A new state audit has found that about 1,200 registered sex offenders are missing – with 800 of them considered to be the most dangerous of offenders. Boone County Sheriff’s Department Major Tom Reddin says adults and children must be cautious because the sex offender registry is one tool. State Auditor Nicole Galloway […]
The Grundy County Sheriff reports one area resident was arrested Monday on multiple charges while another turned himself in. Fifty-seven-year-old Kathy Jean Stratton of Trenton has been charged with four misdemeanors: peace disturbance, first offense, first-degree trespassing, resisting or interfering with an arrest, detention, or stop and operating a vehicle on a highway without a […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of four individuals on various unrelated charges. Forty-four-year-old Miriah Butler of Trenton was arrested Thursday on failure to obey judge’s order on felony charges of third-degree domestic assault—third or subsequent offense and distribution, delivery, manufacture, or production or attempt to possess with intent to distribute, deliver, manufacture, […]
Prison sentences have been announced for a former secretary and bookkeeper at the Tri-County R-7 school at Jamesport. In late June, a jury in Caldwell County convicted 43-year-old Dana Maxwell of Gallatin on 13 counts, six for receiving stolen property and seven involving forgeries. The single longest sentence is seven years with the Department of Corrections on […]
Below is a synopsis of some of the new legislation the Missouri General Assembly recently enacted that is related to crime and motor vehicles. The listed legislation has been signed into law. Unless otherwise noted, these laws went into effect August 28, 2018. The public needs to be aware of several of these new laws […]
(Missourinet) – A member of O.J. Simpson’s dream team has visited Missouri to present materials to a panel of five former Missouri judges studying a death penalty case. Attorney Barry Scheck is helping with the case of Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of the 1998 brutal stabbing of a former St. Louis newspaper reporter. During a […]
(Missourinet) – A northwest Missouri teenager faces felony charges for allegedly hanging a dog this year from a tree and killing the pet. Nodaway County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Rice tells Missourinet affiliate KMA in Shenandoah, Iowa that 17-year-old Lincoln Pope of Pickering is accused of torturing and mutilating a family dog and wrapping a cable […]
A Trenton resident has been arrested on two counts stemming from incidents Sunday. Twenty-eight-year-old William Edward Grimes the fourth has been charged with felony stealing from a Trenton business, fourth or subsequent offense. He also faces one count of resisting an arrest attempt by a police officer. Bond is $10,000 with Grimes scheduled to appear […]
The Trenton Police Department arrested a Trenton man Sunday on allegations of child molestation and child endangerment. The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports 53-year-old Tony Augustus Stanley has been charged with the felonies of fourth-degree child molestation, a child less than 17 years of age and offender greater than four years older and first degree […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Trenton woman Tuesday on failure to appear on two felony charges. Forty-four-year-old Miriah Butler’s bonds total $50,000 cash only, and her probation was suspended. She is scheduled for Division One of Grundy County Circuit Court August 9th. Butler was originally charged with distribution, delivery, manufacture, […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of two men Thursday as well as the extradition of one woman Friday. Twenty-two year old Rodney Brantley of Trenton has been charged with felony unlawful use of a firearm with bond set at $10,000 cash only. Court documents accuse Brantley of possessing a TriStar Arms semi-automatic […]
A former secretary and bookkeeper at the Tri-County R-7 School District of Jamesport has been convicted on 13 felony counts relating to embezzlement at the school district. The Gallatin North Missourian reports a Caldwell County jury convicted 43-year-old Dana Lee Maxwell of Gallatin Thursday on charges that included receiving stolen goods and forgery. The trial […]
The Supreme Court of Missouri affirmed the judgment against a man convicted of a drug charge in an appeal from the Livingston County Circuit Court Tuesday. A jury found Joseph Fountain Perry guilty of possession of a controlled substance in 2015. The state advised at his sentencing that the range of punishment was five to […]
A Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court to the sexual exploitation of a child and to illegally possessing a firearm. Corey Dean Frasher, 42, of Springfield, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to the charges contained in an April 6, 2017, federal indictment. Frasher remains in federal custody. The investigation […]
Charges have been filed in Grundy County Circuit Court against five persons arrested on various charges over the weekend at Trenton. Forty-three-year-old Ricky Eugene Shoemaker of Trenton and his brother, 25-year-old Forrest Lee Shoemaker of Brookfield are held in jail on $20,000 cash bond on three counts. Each faces charges of second-degree burglary, attempted burglary, and possession of […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of one man and the transfer of another. Fifty-seven-year-old Tommy Joe Graham of Trenton was arrested Tuesday on felony charges of delivery of a controlled substance, manufacture of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of a firearm, and unlawful use of a weapon. His bond is $60,000 cash […]
Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, presented the annual Crystal Kipper & Ali Kemp Memorial Award to two detectives in the Joplin, Mo., Police Department in recognition of their valued contributions to investigating and prosecuting those who prey upon children. Detective Charles Root, Jr., is also an FBI task […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
