Here are police blotters for 25 Kansas City area cities, printed Saturday in Neighborhood News sections of The Star. All are PDF files this week.
Olathe (66061, 66082)-Overland Park (66210, 66213, 66221)
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Here are police blotters for 25 Kansas City area cities, printed Saturday in Neighborhood News sections of The Star. All are PDF files this week.
Olathe (66061, 66082)-Overland Park (66210, 66213, 66221)
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 11:48 AM in Crime stats, Police blotters | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Daily report from Leawood police. Today: A man forced his way into a home Sunday, fired two shots from a handgun, and ended up getting arrested on a kidnapping charge. He's due in court this afternoon, said Capt. Troy Rettig.
The kidnapping arrest came about because the man forced the homeowner and/or other residents of the house into a room, Rettig said. He declined to say what the dispute was about.
April 1 8:28 p.m. to 7:28 a.m. today: PDF
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 11:31 AM in Crime stats - Leawood | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A true-crime book co-authored by Star reporter Mark Morris has turned into a movie on TV tonight. Star TV critic Aaron Barnhart:
Reuters' lukewarm review:
Lifetime movie a Fatal disaster
People Magazine ad (PDF)
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 11:18 AM in Homicides - Kansas City | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Daily posting by the Johnson County sheriff's office.
Offenses April 2, 2006: XLS PDF
Also available at www.jocosheriff.org
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 07:49 AM in Crime stats - JoCo sheriff | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Weekly report of Olathe sex-, drug- and alcohol-related
arrests.
March 27 - April 2, 2006: XLS PDF
Also available at www.olatheks.org
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 07:46 AM in Crime stats - Olathe | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Daily posting by Olathe police.
March 31 - April 2, 2006: XLS PDF
Also available at www.olatheks.org
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 07:44 AM in Crime stats - Olathe | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Weekly report from Overland Park police.
Sex-, drug- and alcohol-related arrests March 27 - April 2, 2006: XLS PDF
Data also available at www.opkansas.org
Also see:
Interactive
map of Overland Park crime data by local programmer Brett Rickman
Crime
mapping by Overland Park police
Past
Overland Park crime reports in this
blog
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, March 20, 2006 at 09
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 07:38 AM in Crime stats - Overland Park | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Offenses March 31-April 2, 2006: XLS PDF
Data also available at www.opkansas.org
Also see:
Interactive
map of Overland Park crime data by local programmer Brett Rickman
Crime
mapping by Overland Park police
Past
Overland Park crime reports in this
blog
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 07:36 AM in Crime stats - Overland Park | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
This blog is meant to be your one-stop resource for crime-related stories from The Star. Links today and over the weekend:
Today
Motorist opens fire on Hell's
Angels
Latest homicide is man found shot
in car
Woman allegedly kidnapped,
assaulted
Sunday
Two
die after car crosses median VIDEO
Physician
faces allegations
Vandals
strike dinosaur tracks
Toy
maker shuns recall request
Saturday
Caught
red-handed?
Former
DeLay aide enters guilty plea
Judge
overturns sodomy conviction
State
ban on sexual billboards is upheld
Former
death row inmate free after no-contest plea
Lee’s
Summit death investigated
Grant
will help combat child abuse
Prison system takes steps
to crack down on inmate sexual violence
New
trial ordered in predator case
Judge
backs Westar jury
Metropolitan
Digest
Somali
man avoids jail for moving of money
Public
defender system needs help (Star editorial)
The
many positive aspects of gun shows (As I See It)
Questions
linger after teen’s slaying of mother
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 06:40 AM in Links to crime stories | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Do you feel mocked by your computer? Now it's about to look at your face and decide if it likes you. From the interesting techzine EWeek:
Hmm, every fourth time I walk away I can't log back on? I'll feel like the astronaut in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay door, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 06:00 AM in Cyber-crime | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Are you a police officer? Are you exhausted? Stressed out? Harvard U. wants to help - by having you volunteer for a nationwide study of the effects of fatigue on cops and other first responders:
Thanks and a hat tip to Star medical writer Alan Bavley!
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 06:00 AM in Police administration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Former narc Jack Cole isn't proud of having put young, sometimes college-bound people in prison for selling him a joint in the 1970s.
The worst, he told a UMKC audience Sunday, was a drug-free youth trying to escape the inner city but who helped a begging Cole "find a fix" - and drew seven years for conspiracy to distribute heroin.
So now Wichita native Cole, an ex-Marine and ex-New Jersey state trooper, wants to give heroin and other drugs away for free, under government sponsorship.
"We are being absolutely inundated with high-quality, hard drugs in this country, and with current policies there's no way to stop them," said Cole, a founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
Drugs are more available now and cheaper than ever, Cole said. The War on Drugs costs this country $69 billion a year, he said. Money that could more than offset the consequences of legalization, he said.
About 1.3% of the U.S. population was addicted to drugs in 1900, Cole said. The number's the same today, he said. Difference: 1.7 million drug arrests a year, nearly half for marijuana.
Five thousand cops, ex-cops, corrections/probation/parole officers have joined LEAP, he said. NCSL members liked it; 80%-plus of cops he talks to likes it.
Previous post with 28 incisive comments
The whole Jack Cole spiel (29-page PDF)
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 06:00 AM in Drug offenses | Permalink | Comments (48) | TrackBack (0)
Kansas City police held a fully constitutional, state- and federal-funded DUI checkpoint Saturday night in the 6400 block of east Truman Road, in the parking lot of Hong Kong Supermarket and Tan Tan Authentic Vietnamese Food, across the street from Love United Missionary Baptist Church.
Chronology:
11:55 p.m. - Orange cones are out, flares down. Traffic's a trickle, never more than 2-3 cars at a time.
12:01 a.m. - A driver pulls up in a red Mercury. Officer Jake Becchina spots a pearl-handled object in a holster in the front seat. A gun? He reaches in and grabs it - it's a knife, which he places on the roof as he talks with the driver, who's sober.
12:03 a.m. - A young man in a black Chevy. He steps out, swaying. He's either a quiet person, or so drunk he can't talk. He's the evening's first DUI arrest.
12:10 - Three guys in a shiny red Monte Carlo LTZ with 30-day tags. They've just come out of the Shady Lady, we learn, where one of them - not the driver - celebrated his 21st birthday. "Unfortunately, I think the driver may have had a little too much to drink," PO Becchina says.
12:55 a.m. - A dazed-looking woman with big hair nears the checkpoint in a beat-up Dodge pickup with Wyandotte County tags. But she stops a block short, and turns into and over a row of orange cones blocking the side street. "I guess she's cone-challenged," a cop says. She hasn't been drinking. "I'd hate to see what she drives like with anything in her," he says.
1:15 a.m. - Two young men pull up in a Delta 88. Open beer can, strong smell of dope. "Good evening, sir, I'm Officer..." Screeeech! The driver pulls away. "I saw that coming!" an officer says. The fleeing vehicle blows through a red light and disappears down Truman Road. Cops do not pursue. Dispatch puts out a call, but odds of finding the car aren't good.
1:30 a.m. - Rain. "This is too much like work."
1:50 a.m. - A young brunette with several passengers approaches the checkpoint in a white Ford Windstar LX. Suddenly she stops and throws it into reverse. A half-dozen cops move quickly toward the vehicle, like an unknown threat. She stops. Everyone out.
She's wearing a "Don't Be Jealous" T-shirt and explains that, well, she doesn't have an explanation. She didn't know what to do. Anyway, she hasn't been drinking.
2 a.m. - Suddenly it's 3 a.m, Daylight Savings Time. It's still raining. "We'll go 15 minutes more," says Sgt. Roger Hill. Results: 176 cars checked, 10 DUI arrests, 5.7% of driver stopped.
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 06:00 AM in Sobriety checkpoints | Permalink | Comments (111) | TrackBack (0)
Celebrities don't hurt people, phones hurt people. U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney (above, right) joins
supermodel Naomi Campbell (above left) and actor Russell Crowe in using a phone as a weapon of choice in an alleged assault:
McKinney, a George Democrat, got in a scrape with Capitol Hill police last week after an officer asked her for ID. "Witnesses say McKinney pulled her arm away, and with her cell phone in hand, punched the officer in the chest." (Bizjournal.com)
Campbell, meanwhile, is a serial phone-batterer:
Crowe pleaded guilty in November to third-degree assault for throwing a phone at a hotel concierge.
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 06:00 AM in Assaults | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
Northland blind date: He'd been drinking, so she was driving.
Unfortunately, she'd been drinking too, and was arrested for DUI when they were pulled over in Kansas City, North one night last week, police said.
Later, he showed up at the police station and bailed her out. End of a bad night? Not necessarily.
"She thought at least this much of him - they left in the same taxi," the desk sergeant said.
Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 06:00 AM in Traffic accidents/safety | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack (0)