COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Arson charges were unsealed Wednesday against a Mexico, Missouri, man more than two months after a fire that caused significant damage to a home. Mexico police arrested Kent D. Erwin on Wednesday afternoon on warrants for second-degree arson, a felony, and third-degree arson, a misdemeanor. He was in Audrain County Jail custody
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged Friday with arson and murder in a June house fire on Paris Road. Brandon Butchkoski, 47, is accused in the death of Donovan Baylis. Baylis died after he was burned in a fire that was set at his home. Baylis died about a month later at a
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A Columbia man pleaded guilty in court Friday morning and was sentenced 18 years in prison after being arrested in June 2023 following a fire and a 16-hour manhunt.
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A neighbor saw the suspect in a murder and arson moving things out of a southwest Columbia home the night of the fire, according to court documents.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police arrested a suspect in a deadly house fire Friday. Steven Martin Strumpf, 31, is in custody in the Boone County Jail after a deadly house fire in the 3900 block of Deerfoot Way. Strumpf is facing murder, arson and weapons charges, according to Columbia Police Department. Steven Martin Strumpf, 31Courtesy:
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A Columbia woman has been charged with setting a fire that ripped through a storage unit last week.
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A lawyer for a Columbia restauranteur accused of arson in southeast Missouri is trying to negotiate her surrender in Boone County, court documents show.
Continue Reading Casa Maria’s Cantina’s co-owner is facing an arson charge for her alleged role in starting a fire at a restaurant this summer in a Bootheel town.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man has been charged with arson in relation to a Thursday night fire that burned down two mobile homes just outside of Columbia. Marshall Crews Jr., 58, has been charged with first-degree arson. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond, according to Boone County Sheriff
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After a deadly fire is put out, the work for fire investigators begins. A Mexico man was charged with arson and murder following an apartment fire in Mexico, Missouri, that allegedly led to the death of his mother. Fires like this are investigated using a collaborative effort from local fire departments, law
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man convicted of starting a fire and calling in a fake threat will receive probation. Judge Cotton Walker sentenced Hankel Jones on Monday to 5 years of supervised probation for second-degree arson. According to public court records, Jones agreed to plead guilty to the charge as part of
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County judge sentenced a woman Tuesday for starting a fire inside a Jefferson City church. In October, the Cole County Prosecutor’s Office charged Anne-Marie Mullins with breaking into Christian Fellowship Church on Beck Street in late May 2021. Mullins pled guilty at a court hearing Tuesday to amended misdemeanor
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A former firefighter with the Russellville-Lohman Fire Protection District pleaded guilty to three charges for setting fires in 2021 and 2022.
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A Miller County judge sentenced a man after he pleaded guilty to multiple felonies.
Continue Reading A volunteer firefighter for the Russellville-Lohman Fire Protection District has been charged with three felonies in connection with arsons in November and again in February.
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IBERIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Miller County prosecutor charged a Dixon man with arson after an investigation into a structure fire and harassment. Korey Nelson is also facing charges of harassment after the incident. Iberia police originally responded to the structure fire on Jan. 28 to investigate the report of harassment, however, the Missouri State Fire
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County prosecutor has charged a Columbia man after he allegedly set a vehicle on fire that caused damage to another vehicle on Friday morning. Leslie Williams is charged with two counts of second-degree arson and two counts of second-degree tampering with property. On Friday morning, the Columbia Fire Department responded
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police arrested Leslie Lee Williams, 40, of Columbia on suspicion of arson early Friday morning. CPD responded to a car on fire in the lot of Extended Stay at 2000 West Business Loop 70 around 1:35 a.m. on Friday. Police eventually identified the suspect as Williams who had outstanding arrest warrants
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A Cooper County prosecutor has charged three people after a truck fire was ruled arson.
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Iasha Cannady pleaded guilty in federal court in Jefferson City last week to two counts of malicious use of explosive materials and one count of possession of an unregistered destructive device.
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