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How KCPD plans to deal with budget crisis
Posted on April 10, 2009Among the options are laying off 31 police recruits, plus leaving 42 officer spots and 41 civilian positions vacant. And that's just part of how they'll deal with a $15 million budget cut. Snip: Corwin said the department probably would...
Austrian mom fined for calling her grown son 49 times per day
Posted on April 10, 2009He actually brought stalking charges against her ...
KCK murder suspect arrested in SC
Posted on April 10, 2009From Bob Cronkleton: Michael A. Young, 29, of Grandview was arrested about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday in a relative?s basement in Columbia, S.C., said Matt Cahill of the U.S. Marshals Service office in Kansas City, Kan. Leads developed by the Wyandotte...
When lawn-boys go bad
Posted on April 10, 2009Daniel James Mustard allegedly went to 87-year-old Ruby Andrews? home -- which he had visited as a younger boy to mow the lawn -- and told her he was there to conduct a school survey. Really, he intended to rob...
'They only wanted the bling'
Posted on April 10, 2009Gold-chain snatchers, pretending to need directions to the hospital, strike unsuspecting pedestrians in Miami. | Sara Shepherd
Open Thread ... Sweet Merciful Friday
Posted on April 10, 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,...
Former JaCo deputy accused of forcing teenager into sex in his cruiser
Posted on April 10, 2009From U.S. Attorney - Western Missouri: Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, announced today that a former Jackson...
Homeless man was killed for trying to stop a fight, authorities say
Posted on April 10, 2009His name was Derrick L. Ashby, and he was 19 years old. More here from Christine Vendel. And here's a copy of the probable cause.
NJ med student says he shouldn't be kicked out of school ...
Posted on April 10, 2009... just because he allegedly threw a woman off a second-floor balcony.
Russian karate expert accused of killing 2 people over lice, police say
Posted on April 10, 2009He thought the victims -- a 61-year-old woman and her son, who lived next door -- had somehow given lice to his wife, police say.
Elderly woman files federal lawsuit so she can play cards at senior center
Posted on April 10, 2009She is 78 and apparently something of a crank, because the facility banned her for using abusive language, failing to treat with respect and engaging in "physically threatening conduct." She says her First Amendment rights are being violated and desperately...
Where is Branson Perry?
Posted on April 10, 2009Tomorrow will be the eighth anniversary of Branson Perry's disappearance -- a case that we've mentioned regularly here on the blog. Perry, age 20 at the time, vanished from his hometown of Skidmore, where he was cleaning the house for...
Teen mom abandoned newborn on hood of neighbors' car, police say
Posted on April 10, 2009Story is from Wisconsin. Police say Mom, who delivered the kiddo herself, put her little girl in a diaper bag on the neighbors' car because she thought they'd take good care of the baby. Uh ... About 40 minutes later,...
SD college student shot, killed when trying to enter wrong house
Posted on April 10, 2009I can't tell you how many times I've seen stories LIKE this one: Some poor, drunk student wanders home, but can't quite find HIS house and tries to enter somebody else's. Usually, it has a hilarious ending like them waking...
Who was Crystal Caldwell?
Posted on April 10, 2009Caldwell is the name of the woman found dead yesterday afternoon in the Columbus Park neighborhood. (Sara wrote about the case here.) It's still considered a suspicious death, no ruling yet on cause.
KCPD names victim killed at 59th and Walrond
Posted on April 10, 2009From KCPD: The victim in this homicide has been identified as Travis T. McGaugh, black/male, 12/31/1990, of Kansas City, MO. There are no suspect(s) in custody. Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS Hotline.
When the Mexican drug cartels aren't killing people ...
Posted on April 10, 2009... they're usually making YouTube music videos bragging about killing people.
Miss Molly
Posted on April 10, 2009Judy Thomas has a good story this morning about the FBI's Highway Serial Killings Initiative -- an attempt to resolve hundreds of cases of murder victims left along the country's interstates and highways. Authorities believe that serial killers, working as...
FL cops got drunk, went egging in bad neighorhoods, department says
Posted on April 10, 2009They were reportedly trying to harass hookers and dealers, but the story says they didn't hit anyone. They were given written warnings.
Kearney mom accused of tagging along to girls' fight, cheering them on
Posted on April 10, 2009KSHB has more details here. The mom, for her part, says she tried to break up the fight AFTER the video camera was turned off, the station reports. She was too scared until that point.
FL woman uses Internet camera to catch burglars, call police
Posted on April 10, 2009Great story, with more details here from the Smoking Gun. I really like the video -- you can see the part, near the end, where the police have arrived outside and the burglars start to freak out. Hat Tip: Many...
You make the call ...
Posted on April 10, 2009Is the following from a Penthouse Forum letter? Or a Des Moines Register article? Officer Eric Hartman wrote in his report, "About midway through the implied consent advisory, this officer experienced a first after nine years on the department. The...
How an off-duty cop saved the life of Lil Wayne
Posted on April 10, 2009Great story from the Times-Picayune about Robert Hoobler, a former New Orleans who -- years ago -- saved the life of rapper Lil Wayne when the performer was only 12 years old. (He'd accidentally shot himself in the chest.) There...
"There's a reason they call them the terrible twos"
Posted on April 10, 2009Springfield girl, 2, accused of escaping her safety seat, locking the car doors and running Daddy's car into a rental home's garage door. The Young Lady eventually consented to roll down a window so Daddy could rescue her.
Report: Poor economy means more people act as their own attorneys
Posted on April 10, 2009The problem, however, is that most people aren't prepared to do that. -- they don't know the jargon, don't bring the right paperwork and tend to delay things for weeks, the New York Times reports.
"You might expect a lead enema"
Posted on April 10, 2009In Washington state, a county commissioner has declared "open season" on local criminals because the local sheriff's office is undergoing big cuts. The commissioner, who says he doesn't want anyone to take the law into their own hands, says he...
Life without parole in Christina Osburn murder
Posted on April 10, 2009That's the sentence for Brandon Reed, 23, who pleaded guilty to slitting the 21-year-old's throat in her Shawnee apartment, Joe Lambe reports. Osburn was pregnant with Reed's child. Snip: Osburn?s family members have declined to comment to the media but...
Our house is a very, very, very fried house
Posted on April 10, 2009In Madison, Wis., a man is accused of setting his family's former on fire because somebody new was living there. (The house had recently been bought in a foreclosure auction, but it's not clear if the suspect's family had lost...
KCPD investigates suspicious death in Columbus Park
Posted on April 10, 2009From Sara Shepherd: An autopsy, which police said was under way early this morning, was hoped to help determine whether foul play was involved. The death was being called suspicious but had not been ruled a homicide. Police responded to...
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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
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