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Miami decides that sex offenders aren't good enough to live under its bridges
Posted on June 04, 2009For two years, a group of sex offenders have camped under a bridge in Miami because, well, the local laws don't really let them live anywhere else. (RSOs can't live within 2,500 feet of any place where children might gather.)...
Best excuse ever for being late with the rent
Posted on June 04, 2009In Indiana, a man was "getting intimate" with his lady friend, who kept getting phone calls and leaving the room. As it turns out, she was "distracting" him while some other other guys burglarized his apartment. The victim struggled with...
PA woman tried to poison husband's drink with 20 prescription pills, police say
Posted on June 04, 2009"Somehow" he noticed the pills. Lord, was there any room left for his drink?
Open Thread ... Thursday (Friday Eve)
Posted on June 04, 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,...
Where is Brenda Williams?
Posted on June 04, 2009From KCPD: Police are searching for a 50-year-old woman who has been missing since Sunday and whose family fears for her safety. Brenda L. Williams was last seen leaving her place of employment at 12437 Charlotte at about 10 p.m....
Somebody just set off the Understatement Alarm ...
Posted on June 04, 2009From an article about a transvestite nurse in Cincinnati accused of sexually molesting a patient recovering from gunshot wounds: Then, Thrasher said the man?s lips looked chapped, so, Hickenlooper said, Thrasher forcibly put lip gloss on the weak patient before...
Homeless man grabs Shawnee secretary's breast so he'll get sent to jail, police say
Posted on June 04, 2009The secretary responded by smacking his head with her desk phone. Repeatedly, one hopes. Story is via Fox 4.
No charges filed after rape report at Fairview Alternative School
Posted on June 04, 2009And no reason was given, KSHB reports.
Dear Perv: The police know who you are
Posted on June 04, 2009KMBC has a story about a 50-something man who allegedly felt up his 16-year-old waitress' arms and buttocks while she was working Wednesday at an Applebee's in Shawnee. (The guy even tried to follow the girl to her car, the...
Kelsey Smith Act signed into law
Posted on June 04, 2009KSHB has the story here. The legislation will help police get cellphone information quicker in kidnapping cases.
Things that can't be Tasered: This guy
Posted on June 04, 2009Dirty hippie gets held down by police, invokes Yahweh, sings a little song and then gets Tasered, which -- instead of rendering him unconscious -- gives him special hippie speed and allows him to escape. Hat Tip: Saw this via...
Detroit cops failed to report 100-plus homicides to FBI, prosecutor says
Posted on June 04, 2009Whoops ...
Report: Some KS, MO inmates couldn't call the TIPS Hotline
Posted on June 04, 2009Mike McGraw and I had a story this morning about the TIPS Hotline and how blocks were placed so that inmates at some Kansas and Missouri prisons couldn't call about crimes. It's not really the hotline's fault, and they say...
No asylum for Brits convicted of hate speech
Posted on June 04, 2009Stephen Whittle and Simon Sheppard were convicted of hate speech in the UK after they published a series of anti-Semitic essays on their Web site. (They also wrote ugly things about every race that wasn't white.) So they flew to...
AZ officers accused of flushing fetus, excessive force
Posted on June 04, 2009The accusations are actually part of two different cases. Five officers are on leave, though, from the Mesa police force. Snip: Gascón also said that on Monday, four officers, including Webster, responded to a call of a possible miscarriage at...
"You don't have the right to be comfortable"
Posted on June 04, 2009Rolling Stone has reposted a story about Operation Rescue from 2004 -- a good chunk of the article focuses on OR's efforts to shut down George Tiller's clinic. Please note: Nothing that Operation Rescue does in the story is remotely...
Florida teens -- ages 14 and 15 -- charged as adults in teammate's alleged rape
Posted on June 04, 2009The victim is 13, and the case is from the Tampa area. He was allegedly attacked with a broomstick and a hockey stick several times over the space of two months. Everyone was a member of the flag-football team. The...
Should Reginald Clemons be executed?
Posted on June 04, 2009Clemons is set to be killed on June 17. He was one of four men convicted for the 1991 double slaying of Julie and Robin Kerry at the Chain of Rocks Bridge near St. Louis. Here's how the Post-Dispatch summarizes...
How bad is the economy?
Posted on June 04, 2009Plant City, Fla., cracks down on prostitution after prices plummet to $4 per sexual favor. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
Caine no longer walks the earth!
Posted on June 04, 2009David Carradine found dead in Bangkok hotel room. (Again, not remotely crime-related.)
Man in horse-and-buggy outruns New York lawmen
Posted on June 04, 2009Before you think, "A-ha, I'll never stop for a police officer again," it should probably be noted that our suspect here allegedly took his buggy through fields and woods where the cruisers couldn't go. And they eventually arrested him at...
It's OK to Taser a suspect so you can get a DNA sample, NY judge rules
Posted on June 04, 2009The suspect, who was accused of a shooting and robbery, had given a sample earlier, but the department sent it to the wrong lab. He refused to give another mouth swab, so they Tasered him. (Shockingly, he agreed to give...
Robber kisses clerk while holding up Mexican grocery in OP
Posted on June 04, 2009From OPPD: On June 3, 2009 at 6:18 p.m., Overland Park Police Officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at the Las Comadres Mexican Grocery Store. The store is located at 7800 Shawnee Mission Parkway. The 24-year-old female...
Man almost dies in stabbing near KU Med
Posted on June 04, 2009From Meredith: A man was stabbed Wednesday night in a high-rise apartment building near the University of Kansas Hospital. He was rushed to surgery with life-threatening wounds. A resident spotted the bleeding man in an elevator and called police at....
KCPD plans DUI checkpoint for June 12-14
Posted on June 04, 2009It'll be somewhere known for its DUI arrests, that's all they will say.
Chicago policeman convicted of beating lady bartender half his size
Posted on June 03, 2009Whenever you want to feel good about living in Kansas City, just remember the Chicago Police Department. The officer in this case is on probation, but it's the kind where the probationer usually gets fired. He weighs 250 pounds, and...
Should this man be compensated?
Posted on June 03, 2009In Florida, a man named William Dillon spent 27 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted for murder. The state, however, won't be paying him anything for his trouble. One of their rules states that recipients can't have any...
The U.S. murder capital? New Orleans
Posted on June 03, 2009The Big Easy even had a 17 percent drop in violent crime last year, but it still claimed the title of highest per-capita murder rate.
FL man sues after stripper's thigh hits his face
Posted on June 03, 2009The stripper's name is Suki, BTW. The plaintiff says he's suing because he suffered "disfigurement" and "loss of enjoyment of life." Shenanigans in 3 ... 2 ...
Can schools punish kids for things they write, at home, on the Internet?
Posted on June 03, 2009In this case, it's an eight-grader who faked a MySpace page about her principal, making it sound like the man was a pedophile and a sex addict. Snip: The Internet address included the phrase "kids rock my bed."
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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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