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Suspect wanted to die as violently as his dad did, prosecutors allege
Posted on February 18, 2009From Christine Vendel:A 27-year-old man who was shot by Kansas City police last week after allegedly charging them with a large knife has been released from the hospital and booked into jail. Jackson County prosecutors today charged Carlos A. Rosa...
Dear Criminals: Please, KEEP SAGGING
Posted on February 18, 2009It's much easier for the police to catch the bad guys if the bad guys keep tripping on their britches. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Realist!
Man shot, killed while urinating behind building, Detroit police say
Posted on February 18, 2009The Freep story makes it sounds like he was killed simply FOR taking a leak there.
MO woman gets 12 years for mistreating her dogs
Posted on February 18, 2009A Park Hills woman is getting 12 years for neglecting her six dogs, who were covered with fleas and hadn't been fed right. (She'd been busted a few years ago for 70 counts of animal abuse when 119 animals were...
Facebook helps solve a crime!
Posted on February 18, 2009Maine police created a Facebook page and posted photos of a recent vandalism case. They got a series of anonymous tips that led them to the suspects, the department says. (This is a nice change of pace from, say, Craigslist.)
Good news, everyone!
Posted on February 18, 2009In Christian County, Mo., the local authorities say they're close to catching whoever stole 53 head of cattle from one farmer.
MO trooper's widow seeks new trial against Ford
Posted on February 18, 2009This is the case of Michael Newton, a trooper killed back in 2003. His patrol car was stopped along I-70 when a tractor-trailer crashed into the vehicle and caused it to catch fire. There was a civil suit, and though...
Man accused of chasing cross-country runners
Posted on February 18, 2009Story is from Columbia, where a group of high-school kids reportedly bumped into a car while logging miles for the cross-country team. That prompted a group of adults, one of them wielding a knife, to chase them, The Tribune reports....
UPDATE: Wrongly convicted man freed in MO
Posted on February 18, 2009From The AP: A southeast Missouri man who spent half of his life in prison for the 1992 slaying of a college student was to be released today after a prosecutor said there was no way to get enough evidence...
"He ripped her face off"
Posted on February 18, 2009We've got 911 tape -- pretty disturbing stuff, actually -- of yesterday's chimpanzee attack from Connecticut.
UPDATE: Rancher accused of holding illegal immigrants at gunpoint
Posted on February 18, 2009This is the Arizona rancher who caught a group of illegal immigrants trespassing on his land and held them at gunpoint until the authorities arrived. Amazingly, he lost, though he did win on some points. He didn't violate their civil...
6 bodies found in the desert near Albuquerque
Posted on February 18, 2009Police keep finding skeletons in the desert, and the working theory is they belong to a series of missing prostitutes. (Apparently, developers' bulldozers uncovered the graves.) The authorities are pretty sure the remains were buried by the same person...
KCTV: Kiddo removed from suspected meth lab
Posted on February 18, 2009Snip:"All exits are blocked. There's just so much trash and so much clutter inside. The conditions are real filthy. It's just really bad," said Kansas City police Sgt. Paul Hamilton.
Alvin Sykes
Posted on February 18, 2009The Pitch's Plog has an update on Sykes, a local crusader who helped push for a DOJ office to do nothing but investigate murders from the civil-rights era.
Teen avenges dog run over by city bus
Posted on February 18, 2009By firing a pellet gun at the bus one day after it ran over his dog. Happened near 36th and Brooklyn. No human beings were hurt. Hat Tip: Saw this via Tony's Kansas City
Happy Birthday, Kara Kopetsky
Posted on February 18, 2009Kopetsky, a missing Belton teen, turned 19 yesterday. An anonymous donor had put up $50K if she was returned home safely by that date, so one assumes that money goes away now. More information about Kara is available here.
Prosecutor, Senate ethics committee investigating Roland Burris
Posted on February 18, 2009That would be the same Roland Burris who was appointed to the Senate by former IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Burriss says he's done nothing wrong.
Where is Dominick Arceneaux?
Posted on February 18, 2009The big story in Arkansas right now is the disappearance of Dominick Arceneaux, a 3-year-old who vanished last week near Chidester. The AP has a good roundup of the case here. It's almost assured that somebody took the boy. Here's...
MORE about Old NE shopkeeper who killed robbery suspect
Posted on February 18, 2009Christine Vendel has a more-detailed piece about the shooting from Sunday. A second-degree murder charge has been filed against the dead man's alleged accomplice.
Bystander killed during Coffeyville bank holdup, chase
Posted on February 18, 2009From The AP: Police Cmdr. Mike Brown said in a news release that 39-year-old Ross A. Williams of Claremore, Okla., was arrested without incident at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Williams is suspected of holding up a Bank of America branch in...
Firefighters sue over being forced to ride in gay-pride parade
Posted on February 18, 2009Not sure if you remember this case from San Diego. A group of firefighters was assigned to ride in a local gay-pride parade, the same way that firefighters do during St. Pat's or other celebrations. Only the firefighters say they...
Husband kills wife after she yells other man's name during sex, police say
Posted on February 18, 2009Story is from the UK. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!
Un-freaking-believable
Posted on February 18, 2009A New York man got so drunk that he fell on a subway track and, ta-da, ended up losing his leg to a subway. Amazingly, though, a jury decided it was the TRANSIT SYSTEM'S fault and awarded him $2.3 million....
Report: Westboro Baptist leaders banned from UK
Posted on February 18, 2009The Sun reports that Fred Phelps and daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper had planned to protest a performance of "The Laramie Project" at a British school, but the UK government has reportedly denied them entry. Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean...
John Wood resigns
Posted on February 18, 2009From the U.S. Attorney's Office: John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that he has submitted his resignation to the President, effective February 28, 2009. Wood, who was appointed as the U.S. Attorney...
Capt. Spaulding v. Uninsured Motorists
Posted on February 18, 2009Local blogger Capt. Spaulding recounts an unfortunate encounter with an uninsured driver. (As if encounters with uninsured drivers were warm and uplifting, like taking your Grandma to brunch.) I didn't realize this, but he says that HE, not the local...
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on February 18, 2009We've found video of Paris Hilton rapping. Somewhere in America, the heavy, bullet-riddled corpse of the Notorious B.I.G. is clawing its way through six feet of tightly packed earth, one thought burning in its zombie brain: This is not right....
First, they came for the smokers ...
Posted on February 17, 2009From The AP: The Kansas Senate this evening gave first-round approval to a bill banning smoking in most public places. Places where smoking would be banned include bars and restaurants, workplaces and government buildings. The voice vote followed amendments to...
TV owner accused of cutting off wife's head, NY police say
Posted on February 17, 2009The suspect founded a TV station that was designed to fight ugly stereotypes of Muslims. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Mikeybackwards!
A huge breakthrough for missing-person cases?
Posted on February 17, 2009The federal government is unveiling a new database, NamUS, that matches unclaimed or unidentified bodies with a list of missing persons across the country. Creators hope it'll help resolve cases that have been too tough to crack so far. Hat...
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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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