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Hit-and-run driver crashes into woman in wheelchair
Posted on February 16, 2009From Karen Dillon:A woman in a wheelchair who was struck by a vehicle just before 10 p.m. received life-threatening injuries, a Kansas City police dispatcher said. The driver of the vehicle fled the scene after striking the woman at 63rd...
Satanist/white supremacist admits to biting boy, 9
Posted on February 16, 2009About 13 times, on the kid's arms and legs. The Indiana man was reportedly babysitting and wrestling with the kid when the child bit HIM first, the defense attorney says. (Apparently, the court didn't really respond to this argument.) The...
Canadian steals old woman's adult diapers after night of drinking, losing pants, police say
Posted on February 16, 2009There is not one paragraph of this story that I do not love.Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!
Phoenix b-baller caught doing 90 mph in 35 zone
Posted on February 16, 2009With an unrestrained kiddo, age 3, along for the ride. Hat Tip: Many thanks, eephus!
MO bill would force you to get a prescription for Sudafed
Posted on February 16, 2009From The AP:A doctor?s visit and a prescription would be needed for many cold medicines under a Missouri bill aimed at targeting methamphetamine production. A Senate committee is scheduled to hear testimony on the bill Monday night. Supporters say the...
KCPD names suspect shot, killed during Old NE robbery
Posted on February 16, 2009From KCPD: The man who was shot while robbing the store Sunday has been identified as Christopher L. Kublic, white/male, 02/02/1981 from Washington State. He had just moved to Kansas City within the last month.
Multiple suspects arrested after bistate chase
Posted on February 16, 2009From Sara Shepherd:Kansas City police captured multiple suspects who bailed out of a car that led them on a 20-minute, two-state high-speed chase. Police began pursuing the vehicle before 2:30 p.m. in the Northland, after receiving reports that it was...
Shopkeeper shoots, kills robber armed with stun gun, police say
Posted on February 15, 2009From KCPD: On Sunday, February 15, 2009 at about 5:15pm KCMO Police Officers were called to the Hydroponics Store located at 3615 St. John Avenue on a shooting. On arrival officers made contact with a man who identified himself as...
UN: Many human traffickers are women
Posted on February 14, 2009Which surprised some experts, who note that most human-trafficking VICTIMS are women, too: "Women commit crimes against women, and in many cases the victims become the perpetrators,? said Antonio Maria Costa, director of the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and...
The burgeoning field of animal law
Posted on February 14, 2009Interesting feature from Oregon, home of the National Center for Animal Law. It's actually a pretty fast-growing field, the AP reports:In 1993, just seven states had felony animal cruelty laws; today, all but four do. "Animal law is where environmental...
You might have a hard time believing this ...
Posted on February 14, 2009... but "Clark Rockefeller" is going to claim that he's insane.
Lede of the day
Posted on February 14, 2009From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:Standing on a chair so he could see eye-to-eye with the prosecutor, a 7-year-old Forest Hills boy testified this morning how his mother would not wake up when he tried to say goodbye before he left for...
Open Thread ... Weekend Edition
Posted on February 14, 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,...
Phoenix, the U.S. capital of kidnapping
Posted on February 14, 2009The Los Angeles Times has a great story about Phoenix and how it has more kidnappings than any other U.S. city. A big reason, obviously, involves its proximity to Mexico and Arizona being a chief pipeline for marijuana and other...
LoJack ... not just for stolen cars
Posted on February 14, 2009They call it SafetyNet, but it's essentially LoJack for people -- specifically people with Alzheimer's, dementia or just an annoying proclivity to wander off. And it's apparently a VERY lucrative sector. I'm thrilled if it means we won't have any...
KSHB: 4 arrested after melee at Harrah's Casino
Posted on February 14, 2009More here from Channel 41 ...
2 men shot, killed near 3700 Webster in KCK
Posted on February 14, 2009From David Hayes:Two men were shot and killed shortly before midnight Friday in Kansas City, Kan., police said. Officers were called to the 3700 block of Webster Avenue after a caller reported hearing gunshots at about 11:52 p.m. When officers...
Customer stabbed at West Bottoms bar
Posted on February 14, 2009This happened back on Friday. From Meredith Rodriguez:The incident began when staff at Connie?s Genessee Inn asked a group of men to leave. The men, who were not regulars, had been causing a disturbance, according to Sgt. Ron Legg of...
MO trooper shoots, wounds suspect in Maryville
Posted on February 14, 2009From Karen Dillon:A trooper shot a man in the arm after he threatened law enforcement officers with a BB gun Friday in Maryville, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. Nodaway County Sheriff?s Department had received a call Friday morning about a...
KCPD officers shoot man -- neighbors say he was mentally ill
Posted on February 14, 2009From Karen Dillon and David Hayes: A man shot to death by police Saturday in south Kansas City had been diagnosed several years ago with a severe mental illness, close family friends and neighbors said. The man, who friends said...
12 DUI arrests during KCPD sobriety checkpoint
Posted on February 14, 2009From KCPD: The Kansas City Missouri Police Department along with Deputies from the Jackson County Traffic Squad conducted a Sobriety Checkpoint on February 13, 2009 from 2300 hours to 0400 hours at 4040 Main Street. Southbound traffic was checked with...
Octomom is the subject of death threats
Posted on February 13, 2009You guys probably haven't heard about this story, but apparently, a single mom recently had eight babies -- at once! -- in California. With her previous spawn, she now has 14 kids -- and zero jobs or husbands. Which means...
So what do we know about Obama's drug-czar pick?
Posted on February 13, 2009He's the Seattle police chief, but he's almost never spoken publicly about drug policy. Reform advocates are just a little giddy, though -- Seattle has needle exchanges, drug courts and a lot of other stuff near to their hearts, the...
Being a secret lovah is hazardous to your health
Posted on February 13, 2009Story is from Miami Beach, where a guy has a thing going with a married lady -- awesome, until her husband finds out. Instead of the usual beating, though, something creepier ensued, police report. Wife lures Lovah to her house,...
Will MO legalize medical marijuana?
Posted on February 13, 2009The Magic Eightball says, "Ehh." The Columbia Tribune has a piece here about a Kansas City legislator, Kate Meiners, sponsoring a bill that "would ask voters in November 2010 whether patients should be allowed to use the drug for medical...
Transgendered inmate can sue guards over prison rape
Posted on February 13, 2009A transgendered woman, who hadn't gone through surgery, was sent to Folsom Prison in California for shoplifting and a parole violation back in 2006. She says she was raped almost daily by her male cellmate, and despite repeated requests for...
Where is Megan Shultz?
Posted on February 13, 2009The Tribune has a piece about one of Columbia's unsolved missing-persons cases ...
Open Thread ... Sweet Merciful Friday the 13th
Posted on February 13, 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,...
Suicides lead Army to suspend recruiting for one day
Posted on February 13, 2009This is a story that Houston Chronicle reporters have been following pretty closely:Five-hundred miles away in Houston, the suicides of four Army recruiters from a single battalion have focused lawmakers and veterans advocates on the enormous stress endured by soldiers...
20 years for homicide on I-435
Posted on February 13, 2009From Brian Burnes:DeAngelo T. Blair today received a 20-year sentence for his part in a November 2007 interstate highway shooting that left one person dead and three others wounded. The Raytown man was one of five men involved in 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?
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