Common sense takes a holiday

Carrying a gun openly in a Colorado movie theater may have been legal, but sometimes discretion is called for.

Amish beard cutters to face trial

All 16 defendants declined plea bargain offers in the case.

It ought to be a very entertaining trial (if your not the judge or attorneys involved in it).

Charges filed in movie shooting

Prosecutors unveil the charges against that guy whose name shall not be mentioned here.

Tuesday's open thread

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Read more here: http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2012/07/fri-3.html#storylink=cpy

Fake 911 call leads to police shooting

A Dallas man is charged with reporting a bogus kidnapping.

He wanted to get back at somebody for assaulting him. Instead, he got somebody killed.

Woman kills man who wouldn't give her a beer

Police in Florida say the suspect is known as the "Sea Hag."

 

Disorder in the court

He got 15 days in jail for each finger he displayed to the judge in Springfield.

13-year-old driver causes fatal crash

The girl was allegedly driving a stolen truck and fleeing from police.

A young mother was killed.

Daddy did a bad thing

What kind of man would put his daughter's kitten in a boa constrictor's cage?

This guy.

What's Abe doing on that Benjamin?

Seems like these counterfeiters weren't even trying.

Band campers threatened with gun

The gunman wanted them to BE QUIET!

Monday's open thread

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Courtroom suicide case

The autopsy reveals that cyanide killed the man.

Karma: she don't mess around

The suspect in a child's abuse death fled the country, but that didn't prevent him from being electrocuted and impaled on a fence.

Community service hours for sex?

A 24-year-old woman wisely declined the offer from one Benedetto Vitale.

 

Courthouse fistfight caught on video

It happened during a break in a southeast Missouri murder trial.

The guy who threw the first punch didn't throw the last one.

Alleged abuser says boy preferred dog food

Sure he did.

 

Olympic star shares pain of sexual abuse

Nice story about the bravery of a woman who explains the kind of emotional trauma experienced by victims of these kinds of predators.

The world's greatest police blotter

Yes, crime bloggers, it's time for another installment in the ongoing adventures of Alaska's finest citizens.

Here's one of my favorites: A young man who took advantage of his recent right to become inebriated took it upon himself to create a commotion by yelling at other inebriates in the bar.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/07/26/2556818/unalaska-police-blotter-sympathy.html#storylink=cpy

Friday's open thread

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Another Missouri child neglect case

This case was out of Joplin.

The 3-year-old victim weighed just 12 pounds.

Tattoo gives robber away

Strangely, it was the rather subdued (if any tattoo on one's forehead can be subdued) work of "art" on his noggin and not the swirling mess on his neck.

Man killed after shooting, stabbing officers

It happened in the St. Louis suburb of O'Fallon.

Local connection to Florida puppeteer porn case

A Roeland Park man, jailed here on child porn charges, allegedly engaged in disturbing conversations about chilodren.

Ma Ripken abducted; found safe

The mother of Cal Ripken Jr. was abducted at gunpoint.