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Who was Jeffery P. Johnson?
Posted on March 09, 2009From Independence PD: The name of the victim that was shot and killed on Saturday, March 7, 2009, in the area of Crane and Hayward in Independence is identified as Jeffery P. Johnson, 19 yrs. old, Independence, MO. If anyone...
Slain IL pastor attended Northland seminary
Posted on March 09, 2009Fred Winters, the pastor who was killed in Maryville this weekend, graduated from Midwest Theological Seminary, KSHB reports.
Somebody needs to lose their job for this
Posted on March 09, 2009The Washington Post has a story about Alexis "Lexie" Agyepong-Glove, a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Virginia creek back in January. There were numerous reports about Lexie being abused at home: Her school-bus driver filed reports with police about...
Robbers hit Mexican store in Olathe on Saturday
Posted on March 09, 2009From Olathe PD: On March 7th at approximately 1:00 pm officers from the Olathe Police Department were dispatched to the Latino Y Punto Mexican Store at 1500 E. Kansas City Rd. in reference to a reported aggravated robbery. Upon arrival,...
Report: Atlanta is the new hub for Mexico's drug cartels
Posted on March 09, 2009From USA Today: In fiscal year 2008, federal drug authorities seized more drug-related cash in Atlanta ? about $70 million ? than any other region in the country, Drug Enforcement Administration records show. This year, more than $30 million has...
MO man led illegal hunts for feral hogs in national forest, feds say
Posted on March 09, 2009Weird story from the U.S. attorney's office: Charles Richard Wade, 66, of Licking is accused of operating a business that offered guided hunts for feral hogs in Mark Twain National Forest. It sounds like he might be doing a public...
MO troopers plan DUI checkpoint ... sometime
Posted on March 09, 2009The Missouri Highway Patrol says it'll conduct a sobriety checkpoint "sometime during the month of March," in conjunction with KCPD and the Jackson County sheriff. Anybody want to bet this might fall somewhere close to the St. Patrick's Day holiday?....
"My dad is a killer!"
Posted on March 09, 2009A Wisconsin man is accused of kicking his dog, Zorro, to death while his kids watched. (Zorro had allegedly done his business on the carpet.) One of the kids went to school, drew a picture and labeled it "My dad...
Who killed Darreon Murray?
Posted on March 09, 2009WDAF profiles Murray, a Bishop Hogan student who was shot and killed early Saturday on I-70 near Van Brunt.
21
Posted on March 09, 2009That's how many homicides that Kansas City has recorded so far this year.
16 arrested for fighting at nonviolence concert
Posted on March 09, 2009Story is from Maryland ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!
UPDATE: More about IL church shooting
Posted on March 09, 2009We know a little more about what happened on Sunday morning in Maryville, Ill. The P-D has a nice profile of the murdered pastor, Fred Winters -- friends say he would've already forgiven the gunman if he were still around....
Exploding Bible stops bullet -- pastor killed by other shot
Posted on March 08, 2009Story is from Maryville, Ill., near St. Louis. A gunman interrupted a Sunday morning service by firing a handgun at pastor Fred Winters, who blocked one shot with his Bible. (It exploded into "confetti," which made some congregation members think...
Feds to give $4.54 mil to KC-area cops
Posted on March 07, 2009And that's just on the Missouri side -- not sure yet how much Kansas will profit. Statewide, Missouri is going to pull in roughly $40 million for law enforcement, the Business Journal reports. Hat Tip: Saw this via Tony's Kansas...
All he wanted was a hug ...
Posted on March 07, 2009A Michigan man, who was apparently several sheets to the wind, was arrested after he asked a cop for hug, was turned down and then started yelling and cursing, police say.
3 years for Canadian dad who let daughters freeze to death
Posted on March 07, 2009They were walking to a neighbor's house during a blizzard but Dad was drunk and the little girls were in diapers and T-shirts. Snip:Pauchay was suffering severe frostbite when he eventually made it to the neighbor's home and was taken...
Coolio arrested with crack at L.A. airport, police say
Posted on March 07, 2009Via TMZ ... Apparently, he was on his way to a gig in Oklahoma with Tone Loc and Shock G of Digital Underground. And he was flying on Southwest, which surprised me. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Ash!
Hitchhikers beat man, steal $5 from him in midtown KC
Posted on March 07, 2009OK, not saying robbery is OK. And I'm glad the guy is OK. But I'll go on a limb say that giving a ride to two strangers at 1 in the morning in Kansas City's urban core? Might not be...
MO town's cops accused of shooting dogs for no good reason
Posted on March 07, 2009Story is from Vandalia.
Open Thread ... Weekend Edition
Posted on March 07, 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,...
Fake sextuplet mom is at it again, police say
Posted on March 07, 2009Police say Sarah Everson -- the Jackson County woman who once infamously claimed to have had six babies -- is accused of forgery. She allegedly tried to pass a bad check for about $1,200 at a Best Buy. In a...
1 dead, 1 hurt in Independence shooting
Posted on March 07, 2009From Independence PD: At 2:42 a.m. Saturday, March 7, 2009, Independence Police received a call that shots had been fired in the area of Benton Park in Independence. Officers responded and discovered there had been an apparent disturbance between 2...
2 hurt, 3 hurt in overnight KC shootings
Posted on March 07, 2009It's true what they say: The homicide rate goes up whenever the temperatures do. From Sara Shepherd:Kansas City police are investigating two deadly overnight shootings ? one of which reportedly happened on a highway and left three people injured. About...
Where is Allyson Corrales?
Posted on March 07, 2009They haven't found her yet, but the Amber Alert is ending because of time factors, police say. From KCPD: The Kansas City Missouri Police Department is cancelling the Amber Alert for Allyson Coralles. The department will continue searching for Allyson...
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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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