COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police are searching for a person accused of robbing a gas station in northeast Columbia early Monday. Investigators said someone with a gun went inside the Break Time in the 2400 block of Paris Road around 1:30 a.m. and demanded money from the cashier. No one was hurt during the robbery. Investigators
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A date has been set for a trial for a man convicted in 2018 of assaulting and stealing from a 91-year-old veteran. Driss Zarhouni was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2018, convicted on multiple charges. Online court records show a new trial is set for Feb. 2, 2020, in the case. Zarhouni wants
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The Jefferson City teenager accused in the deadly shooting of a correctional officer could head to trial in the spring. A three-day trial for Jahuan Whirley is scheduled to start the morning of May 4. The prosecutor’s office charged Whirley in December with second-degree murder, first-degree assault, two counts of first-degree robbery, two counts of
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One person was arrested and charged on Monday after they were accused of trying to rob the McDonald’s on Stadium Boulevard last month. Malik R. Cobb was fired from his job at the McDonald’s on Sept. 27, and an employee said they heard Cobb say he was going to rob the business, according to a
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A former Fulton Dairy Queen employee was arrested Tuesday after she was accused of stealing money from the business on two separate occassions. Mary P. Ostrander, 26, of New Bloomfield, allegedly worked at the business in November 2018 and took more than $750 from the business through false refunds, according to a news release from
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The Cole County Sheriff’s Office is following several leads connected to two burglaries in which weapons and other items were stolen. Cole County Sheriff John Wheeler said he believes the burglaries on Friday and Monday are connected. The first happened on Friday in the 1100 block of West Lohman Road between 11 a.m. and 3:30
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A Jefferson City man was arrested and charged after he allegedly broke into a Salvation Army Thrift Store on Sunday. Police responded to the location on Michigan Street in Jefferson City at about 3:45 a.m. and found that the front door of the business had been shattered, according to court documents filed on Monday. Officers
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From Jan. 1, 2019, to Sept. 24, 2019 the Columbia Police Department received reports of 213 stolen firearms. City spokesman Steve Sapp says CPD has recovered 93 of those stolen guns. Dale Roberts, executive director of the Columbia Police Officers’ Association said there is a network of people buying and selling stolen guns in Columbia.
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UPDATE: Columbia police said officers also arrested Alex Mears, 20, of Columbia in connection with the burglary. The department said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Boonville Police Department, Jefferson City Police Department and the Boone County Sheriff’s Department assisted with the investigation. Court documents show Mears has also been linked to a
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Police are seeking two men after an armed robbery at McDonald’s on Stadium Boulevard. Columbia police told ABC 17 News crews at the scene that two men struck an employee with a gun at the fast food store. Authorities were called to the scene shortly after 3 a.m. Monday. A Columbia Police Department news release
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A federal judge sentenced an Indiana man Friday to 14 years in prison without parole for robbing a Jefferson City Walgreens pharmacy at gunpoint. Jerome Scott King, 20, pleaded guilty in February to committing the July 2018 armed robbery of the Walgreens at 2002 Missouri Blvd. with three other men, according to a news release
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A Cole County resident interrupted a burglary at a home southwest of Jefferson City on Wednesday morning, according to the sheriff’s office. The Cole County Sheriff’s Department was sent to a home on White Oak Road a little before 10 a.m. Wednesday for a call of a burglary in progress. A person living there told
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