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Osage Beach gun store owner indicted for allowing straw purchases; over 300 firearms seized
A federal prosecutor has charged Skelton Tactical Owner for illegal gun sales.
Continue ReadingA federal prosecutor has charged Skelton Tactical Owner for illegal gun sales.
Continue ReadingA Jefferson City man charged with involuntary manslaughter could spend up to five years in prison.
Continue ReadingSEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Police took two more teenagers into custody this week for their alleged roles in a deadly shooting in Sedalia. The police department said on Wednesday that the two taken into custody join a third teenager suspected in a break-in that led to someone’s death. Police said it took two of the
Continue ReadingFULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A judge has sentenced a Fulton woman to supervised probation after she started a fire inside of a grocery store. According to court records, the judge sentenced Pamela J. Cordrey on Monday to five years of supervised probation. The Callaway County Prosecutor’s Office charged her in June with arson. The charge against
Continue ReadingA father charged with manslaughter after his 15-year-old died from a gunshot wound has entered a not guilty plea and asked for a new judge according to court records.
Continue ReadingJurors found Renick guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of armed criminal action Thursday after over 13 hours of deliberations.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The sentencing hearing for a Columbia man convicted last month of killing his wife has been delayed. Public court records show a Boone County judge will hear Joseph Elledge’s lawyers request for a new trial on Friday, Jan. 7. 2022 at 1:30 p.m. Elledge is also expected to receive his sentence at
Continue ReadingThe defense called Lynlee Renick to the stand as the third day of her trial at the Boone County Courthouse began. The trial is being heard here on a change of venue with a jury brought in from Clay County, Missouri.
Continue ReadingLynlee Renick told a judge yesterday she plans on taking the witness stand in day three of her murder trial Wendesday, more than three years after she allegedly killed her snake-breeding husband Ben Renick in 2017.
Continue ReadingLynlee Renick is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the deadly shooting of her husband, Ben Renick, at his snake-breeding facility in 2017. Prosecutors allege Lynlee Renick enlisted two friends in her plot to kill her husband after her spa had financial troubles. However, they accuse Lynlee Renick of pulling the trigger.
Continue ReadingLawyers for Joseph Elledge filed the motion Friday in Boone County.
Continue ReadingRenick is accused of killing her husband, world-renowned snake breeder, Ben Renick on the couple’s Montgomery County property on June 8, 2017.
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Mo. (KMIZ) Kourtney Aumen’s lawyers filed to dismiss her charges that she is accused of abusing and killing 4-year-old Jessica Mast. Aumen’s lawyers say the charges do not state a cause against Aumen and do not inform Aumen of the nature and substance of the charges against her. Law enforcement believes she and three
Continue ReadingLawyers for a woman accused of killing her snake breeder husband in Montgomery County blamed Ben Renick’s death on his wife’s ex-boyfriend during opening statements in her murder trial Monday.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The murder trial of Lynlee Renick is set to start on Monday. Renick is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection with the death of her husband, Ben Renick. According to court records, the trial is set to start under Judge Kevin Crane in the Boone County Courthouse at
Continue ReadingBOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man accused of a deadly shooting has been extradited back to Boone County. According to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, Mark Achterberg, 36, was booked into the Boone County Jail on Sunday afternoon. The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office charged him last month with first-degree murder and armed criminal action
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man pleaded guilty to first-degree involuntary manslaughter in connection with a killing on Doris Drive in 2020. Noah Swyers pleaded guilty in the Feb. 5, 2020 shooting death of 17-year-old Joseph Taylor. Swyers will serve seven years minus any time already served according to online court records. A resident at the
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The attorney for a Columbia woman charged with trespassing during a 2019 protest wants a jury to consider whether her actions were justified. Ben Faber, the attorney for nature activist Sutu Forte, asked Judge Kim Shaw to reconsider her decision to bar the defense from making a claim of justification at trial.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One of Ronald Dameron’s victims is speaking out in the hopes something can be done about Missouri’s invasion of privacy law. The woman’s name will not be shared to protect her identity. A Columbia man was charged multiple times for invasion of privacy after allegedly taking unwanted pictures. The woman is one
Continue ReadingALBANY, NY (KMIZ) A Proud Boys member is sentenced to over seven years in prison for a federal gun charge; the member also formerly plead guilty to other charges including one from when he purchased ammunition through a straw purchaser in Columbia. Jonathan M. Cuney, 38, was sentenced to 87 months in prison, to be followed
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