Tyrone, come on home

Name: Tyrone Bates
Stats:  5'10, 160, DOB 06/21/1971
Felony warrants: 2 (drugs, battery)
Status: Wanted by KCPD
Hobbies: armed and dangerous
Hangs out: KC, KCK
Call the TIPS Hotline 474-8477

Raiders beat Chiefs 38-3 in drunk fan arrests

By Greg Reeves
Fans aren't exactly sleepy during a Chiefs game at Arrowhead, but they're no match for Oakland Raiders fans when it comes to wild in the seats:

Fans arrested:
Chiefs home opener Sept. 11: 3
Raiders-Chiefs in Oakland Sunday night: 38

Fan arrest rates/attendance:
Chiefs home opener: 3 of 78,014, or 0.003845%
Raiders-Chiefs in Oakland: 38 of 62,273 or 0.061022%

That means a Raiders fan in Oakland (above, left) was nearly 16 times more likely to be arrested than a Chiefs fan in KC. Are we more civilized? Just better drunks? Tomorrow we offer the wisdom and insight of Oakland police special-events coordinator Sgt. Tom Hogenmiller on this topic.

Hurricane relief, Platte County-style

By Greg Reeves
State Rep. Jason Brown of Platte City (left) didn't organize a flood-relief caravan to get his picture in the paper or anywhere else, he tells Crime Scene KC. But it was the media that got him started.
"On TV, the media, officials, local, state, federal, kept pointing the finger back and forth," Brown says. "It just struck a chord with me, that’s not solving anything or helping anybody."
So he got in touch with Parkville Mayor Kathy Dusenbery (right), and together they organized three semi-trailers of relief supplies, a Bobcat with a bucket and set of forks, and headed down to Ocean Springs, Miss., - Parkville's sister city.
Brown has two messages from his trip:

• Put supplies on pallets and shrink-wrap them. Unloading a semi in three hours with a Bobcat beats 100 exhausted volunteers working all day carrying stuff out by the handful.
• Blame-gaming "doesn't exist anywhere outside of New Orleans. Everywhere we were in Mississippi, people were courteous, helpful and genuinely thankful."

Links: Trip report and thank-you from Dusenbery and Brown
           Crime Scene KC Q&A with Jason Brown
           State Rep. Jason Brown

Top tattoos of Missouri prison inmates

By Greg Reeves
The Kansas City home invasion reported today in which one of the robbers had "KC" tattooed on his neck caused us to look up the most popular tattoos of Missouri prison inmates. See our previous post on the robberies.
We happen to have that data from the Missouri Department of Corrections, though it's somewhat old (1997). Later versions of the department's data omitted the tattoo descriptions.

Here are the most popular inmate tattoos:

"KC"-tattoed robber invades home

By Greg Reeves
Robbery detectives are investigating a home invasion in Kansas City about 1 a.m. today in which one the robbers displayed a "KC" tattoo on his neck, according to an early Star report.

The victims said they were sitting on their porch when they were forced inside at gunpoint by two men who drove up in a gray van. The men stole a rifle, CDs, DVDs and a coin collection, victims told police.

We were thinking, how nice of the robber to have such a clearly identifying tattoo. Surely that must be unique, we thought. But we were wrong!

No fewer than six inmates in the Missouri Department of Corrections had "K.C." tattoos, and two more had plain "KC" tattoos. That's according to a MoDOC inmates database we have from 1997 - the last time the department gave us such information.

Keeping sex offenders close

By Greg Reeves
Here's a simple trick we learned while trolling around the Kansas Bureau of Investigation's search page for registered offenders:

We searched "Overland Park" and got 72 hits - 61 white guys, nine more of Asian, black or Hispanic descent, and two women. That's a lot in one city! How to keep track?

• We hit Cntrl-A (select all)
• We hit Cntrl-C (copy to clipboard)
• We opened a blank document in Word on our PC
• We hit Cntrl-V (paste from clipboard)

Word crunched and crunched, and a couple minutes later came up with a 28-page document that reproduced the KBI query results page perfectly - color photos included!

Kansas, by the way, puts more than sex criminals on the list - violent crime from murder to involuntary manslaughter will get you on there, too, KBI spokesman Kyle Smith tells Crime Scene KC. The KBI has a brochure explaining the list.

Defense: "Larry's not good for this"

By Greg Reeves
The assault charge against Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson was continued to Nov. 29 in Municipal Court Tuesday. He is accused of pushing an ex-girlfriend during an argument in a Plaza bar early Saturday.
The picture (above, left), showing Johnson outside the court with his mom and his lawyer, Kevin Regan, made the front page this morning.
KCTV-5 also was there and has posted a video in which Regan says:

• "All the statements indicate Larry's not good for this. Larry did not do what's been alleged by the media. There are so many inaccuracies in what has been published that it's not even funny."
• "Basically Mr Johnson was on a date. He was minding his own business. He was not drinking, and some things happened that were alleged that we're ready to defend."

That's the defense. This blog is a perfect place to spell out media inaccuracies - especially our own - we'll call the good barrister and see if he wants to spell 'em out for us.

 

Today's links to The Star's crime coverage

This blog is meant to be your one-stop resource for all crime-related news from The Star. Here are links to crime news today.
(Warning: Clicking on a link below will take you to The Star's registration site, unless you've already registered in the past)
Whipple, 8th Circuit at odds
 Trial delay denied
 Metropolitan digest
Fight at charter school spurs arrests of teens
 Appeals court overturns convictions in ’96 assault
 Court declines case linked to concealed-gun permits
 New anti-meth law working, Blunt says
 Christian school on gang turf gains favor
Wichita dance-off turns into brawl
 Johnson’s trial postponed