Colton Harris-Moore, the alleged "Barefoot Bandit," is now being sought in Nebraska, KOMO-TV reports. He's something of a minor celebrity in the Pacific Northwest, where he's suspected of several break-ins and airplane thefts, of all things. And now law-enforcement officials are convinced that he's in the Midwest. There was a report the other day that he stole a car in Iowa.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
New developments in Kyron Horman case
We've written a little about the disappearance of Kyron Horman, a 7-year-old whose disappearance has made big news in Oregon. The boy was last seen inside his elementary school on June 4, and despite a major search and investigation, there's been no sign of him since. His father has just filed for divorce from Kyron's stepmom, who was one of the last people to see the boy. Keep in mind, the stepmom is NOT a suspect at this point, and hasn't even been listed as a person of interest. The Oregonian has more here.
FILE -- In a June 11, 2010 file photo Terri Horman and Kaine Horman, the father of missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman, stand together at a press conference at Brooks Hill Historical church in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens/file)
Mo. gears up for statewide DUI enforcement campaign
Fair warning to everybody who likes to drive while intoxicated: Pretty much every lawman in the great state of Missouri is going to be looking for you, if you choose to do so between July 2 and July 5. There's going to be a statewide enforcement campaign running over the holiday weekend, though different agencies will react different ways. KCPD has at least one checkpoint planned. Lee's Summit is going to do saturation patrols. And the highway patrol has another 10-Mile Trooper operation in the works. That's just the stuff that I know about.
Have you seen this man?
OP police are trying to find a guy who allegedly used a credit card that had been stolen during a series of car burglaries. The thefts happened early Saturday near the 10600 block of West 130th Terrace; the missing card was used at two stores by 6 that morning. The suspect is white, maybe in his late teens. He's wearing a gray T-shirt with REGIS on the front and khaki shorts. They think he might be driving a tan or gold SUV.
During the car burglaries, the parties responsible also spray-painted curse words and some shapes on the cars and driveways, police say.
If you know who he is, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (474-8477) or OPPD at 913-344-8750.
Should workers be fired for using medical marijuana?
A Michigan man is suing Wal-Mart for firing him after he tested positive for pot -- which he's allowed to use under the state's medical-marijuana law. (He has an inoperable brain tumor.) He says that he never used the drug at work, only at home at night. The company learned about his drug use after he got hurt at work and went to the doctor, where he was tested.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Murderer Richard Davis loses appeal
Davis is serving so much time for raping and murdering two local women that his sentence is usually written out in exponents. He's just lost an appeal before the Missouri Supreme Court. You can read the court's decision here, via PDF.
Hat Tip: Many thanks, FanDanGo!
Missouri close to resuming executions?
Ach, missed this from the other day: The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to Missouri's death-penalty policies. The attorney general, Chris Koster, is viewing this as a green light to resume executions, though a defense attorney says they've got another case in the hopper and, thus, nobody should be killed just yet. The AG already says he's going to request an execution date for Joseph Paul Franklin.
You might remember Franklin; he's kind of a piece of work. From an old CSKC post ...
This isn't his birth name, by the way. James Clayton Vaughn renamed himself after Joseph Paul Goebbels and Benjamin Franklin. (Two figures who naturally go together, right?) He is, as you might have guessed, a white supremacist known for targeting blacks, Jews and mixed-race couples.
He's confessed to trying (unsuccessfully) murder Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordan, though was never convicted. He's on Missouri's Death Row for killing a man outside a bar mitzvah in St. Louis.
Women save driver stuck on Joco railroad tracks
Last night in JoCo, two young women helped pull a man from a car that was stuck on the railroad tracks -- just before a train hit the vehicle, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office reports. It happened a little before midnight, near 167th and U.S. 169. The driver had allegedly gone around the barricades and gotten high-centered, the sheriff's office said. After the driver, Geoffrey Jensen, was treated at a hospital, he was booked into New Century for allegedly driving on a suspended license and a registration violation.
No new trial for Raytown couple's killer
Here's some good news for the family of John and Mildred Caylor, a Raytown couple murdered during a robbery at their Christian bookstore in 2004. A lower court had ordered a new trial for Kellen C. McKinney, because he'd been tried on an attempted escape charge during his murder trial. That earlier ruling said he needed a new trial, because the charges were unrelated and shouldn't have been tried at the same time.
The Missouri Supreme Court has pushed the shenanigans button:
“His apparent motive for the attempted escape was avoidance of prosecution for the other charges, and the trial court correctly noted that his attempted escape provided evidence of his consciousness of guilt that was relevant to the other charges,” wrote Judge Mary R. Russell for a unanimous court.
Which means the Caylors' family don't have to sit through another trial ...
Now, THAT is a lovely mugshot
Headbutting people is harder than it looks.
Hat Tip: Many thanks to the always excellent JUNGLE JIM!
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