A Columbia, Mo., nurse and business owner pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally obtaining prescription drugs. Elisabeth Joan Trumbower, 41, of Columbia, waived her right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Willie J. Epps, Jr., to a federal information that charges her with obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, […]
Governor Eric Greitens legal team has received evidence being used against it and has questions about the prosecution’s procedures. Bill Wise from Missourinet reports. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner met defense lawyers for Governor Eric Greitens in court to turn over the first round of evidence Tuesday. KMOV-TV reports the evidence includes […]
A Gilman City resident, 19-year-old Quamaine Butler pleaded guilty to a pair of charges when he appeared in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court. The state amended a charge to a misdemeanor of second-degree property damage. Imposition of sentence was suspended. Butler was placed on probation for two years and is to pay $1,770 […]
The former administrator of the Pettis County Ambulance District pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $227,000 from the district. Michael Paul Gardner, 62, of Sedalia, Mo., waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Willie J. Epps, Jr., to a federal information that charges him […]
A Lathrop, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to a $1.7 million fraud scheme related to the sale of his business. Todd Edwin Rood, 46, of Lathrop, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, to a federal information […]
A former paramedic with two northwest Missouri ambulance districts pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing pain-killing drugs and replacing the vials with water. Joseph L. Comstock, 31, of Bethany, Mo., waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips to a federal information that charges him with […]
While the whereabouts of 19-year-old Tanner Ward of Trenton remains a mystery, local authorities have now issued a warrant for his arrest. Online court information shows a probation violation report was filed Tuesday by the Missouri Probation and Parole. The information also shows a capias warrant was issued July 6 at the request of the […]
A Carrollton, Mo., woman was convicted in federal court of a $185,000 bank fraud scheme. Carol Joyce Noble, 65, of Carrollton, was found guilty of two counts of bank fraud contained in an Aug. 27, 2014, federal indictment. Evidence introduced during the trial indicated that Noble defrauded Central Trust Bank in Jefferson City, Mo., in […]
A jury at St. Louis has convicted a Meadville woman of poisoning her son who was only nine years old at the time of the incident in 2014. 36-year-old Rachel Kinsella, with an address on Beech Road of Meadville, was found guilty at the conclusion yesterday of a trial held in St. Louis County Circuit Court. […]
A Galt teenager, Adam Tyronne Turner, has pleaded guilty to an amended charge of sexual contact in the first degree. That’s a misdemeanor charge that was reduced from an original felony charge of attempted sexual abuse of a person less than 14-years-old. In the associate division of Grundy County Circuit Court, the 17-year-old Turner was […]
A St. Joseph, Mo., man who was struck by a vehicle as he fled on foot from law enforcement officers across a highway, pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and to illegally possessing firearms. Jeremy D. Marshall, 35, of St. Joseph, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge […]
Sentencing was yesterday afternoon at the Courthouse in Bethany for a man accused of poisoning his wife nearly ten years ago when they lived in Harrison County. Samuel Borntreger was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of second-degree murder. He had pleaded guilty June 21st in Division One of the Harrison County Circuit […]
Former Albany High School Band Director, 30-year old Christopher Hensley has been sentenced to 7 years and 4 years with the Missouri Department of Corrections, after entering a guilty plea last month to one felony count of 2nd-degree statutory rape and one felony county of sexual contact with a student by a teacher or school […]
A Trenton man, 21-year-old Carlos Gonzalez has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge involving drugs and was sentenced to serve time in jail. Before Judge Jack Peace, Gonzalez, on Friday, entered a plea of guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana. Originally, the felony charge filed in February by a special prosecutor had accused Gonzalez […]
A Princeton woman has pleaded guilty to three charges while two others were dismissed stemming from her role in a fatality accident one year ago in Mercer County. 29-year-old Valerie Robinson of rural Princeton appeared yesterday in Division One of Grundy County Circuit Court where cases were moved on changes of venue. Ms. Robinson entered […]
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 Maryville, Mo., man who is a registered sex offender pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to child pornography. Edward Grimes, 58, of Maryville, pleaded guilty before U.S. Chief District Judge Greg Kays to the charges contained in a Sept. 19, 2014, federal indictment. Grimes, a registered sex offender, has prior felony convictions for […]
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 […]
19-year-old Isaac Wattenbarger of Trenton pleaded guilty to misdemeanor first-degree trespassing in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court. Wattenbarger was sentenced to 28 days in the Grundy County Detention Center, but given credit for already serving those days. Wattenbarger received 33 days in the Grundy County Detention Center when he did not have […]
Fifty-year old Joel R. Bremer of Unionville pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark on Friday morning. Bremer has been charged with possession of child pornography. The charge was contained in an April 15, 2015 federal indictment. According to the plea agreement, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department received an initial report, in February 2013, […]
