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Bad News, Good News
Posted on June 12, 2009Bad News: You find a strange man breaking into your car and going through your stuff. Worse News: He's wearing boxer shirts and a purple bra. Good News: It's not your bra.
Dad Rule No. 1 ... When all else fails, blame the baby
Posted on June 12, 2009New Hampshire police went to the home of a man suspected in a hit-and-run accident. The man of the house said he owned the vehicle in question, but that his son was the one who drove it. Police later checked...
Open Thread ... Sweet Merciful Friday
Posted on June 12, 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,...
Friends of "In Cold Blood" family raising money for a memorial
Posted on June 12, 2009At a community park in Holcomb, the Plog reports. They still need another $3K to reach the $18,000 goal. BTW, if you're an "In Cold Blood" fan, be sure to look at this series from the Journal-World. If you've only...
Where is Renee Pernice?
Posted on June 12, 2009The Northland woman's disappearance is still an unsolved case at this point. Her family, though, is offering a $25K reward, and they're putting her face on four billboards, Glenn Rice reports. The first billboard was installed recently at Interstate 435...
Cavalcade of Nicknames!
Posted on June 12, 2009Whenever it sends out press releases, the U.S. attorney's office always shows exacting detail when it comes to listing the defendants' nicknames. Here's a list of the various aliases in the Operation Blockbuster memo: Lou Lou, Rolo, Alex (all for...
26 indicted in "Operation Blockbuster"
Posted on June 12, 2009Federal prosecutors say they've caught 26 people involved in an alleged Mexico-to-KC cocaine ring worth millions. The indictments were issued Thursday by a grand jury in Jeff City. The two central figures are Alejandro S. Corredor, a Colombian living in...
Shed a tear for the poor Ponzi schemers!
Posted on June 12, 2009It's not just the bankers who are suffering in this economy. The lowlifes who run Ponzi schemes are also getting burned, the Washington Post reports. The FBI has about 500 investigations running right now, all of them looking into these...
KCMO homicide count at 50
Posted on June 12, 2009That's where the homicide total for KCMO stands right now. At the same point last year, that figure was 46. About 38 percent of this year's homicides have been cleared. Add in homicides from past years that have been solved...
Want to attend KCPD's Citizen Police Academy?
Posted on June 12, 2009The department is taking applications now for its fall class, which starts Sept. 9. It will meet on Thursdays for nine weeks. To join, entrants must be 18 or older, and have a "good standing" in the community. (Which I'm...
Homeless man accused of self-abuse on St. Joseph bus -- lands in federal court
Posted on June 12, 2009He'd actually done time on a previous sex offense in North Carolina, but hadn't registered as a sex offender in Missouri, the U.S. Attorney for Western Missouri alleges.
Actually, some of the best Supreme Court justices were jerks
Posted on June 12, 2009Interesting op-ed from the New York Times, where a writer argues that we shouldn't focus too much on a justice's personality because, well, some of the best Supremes were notorious jerks. Snip: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. could be charming when...
It's been 15 years ...
Posted on June 12, 2009since Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered.
Florida man, 61, mugged while sitting on the toilet
Posted on June 12, 2009Which was probably convenient. That way, he was in a very good place if they scared the crap out of him.
Murder charges filed in Fairway shooting
Posted on June 12, 2009From Joe Lambe: A man who overdosed in California when surrounded by police has been charged with first-degree murder in Johnson County for the death of his wife Monday, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said this morning. Franklin L....
The Florida cat killer just keeps getting more violent
Posted on June 12, 2009If you thought it couldn't get worse ...
Okies to Jessica Alba: Bygones
Posted on June 12, 2009She won't be charged for allegedly hanging shark posters around Oklahoma City.
Amanda Knox testifies in Italian murder trial
Posted on June 12, 2009Knox is an American college student, studying in Italy, who's accused of murdering her housemate during "a drug-fueled sex game that went awry," the New York Times reports. As you might imagine, this captured the fevered imagination of, well, everybody...
Wisconsin man secretly taped sex with his GFs -- gets probation
Posted on June 12, 2009In Wisconsin, this is a felony -- "capturing an image of nudity without consent." (If none of his girlfriends knew, I'm curious how these tapes came to light.) The prosecutor is annoyed because the defendant won't serve any jail time....
"I'm going to cut you up like a wild hillbilly"
Posted on June 12, 2009Story is from Wisconsin. A man named "Country," who has no set address, is accused of threatening a man he met in the park. Country asked the man for beer and cigarettes and used "vulgar" language to refer to the...
Hutch man accused of running $3 million fraud ring while he was in prison
Posted on June 12, 2009Specifically, it was mortgage fraud, based in the Kansas City area. (The feds have been pretty busy with those kinds of cases over the past few years.)
Inmate hosts 6-hour bar mitvzah for his son inside NY jail
Posted on June 12, 2009There is some concern among city officials as to how this happened. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Goshel!
Chicago cop gets 3 years for beating handcuffed suspect in wheelchair
Posted on June 12, 2009With a sap, no less. (Something that is specifically banned by Chicago PD.) For an encore, he also fudged some police records. Here's the interesting thing, though. The officer was originally prosecuted on a state charge and got probation. So...
Prank caller continues to terrorize U.S. motels
Posted on June 12, 2009The other day, we linked to a story about a prank caller who fooled a Holiday Inn employee into setting off the hotel's fire alarm and smashing some windows. Well, the same thing has happened at seven other hotels/motels in...
UPDATE: Dog apparently got high from eating marijuana
Posted on June 12, 2009Hat Tip: Many thanks, blondie2hot7!
Oops
Posted on June 12, 2009PETA decided it might be, you know, tacky to buy billboards that use George Tiller's murder to promote their cause. Sorry about that -- PETA totally wanted to put up the billboards. It was the billboard companies that refused. Hat...
Medical pot seller gets 1 year in prison -- judge says he was forced to punish him
Posted on June 12, 2009A few months ago, the Obama administration said it wasn't going to prosecute people who grew or sold medical marijuana, if their states had laws allowing it. Unfortunately for Charles C. Lynch, who ran a dispensary in California, he was...
Guilty verdict in Raymond Gutierrez murder
Posted on June 12, 2009From WyCo DA: A Wyandotte County District Court jury yesterday found Bernard A. Cline, Black Male, D.O.B. 09/23/1962, guilty of First Degree Murder in connection with the September 21, 2007 shooting death of Raymond Gutierrez, which occurred in the 300...
Colorado man accused of upskirting 8-year-old in Platte County
Posted on June 12, 2009KSHB has the full story 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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