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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Monday, April 03, 2006
Gunfire in Leawood: Kidnapping arrest
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
KC-linked crime drama on TV tonite
A true-crime book co-authored by Star reporter Mark Morris has turned into a movie on TV tonight. Star TV critic Aaron Barnhart:
- “Fatal Desire” (8 tonight on Lifetime): A true-crime book co-written by The Star’s Mark Morris becomes a Lifetime movie starring Anne Heche and Eric Roberts.
- Fatal Error was an account of the lurid Internet-interstate murder case in which a bored housewife convinces her online lover in Flint, Mich., to drive down to Kansas City and knock off her hubby.
- Story today: Lifetime movie has local tie
Reuters' lukewarm review:
Lifetime movie a Fatal disaster
People Magazine ad (PDF)
JoCo sheriff daily blotter
Daily posting by the Johnson County sheriff's office.
Offenses April 2, 2006: XLS PDF
Also available at www.jocosheriff.org
Olathe sex, drugs, alcohol
Weekly report of Olathe sex-, drug- and alcohol-related
arrests.
March 27 - April 2, 2006: XLS PDF
Also available at www.olatheks.org
Olathe daily offenses
Daily posting by Olathe police.
March 31 - April 2, 2006: XLS PDF
Also available at www.olatheks.org
Overland Park sex, drugs, alcohol
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
Overland Park weekend offenses
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
Why you should be able to buy heroin
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)
Celebrity phone beatings roundup
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:
- Convicted in 2001 of hitting an assistant with a telephone
- Accused last year of hitting an assistant with her Blackberry, case still pending
- In court last week for allegedly throwing a phone and hitting a housekeeper in the back of the head
Crowe pleaded guilty in November to third-degree assault for throwing a phone at a hotel concierge.
