$210,000 penalty for hiring illegal aliens

From U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren's office in Kansas on Wednesday:

• A Wichita company, its owner and a manager pleaded guilty today to knowingly hiring illegal aliens and agreed to pay a total of $210,000 in fines.
• News release

Hat tip to reader Doc, who provided this link today!

You can love your dog, but not this way

I only wanted to feed him but...
'He wouldn't stop licking'
A 61-year-old Iowa man was charged with bestiality after a neighbor reporting seeing him with his pants down and,  um, well, you know, with the neighbor's dog, a 10-month-old Siberian Husky.

(Photo: Gorgeous but not necessarily sexy Shyla, KC Animal Shelter Pet of the Week, November 2000)

Hat tip to reader Sarah P.!

The do's and don'ts of cussing out a cop

Mostly don'ts, I would think
A judge has rejected a New York City man's argument that he had a First Amendment right to tell a police officer to perform an anatomical impossibilty. Allowing such language, the judge said, would amount to a verbal "open season" on cops.

I posted a link to this story in a  round-up earlier today , and it drew this comment:

• no lie - a friend of mine was arrested for "S[hopping]WB" and after showing he had nothing in his pockets by dropping his pants, he told the security guard (an off-duty KCMO police officer), "now, you can ..." immediate arrest, trauma to this day - and of course the judge laughed his butt off and threw the whole thing out of court.
• Posted by: kmb | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 11:10 AM

China jails reporter on 'spying' rap

People wondered whether the Chinese government would crush Hong Kong's free press when they took over that island in 1999. Here's an answer:

Contact with Taiwan cited - that's bad
BEIJING (AP) - A Hong Kong reporter was sentenced Thursday by a Chinese court to five years in prison on spying charges in a case that prompted outcries by press freedom groups.
Ching Cheong's conviction came amid a government campaign to tighten media controls that has seen dozens of journalists jailed. A Chinese researcher for The New York Times was acquitted on spying charges last week but jailed for three years on a fraud claim.

Chinese proverb for the day: bai zhe bu nao (100 defeats no surrender)

Hat tip to reader Doc!

Elderly woman robbed over and over

A 91-year-old Kentucky woman has been robbed four times while sitting on her porch, but the last guy hit her in the head, this story says. She's OK, all things considered.

Hat tip to reader All in a Day's Work!

Medical cause cited in fatal crash

From Kansas City police:

• The man who was killed Tuesday near 26^th and Norton has been identified as Joe Tabon, black/male, 02/18/1944, of Kansas City MO. It is believed the accident was caused by a medical episode prior to the vehicle collision.  The exact nature of the medical episode will be determined during the autopsy.

KC homicide victim was Raytown man

From Kansas City police:

• The man who was shot at 3801 Wayne shortly midnight Wednesday and died about 12 hours later has been identified as Deandre L. Moore, black/male, 11/10/1977, of Raytown. The woman who was shot has been released from the hospital (date of birth 05/07/1972 of Kansas City.
• Detectives are asking anyone with information to call the TIPS hotline at 816.474.8477.

Defense attorney gone bad in Kansas?

Kansas AG Phill Kline says he will prosecute a 69-count criminal complaint against the chief public defender of western Kansas:
The charges  against Clay F. Hummer, 36,allege that he harassed, threatened and stalked another attorney in Garden City between July 2 and August 12. Hummer is the Chief Public Defender in the Western Kansas Region.
The charges include five counts of Criminal Threat, one count of Stalking, 44 counts of Harassment by Telephone, and 19 counts of Violation of a Stalking Order. 
Hummer was arrested Friday, August 18th, and made his first appearance this morning in Finney County District Court. Due to potential conflicts of interest, Finney County District Court judges have recused themselves from all future proceedings in this case.

No smoking rap against Stones guy

Journalists apparently snitched him out
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- Keith Richards won't be fined for reportedly lighting up during a Rolling Stones concert in Scotland.
The stage at Hampden Park, where the band performed Friday night on their "A Bigger Bang" tour, is exempt from a new law that bans smoking in enclosed public places, the Glasgow City Council said Monday.
Violators of the new law, which took effect in March, can be fined up to $95. The ban includes theaters and sports venues.

Hat tip - finally - to reader Theresa M.!

Random crime-related wire stories

A round-up of crime-related links sent by reader blondie2hot7 in the last couple of days. Prodigious! I bold-faced my favorites:

Kind of local:
Drug suspect shot in southern Missouri
Arkansas lawyer tried to bribe witness

East Coast, boston.com:
Did neighbor kill over molestation suspicion?
Arrested cop charges police brutality
Babysitter admits killing child by fish-tailing
Connecticut serial killer suspect
Ex-cop guilty of child porn

Other:
Jailed killer nurse donates kidney
No, you can't tell a cop to do that
Lawsuit settled over $1M lottery ticket
Million child-porn pix on man's PC
DC police officer allegedly shoots wife
VA governor honors slain officers