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New Orleans cops indicted in man's death

Posted on June 12, 2010
In New Orleans, a grand jury has indicted five police officers -- three current, two former -- in the shooting death of a man after Hurricane Katrina. The body of that man, Henry Glover, was later found in a burned...

Open Thread ... Weekend Edition

Posted on June 12, 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,...

KCPD plans DUI checkpoint next weekend

Posted on June 11, 2010
It'll happen anytime between Friday night and Sunday. And don't forget they've got a checkpoint going for this weekend, too.

The Love Boat: Special Victims Unit

Posted on June 11, 2010
The Senate has just passed a bill requiring cruise ships to report any onboard crimes to U.S. authorities because -- surprise -- there's no such law in place right now. They're only required to make a report in a crime...

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Let's make a (drug) deal!

Posted on June 11, 2010
In Gilbert, Ariz., a man posted an ad on Craigslist offering to trade his iPod Touch and his marijuana for a new iPad. To prove he was for reals, the ad included a picture of the iPod and the weed...

Open Thread ... Sweet Merciful Friday

Posted on June 11, 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,...

$865K jury award for man who said St. Louis cop beat him

Posted on June 11, 2010
In St. Louis, a federal jury has sided with a man who said that he was beaten by a police officer. The plaintiff was awarded $865,000, though the jury cleared the police board and another officer, who were also named...

Feds raid Lawrence herbal store again

Posted on June 11, 2010
From AP: Law enforcement officials have raided an herbal supplement store in downtown Lawrence for the second time. Sacred Journey was first raided in February by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration during an investigation of the synthetic marijuana called...

Underground lair falls victim to local building codes

Posted on June 11, 2010
A man's home is his castle, and underneath that castle, you will sometimes find a multilevel lair, reinforced with car struts and batteries ... until the g.d. codes enforcement people make you fill it in with concrete.

Arrest made in Ark. church murder

Posted on June 11, 2010
A few days ago, we linked to a story about Lillian Wilson, an 80-year-old found killed in her Arkansas church. She'd apparently been beaten with a cross from the church's altar. A suspect in her murder has been arrested in...

Woman admits to growing marijuana in her driveway, police say

Posted on June 11, 2010
Some marijuana growers go to great lengths to hide their operations -- building secret rooms, boobytrapping their sites, even constructing giant underground lairs with escape routes. Others, though, are not as discreet. In Memphis, a 65-year-old woman has gotten busted...

Man trapped in recliner by buffalo head

Posted on June 11, 2010
A man in the Florida Keys had to call 911 when a mounted buffalo head fell on him during his nap, trapping him in his recliner, the AP reports.

Is 'Ladies Night' unfair to men?

Posted on June 11, 2010
Minnesota is cracking down on "Ladies Night" -- the kind they have at bars, not the Kool & The Gang song -- saying that it's a form of illegal gender discrimination.

1 year for biting off sister's nose

Posted on June 11, 2010
A Michigan woman has been sentenced to a year in jail after she bit off a chunk of her sister's nose. (It occurred, as so many nose-maulings do, during "a drunken fight at their home," the Detroit Free Press says.)...

Hotel thief leaves sink behind, but not much else

Posted on June 11, 2010
Some hotel guests have a habit of "taking home" more than the complimentary shampoo, but an Overland Park case takes that to an extreme. Police are working an incident where a woman allegedly stole a 37-inch TV, towel racks, a...

Ronnie Lee Gardner would like to not die, please

Posted on June 11, 2010
Ronnie Lee Gardner is the convicted Utah murderer who has asked to be killed by a firing squad. Though he's expressed a preference for how he's executed, he would rather not be killed at all. That's why he went before...

A modest proposal: DNA tests should be mandatory

Posted on June 11, 2010
At Slate, writer Radley Balko argues that all biological evidence at crime scenes should be DNA-tested. Depending on the case, prosecutors and defense lawyers will resist such tests because they fear it will hurt their cases -- the possibility that...

Florida man accused of stalking Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson

Posted on June 11, 2010
In Los Angeles, a man is on trial for allegedly stalking Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson while she was appearing on "Dancing With The Stars," the AP reports. The suspect is a Florida man who, according to his public defender, became...

Now, THAT is a lovely mugshot

Posted on June 11, 2010
The gentlemen who put the suspect in this condition said they were merely doing "what had to be done." Hat Tip: Many thanks, cripjak!

Oregon man secretly snipped women's hair on city buses

Posted on June 11, 2010
In Portland, Ore., a 23-year-old man was sentenced to two years, four months in prison after he allegedly cut off clumps of women's hair on city buses. It was witness tampering, though, that he pleaded guilty to committing. He tried...

Crime, car crashes linked?

Posted on June 11, 2010
Shawnee is going to start putting traffic patrols in places where wrecks and crimes both tend to occur, Brad Cooper reports. Research has shown that places with a lot of crashes tend to have a lot of crime, too, an...

Charges filed in Shawnee road-rage case

Posted on June 11, 2010
From Joe Lambe: Johnson County prosecutors on Wednesday charged a 20-year-old Shawnee man with attempted first-degree murder after a road-rage shooting. Michael O. Williams is accused of shooting a 37-year-old man who showed up at a hospital with injuries from...

Report: Van der Sloot says he knows where Holloway's body is

Posted on June 11, 2010
Joran van der Sloot allegeldy told Peruvian police that he knows where Natalee Holloway's remains are. Keep in mind that van der Sloot's lawyer has already asked the judge to throw out the reported confession. You might remember, too, that...

Vacuum-cleaner incident leads to sex charges for elderly man

Posted on June 11, 2010
In Payson, Ariz., a 94-year-old man was arrested after he was found "in a garage that did not belong to him with a running vacuum cleaner attached to the front of his pants," azfamily.com reports. That incident led police to...

The rise of black-market dentistry

Posted on June 11, 2010
There have been a lot of cases where police have busted "underground dentists" for doing work in their garages, basements and other lairs. (Occasionally, you'll hear about an underground plastic surgeon, injecting caulk and other substances into peoples' backsides, but...

It's not what you think

Posted on June 11, 2010
I was really excited when I saw the headline "Search For Escaped Prisoner Ends In Owl's Head," and then I was really disappointed when I learned Owl's Head is a town in Maine. The story in my head -- which...

41 license arrests during KC checkpoint

Posted on June 11, 2010
KCPD held a drivers license checkpoint on Thursday night near Vivion and Antioch in the Northland. A total of 41 people got busted for driving while suspended or not having a license. (There were arrests for outstanding warrants and other...

23 indictments in local crack ring

Posted on June 10, 2010
The U.S. Attorney for Western Missouri has just announced 23 indictments against several Kansas City men, plus defendants from KCK, St. Louis and Raytown, in an alleged crack and cocaine ring. One those named is John Hooker, who, with his...

Missing OP teen, stepdad located

Posted on June 10, 2010
In San Diego, police have found a missing Overland Park teenager and her stepfather, Patrick Porter, at SeaWorld's Dolphin Encounter attraction. Porter, meanwhile, is facing a federal criminal charge back in Kansas. UPDATED: The wife of an Overland Park man...

He sounds suspicious, but was this a good arrest?

Posted on June 10, 2010
Oklahoma City police have arrested a man who was walking around a local park and asking academic questions to children, whom he rewarded with candy if they answered correctly. The man, who was described as a cross-dresser, had an air...

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