A Polo woman was arrested Thursday, September 10th on felony charges of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia—amphetamine or methamphetamine and driving while revoked or suspended. The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports bond for 37-year-old Julie Mae Ledford is $7,000 cash only, and she is scheduled for the Associate Divison of Grundy County Circuit Court September […]
A Missouri man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm. Keyshaun Isaiah Jackson, 23, of Springfield, Missouri, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool on Wednesday, Aug. 19, to 15 years in federal prison without parole. Jackson was sentenced as an armed career criminal due to his prior felony […]
The judge in Division One of Grundy County Circuit Court handed down sentences, including probation to defendants in the Thursday session of Division One. At a hearing, Christopher Eudean Parsons of Cainsville admitted probation violations. The probation was revoked. Parsons was sentenced to five years with the Missouri department of corrections. The term runs concurrently […]
Arrests have been made in three separate law enforcement investigations locally. Forty-four year old Bevan James Bohm of Kansas City faces two felony stealing charges stemming from the thefts of a car and personal property in January of this year. Bohm was picked up today at the Western Regional Diagnostic Center in St. Joseph. Bond […]
Three individuals have been charged in Livingston County with multiple felonies following an investigation that Chillicothe Police Chief Jon Maples reports involved stolen and forged checks in Chillicothe and the surrounding area. A child was also removed from a home. Online court information shows 37 year old Lynette Dawn King and 64 year old Jimmy […]
Chillicothe Police Chief Jon Maples reports a case has been solved involving stolen and forged checks in Chillicothe and the surrounding area. A 64 year old man, 46 year old man, and 37 year old woman from the Kansas City area were arrested on several charges to include forgery, possession of forgery equipment, stolen property, […]
A jury trial has been rescheduled in Division One of Daviess County Circuit Court for a former Coffey city clerk. The trial for Mary Lou Browning is now scheduled to be November 18th through 20th. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for October 14th. The trial was previously set to be held in July. Browning has […]
At 6:10 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, convicted murderer Walter Barton, 64, was pronounced dead at the state prison in southeast Missouri’s Bonne Terre. Barton was convicted of first-degree murder for the 1991 brutal stabbing death of 81-year-old Gladys Kuehler of southwest Missouri’s Ozark. His death makes Missouri the first state in the nation […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Trenton man Sunday on a parole warrant on a technical violation. Thirty-seven-year-old Jesse Harding’s alleged violations involved residency as well as reporting and directives. He was to be delivered back to the Department of Corrections. Harding was originally charged with first-degree tampering and forgery.
Video conferencing was used on Monday for the criminal cases of seven defendants in Division One of the Grundy County Circuit Court. Probation violation hearings were held, and dispositions announced, regarding five of those defendants. Each of them admitted to violations of their probation. Judge Thomas Alley presided in court. A resident of Dawn, Rodney […]
A Trenton man was arrested Sunday for an alleged second violation of tampering with a Trenton Municipal Utility meter. Fifty-six-year-old Donald Keith Swigart is to appear in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court on March 24th. The warrant accuses Swigart of second-degree tampering of a utility meter – second or subsequent offense on […]
The jury trial has been moved to Division One of Daviess County Circuit Court for the former Coffey City Clerk. Online court information shows the trial dates of March 23rd through 25th were vacated Wednesday, and Mary Lou Browning’s case was continued to July 22nd through 24th for a jury trial. A pre-trial conference is […]
