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Alvin Brooks approved for KC police board

Posted on March 09, 2010
That was pretty quick! Alvin Brooks, the former city councilman, has been approved by Missouri legislators to join Kansas City's police board. Brooks, a former policeman who leads the Ad Hoc Group Against Crime, should be sworn in later in...

Do we really need to see car chases live?

Posted on March 09, 2010
At TV Barn, the always excellent Aaron Barnhart writes about last night's police chase, which preempted the national news, at least on the channels I was watching. He argues that, in the scheme of things, a car chase isn't really...

Officer cites shoplifter -- then buys him food

Posted on March 09, 2010
A police officer from Montana cited a down-on-his-luck man for shoplifting from a grocery store -- and then showed up later at the man's house with frozen pizzas. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Jo Jo!

Man gets shot while trying to rob undercover agent

Posted on March 09, 2010
There's precious little that didn't go wrong for this guy: Antoine Cardin Williams, 29, of Topeka has been sentenced to 17 years after he allegedly tried to rob a prospective drug buyer. Only the buyer was actually an undercover BATF...

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Hunter mistakes cop for coyote, kills him

Posted on March 09, 2010
In Georgia, a law-enforcement officer for the U.S. Forest Service was shot and killed by a hunter who reportedly mistook him for a coyote, authorities allege.

Olathe woman pleads guilty in ID theft

Posted on March 09, 2010
Marcella Diane Machado, 46, entered a guilty plea today to charges that she used stolen checkbooks and stolen driver's licenses to cash fraudulent checks. A codefendant, Robert Leroy Maxwell, is awaiting trial.

KC mom gets 18 years for suffocating boy

Posted on March 09, 2010
From Mark Morris: Police alleged that Lakeesha R. Brown suffocated Esmond Ross, 7, by putting her legs across his head and sitting on his chest. In December, Brown entered an Alford plea to a second-degree murder charge, not admitting guilt...

Video shows Blue Springs theft

Posted on March 09, 2010
From Blue Springs PD: On 03-06-2010, at about 1:30pm, two individuals entered Now & Then Jewelry Store, 623 NW Mock Avenue, Blue Springs Jackson County, Missouri and stole two sets of diamond earrings valued at approximately $10,000. The suspects, who...

Woman sues after seeing naked man

Posted on March 09, 2010
A California woman is suing Dr. Phil and CBS because she was allegedly exposed to a naked man during a taping of an episode. She was one of the guests in the Dr. Phil House, and at one point, producers...

4 indicted over assisted suicide allegations

Posted on March 09, 2010
In Atlanta, a grand jury has indicted four people who allegedly operated an underground operation that helped with assisted suicide. The suspects, who were reportedly part of the Final Exit Network, face racketeering charges, of all things, as well as...

Guilty plea in Letterman blackmail

Posted on March 09, 2010
Robert Halderman, a former producer for CBS, is expected to plead guilty to blackmailing David Letterman over the talk show's extramarital affair. (Halderman's girlfriend was allegedly sleeping with Letterman, her boss.) Halderman, who demanded $2 million, is expected to do...

Do you recognize these men?

Posted on March 09, 2010
Blue Springs is asking the public if they recognize two men who were recorded by surveillance cameras while allegedly using a stolen debit card. It happened back on Feb. 28, between 1 and 4 in the morning. They allegedly made...

Reward raised in arson-homicide

Posted on March 09, 2010
A friend has added $1,000 to the reward offered in the Henry Scott IV case. Scott, whose body was found during a house fire Feb. 25, has been ruled the victim of a homicide. The fire, which happened in the...

The good news: pen guns work

Posted on March 09, 2010
In Washington state, a 28-year-old man accidentally shot his younger brother after an evening of drinking. The older brother had a pen gun hidden in his shoe. (It's basically what it sounds like: a small, one-shot gun that looks like...

Man kills himself with giant novelty pencil, UK cops say

Posted on March 09, 2010
How did he kill himself? By repeatedly stabbing himself in the groin, the Mirror reports.

Former cop accused of stealing drugs

Posted on March 09, 2010
In Platte County, a former Weston cop named Kyle Zumbrunn is accused of stealing drugs from his department's evidence room. Zumbrunn pleaded guilty to selling pills to an undercover investigator in Atchison County and is serving 16 months in Lansing,...

Girl, 12, used backpack to clobber boy, police say

Posted on March 09, 2010
In Seattle, a 12-year-old has been charged with third-degree assault after she allegedly smacked a boy in the head with her backpack, police say. The blows knocked the boy out, and some children told police the backpack had rocks inside,...

Another solution for stopping sex offenders

Posted on March 09, 2010
In San Diego County, police are dealing with two high-profile cases, both involving young women who disappeared and were apparently the victims of foul play. A convicted sex offender has been charged in one case, that of Chelsea King. Now,...

Man on trial for allegedly beating police dog

Posted on March 09, 2010
Chief Corwin's blog has a post about a man being tried for assaulting Soty, a police dog who's since retired.

Blue Springs man charged over fatal wreck

Posted on March 09, 2010
Jackson County prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old man, Raymond Lapietra, with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes after one of his passengers, Amy Hastings, died in a wreck last October near Interstate 70 and Troost. A small child was in the...

Homeless man sunbathes nude along busy road, cops say

Posted on March 09, 2010
It's too cold for Wisconsin, so it must be Florida. Also, THERE IS A GREAT MUGSHOT. I think the sun did him good. He's got some nice color in his cheeks.

Ex-con accused of impersonating an officer

Posted on March 09, 2010
Mark Sager -- who was once convicted of manslaughter in a local girl's death -- is reportedly pleading guilty to impersonating a law-enforcement officer, Kathee Baird is reporting at her crime blog. Sager was accused of telling authorities in Stone...

Breast milk used to assault jailer, police say

Posted on March 08, 2010
In Owensboro, Ky., a woman arrested for public intoxication allegedly squirted breast milk (not from a bottle) at a jail guard, the Associated Press reports. That prisoner is now also facing a charge of third-degree assault on an officer.

St. Louis considers prescriptions for cold meds

Posted on March 08, 2010
Over the last several months, a handful of Missouri cities and counties have started requiring prescriptions for pseudoephedrine, which is a key ingredient in several popular cold medicines and meth. There's been some talk of a statewide law. Supporters say...

Let's all go to the lobby ... and call 911

Posted on March 08, 2010
A man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer when he asked a woman to stop using her cellphone during a movie, authorities in Lancaster, Calif., report. The woman's boyfriend and another man are accused of attacking the...

Need ID? Just let me drop my pants

Posted on March 08, 2010
In 1971, someone stole Gary Stewart Heggs' wallet and, with it, his identity. That person eventually got arrested and convicted -- but the authorities thought he was the real Heggs. Mystery Man escaped from prison and has never been seen...

Jetton to testify before grand jury

Posted on March 08, 2010
Rod Jetton, the former Missouri Speaker, says he'll testify Wednesday before a federal grand jury in Kansas City. The jury is considering allegations that Jetton steered a bill regulatin the adult-entertainment industry to a hostile committee -- allegedly in exchange...

1 year since Ill. pastor was murdered

Posted on March 08, 2010
It's been one year since the Rev. Fred Winters, a Raytown native, was shot and killed during a service at the First Baptist Church of Maryville, where he was the senior pastor. The man accused of killing him is being...

13 DUI arrests at KC checkpoint

Posted on March 08, 2010
From KCPD: The Kansas City Missouri Police Department assisted by Jackson County deputies conducted a Sobriety Checkpoint on March 5, 2010 from 2300 hours to 0400 hours at 13th Street & Pennsylvania (entrance ramp to Southbound I-35). Westbound traffic was...

Open Thread ... Monday

Posted on March 08, 2010
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,...

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