Subject: Crime

• Food, Music, Speeches and the Family of Murder Victims

  November 14, 2007

• Alleged gang leader gets 10 years

  October 13, 2008

• That's a lot of child porn

  Richard McNett had a lot of child porn. A lot. The Lawrence Journal-World reports:Investigators found 1,202 child pornography images on disks, 7,740 images on McNett's hard drive and 13,990 images on 11 compact discs, [U.S. attorney spokesman Jim] Cross said. I don't know anything about child porn busts, but that sounds like a shitload of child porn to me. The 51-year-old was sentenced to six and a half years in a federal pen yesterday. The investigation began after McNett's wife told investig

  January 7, 2009

• Silly anarchists make a mess in Penn Valley Park

  First, they hit Hyde Park in December. Monday night, some lazy revolutionaries rose once again in Kansas City. The tiresome vandals spray-painted "Stop Genocide" and an anarchy symbol on the Pioneer Mother statute inside Penn Valley Park.  I ran over there this morning to snap a few photos of the damage.

  January 21, 2009

• Letters from the week
  of June 4

  June 4, 2009

• Downtown UMB Bank robbed!

  When we heard that the UMB Bank at 1010 Grand Boulevard had been robbed -- thanks Chris Packham! -- we assembled The Pitch Action News team. Cops were still scanning the scene when we arrived. We talked with an officer who filled us in on what went down. The officer said they they were looking for a fat white guy in his late 40s or mid-50s wearing a bomber jacket and a rolled up stocking hat. The guy went into the bank with a gun wrapped in a newspaper. He placed the concealed weapon on the

  March 6, 2009

• Show and Tell

  September 1, 2005

• Not-So-Sweet Revenge

  September 29, 2005

• Copycat Killer

  October 5, 2006

• Letters from the week of May 3

  May 3, 2007

• Killa City: KCMO homicide No. 32

  Kansas City Police found the body of a black man shot to death at 9th and Harrison at about 5 a.m. View Larger Map The police say a person of interest was taken into custody at the scene. No names have been released, and the police are asking anyone with tips to call 816-474-8477.

  April 8, 2009

• Here’s a serious answer to a serious pinche problem

  February 19, 2009

• Drunken Pushing: It seems like you don't have to actually be driving to get a DUI

  August 21, 2008

• Filmmaker Terence O’Malley documents Kansas City’s gangster past

  June 12, 2008

• The War on La Familia

  May 1, 2008

• Frank Hayde Booksigning

  February 28, 2008

• Cosa Nostra Constituency

  December 13, 2007

• SAFEHOME Golf Tournament

  August 16, 2007

• Real Loft Living

  May 3, 2007

• Life Sucks

  April 5, 2007

• T-Shirt Tombstones

  November 9, 2006

• Street Fighters

  November 10, 2005

• When Moody Ruled

  August 4, 2005

• Tone Death, first of two parts

  The murder of Anthony Watkins, aka Fat Tone, made perfect sense, at least to his fans.

  July 28, 2005

• Sneezy vs. Dopey

  The unswerving pursuit of one unlucky driver.

  July 7, 2005

• Pushing the Pushers

  The good news about a reclaimed gang-infested neighborhood may have been a bit premature.

  January 20, 2005

• Scoff Law

  A career criminal makes a joke out of the local courts. But this time, he’s gunning for real time.

  January 13, 2005

• A Bad Trip

  Rebecca Beach didn’t kill the drug dealer from Topeka. But she’s in prison for life because Kansas’ felony murder law says she did.

  June 10, 2004

• Horror Story

  October 30, 2003

• Mother Superior Court

  The Kansas City Catholic Diocese finds itself fighting a slew of new lawsuits over abuse of parishioners all filed by one determined lawyer.

  October 16, 2003

• Kid Gloves

  Once in a while, the whatsoever boxing club can make an honest fighter out of a neighborhood tough.

  September 11, 2003

• Officers Unfriendly

  The Johnson County Sheriff's Department lets its own offenders enforce the law.

  December 19, 2002

• Fallen Angel

  Angela Coffel, the first woman in Missouri deemed a sexually violent predator, is locked up despite overwhelming evidence that she isn't one.

  January 24, 2002

• Sex Cells

  Wyandotte County's female inmates get the shaft.

  September 13, 2001

• Murder Uncovered

  Twelve bullets and 1,100 mourners get little notice.

  June 7, 2001

• A Cry in the Dark

  Melissa Waddy-Thibodeaux relives hard times spent in "the most violent institution in America."

  April 12, 2001

• The Penile System

  The Kansas Department of Corrections' treatment program offends even sex offenders.

  October 5, 2000

• Pursuing the cruelty

  March 2, 2000

• The PT Cruiser is the official car of choice for crime sprees on June 19, 2009

  KMBCMissed the notice that last night was steal a PT Cruiser and go on a crime spree night. The Kansas City Star lists off three armed robberies from the early morning hours. There was the good old fashioned gas station robbery by three guys in bandannas at 945 South 55th Street. That was followed by the theft of a rental car and the robbery of a business at 900 North Fifth Street. Then three cool cats in a PT Cruiser robbed a couple in the 1800 block of North 76th Drive. No word on whether they

  June 19, 2009

• Member of Juggalo Rydas sentenced to 15 years for shooting up vacant apartment

  Dewey W. DixonDewey W. Dixon, who is apparently down with the clown, will be serving a mandatory 15-year prison sentence for shooting up an apartment with a Mac-10 semiautomatic machine gun in September 2008. The 32-year-old from Shawnee Mission was sentenced Thursday for two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, property damage and marijuana possession. A news release issued by the Platte County prosecutor's office says Dixon claimed to be a member of the Juggalo Rydas, which police say is a stre

  June 19, 2009

• Killa City: Adrian Burks now being investigated in California homicide

  Charged last week with four counts of first-degree murder for his alleged role in a quadruple homicide in KCK, Adrian Burks is now also being investigated in connection to a 2005 Adrian Burkshomicide in California. Burks, 37, was arrested by San Diego County sheriff's deputies in 2005 after the murder of Chaleta Robertson, 29. Robertson's relatives told police she had ended a relationship with Burks before she was killed. There is reportedly not enough evidence to charge Burks with the cri

  July 1, 2009

• Letters from the week
  of August 6

  August 6, 2009

• Is your kid in a gang? Here are the signs

  ​It's probably no surprise to hear gang members are getting younger, but anti-gang education in elementary schools? Yes, it's like that now. "We used to think if we produce information and work in partnership with the district that we could get our message out there in the high school and it would be all right," said Major Jan Zimmerman, commander of KCPD's Narcotics and Vice Division. "But obviously we need to be in the middle schools. We need to be in the elementary schools." Last night, t

  August 12, 2009

• Cash hidden in sock again fails to escape police notice

  ​An attempt at nonchalance by a man suspected of robbing a Church's Chicken was no match for the trained eyes of a Kansas City police officer, according to prosecutors.Police apprehended the suspect a block from the restaurant minutes after the robbery took place Wednesday night. An officer observed a man matching the description of the robber attempt to discard an object -- a gun, upon closer inspection -- behind a tree, prosecutors say. Keenan A. Moore, 27, faces robbery, assault and weapons

  September 4, 2009

• Slashed tires, smashed windshield send a message to a Crossroads artist

  ​Artist and Crossroads resident David Matthews was going to drive to Joplin, Missouri, to see his family over his birthday weekend. But he had to catch a ride on Saturday -- his birthday. Sometime in the prior 24 hours, a vandal made a real piece of art out of his car. The vandal (or vandals) slashed all four tires, smashed every head- and taillight and lodged a hammer into Matthews' windshield. But here's the kicker -- there's a broken cell phone impaled on one of the hammer's claw. Seems lik

  September 9, 2009

• How things work: Gangs

  ​The AdHoc Group Against Crime hosted its second meeting on gangs last night, which was designed to let the two dozen or so folks in attendance how gangs work.Gangs in Kansas City are cut up by blocks and the mish-mash sounds like a drawing for PowerBall. There's 43, 33, 39, 51, 12, and when those last two combine, Five Ace Deuce. Who says thugs aren't creative? There's also a lot more neighborhood gangs than that.Kansas City homicide detective Herb Robinson said most Kansas City gangs are loo

  September 9, 2009

• Prison sex between staffer and inmate in Topeka ends in abortion, Cap-Journal reports

  ​A plumbing teacher at the Topeka Correctional Facility knocked up an inmate, after striking a deal to trade her drugs for oral sex, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported Sunday. The deal didn't go down as planned.Anastacio "Ted" Gallardo allegedly forced inmate Tracy Keith to have sex with him in a storage facility in 2007, the Cap-Journal reported. Gallardo impregnated Keith, who later got an abortion. Gallardo wasn't the only prison staffer allegedly crossing the line, according to the Cap-Jo

  October 5, 2009

• Killa City: Man questioned in Keighley Ann Alyea's disappearance, Dustin Hilt, accused of murder

  Dustin Hilt​One of the men questioned in the disappearance of Keighley Ann Alyea has been booked into the Johnson County jail on charges of first-degree murder. Dustin Brian Hilt, 18, is listed as being booked into the Johnson County jail early Tuesday morning on first-degree murder charges. He was questioned Hilt in Alyea's disappearance over the weekend.Two other men -- Joseph Dathian Mattox, 21, and Gerald Scott Calbeck, 18 -- were booked into the Johnson County jail early Tuesday morning o

  October 6, 2009

• Killa City: Keighley Ann Alyea's body found in Missouri field

  Overland Park police just released more information in the death of Keighley Ann Alyea. Police say the 18-year-old Overland Park woman's body was found around 9:30 p.m. Monday in a farm field near the intersection of East 235th Street and South State Route K Highway in Cass County, Missouri. Dustin HiltWe found out today that three men have been charged with first-degree murder in Johnson County. One of the men, 18-year-old Dustin Hilt, is reportedly a former boyfriend of Alye

  October 6, 2009

• PSA: Confessions of a wife beater

  The victims of domestic violence live in a silent state of fear, isolation and intimidation until they get help. Here in Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the City Prosecutor's office wants the victims of abuse to reclaim their lives.In an event Monday night at the Screenland Theater, about 75 people gathered for a public premiere of the city prosecutor's new anti-domestic violence video titled "Your Right. Your Life." Here's the abbreviated version:Your Right Your Life (PSA) from Eddie Lorenzo

  October 28, 2009