The Grundy County Sheriff’s Department reports the arrest of a Galt man on misdemeanor stealing charges from February of this year. 24-year-old Danny Eugene Campbell Junior is accused of appropriating a ladder, ammunition box, and three belt buckles belonging to Patrick Graves. Bond is set at $2500 with Campbell to appear July 26th in the […]
The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Adam Baker Thursday in the shooting death of his 26-year-old wife Holly Baker in a trial that began Monday, July 11. The Cameron man was convicted of Second Degree Murder and armed criminal action in a trial that lasted just four days in the death of his […]
A Trenton man, David Wayne Manus Jr. received a seven-year sentence to the Department of Corrections in connection with the abduction of a 9-year-old Trenton girl in October of 2015. Manus pleaded guilty in court on Thursday, June 23 to charges of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child as well as sexual misconduct by […]
The Livingston County Sheriff is reporting that a registered sex offender has moved from the state of Arkansas to Livingston County. Joseph Orville Lawson is reporting an address of 9803 LIV 229, Chillicothe, Missouri 64601. Lawson is described as a white male, five feet, eight inches tall, weighing one hundred thirty-five pounds. He has brown […]
A 24-year-old Trenton resident, Devin Pierce, was arrested in Jackson county on charges by a Grundy County Grand Jury, accusing him with three counts of distribution of a controlled substance, two of them within two-thousand feet of Trenton R-9 schools. Pierce is accused of distributing marijuana to a confidential informant at three locations, Eastside Park, […]
Charges have been filed in Caldwell County in connection with highway patrol sobriety checkpoint stops late Friday night and early Saturday morning. 19-year-old Zachery Rogers, 23-year-old Daniel Nabus, and 24-year-old Matthew Keheley, all of Kansas City, are charged with one count of felony possession of a controlled substance, one count of misdemeanor possession of up […]
A Trenton woman is the most recent person arrested on drug related charges stemming from a Grundy County Grand Jury Investigation. This indictment involves 42-year-old Miriah Butler who faces felony charges of distribution of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, to a confidential informant. The warrant says the incident occurred at her home in Trenton on January […]
(KRCG-TV) – A Macon man accused of murdering a 92-year-old Moberly woman with a machete 3 years ago on Easter Sunday will not face the death penalty. Christopher Lewis, 21, cut a deal with prosecutors by offering guilty pleas to 19 charges in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of […]
(St. Joseph News Press) – A Savannah and St. Joseph man are both facing felony first-degree molestation charges in two separate cases. Jeremy Gaukel, 32, of Savannah, was charged Tuesday from an alleged incident on April 2. According to the probable cause statement filed by Officer Matthew McMillen, of the Savannah Police Department, a 13-year-old […]
A Trenton man has been arrested on a drug charge. Twenty six year old Zane Neil Homan faces felony charges of possession of a controlled substance, identified as methamphetamine. Homan was arrested by Trenton Police on Friday and is to appear April 26th in the associate division of Grundy County Circuit Court. Bond is 15 thousand dollars cash.
In the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court, 41-year old Toby Street of Trenton has waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to Division 1 of Circuit Court on charges accusing felony possession of methamphetamine and possessing numerous smoking devices, intended to be used with methamphetamine. A charge accusing Street with misdemeanor passing […]
(St. Joseph News-Press) – One of the two men accused and convicted in the stabbing death of Richard Berry last April now faces a charge of attempted escape from prison. Sean Liechti, 25, who was convicted in Berry’s death on a county bridge over the Third Fork of the Platte River, was allegedly joined in […]
On Friday, March 11, 2016, the Chillicothe Police Department conducted an operation that resulted in the arrest of several individuals on drug charges. These charges were a result of a lengthy investigation conducted by Chillicothe Police Officers. The following subjects were arrested after Livingston County warrants were issued that stemmed from ongoing investigations: Trinity Joe […]
(St. Joseph News Press) – Testimony in a bond hearing Wednesday revealed an ongoing criminal investigation against an Amish man charged with poisoning his own wife. Samuel Borntreger appeared in a Harrison County courtroom Wednesday on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Anna Yoder Borntreger, in 2006. Authorities raised the […]
