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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Not remotely crime-related
I think we've reached unprecedented levels of wrongness with this one.
Hello, Kitty
Wyoming cop gets sent to a house to deal with a cat. Dispatcher described it as a "house cat." The caller, however, said "BIG CAT" as in a mountain lion. Hilarity ensues. (And I'm guessing there was probably a beatdown back at dispatch, after the officer got his stitches ...)
Criminal charges for boy accused of pulling knife at school
A 12-year-old boy accused of threatening people at Holy Trinity School is charged as a juvenile with three counts of aggravated assault, authorities said.
The eighth-grade student displayed a large the knife Monday in a way that threatened teachers and students at the school at 13600 W. 92nd St., Lenexa police said. Teachers disarmed the boy and held him for police. No one was injured.
Guilty plea in bicyclist's murder
A Kansas City man today pleaded guilty to killing a bicyclist as he rode through an east Kansas City neighborhood.
Fabian D. Brown Jr., 23, is the second codefendant to plead to the killing of 43-year-old Robert W. Osborn in November 2005. Brown pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action, the same charges that Rapheal L. Willis admitted to in August.
Brown told Jackson County Circuit Judge Jay A. Daugherty that Willis and he were looking to rob someone during the early morning hours. He admitted that they planned to rob and shoot a woman and then decided against it. Brown told the judge that when they saw Osborn on his bike that he fired a rifle twice but missed on purpose. He said Willis then fired a shotgun and killed Osborn.
Osborn had just left his job at the Hy-Vee Food & Drug Store at U.S. 40 and Noland Road and was riding his bike home, as he often did. He was shot along 47th Street near Blue Ridge Boulevard.
The photo is of Osborn, who's the focus of a memorial site here. After his death, his family has been very outspoken about crime prevention. (They're the folks responsible for the Safe Streets, Safe City proposal.)
Here's an earlier post on Osborn -- his obituary.
An older post about the case from local blogger Eddie B.
Mayra Lizbeth Rosales
From The AP: This file photo originally released by the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office shows Mayra Lizbeth Rosales who is facing a murder charge in the death of her 2-year-old nephew. Her trial will have to be held in a building separate from the courthouse because of the defendant's weight, her lawyer said.
Rosales, whose weight has been estimated between 800 pounds and 1,000 pounds, was arrested in March and charged at home because the Hidalgo County sheriff's department did not have a large enough cell or a way to transport her to jail. (AP Photo/Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office, File)
Were the P&L and Westport shootings underplayed?
That's what Capt. Spaulding, another local blogger, argues. Snip:
First- the 2:20am Sunday morning shooting in a 13th Street & Grand parking garage near the city's blessed "Power & Light" entertainment district.
No news accounts anywhere in this town told of the "chaos" of hundreds of people trying to get to their cars to go home- only to find that parking garage and the street around it sealed off with yellow police crime-scene tape.
Channel 41's videographer Al Miller told me of this several times as I spoke with him from the scene. You could even HEAR the people in the background as Mr. Miller described people "disregarding the crime-scene tape and going under it" to get to their cars and go home.
Oh, H.R. isn't going to like this at all ...
Dear Employers: If you do catch an employee stealing from you, it would probably be very tempting to wrestle him to the ground and then force him to march down a busy street while wearing an "I AM A THIEF" sign, but be careful ... the police might arrest YOU, too.
(There's an excellent photo after the jump ...)
Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!
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