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Monday, June 26, 2017

Springfield Is Broadcasting Social Security Numbers Over Its Police Scanner

Posted By Danny Wicentowski on Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 9:50 AM

As a private investigator based in Springfield, Missouri, Derrick Marshall spends a lot of time listening to the police scanner app on his phone. In February, while working an unrelated case, Marshall listened as a Springfield police officer called into dispatch to report a suspect who lacked official ID....

Confederate Monument Will Go to Civil War Museum in Legal Settlement

Posted By Sarah Fenske on Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 8:59 AM

The Confederate Monument that has sat in Forest Park for more than a century has a new owner — and they're going to be permitted not only to take it, but to pay for the privilege. Under a legal settlement announced this morning, the monument will go to the...

Friday, June 23, 2017

John Wells Charged as Serial Tower Grove Groper

Posted By Danny Wicentowski on Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 5:59 PM

John Wells, a 30-year-old man listed in court records as "homeless," is facing four criminal charges in connection with a spree of sexual assaults in Tower Grove South over the past two months. According to a police press release, Wells has been charged with attempted sodomy, two misdemeanors for...

Ferguson Will Pay Michael Brown's Family $1.5 Million to Settle Wrongful Death Suit

Posted By Danny Wicentowski on Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:42 AM

Nearly three years after former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown on Canfield Drive, the city has agreed settle a wrongful death lawsuit with the family for $1.5 million. The terms of the settlement were initially sealed per a judge's order issued earlier this week....

Search for Serial Tower Grove Groper Leads Police to 'Person of Interest'

Posted By Danny Wicentowski on Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:54 AM

Although no criminal charges have yet been filed, a man taken into custody Thursday is being described by police as a "person of interest" in a series of daytime sexual assaults against four women in Tower Grove South and possibly a fifth in Benton Park. All five incidents, the...

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Facebook Threats Against Trump Lead to Edwardsville Man's Arrest

Posted By Danny Wicentowski on Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 8:21 AM

A series of unhinged Facebook posts threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump — including a suggestion that Trump needs "a blade in the neck" — has landed an Edwardsville man in jail. According to a federal indictment, Joseph Lynn Pickett's June 15 Facebook activity so alarmed his former coworkers that they...

Petition Demands Missouri Legislator Resign for Killing a Chicken on Facebook

Posted By Elizabeth Semko on Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 6:21 AM

A Missouri legislator who snapped a chicken's neck, then pulled out its heart on a video posted to Facebook, is facing calls for his resignation. In the controversial video, Representative Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) never comes close to explaining the connection between the chicken slaughter and his opposition to abortion....

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Serial Groper in Tower Grove South Leads to Heightened Police Presence

Posted By Sarah Fenske on Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 4:57 PM

Police are warning about a series of attacks on women in Tower Grove South —saying they believe one man is responsible for at least four incidents of forced groping, as well as potentially a fifth that took place in Benton Park. All five cases have taken place during daylight hours...

Monday, June 19, 2017

Man Stomps Kitten to Death at Belleville MetroLink Station, Police Say

Posted By Daniel Hill on Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:05 PM

A St. Louis man brutally killed his own kitten Friday morning at the Belleville MetroLink station after he was told the animal could not ride on the train with him, according to St. Clair County police. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that DeCarlos Edwards Johnson-Foston, 23, allegedly approached the MetroLink platform...

Day Care Worker Hog-Tied 4-Year-Old Girl With Duct Tape, Yet Kept His Job

Posted By Sarah Fenske on Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 7:00 AM

Joseph and Laura Day's first inkling that anything unusual had happened at day care was their daughter's conversation in the bath. The four-year-old seemed to be talking a lot about duct tape — a word that previously seemed beyond her vocabulary. When her mother pressed her, the little girl (who...

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