COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A ranger for Missouri State Parks was charged Sunday with three child sex crimes. Prosecutors charged Billy G. Stephens III, 34, with child molestation, second-degree statutory sodomy, second-degree statutory rape, witness tampering and evidence tampering. The Camden County Sheriff’s Office began investigating on Saturday after park ranger command staff told them about
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors charged a Columbia man Friday with having dozens of images of child pornography on his cellphone. Daniel S. Carinder, 24, remained in the Boone County Jail on Friday afternoon on a $250,000 bond after an initial arraignment. The investigation began in early April with a report to a Boone County deputy
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A former Jefferson City private school volunteer was sentenced to probation Monday. Judge Daniel Green sentenced Jennifer Cecil to five years of probation on a felony count of first-degree sexual abuse. If Cecil violates her probation, she could be sentenced to 10 years in prison. She was charged in July 2023
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Maries County prosecutors charged a Bland, Missouri man on Tuesday after he allegedly tried to solicit a minor into sexual conduct and give her alcohol. Scott Gene Birmingham, 52, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, resisting arrest, third-degree assault and second-degree sexual misconduct. According to a probable cause statement,
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A woman who was 17 at the time of her 1984 attack testified Tuesday on the first day of her alleged assailant’s trial.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County jury found a former state trooper guilty of sexual assault and kidnapping Friday after a three-day trial. Jeffery Durbin had been charged with sexual abuse, a felony, and third-degree kidnapping, a misdemeanor. The jury returned the verdict after deliberating for about three hours. Durbin and his accuser each took
Continue Reading The alleged victim in the State v. Jeffery Durbin case took the witness stand Thursday morning in the second day of what is expected to be a two-to-three day jury trial at the Boone County Courthouse.
Former MSHP trooper Jeffery Durbin is accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a law enforcement training session in the Hampton Inn & Suites Columbia two years ago. He is charged with sexual abuse and kidnapping, a felony and a misdemeanor charge.
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An Associate Circuit Judge has been appointed to handle a child sex crimes case involving Joshua Jungermann, a relative of a Callaway County commissioner, after the previous judge was taken off the case due to a conflict.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former substitute school teacher and paraprofessional for a Pulaski County school district was charged last week with 19 felony counts related to child sex crime allegations. Carissa J. Smith of Dixon, Missouri, faces charges including statutory rape, statutory sodomy, child sex trafficking and paying a child for sex. Smith was in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County jury last week acquitted a man of seven counts related to child sex crimes. Gilbert Sing was charged in June 2022 with charges including child molestation, sodomy, sexual misconduct and witness tampering. Authorities alleged that the crimes were committed in 2019 and 2020. His trial began last Tuesday and
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A Rolla man was charged Monday with eight counts of possessing child pornography in an investigation that began in late June.
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The Boone County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that investigators had found “substantive corroborating evidence” that a 72-year-old man had sexually abused a girl for years.
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Prosecutors charged a Versailles, Missouri, man Friday in connection with a woman accused of trafficking a child for sex.
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Authorities brought a 54-year-old Iowa man to Boone County this week to face allegations that he molested a child over about two years in Iowa and Missouri.
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A Cole County man was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree rape and two counts of incest.
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A man convicted in April of bonding women out of jail to rape them was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.
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A 43-year-old Columbia man who police say has “no permanent address” remained in the Boone County Jail on Friday on charges of trespassing, sexual misconduct and resisting arrest on the University of Missouri campus.
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A 77-year-old Jefferson City man was in the Cole County Jail on Thursday morning after a Boone County Cyber Crimes Task Force investigation led to a raid on his home.
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The Cooper County Sheriff’s Office now has its own cyber crimes operation to locate child predators in the area.
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A Boonville sex offender was arrested Monday after investigators say he exchanged graphic, sexual messages with a detective posing at two different teenagers.
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