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Dear Criminals: Mothers are the most dangerous women alive
Posted on February 26, 2009St. Paul police are giving an award to a woman who -- despite being pregnant and having her toddler daughter with her -- managed to fight and shoot a robber at her husband's convenience store.
How Not To Be a John
Posted on February 26, 2009The Los Angeles Times has a nice feature about LAPD's John School -- a diversion program where johns learn the risk of consorting with prostitutes. (Sort of like traffic school, the paper notes!) Ruditsky softens the men up with graphic...
Best School Day Ever
Posted on February 26, 2009A California woman is accused of going to a local high school and getting into a fight with a teacher, whom she suspected of having an affair with the woman's husband, police say. For some reason, they made a counselor...
Two kids traded for cockatoo, undisclosed amount of cash
Posted on February 26, 2009Story is from Louisiana ...
This sounds hilarious ...
Posted on February 26, 2009Anytime someone tries to climb through a sunroof to escape the po-po, that's a good time ...
What kind of people would trade kids for a cockatoo?
Posted on February 26, 2009The Smoking Gun responds ...
Thief accidentally locks himself in car he was trying to steal, police say
Posted on February 25, 2009Story is from Australia. I think it's good that he's in police custody -- because, if he was allowed to wander free, he was eventually going to stick a fork in an electrical outlet or kill himself with something that...
National Guard decides NOT to search IA town for guns
Posted on February 25, 2009Not really crime-related, just interesting. The Iowa National Guard had planned to do urban warfare training in a town called Arcadia. Troops would have gone door-to-door and, if residents cooperated, done searches of their houses for weapons -- which infuriated...
7 people injured during shooting at New Orleans parade
Posted on February 25, 2009Including a toddler, no less. Nobody's dead, which is excellent. Police have arrested two suspects, who are going to face charges on attempted murder.
One-Man Crime Wave
Posted on February 25, 2009Seven burglaries in one night? That's pretty impressive. Too bad the homeowner fought back during the eighth one ... Story is from Arizona. Hat Tip: Many thanks, eephus!
Authorities worry that Mexico drug violence is slipping into Arizona
Posted on February 25, 2009No beheadings, really, but authorities -- both local and federal -- say they're starting to see more home invasions and kidnappings, The New York Times reports. There was a state hearing about the issue on Monday. Snip:?We are finding home...
Army deserter arrested while wearing thong
Posted on February 25, 2009Police say he had a couple of spares in his pockets, too. Story is from Colorado. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Jay Tee!
Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on February 25, 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,...
Too much love for just one corpse
Posted on February 25, 2009A Cincinnati morgue worker, currently doing time for having sex with a corpse, is now going to face more charges for having done the same thing to other corpses, authorities allege ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk...
Nope, nothing suspicious here
Posted on February 25, 2009Three Michigan teenagers were arrested in Alabama after one of them tried to break a $1,000 bill at a local bank. (For those playing at home, the U.S. government stopped making those bad boys back in 1945.) Turns out, the...
Homeless man needs to work on his pickup lines
Posted on February 25, 2009Dallas police arrested a homeless man after he was allegedly wearing a black bra and exposing himself to another dude in a Taco Bueno parking lot. "You are sexy," Aljibari, 43, told the man, according to police.Police posit the homeless...
UPDATE: Man wants to get paid for kidney he gave his ex-wife
Posted on February 25, 2009Sadly, a court has dismissed the suit. Apparently, if you give someone an organ, it qualifies as a gift, not marital property, the New York Post reports.
U.S. arrests 751 suspects in crackdown on Mexican drug cartels
Posted on February 25, 2009Raids happened overnight, not sure of which cities. (You could probably find that many just inside Maricopa County, Ariz.) The feds, who say they seized $59 million, plan to release more details today.
MORE about the Hereford House arson
Posted on February 25, 2009Here's KMBC's take on yesterday's ATF press conference.
Judge's wife, 70, beats up home invaders
Posted on February 25, 2009Using nothing more than her favorite sauce pan. Snip from the Plain-Dealer: "One of them picked up my purse and just dumped it out," she said Wednesday. "Now, my purse is like Fibber McGee's closet, it's got everything in there....
About that MO bill banning red-light cameras ...
Posted on February 25, 2009It's dead. A state Senate committee killed it.
Shon Pernice accused of possessing a stolen firearm
Posted on February 25, 2009From Glenn Rice:Shon Pernice was charged today with possession of a stolen firearm. Authorities stressed that the arrest was not related to the disappearance of Pernice?s wife, Renee Pernice. Pernice was taken into custody earlier today at an Independence fire...
Miami opera singer kills wife, 2 daughters, then himself, police say
Posted on February 25, 2009Luckily, the 16-year-old son was able to escape. The little girls were 11 and 12.
Lede of the day
Posted on February 25, 2009From the Joplin Globe:A homeless man who was caught spending the night in the Kohl?s department store in Joplin and trying on women?s lingerie pleaded guilty Monday to burglary.I also like how the store had to throw away $375 worth...
There are rampages, and then there are RAMPAGES
Posted on February 25, 2009A 24-year-old man is accused of, well, going on a rampage at a Shawnee apartment complex on Monday night. One woman says he clotheslined her as she was walking to her unit. Then he allegedly jumped through a window and...
Phone records show MO rape accuser was texting during time of alleged attack
Posted on February 25, 2009So charges have been dismissed for the two men accused of the crime, the Kirksville Daily Express reports. Each man spent about eight months behind bars, despite a lack of any evidence. (Note: Sorry about the problems with posting --...
Was this technically ID theft?
Posted on February 25, 2009Interesting case from the Supreme Court, which is hearing the case of Ignacio Flores Figueroa, a Mexican citizen who used a fake name and Social to work at an Illinois steel plant. After a few years, though, he wanted to...
Topeka man stabbed victim after fight over $20
Posted on February 25, 2009The defense argued that Darwin David Law was defending himself. Law was eventually convicted of involuntary manslaughter, a less serious charge the original, voluntary charge.
Phone records show MO rape accuser was texting during time of alleged attack
Posted on February 25, 2009So the two men accused of the crime have been set free, the Kirksville Daily Express reports. Each man spent about eight months behind bars, despite a lack of any evidence whatsoever.
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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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It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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