Auditor Nicole Galloway says law enforcement in Missouri has made significant progress in the past nine months to ensure sex offenders comply with the state’s registration law, and to update the database that provides the public with information about offenders. The progress, which comes after an audit of the sex offender registration program last October, […]
A former detention officer at the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail of Pattonsburg pleaded guilty in Division One of Caldwell County Circuit Court on Tuesday to felony sexual conduct with a prisoner or offender by probation/parole officer or employee of a jail, prison, or correctional facility. Online court information shows a sentence assessment report was ordered for […]
A Milan, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court on Friday for transporting a 12-year-old victim across state lines for criminal sexual activity. Eh Tah Ger, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes to 14 years and two months in federal prison without parole. On Jan. 23, 2019, Ger pleaded guilty to […]
Governor Parson has signed a bill into law that helps certain victims with potential lease problems. The legislation prevents victims or potential victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking from being denied a rental for being a victim. It expands to protect them from eviction or if they must break their lease […]
Flowers Foods, Inc. is voluntarily recalling hamburger and hot dog buns and other bakery products due to the potential presence of small pieces of hard plastic that may have been introduced during production. Consumption of product may cause a choking hazard. The products being recalled were distributed to retail customers under a variety of brand […]
A Colorado man was sentenced in federal court for traveling to Kansas City to meet an undercover FBI agent, whom he believed to be a mother with her 7-year-old daughter, for illicit sexual activity. Ryan Edward Mausner, 43, of Basalt, Colorado, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to 14 years in federal prison […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest on Monday of one Trenton resident on various charges, including stalking and property damage, and another on a child abuse-related charge. Thirty-seven-year-old Robert Andrew Brandon has been charged with the felonies of first degree stalking—first offense and first-degree property damage as well as the misdemeanors of fourth-degree […]
A Republic, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for the coercion and enticement of a minor. Clifford Benjamin Kinkade, 37, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to 20 years in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Kinkade to 15 years of supervised release following incarceration and ordered him […]
A Slater, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to transporting a 16-year-old victim across state lines for illegal sexual activity. Daniel Lee Kirby, 35, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Willie J. Epps, Jr., to the charge contained in a July 11, 2018, federal indictment. By pleading guilty today, Kirby admitted that […]
Various weekend investigations involving drug allegations are in the news today from the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department. A search warrant obtained by Sheriff Cox was served Friday evening and resulted in the seizure of alleged methamphetamine and methamphetamine drug paraphernalia. Officers arrested 33-year-old Steven Burns of Chillicothe who was transferred to the Daviess-Dekalb County Regional […]
A former high school teacher and swim team coach was sentenced in federal court for sexually assaulting and exploiting numerous child victims, whom he secretly videotaped. James Russell Green, Jr., 54, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to 30 years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Green to pay […]
State Auditor Nicole Galloway praised a change to Missouri law that she said will help protect children at their schools. House Bill 604, now headed to the Governor’s desk, requires school districts to ensure that volunteers undergo criminal background checks before being left alone with children. Galloway urged legislators to add the requirement after her audit of […]
Governor Parson joined with House and Senate members and pro-life coalition leaders to sign House Bill 126. The bill was passed by super-majorities in both the House and the Senate. “By signing this bill today, we are sending a strong signal to the nation that, in Missouri, we stand for life, protect women’s health, and […]
A Hamilton man accused of molesting a child over the course of several years, who entered a guilty plea in Division One of Caldwell County Circuit Court in April, was sentenced Wednesday. Jamey Keith Stone was sentenced to a facility to be determined by the Missouri Department of Corrections for a period of 15 years […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports a Columbia man was transported to Grundy County Monday after his arrest in Boone County Sunday on felony non-support, total arrears in excess of 12 monthly payments due under an order of support. The bond for 30-year-old Michael Sanders is $5,000, and he is scheduled for the Associate Division […]
The Missouri Legislature has sent to the governor a bill that would keep victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking from being evicted or denied housing. The measure, sponsored by Cameron Republican Representative Jim Neely, would also let them break their housing leases early. When a person is trying to leave a […]
The Missouri House is expected to vote today on a mammoth anti-abortion bill. The legislation would ban doctors from giving women abortions if they are eight weeks into their pregnancy. Physicians who violate the ban would face 5 to 15 years in prison. The proposal would also prohibit doctors from providing an abortion […]
A registered sex offender in Independence, Mo., has been sentenced in federal court for possessing and exchanging child pornography over the internet. Harrison Elliot Combs, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark on Wednesday, May 15, to 15 years in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Combs to 20 years of […]
The Missouri Senate has passed a bill along party lines that would ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. During the wee hours this morning, the chamber endorsed the measure that would also require both parents to be notified if a minor child is seeking an abortion. Lake St. Louis Republican Bob Onder says many […]
A former Maysville teacher has been sentenced to jail and been fined after pleading guilty last week to 13 criminal counts stemming from incidents in 2015 and 2016. Rodney David Thomas appeared Wednesday in Clinton County Circuit Court in Plattsburg for a sentencing hearing on one charge of attempted sexual contact with a student and […]
