed on them or (B) are "sexually provocative." It was a 4-1 vote. The...
Motorist gets stopped for blinker, confesses to sex with teen
Posted on June 18, 2009The case is from Utah. Police say the man also made a point to note that he had naked photos of the girl, age 14, on his cellphone.
KCPD tries to ID suspects from Verizon burglary
Posted on June 18, 2009There are more photos here than I know what to do with, so I'm posting them inside one big PDF.It's available here. The burglary happened May 13 at the Verizon store at 8413 N. Madison. Anyone with information is asked...
Do you recognize this woman?
Posted on June 18, 2009The woman in the white T-shirt is accused of using another person's credit card, stolen from the Barnes & Noble on N.W. Prairie View Road, to buy a gift card at Wal-Mart at 3:56 p.m June 14. Anyone with information...
Olathe, Mission have upcoming DUI checkpoints
Posted on June 18, 2009Olathe's will start this Friday night, and Mission's will be next Friday, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office reports.
It's a man, baby!
Posted on June 18, 2009We had a post yesterday about Thomas Parkin, a New York man who allegedly dressed up like his dead mother so that he could continue cashing her Social Security checks, but I wanted to pass along the above photo. (That's...
Inmates don't have a right to DNA tests long after they've been convicted, Supreme Court rules
Posted on June 18, 2009They might not have a constitutional right, but 47 states do make allowances for inmates who want new DNA tests -- provided they haven't already confessed to the crime. The plaintiff in this case was convicted in a rape in...
Deaf woman sues KS city, county over 911 service
Posted on June 18, 2009Danette Dixon of Lyons says her city and Rice County dispatch don't have TDD devices that would let them communicate via phone with the deaf and hard of hearing. Nor do they use instant-messaging, which is another way to communicate...
"He's not real bright, but he has a heart of gold"
Posted on June 18, 2009That's how Joshua Wilkinson's mother describes him. Wilkinson is accused of bigamy in Taylor County, Texas. Josh thought he was divorced because his wife had changed her MySpace status to "divorced." He assumed that she filed the do-it-yourself divorce papers...
U.S. immigration courts face their worst backlog in 10 years, report says
Posted on June 18, 2009Over the past few years, the federal government has put a higher priority on illegal-immigration raids and hired thousands of new agents. Which means there are more cases for the court. Hiring of new judges hasn't kept pace, the New...
Topeka "nonlawyer" accused of giving legal advice without a license, KS Supreme Court says
Posted on June 18, 2009The court has ordered businessman David Price to appear on July 20, but he's planning to ignore them, the Cap-Journal reports. The Supremes say Price violated one of their injunctions from 2007, when they told him to stop giving legal...
UPDATE: Son, ex-husband accused of trying to kill Lawrence woman
Posted on June 18, 2009More here from the Journal-World. The victim says that she was awakened by her son, who was hitting her in the head with an aluminum bat, early on Tuesday morning.
Wisconsin woman accused of drunken, bra-clad rampage
Posted on June 18, 2009The story is from the city of Portage. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
Wichita teens pretended to be cops, harassed homeless men, police say
Posted on June 18, 2009The authorities say the teens had police-quality batons, badges and radios, which helped them sell their act. One victim said they went through his bag and dumped his possessions on the ground, the Eagle reports.
Clerk's cellphone deflects robber's knife
Posted on June 18, 2009The story is from Georgia. The liquor-store clerk then got his gun and shot the robber.
BREAKING: Michigan man was NOT kidnapped baby
Posted on June 18, 2009You've probably seen the story of John Barnes, the Michigan man who believed he was actually Stephen Damman, a toddler who was stolen back in 1955. Barnes even tracked down Damman's sister, Pam Horne, who lives here in the Kansas...
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, Crimebuster
Posted on June 18, 2009The 70-year-old mayor of Toledo reportedly broke up a fight among teens while he was out riding his bicycle. (He is catching some heat, however, for calling one of the yutes "Fatso" and "Tubby" in a YouTube video of the...
Who was Alfie Gant?
Posted on June 17, 2009Sara has an interview with Torina Gant, the mother of a man shot and killed by police after he pointed an unloaded gun at them this weekend. (The officers, of course, didn't know the gun was empty. The department says...
Man tried suicide with sword, steering wheel, AZ cops say
Posted on June 17, 2009He reportedly lodged the sword in the steering wheel, pointy-end facing out, and tied things into place with a T-shirt. Then he drove into a wall, expecting to be impaled upon impact. Only it didn't work as planned. The airbag...
15-year-old shot, severely injured near 42nd and Park
Posted on June 17, 2009KCPD says a group of teenagers was in a basement there, and they had a gun. It's not clear exactly what happened. The gun discharged, however, in the hands of a 17-year-old. Police are still trying to puzzle out whether...
KCPD plans DUI checkpoint for next weekend
Posted on June 17, 2009It'll happen sometime over June. 26-28.
John Hinckley, Playa
Posted on June 17, 2009Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley is being given more freedom from his psychiatric hospital. He'll be able to apply for a driver's license and spend nine nights in a row at his mom's house instead of six. Prosecutors had opposed...
Do we need a tougher hate-crimes law?
Posted on June 17, 2009Attorney General Eric Holder says we do. He gave a speech Tuesday to a lawyers group, citing the recent high-profile cases in Wichita, Little Rock and D.C. as reasons why. Sen. Harry Reid says a vote could come as soon...
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Posted on June 17, 2009UK woman calls off wedding after learning that her fiance is secretly a porn star. She learned this when she saw him "acting" in a film they watched during her bachelorette party.
DOJ: Indian reservations need help fighting crime
Posted on June 17, 2009The Justice Department says it's going to be devoting more time and attention to tribal lands, where federal authorities tend to handle the tougher cases. The stimulus package included $248 million for law enforcement on reservations, especially involving domestic violence...
Freed by a typo
Posted on June 17, 2009An Ohio inmate will get to leave prison six years early because he -- not his lawyers -- caught a typo in the verdict form. From the Akron Beacon-Journal: The judges, in a rare decision favoring a defendant, ruled that...
Maine woman, 77, chases home invader away at gunpoint
Posted on June 17, 2009She reportedly came home to find the bad guy threatening her grown daughter. So Grandma got her gun, which she kept "stashed" somewhere in the house and let him know who was in charge. Story is from Maine, the home...
Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on June 17, 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,...
Oregon woman has serious rabbit issues, police say
Posted on June 17, 2009An Oregon woman reportedly violated her probation when police caught her in a motel room with 12 rabbits Tuesday. A few years ago, she was charged with owning (and failing to adequately care for) 250 rabbits. Her deal said that...
KC man gets shot after answering door at 1 in the morning
Posted on June 17, 2009Happened near 30th and Charlotte. A couple of gunmen demanded "the money," he didn't know what they were talking about and they shot him. Sara has more details.
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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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