Prison in girl's shooting death

Owner of gun that fired fatal shot on July 4th gets three years in prison.

 

Body found in burned truck

Platte City police are investigating the circumstances.

Prisoner pranks police

What could go wrong when prison inmates manufacture the decals for police cars?

Cops in Vermont know the answer.

Defaming the dead?

New Orleans police are backing off their policy of releasing the criminal records of homicide victims.

Their point was to show that a majority of those killed in the city were also involved in criminal activity. What's your take crime bloggers?

It's an issue that we contend with here on a regular basis as well.

Officer fatally shoots colleague at DUI checkpoint

It happened in California.

Officers were attempting to arrest one of their own after he was accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a teenager.

 

Friday's open thread

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Stealing from the police

These officers in St. Louis were trying to help a woman.

Meanwhile she was helping herself at their expense.

Facebook predator sent to prison

Mark Morris provides his usual top-notch recounting of the case of one Kai Pedersen, the Danish man who relentlessly harassed an 11-year-old Missouri girl.

Unless the U.S. Bureau of Prisons starts allowing inmates to access Facebook sometime in the next 30 years, Pedersen won't ever do it again.

No, it's not a crime

But really,I just couldn't avoid posting an item that uses the term "rock snot."

Which would make a great name for a heavy metal band.

Ambulance official faces charge

An alleged case of using inside information for monetary gain from the Northland.

Fitness trainer sentenced for relationship with teen

While there is nothing surprising anymore about these kind of cases involving adult women and teen boys, this one had me wondering about parents who would hire a woman to work with their 14-year-old son. In their home. Alone.

 

Groping for trouble

This 85-year-old New Jersey man likes to give hugs.

He just has a different definition of hug it would appear.

 

Thinking big

Some people knock off liquor stores.

This guy (allegedly) talked people out of millions.

Thursday's open thread

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Reports of his death

"Dead" man surfaces in Vegas 25 years after being declared legally dead.

Speculation about his motives for disappearing include marriage issues, gambling debts or mob involvement.

 

This Mona Lisa is not smiling

A New York teacher named Mona Lisa Tello is accused of forging a jury duty notice to get some time away from her job.

Note the number is misspelled words in her note.

Guilty plea in Citadel development case

Mark Morris uses the word "debacle" in the story and it certainly fits.

The passing of Don Cornelius

I love watching old clips of Soul Train from the 1970s when kids (myself included I'm afraid to say) wore such, how do I say, interesting clothes.

 

Toothless robber needed dentures

So she robbed a bank in Pennsylvania to pay for them.

 

"Despicable" abuse of students in LA

While these kinds of stories have become way too common, this one is particularly strange and twisted.

You have the right to remain silent

But do you have the right to prevent prosecutors from accessing encrypted information on your computer?

A federal judge in Colorado says no you don't.

The case seems destined for the Supreme Court.

I'm late, I'm late for a very important date (in jail)

This Tennessee guy (who by the way looks a bit like John McCain) just couldn't wait on an ambulance that was blocking his way. So he tried to take things into his own hands.

 

Wednesday's open thread

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Waking up into a nightmare

An incredible case out of Connecticut.