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St. Paul bartender fired shotgun to announce closing time
Posted on January 22, 2009He'd suffered a loss in the family and had been drinking, so he might not have operated at peak performance, the Star-Tribune notes.
Waldo rape, assaults were a scam, feds say
Posted on January 22, 2009From the official release: John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Bucyrus, Kan., woman and a Lee?s Summit, Mo., man were charged in federal court today for wire fraud related to a...
A fate worse than death -- being banned from Wal-Mart
Posted on January 22, 2009From the official press release: John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a North Bergen, N.J., man was sentenced in federal court today for using fraudulent bar code stickers to defraud Wal-Mart stores...
Platte County employee accused of stealing $16K to go gambling
Posted on January 22, 2009From Platte County prosecutor: An employee of the Platte County Collector?s office has been charged with stealing approximately $16,000 in tax payments. Barbara K. Milton, 30, of Parkville, is accused of taking the money from cash payments made at the...
KCPD releases name of mother, infant found dead near Blue River
Posted on January 22, 2009From KCPD: The mother and child who were found dead near 87th and Blue River in the water have been identified as Lecletia J. Hardy, black/female, 11/15/1982 and Lailah Hardy, black/female, 08/12/2007, both of Kansas City, MO. There were no...
The Midtown Vandal
Posted on January 22, 2009KCPD has released photos, courtesy of a US Bank surveillance camera at Armour and Main, which was hit early this morning. And we've got a list of sites where the vandal is believed to have struck. (His calling card appears...
Have you seen Danny Rinehart?
Posted on January 21, 2009From the Cass Co. Sheriff: The Cass County Sheriff?s Office is asking for the communities help in locating Danial ?Danny? M. Rinehart 06-01-1961. Rinehart has been charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child. Rinehart?s last known address was in....
The Child Online Protection Act -- deader than Monty Python's parrot
Posted on January 21, 2009The Supremes say they will NOT look at the act, which makes it illegal to provide harmful content to children over the Internet. A bunch of lower courts had ruled the act unconstitutional since parental filters and other technology is...
Former K-State prof says he didn't kill his ex-wife
Posted on January 21, 2009Tom Murray, convicted of the 2003 murder of Carmin Ross, says the state's DNA expert committed perjury and that his own lawyers were incompetent for failing to present their own expert. He also alleges illegal searches of his car and...
IL bus driver slammed brakes to throw kids from their seats
Posted on January 21, 2009She's been found guilty. Prosecutors say she was frustrated with the kids' behavior, so she essentially pulled a stunt popular with some older LEOs. (Nothing settles a suspect down like throwing a suspect into the back of a police wagon,...
UK stripper-cop accused of impersonating a cop
Posted on January 21, 2009Which, I guess, he sort of is. The stripper -- who performs under the nom de thong "Sergeant Eros" -- wears the full costume, complete with pepper spray and baton. (Which he needs if he's confronted by jealous boyfriends.) Police...
KMBC: Laidoff worker attacked his old boss, OP police say
Posted on January 21, 2009Allegedly happened yesterday afternoon at Blue Valley Southwest High construction site, where the suspect reportedly hit his former foreman in the head with a level.
MO man accused of stomping grandmother to death while wearing steel-toed boots
Posted on January 21, 2009Story is from Willard. Joe Davidson Music allegedly committed the murder back in 2004 -- and could've gotten an 11-year sentence under a plea deal. Except he turned it down and, his defense attorney say, has generally refused to help...
Midtown Miscreant v. "Anarchists"
Posted on January 21, 2009Somebody's been on a bit of a graffiti tear in Midtown. (Sort of like saying someone's been on a beige spree in Overland Park.) They got the Jannsen Place columns a while back, and now the Prairie Mother statue in...
Where is Adam Herrman?
Posted on January 21, 2009They're going to have another search this weekend for Adam Herrman, a Kansas boy who disappeared 10 years ago from his home in Towanda, Kan. This search will be a little further down the Whitewater River, and will include anthropologists....
KCPD seeks female robber in 2 Northland holdups
Posted on January 21, 2009At the Blockbuster at 2618 N.E. Vivion Road (where she also stole a video) and at Pour Boy Oil Co., Northeast 42nd and North Oak Trafficway. Suspect is described as a "a white woman in her mid-40s. She is about...
What kind of an animal punches a baby?
Posted on January 21, 2009Happened during a carjacking in Florida, police say. The suspect allegedly wanted the baby to stop crying. Good thinking there, Scarface.
Man uses duct tape to shut barking dog's mouth, police say
Posted on January 21, 2009And goes to jail for it. Be sure to check out the photo of the duct-taped pooch. Story is from Colorado.
Way to go, Patriot Act
Posted on January 21, 2009Lovely story from the Los Angeles Times about a slew of airline passengers -- at least 200 -- who have been convicted of terrorism under the Patriot Act. Wow! You'd think we would have heard about all of those terrorist...
Where is Arthur Nadel?
Posted on January 21, 2009Huh, another investment manager has gone missing. And this one owes about $50 million to his clients. Nadel's green Subaru was found in a Sarasota airport parking lot on Jan. 15, and he left his family a note in which...
January is National Stalking Awareness Month
Posted on January 21, 2009The National Center for Victims of Crime has a mini-site here with facts about stalking, a quiz and other resources. The center claims that 1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men will be stalked at some point during...
Donovan McNabb draws the line at burning messages into his yard
Posted on January 21, 2009Poor McNabb. The Eagles player has a house near Phoenix, and he came home to find a Cardinals flag hanging in his tree. Ha, ha, he thought, and left it up. A couple of days later? Somebody had used diesel...
The last days of the Gitmo war court?
Posted on January 21, 2009The AP asks if we're going to see an end soon to the war trials being held in Guantanamo, now that a new president has taken office. They've got coverage of Monday's proceedings, which sound more like a Chuck E....
What happens when the mail DOESN'T get delivered
Posted on January 21, 2009The U.S. Postal Service had 333 cases last year of employees stealing / destroying / failing to deliver mail -- something that is still pretty rare, they insist. Some of them are just the occasional birthday card filled with money....
Man pleads not guilty to killing Jennifer Hudson's family
Posted on January 21, 2009Her mother, brother and nephew, to be specific. The suspect -- her estranged brother-in-law -- allegedly shot them because he was upset that his wife, Hudson's sister, was dating someone else, prosecutors allege.
Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on January 21, 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,...
Typepad hates us all
Posted on January 21, 2009Typepad, the software that runs the blog, is having a technical problem with its comment sections. You can post comments, but for some reason, we have multiple pages of comments instead of one long thread. (You have to jump from...
Do you recognize these two people?
Posted on January 21, 2009From Crime Stoppers: The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department?s Robbery Unit is seeking the publics assistance in identifying the two individuals pictured in the middle of the attached photos in regard to a recent robbery at Ameristar Casino. Anyone with...
Actor's "prop gun" was the real thing
Posted on January 21, 2009So the gun was fired for real during a rehearsal. Complicating matters? The play was "Of Mice and Men," a play where -- spoiler -- a main character takes one in the pumpkin. The good news here is the bullet...
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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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