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By James Hart
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Should the U.S. give asylum to Mexican police?
Posted on June 15, 2009A few Mexican police officers have fled their country and sought political asylum in the United States because they refused to cooperate with the drug cartels and, thus, are marked for death. For the most part, the U.S. is fighting...
Olathe plans DUI checkpoint for late Friday, early Saturday
Posted on June 15, 2009The checkpoint, which will be located somewhere in the central part of the city, will start at 11:30 p.m. Friday and go until 2:30 a.m. Saturday, police say. The Johnson County Sheriff's Department and other agencies will assist.
Hoosier tries -- AGAIN -- to steal dentures from victim's mouth, police say
Posted on June 15, 2009This is the second time that Robert Henry Stahl of Yorktown, Ind., has been accused of trying to grab the dentures from someone else's mouth. There is a different victim in each case. That just seems like a very odd...
KCPD officer-involved shooting was 4th fatal this year
Posted on June 15, 2009I don't have numbers on all officer-involved shootings, just the fatal ones. Last year, there were five such cases for the entire year. There were six in 2007 and three in 2006. Nationally, the number of officer-involved fatals had been...
Stuff you don't want to get caught shoplifting, Vol. 21
Posted on June 15, 2009In Florida, a 17-year-old girl got busted for stealing a man's G-string from Spencer's Gifts. Specifically, a Squeaker Elephant G-String: a male thong with an elephant's head and trunk in the frontal area," NWFdailynews.com reports. If you are curious what...
KS might make all DUI offenders use ignition interlocks
Posted on June 15, 2009Those are the devices that test a driver's breath when they get behind the wheel. If that person is over the legal limit, the car won't start. Kansas requires them for some DUI offenders, but there's a new bill that...
Defendants want a new trial in Wichita Crips case
Posted on June 15, 2009They've accused the jurors of not being impartial during the deliberations, The Eagle reports. As evidence, they point to a letter written by the presiding juror to the prosecutors after the verdict. "There was no date on the letter, in...
Who killed the Luetjens?
Posted on June 15, 2009There are still no answers in last week's murders of Don and Sharon Luetjen and their granddaughter, 15-year-old Taron, in Cole Camp, Mo. The Luetjens were mourned during a service yesterday at the local high school. There are something like...
Michigan cop says McDonald's worker spat in his Egg McMuffin
Posted on June 15, 2009From The AP: A police report obtained by The Herald-Palladium said the restaurant's assistant manager noted the sandwich contained a "stringy with mucus" substance. She placed the sandwich in the off-duty manager's trash bin, but said it disappeared while she...
More about SOAP and SODA
Posted on June 15, 2009One thing I hadn't realized about the movement to ban some repeat offenders from Old Northeast streets: Kansas City has tried something like this before. Several years ago, there was a program where Kansas City judges would order offenders convicted....
Are militant groups responsible for "lone wolves" who kill?
Posted on June 14, 2009Be sure to read Judy Thomas' piece about the George Tiller homicide. Specifically, Judy writes about the feds investigating whether anybody else -- besides suspect Scott Roeder -- should face charges in the killing. It sounds like Roeder had ties...
Officer-involved shooting at 37th and Jackson
Posted on June 14, 2009From The Star: Kansas City police apparently shot a person near 37th Street and Jackson Avenue about 9:45 this evening. Police reported shots fired shortly before calling for an ambulance. They also requested multiple police wagons for five people they...
Have they caught Miami's Cat Killer?
Posted on June 14, 2009The suspect is an 18-year-old -- who actually joined a Facebook group to catch the guilty party. Tyler Weinman faces 19 charges each of animal cruelty and improperly disposing of an animal body, plus four counts burglary, the Miami Herald...
UPDATE: Officer-involved shooting in KCMO
Posted on June 14, 2009From KCPD: The suspect who was shot by officer?s last night near 37th and Jackson has been positively identified as 26yr old Alfran Gant of KCMO. His photo is attached. Four officers have been placed on paid administrative leave which...
When God closes one door, sometimes He opens a car window
Posted on June 13, 2009A teenager, running from a pit bull, jumped into a KCPD cruiser yesterday -- through a car door's open window. Christine has a great story about it here. Best Part: The officers had been sent to the 5600 block of...
Activists push pot-legalization ballot measure in California
Posted on June 13, 2009The measure would let anyone -- not just those who are sick -- possess as much as one ounce of marijuana. It'd also let individual cities tax the sales, or bar them, if officials want to bar the practice. Individual...
Angry over swine-flu memo, dad pulled gun on school official, NY police say
Posted on June 13, 2009The suspect has a sick child, but it isn't clear why he would have gotten upset. The superintendent was the victim, and he was able to wrestle the suspect down, the authorities said.
Wisconsin men urinated on man's house, stole chicken off his grill, police say
Posted on June 13, 2009They're all animals, I swear. (Everybody but longtime reader Jay Tee.) The police say that, when they caught up with the suspects, one of them was eating the stolen chicken.
1 rabbit, 80-some dogs rescued from MO property
Posted on June 13, 2009The case is from Mansfield in Wright County, the News-Leader reports. Many of the dogs were poodles and Labs.
Anonymous letter leads Independence police to stolen goods
Posted on June 13, 2009KCTV has the story here. The authorities reportedly found stolen items worth tens of thousands of dollars, the station notes.
Dude, swallow your pride ...
Posted on June 13, 2009From KCRA-TV in Nevada: Dean Mark of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., was arrested Monday after three Whittell High School students reported spotting a naked man tied to a rock and lying face down behind the school. When the students asked...
Open Thread ... Weekend Edition
Posted on June 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,...
Is San Francisco rethinking its sanctuary policy?
Posted on June 13, 2009For years, San Francisco has had a reputation as a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants. City authorities, for the most part, didn't report undocumented people to the federal authorities. The theory was that city officials would rather the immigrants feel...
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on June 13, 2009Though I'm pretty sure there is going to be a lawsuit.
Man stole ambulance from Research Med, crashed in Independence
Posted on June 13, 2009More here from Joe Robertson.
7 DUI arrests during KCPD sobriety checkpoint
Posted on June 13, 2009From KCPD: The Kansas City Missouri Police Department conducted a Sobriety Checkpoint on June 12, 2009 from 2300 hours to 0400 hours at Blue Ridge Blvd. and Holiday Drive. North and Southbound traffic was checked with total of 320 vehicles...
He would have gotten away with it ... if he weren't so stupid
Posted on June 12, 2009A young Florida burglar was able to get away from police and hide ... so it's too bad that he text-messaged his partner, who was being interrogated by officers. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Jay Tee!
AZ nurses lose jobs after one photographs patient's "ambiguous genitalia"
Posted on June 12, 2009Wait, what?
A couple of "missing persons" who are better off missing
Posted on June 12, 2009For 40 years, the families of Melvin Uphoff and Jackie Rains-Kracman thought they'd been murdered. Nope. As it turns out, the two of them had been having an affair and just decided to leave town. (They'd also been stealing money...
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on June 12, 2009Puppy eats eight golf balls. Vomits up three. X-ray pictures here.
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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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