Month: July 2013

Holts Summit city leaders closed City Hall Friday to move services to a new location. The new location is next door at 213 South Summit Drive. City services were scheduled to resume Monday at 8 a.m. The new City Hall features expanded services, including a drive-up window for customers to pay court fees, sewer bills

A registered sex offender was arrested Thursday in Audrain County, accused of raping and sodomizing a 7-year-old Centralia area girl. Dennis Hatten, 59, is charged with child molestation, statutory rape and two counts of statutory sodomy for the attacks which happened over the course of six months. It happened just outside Centralia. His bond was

A mid-Missouri meat locker failed a follow up inspection after being closed for dirty conditions. The Missouri Department of Agriculture told ABC 17 News Friday the owners requested a new inspection on July 2, but the sanitation issues had not been addressed. The department originally cited Mexico Meat and Produce for a number of sanitation

A Columbia woman was arrested Thursday after a disturbance and possible stabbing at apartments on Whitegate Drive. Darlene Bradshaw, 47, was charged with armed criminal action and domestic assault for the incident Thursday afternoon. Columbia police told ABC 17 News Friday Bradshaw had stabbed her longtime boyfriend in the leg during an argument. They found

A Macon woman was killed Thursday in a car crash on Highway 36. Highway Patrol troopers say 72-year-old Kathlen Gentner was traveling northbound on Kellogg Avenue and attempting to cross Highway 36 when her car was struck on the driver’s side. Genter was pronounced dead at the scene. Troopers do not know if she was

Police have identified a second suspect in Wednesday’s shooting at Texas and Garth avenues. The Columbia Police Department is searching for 22-year-old Moises Rodrigo Guillen, who will be arrested on charges of armed criminal action, first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. Guillen is described as a Hispanic male, 5’11” tall and 175 pounds.

More drivers will be out on the roads this holiday weekend, meaning more people police presence on Missouri roads cracking down on drunk drivers. The Columbia Police Department will be out in full force this weekend making sure drivers haven’t been drinking. CPD officials say July Fourth is one of their busiest holidays, with the

Columbia police have one suspect in custody after Wednesday’s shooting in the northern section of the city. Officers say they are planning to make more arrests in the shooting that sent one man to the hospital. That victim, 23-year-old Coty Galbreath, is also charged in the shooting and has a lengthy criminal history. Galbreath is

One soldier is dead and another was taken to a hospital in serious condition following an ATV accident in Pulaski County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Timothy R. Panzar, 25, of St. Robert died in an accident on Hartford Road near Highway 28 around 2:30 a.m. Thursday. Troopers say Panzar was driving the

Water Patrol troopers will be watching for drunk boaters over the 4th of July holiday. “We understand people are going to use alcohol out here; we just try to get them to have a designated driver,” says Water Patrolman Scott White. Officers will be watching for any swerving and dangerous driving of the boats. White

Police have made one arrest after a shooting in north Columbia Wednesday afternoon that injured at least one person. Coty Thomas Galbreath, 23, was arrested for armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, and felon in possession of a weapon. Police also tell us Galbreath was wounded during the shooting. He was taken to

Police say they have been cracking down on illegal firework use this holiday week since fireworks are illegal within Columbia city limits. ABC 17 News rode along with police on a fireworks patrol. Officers Clint Sinclair and Chad Reynolds with the Columbia Police Department already had a list of addresses to check at the beginning

Two Columbia men were arrested Wednesday afternoon after they tried to run away from police officers. The officers in plain clothes said Rockus Roland, 23, and Denzell Smith, 22, were acting suspiciously in a parked vehicle near Garth Avenue and Benton Street. According to police, when Smith and Roland saw the officers, they tried to

Police have identified the suspect they believe was behind three convenience store armed robberies. Detectives are looking for Larry Blackwell Cole, 40. Anyone with information about where he could be is urged to call police. Police have made another arrest in the case. Boone County prosecutors charged 44-year-old John Meadows with two counts of robbery

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is conducting a preliminary investigation into allegations against Osage County Sheriff Michael Dixon. Sheriff Dixon is accused of harassing a Maries County woman. Courtney Duncan Mahaney claims Dixon stalked and harassed her. Dixon appeared in court Wednesday for the case, but sources close to the sheriff say the allegations are

Early Wednesday morning, a Boone County Sheriff’s deputy found a car wrapped around a tree, but the driver nowhere to be found. The deputy found the car around 2 a.m. in the 4700 block of Richland Road. Emergency crews searched for the driver, but no one was found at the scene. License plates lead authorities

An abandoned home on the residential street of East Morningside Drive is angering Fulton citizens. The grass is overgrown on the property and the house is not being maintained, but neighbors tell ABC 17 News that it is more than just an eyesore on the street. Neighbors say the property is home to snakes and

Three Missouri state park beaches will remain closed over the Fourth of July holiday weekend due to water quality issues. Wakonda’s Beach in La Grange, Grand Glaize Beach in Osage Beach, and the Harry S. Truman public beach in Warsaw are all closed until further notice. The water at the beaches had bacteria levels higher

The Amber Alert has been canceled for a missing toddler allegedly taken by her father. According to affiliate KTVI, St. Louis County Police say Demi Grant, 10 months old, was taken by her father, Brian Grant, 23, Wednesday morning. Police say around 9 a.m. Wednesday, Grant kicked in the child’s mother’s apartment door in the

A Columbia man remains behind bars Wednesday after he allegedly assaulted a court official. Robert S. Kowalski, 20, has been charged with assault on a law enforcement officer after he reportedly struck a court marshal in the face twice. According to the Boone County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Kowalski was being processed Monday when he allegedly