A trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday for a Columbia man accused of first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. Knowledge Wilson, 18, is accused of first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. Authorities said on Feb. 12 of this year, Wilson stole a man’s gun and threatened the man with it. Boone County deputies said the
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A former Fulton and Southern Boone District teacher was sentenced to three years in the Missouri Department of Corrections on Monday. Teneil Stevenson pleaded guilty to first-degree stalking in August after he was originally indicted for attempted enticement of a child in September 2018, according to online court records. According to the indictment, he sent
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Two men were charged in Saline County after they allegedly led authorities on a chase early Saturday morning. A Saline County Sheriff’s Department incident report shows deputies were contacted by state troopers to assist in a chase westbound on Interstate 70 just after midnight Saturday. Reports show Phillip Boyd, 18, and Wyatt Duncan, 19, were
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A woman has been sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison without parole for her role in a skimming operation at several southwest Missouri banks. Loredana Baceanu, 31, was sentenced Friday for possessing counterfeit and unauthorized access devices. She also was ordered to pay more than $35,000 in restitution. Baceanu was arrested in October 2018
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A man is charged after a bag found filled with drugs was found in an apartment at a complex the 300 block of West Ashley Street in Jefferson City. Police say they responded to the scene around noon on Oct. 10 for a report of a weapons offense, with witnesses saying there was a gunshot.
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A former Camden County sheriff’s deputy admitted in federal court Thursday to receiving child pornography. Leonard Jerome Wilson, 40, formerly of Camdenton, will have to give up his peace officer license and plead guilty in two state cases after his guilty plea Thursday before federal District Judge Stephen R. Bough in Jefferson City, the U.S.
Continue ReadingA Cooper County grand jury indicted a Boonville radio host on a child molestation charge last week. Bob Bosma was arrested Monday on suspicion of child molestation and booked into the Cooper County Jail. Online court records show the grand jury indicted Bosma on one count of first-degree child molestation Friday. Court documents show Bosma
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A Columbia man was charged in Boone County after prosecutors allege he threatened to bring a gun to work after being fired from his job. Isaac Flowers was sentenced with a felony count for making a terror threat in September. Flowers and eight other employees at DANA Incorporated were fired after coming into work Sept.
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A Miller County man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a pair of felonies. Leonard W. Wilson appeared in the Miller County Circuit Court on Tuesday after being accused of failing to register as a sex offender multiple times. Wilson was called back into the courtroom after he admitted
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The Maries County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has charged a man after a deadly weekend crash. Austin B. Edwards, 25, of Rolla, is charged with driving while intoxicated resulting in a death, driving while intoxicated that resulted in an injury and careless and imprudent driving that involved an accident. The Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested Edwards
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A Boone County judge recused himself Wednesday from a lawsuit involving the University of Missouri medical school. Judge Jeff Harris stepped aside after an attorney for Rachel Brown, a former associate dean of the medical school, brought up a relationship Harris has with a possible witness in the case. Dr. Robert Churchill, a former dean
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A man charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter in Chariton County was named in a wrongful death lawsuit. Court documents show Michael Meyer, who is listed as the father of Alicia Meyer, filed the suit against James Pleasant. The lawsuit alleges Pleasant was driving with Alicia Meyer in a car on May 31 in an area
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The University of Missouri wants a court-ordered mental examination of a former track coach suing the team. The school filed two motions this week for a mental exam of Carjay Lyles and to compel Lyles to provide medical and employment records. The university argued that Lyles had “placed his emotional condition at issue” in the
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A Cole County judge said Tuesday that the court hopes to try a Jefferson City woman charged with child abuse in the summer of 2020. Quatavia Givens, 26, was charged in 2018 in connection with the death of 4-year-old Darnell Gray. At the first hearing since Givens was released on bond Oct. 10, judge Jon
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Centralia city leaders will meet on Monday to discuss public safety. This comes after federal prosecutors charged a Centralia police officer with trying to have sexual contact with a minor using the internet. Clint Baer, 41, of Centralia is accused of communicating with an FBI agent posing as the mother of a 14-year-old girl using
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Cole County Assessor Chris Estes has filed a lawsuit over property lines against a man he is accused of assaulting, according to court records. According to court documents, Estes and his wife own an easement that runs across Danny and Nancy Schaffer’s property on Moreau River Lane. Documents detail several disputes where the Esteses claim
Continue ReadingThe Columbia Police Department said it arrested a man for allegedly toppling over headstones in the Columbia Cemetery on East Broadway. According to court documents, the superintendent told police several times headstones had been tipped over and some even broken overnight between Oct. 2 and Oct. 5. The superintendent told police large headstones need heavy
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A Centralia woman is in the Boone County Jail facing extradition to California on two felony counts related to a child custody dispute. Boone County deputies arrested Lisa Ann Hoeppner on Sept. 20 on an extradition warrant out of Shasta County, California, two days after charges were filed against her in that state, according to
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A coach accused of stealing from his wrestling club has been arrested and released without having to post bond, according to online court records. Ryan McKee, 46, of Jefferson City was charged Tuesday with felony stealing in Cole County on allegations that he took more than $34,000 from the Jays Kids Wrestling Club between January
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The Jefferson City woman accused of killing a 4-year-old boy and hiding his body in a wooded area is out of jail on bond. Cole County Sheriff John Wheeler said Quatavia Givens posted bond and was released from jail Wednesday morning. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem lowered Givens’ bond last month from $100,000 cash-only
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