The Highway Patrol reports a Bartlesville, Oklahoma man sustained minor injuries when the sports utility vehicle in which he was a passenger struck an agricultural sprayer one mile east of Gallatin around noon on Thursday. An ambulance transported 80-year-old John McCollum to Wright Memorial Hospital of Trenton. SUV driver 79-year-old William Estes of Bartlesville, Oklahoma […]
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Prisoner who escaped from Mercer County Jail escapes again using board to open wall
The Mercer County Sheriff’s Department reports a Kansas City man who escaped from the Mercer County Jail in Princeton earlier in August has escaped again. Sheriff Stephen Stockman reports it is believed 27-year-old Drake Kately escaped around 8:30 Wednesday night by tearing a hole in the back wall of his jail cell with a board […]
Court sets bond for Chillicothe man accused of sodomy
The bond was amended in the Associate Division of Livingston County Circuit Court on Tuesday for a Chillicothe man charged with felony sodomy or attempted sodomy, first degree, victim less than 12 years old. Online court information shows the court amended 29-year-old Richard James Stumph’s bond to $50,000 cash only, 10% allowed. He was originally […]
La Plata man hurt in Highway 11 crash
The Highway Patrol reports a La Plata man sustained moderate injuries when a pickup truck ran off the road eight miles north of Kirksville Tuesday morning. Emergency medical services transported 71-year-old Robert Demma to the Northeast Regional Medical Center. The truck traveled north on Highway 11 before it reportedly attempted to avoid oncoming traffic and […]
Livingston County Sheriff reports arrest of two on “Most Wanted” fugitive list
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of two most wanted fugitives over the weekend. Sheriff Steve Cox says 51-year-old John James Meyer of Hale was arrested on a warrant for alleged probation violation on original felony possession of a controlled substance: methamphetamine. Online court information indicates Meyer appeared in Division One of Livingston […]
Former KC Chiefs player charged with illegal firearms after being tasered while resisting arrest
A former Kansas City Chiefs football player, who was tasered twice while struggling with officers and resisting arrest, was charged in federal court with illegally possessing firearms. Saousoalii P. Siavii, Jr., also known as “Junior,” 40, of Independence, Missouri, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., […]
Rogersville business owner indicted for $4 million fraud scheme, failure to pay taxes
A Rogersville, Missouri business owner has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a $4 million scheme to defraud his customers and his failure to pay federal income and employment taxes. Michael David Dismer, 51, was charged in a 28-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Missouri, on Thursday, […]
Man who escaped Mercer County Jail pleads “Not Guilty”
A Kansas City man accused of escaping from the Mercer County Jail in Princeton entered a plea of “not guilty” in the Associate Division of Mercer County Circuit Court on Friday. Drake Andrew Kately has been charged with felony escape or attempted escape from custody while under arrest for a felony. His bond on the […]
Additional charges filed against man who escaped Mercer County Jail
A Kansas City man accused of escaping from the Mercer County Jail in Princeton earlier this month has been charged in Mercer County with felony escape or attempted an escape from custody while under arrest for a felony. A warrant has been issued for Drake Andrew Kately, and his bond is $15,000 cash only. Mercer […]
Trenton man attempts to take his life at Charlie Dye Bridge
Grundy County Coroner Dewayne Slater has confirmed the death of a Trenton man who attempted to take his own life outside of the Trenton city limits on Friday, August 16, 2019. Slater says Tim Demsich was transported from the Charlie Dye Bridge to a Kansas City hospital before he died later in the day. Authorities […]
Macon, Missouri man presented with Highway Patrol Honorary Trooper Certificate
Lieutenant Steven V. Wilhoit, Assistant Director of the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control, presented Macon, Missouri, resident Ryan Johnson with a Missouri State Highway Patrol Honorary Trooper Certificate. The certificate was presented to Johnson at the Chariton Valley Communications Corporate Headquarters in Macon, with his co-worker’s present. The Honorary Trooper […]
Chillicothe man faces additional charges from incident that ended in Mooresville
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox reports additional charges have been filed in the Livingston County Associate Circuit Court on a Chillicothe man stemming from an incident that ended in Mooresville in July. Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Aaron Case allegedly fled from a deputy prior to being arrested on a felony warrant for alleged violation of bond conditions […]
Man who allegedly pointed gun at deputy pleads “not guilty” in Livingston County court
A Chillicothe man accused of fleeing on a motorcycle and aiming what was believed to be a weapon at a law enforcement officer at Mooresville July 13th entered a plea of not guilty on three felony charges in the Associate Division of Livingston County Circuit Court on Tuesday. Matthew Aaron Case faces charges of resisting […]
Charges filed against two in Sunday morning multi-county pursuit
Two Kansas City men were charged Monday in Clinton County stemming from Sundays’ law enforcement pursuit that ended in Clinton County. Missouri state troopers and other officers were involved in a multi-county chase Sunday morning with three allegedly stolen vehicles from a dealership at Springfield, Illinois. Sources report the three drivers were apprehended after the […]
Multi-county pursuit with three vehicles ends with crash and arrests on Sunday morning
Missouri state troopers and other officers were involved in a multi-county chase Sunday morning with three allegedly stolen vehicles out of Springfield, Illinois Sources report the three drivers were apprehended after the vehicles were stopped due to spiked tires and one that crashed. Sergeant Jake Angle with the northwest Missouri troop says that just after […]
One injured in crash on Highway 6 near Kirksville
The Highway Patrol reports a Hurdland man sustained minor injuries when the pickup truck he drove struck a car and overturned two miles east of Kirksville on Friday morning. Twenty-six-year-old Dakota Walker was to seek his own treatment. The driver of the car, driver 17-year-old Myranda Anthes of Brashear, was not reported as injured. Walker […]
Gallatin man pleads “not guilty” to kidnapping, domestic assault and endangering the welfare of a child
A Gallatin man facing several felony charges stemming from an incident in October in which he allegedly choked his girlfriend and pushed her and her son to the floor entered a plea of not guilty in Division One of Daviess County Circuit Court on Wednesday. Online court information shows 28-year-old Vincent Lee Sturgeon has been […]
Motorcyclist crashes into SUV, life-flighted to hospital in Columbia
The highway patrol reports the driver of a motorcycle was injured in a rural southwest Carroll County accident. Fifty-two-year-old Jeffrey Vogan of Huntsville was listed with serious injuries and flown by air ambulance to University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia. Wright, the driver of the SUV wasn’t hurt during the crash. Vogan had been northbound […]
Pattonsburg man killed in motorcycle crash south of Bethany
A Pattonsburg man died as the result of a motorcycle crash eight miles south of Bethany on Friday morning shortly after 7:00 am. The Highway Patrol reports an ambulance transported 65-year-old Danny Daniel to the Harrison County Community Hospital of Bethany where he was pronounced dead approximately two hours after the crash. The motorcycle traveled […]
Four from Kansas City plead guilty to armed robberies
Four Kansas City, Missouri, residents have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a series of armed robberies. Brion L. McDonald, 30, and Felicia D. Green, 42, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough. McDonald pleaded guilty to one count of robbery. Green pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to […]