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Suspect fires on Dog The Bounty Hunter, Colorado Springs PD says
Posted on April 22, 2009It's not clear if the guy missed or if the bullet merely ricocheted off Dog's permamullet. (Dog and his men were armed with paint guns, BTW.)
A new low in hazing ...
Posted on April 22, 2009From the Journal-Star in Lincoln, Neb. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Tuesday suspended Sigma Chi fraternity after newly unsealed court documents detailed a series of alleged hazing incidents, including one in which a stripper allegedly used a vibrator to anally...
This is some very good advice ...
Posted on April 22, 2009From KCPD: If someone has tried to sell you meat on the street, call police. Police discovered six stolen big-rig trailers in a lot at 1307 Kensington on Monday. The trailers had been carrying frozen chicken, ribs and snack cakes...
Former U.S. cops will train new police in Mexico
Posted on April 22, 2009That's according to USA Today. Police training is pretty poor in Mexico, so the U.S. teachers will go over things like gun trafficking, collecting evidence, drugs and other skillsets that will help them fight the cartels.
John Chong
Posted on April 22, 2009From AP: This image provided by the Riverside Sheriff's Department shows John Chong, 69. Authorities say Chong confessed to the April 7, 2009 shooting at Kkottongnae Retreat Camp, which is run by Korean nuns in a rural area. Investigators say...
Oakland starts hiring security guards to replace some police
Posted on April 22, 2009It costs about $250K annually for Oakland to employ one police officer. By hiring a security firm, they can get four guards for $200K, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tip: Many thanks, Jewwells P!
Med student accused of being the Craigslist killer
Posted on April 22, 2009Story is from Massachusetts, where Philip Markoff, a Boston University med student, is accused of killing a woman he met through Craigslist's erotic services section. They say he robbed and kidnapped another, and they're trying to see if there might....
Man dressed as a Smurf beats people with a baseball bat, UK police say
Posted on April 22, 2009He was dressed as a character who never made the show: Assaulty Smurf.
JoCo man says his son's desertion charge is a mistake
Posted on April 22, 2009KMBC had the story on their broadcasts last night. A man named Michael A. Reynolds was arrested on charges that he failed to show up for Army duty. His father, though, says there's been a huge mistake in the paperwork...
Freddie Mac's acting CFO commits suicide
Posted on April 22, 2009Story is from the Washington DC area. The deceased, David Kellermann, had been named to the post back in September -- when everything was essentially falling to pieces. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Patty PV!
Should the wrongly convicted be able to sue their prosecutors?
Posted on April 21, 2009Especially if those prosecutors allegedly withheld evidence and coached witnesses to lie? The Supremes are considering just such a case, from Iowa.
Fathers who kill their families
Posted on April 21, 2009Though we've seen a handful of these cases nationally, "family annihilators" are pretty rare, the Seattle Times reports. The paper has interviewed a handful of experts who've put together a psychological profile of men who kill their entire families. (What...
Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover
Posted on April 21, 2009What could make an 11-year-old boy want to kill himself? From the Boston Globe: Nationwide, suicide rates among 10- to 14-year-olds have grown more than 50 percent over the last three decades, according to the American Association of Suicidology, or....
Man coughs so hard that he passes, gets into crash, police say
Posted on April 21, 2009Story is from New Hampshire.
Michigan struggles after Detroit's crime lab closes
Posted on April 21, 2009The lab had an error rate near 10 percent, so police officials closed it a year ago. Since then, evidence has been shipped to the state's system of crime lab. The state had been handling 10K cases per year. Detroit,...
Grandma loves you, even if you are on the lam
Posted on April 21, 2009An Ohio grandmother, 71, is getting a suspended sentence, but will have to pay $22,500 for helping her grandson evade the law for six weeks last summer. (She'll have to pay it back $30 per month, which will take her...
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on April 21, 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,...
You probably saw this coming ...
Posted on April 21, 2009Dennis Skillicorn, who learned yesterday that he'll be executed on May 20, is asking for a stay of execution.
KCPD reports its Click It Or Ticket results
Posted on April 21, 2009From KCPD: On April 15th, 2009, the Kansas City Police Department participated in a statewide Click It or Ticket mobilization. During the enforcement effort, Traffic Enforcement officers issued a total of 656 traffic tickets including 158 for occupant restraint violations,...
Investigators are treating dead polo horses as a possible crime
Posted on April 21, 2009Longtime regular Patty PV pointed out this story yesterday -- 21 polo horses died within hours of each other at the U.S. Open Polo Championships in Florida, before their match was supposed to start. There's still a chance the deaths...
Maybe they won't go after the CIA operatives ...
Posted on April 21, 2009... but the president says the government MIGHT go after the lawyers who wrote opinions giving legal cover to illegal interrogation practices.
Do schools have the right to strip-search kids for drugs?
Posted on April 21, 2009You might remember the case of Savana Redding. She's an Arizona girl who, when she was 13, was (sort of) strip-searched at school. Redding was an Honor Roll student with no history of misbehaving, but officials thought she was carrying...
How did 4/20 Day go?
Posted on April 21, 2009KCPD is still totaling the numbers from its increased enforcement yesterday, but the police feel like it was a pretty productive day. Besides doing a lot of education/enforcement on pot smoking, they were able to find a runaway and a...
Animal-rights activist lands on FBI's Most Wanted terrorists list
Posted on April 21, 2009His name is Daniel Andreas San Diego, and he's a computer specialist from California, accused of bombing two office buildings. (One was a biotech firm, the other is a nutrition and cosmetics concern -- there were no injuries.) He's the...
Arrests made in Budreau-Eli homicides?
Posted on April 21, 2009From Christine: Kansas City police have arrested three men in connection with the fatal double shooting Saturday afternoon inside an apartment near 59th Street and Tracy Avenue. No charges have been filed. Homicide detectives arrested the men Monday afternoon and...
Big changes coming for KS DUI law?
Posted on April 21, 2009The governor has signed a bill creating a Kansas DUI Commission, which will study how DUI cases are handled in Kansas. (Another state board has already called the existing rules "complex" and "dysfunctional.") The commission will look at other states...
New Orleans police find the bodies of young kidnapped couple
Posted on April 21, 2009One of New Orleans' big stories right now is the abduction (and murder) of Fitzgerald Phillips and Calyisse Perkins, both 19. Phillips' family actually got a call demanding ransom on Sunday. Police didn't find the couple's bodies until Monday. Two...
Alleged Somali pirate shipped to NY to face charges
Posted on April 21, 2009You remember this guy. He's the one who DIDN'T get shot in the head by Navy SEALS while holding the captain of the Maersk Alabama hostage. There's some debate over his age -- law enforcement says 18, his family says...
Thomas Patrick Destories
Posted on April 21, 2009From The AP: This photo provided Monday April 20, 2009, by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, shows Thomas Patrick Destories. Destories, a 68-year-old Phoenix man, was booked into Maricopa County jail on suspicion of first-degree murder, in connection with the...
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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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