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Open Thread ... Monday

Posted on February 09, 2009
Welcome 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,...

Florida woman accused of illegal butt injections

Posted on February 09, 2009
Of silicone and saline into two ladies who wanted larger posteriors. This is a problem because our suspect is not licensed for this kind of work.

Report: Woman's body pulled from MO River near Glasgow

Posted on February 09, 2009
Story is from the Marshall paper. The discovery was actually this weekend, thanks to a commercial fisherman. The body is that of a white female, no other details available. Saline County is handling the case at this point. Hat Tip:...

Maybe you should've kept that to yourself ...

Posted on February 09, 2009
An Ohio man was stabbed in the chest after he reportedly told his girlfriend -- nine months pregnant -- that he'd been fooling around behind her back, police say. Silly man. Don't you know she's stabbing for two?

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With a smile on his face

Posted on February 09, 2009
The gentleman on the right is Jim Adkisson. In July, the out-of-work trucker walked into a Unitarian church in Knoxville and murdered two people during a children's musical. That's not counting the others that he maimed or injured. He told...

You make the call: Warmhearted volunteer or power-hungry misanthrope?

Posted on February 09, 2009
The Salt Lake Tribune profiles an Austrian immigrant who, as a police volunteer, has the power to write parking tickets. He specifically targets motorists who park in spots for handicapped people. He generated about $50K for the city last year,...

A prediction ...

Posted on February 09, 2009
In her column this morning, Mary Sanchez notes that we might be hearing a lot more about Leonard Peltier in the coming months as activists start another push to draw attention to his case. Here's the Wikipedia entry on Peltier

Kelsey Smith family wants cellphone companies to cooperate faster with police

Posted on February 09, 2009
From David Klepper: The parents of murdered Johnson County teen Kelsey Smith today urged Kansas lawmakers to require phone companies to give police data on the location of cell phones in an emergency. It took four days for Verizon Wireless,...

UPDATE: Missing kids found 20 years later

Posted on February 09, 2009
We've got more information about Jennifer and Jonathan Bunting. They're the siblings from California who -- authorities say -- are actually Christi and Bobby Baskin, two Tennessee children who disappeared 20 years ago. Authorities say they were abducted by their...

Too much information?

Posted on February 09, 2009
In Los Angeles, a report that names 250 officers who'd been investigated for racial profiling was not only published on a city Web site, but actually emailed to members of the media. The police commission calls it an "unfortunate mistake."...

166 dead in Australian wildfires ... authorities blame arsonists

Posted on February 09, 2009
For some of the fires, at least. The prime minister is calling it a case of mass murder. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Not the best alibi ...

Posted on February 09, 2009
A Florida man accused of breaking into a bar says he can't remember if he did it because he was blacked out from taking so much crack, authorities report. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!

MO boy charged as adult in neighbor's death

Posted on February 09, 2009
Owen Welty was 13 when he allegedly killed an older neighbor, Don McCollough, in Stoddard County back in 2006. The Dexter Daily Statesman has a good backgrounder on the piece here.

UPDATE: KS mayor accused of shooting 2 dogs

Posted on February 09, 2009
This is that story from McCune, Kan., where the local mayor is facing criminal charges because he reportedly shot two dogs. The dogs had been chasing kids, and the sheriff wasn't doing anything about it, the mayor has said. Now...

53 cattle stolen from Missouri farm

Posted on February 09, 2009
Story is from Christian County in southwest Missouri. I'd read that rustling was becoming more common there, but I didn't realize it had gotten that elaborate. It'd not like you can put 53 cows in the back of your pal's...

"It got lost in the shuffle"

Posted on February 09, 2009
A Missouri man is accused of killing three people in a DUI-related wreck near Edwardsville, Ill., and now authorities are asking why he wasn't prosecuted for two previous DUI cases on the Missouri side. Snip from the Post-Dispatch:Hazelwood Police Chief...

"I knew someone would have to die for me to get a kidney, but I didn't expect it to be the way he died"

Posted on February 09, 2009
The AP has a good story about the legacy of Dennis John Malloosseril, a New Jersey man who -- according to police accounts -- died trying to save a fellow churchgoer from her estranged husband. Malloosseril died, but his organs...

If it sounds too good to be true ...

Posted on February 09, 2009
it almost certainly is. The Columbia Tribune has a good story about the so-called "mystery shopper" scam. How it works: The victim gets an offer to serve as a "mystery shopper." They get a check in the mail for a...

Is the "Broken Windows Theory" true?

Posted on February 09, 2009
The theory says that crime tends to grow in neighborhoods where the houses are broken down, litter covers the streets and everything looks awful. Snip from the Boston Globe:The theory suggests that a disorderly environment sends a message that no...

JoCo Sheriff appoints department's first female chaplain

Posted on February 09, 2009
Her name is Gayla Rapp. From the sheriff's office:Chaplain Rapp is a Kansas native who graduated from McPherson High School and went on to receive her Bachelor degree in Philosophy and Religion from Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. She received...

Burglar breaks into Peoria home, fixes himself a steak

Posted on February 09, 2009
And takes nothing else. (The malefactor did, however, leave behind a sink full of dirty dishes.)

Japan shocked by sumo wrestlers' growing use of pot

Posted on February 09, 2009
Illegal drugs are still pretty rare and, thus, frowned upon there. Pot possession can net someone a five-year sentence. Still, I'm not sure if you can call marijuana a performance-enhancing substance. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Searching!

Dog blamed for Tongi motorcyclist's wreck

Posted on February 09, 2009
From Bob Cronkleton:A 39-year-old Tonganoxie man was injured after a dog ran up and struck his motorcycle in Easton, Kan. The crash occurred about 1:05 p.m. Saturday near the 30900 block of 231st Street. Delmar E. Lozano was headed north...

It's like Dad said: If somebody smacks you, SMACK THEM BACK

Posted on February 09, 2009
A shooting victim is accused of pulling a cabbie from his taxi and stealing the vehicle, passengers included -- so he could RUN OVER THE GUY WHO JUST SHOT HIM. Revenge is best served piping hot. Story is from Massachusetts....

2 injured in KCK driveby

Posted on February 09, 2009
From Mark Wiebe:Two people were wounded, one critically, this afternoon in a drive-by shooting in Kansas City, Kan. A police spokesman said one of the victims was shot in the head and has suffered life-threatening injuries. The other victim was...

Could this be the world's greatest police blotter?

Posted on February 09, 2009
One of the blog's regulars, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2, sends us a link to the police blotter for Unalaska, Alaska. It might be the overall best police blotter I've ever read. My favorite item:Three highly intoxicated men were ?fooling...

SHOCKING NEWS!

Posted on February 09, 2009
Apparently, there is a possibility -- a possibility, mind you -- that they'll never be able to solve the Mike Phelps pot-photo mystery, The State of South Carolina reports. In related developments, water is wet.

Operation Super Chicken

Posted on February 09, 2009
U.S. Attorney John Wood's office is announcing a series of convictions in the Super Pollo coke ring -- authorities alleged that a criminal organization was using the Super Pollo restaurant on Independence Avenue to launder drug money. (The feds also....

Who was Donte Robinson?

Posted on February 08, 2009
From Joe Lambe: A shooting in Overland Park (Friday) afternoon left one man dead and another wounded. A 20-year-old man died at a hospital soon after a shooting about 3 p.m. at a hotel parking lot on the 6100 block...

KCPD names victims from double homicide

Posted on February 08, 2009
From Rick Alm:Police today identified two Kansas City, Kan., men as homicide victims in a shooting early Friday morning outside a Northeast area nightclub. They were positively identified as Drell D. Fisher and Reginald L. Barnes. Earlier today, police had...

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