COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged for the sixth time in two months for invasion of privacy after allegedly taking unwanted pictures of women. According to a probable cause statement, Ronald Dameron is most recently accused stalking and attempting to take pictures up a woman’s skirt on July 7 at the Daniel Boone
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Online records show Benjamin Melvin, 25, was being held Friday in the Boone County Jail without bond.
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man was arrested on a Callaway County warrant for possession of child pornography after an investigation began in January. The Boone County Sheriff’s Office Cyber Crimes Task Force received a CyberTip report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding a person in the Fulton area who
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Officers were called at about 11 a.m. Tuesday to Ellis Porter Riverside Park on a report of a man who had exposed himself to a child in the women’s bathroom, according to a Jefferson City Police Department news release. The caller told police the man left the park in a black SUV.
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Luke A. Lessmeier pleaded guilty to one count of statutory sodomy in a Miller County courtroom. He will have to serve at least 85% of his sentence before he can be paroled, according to court records. He will have to register as a sex offender for life, county prosecutor Ben Winfrey said in a news release.
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Cale Kliethermes pleaded guilty in April to first-degree child molestation, two counts of attempted child endangerment and one count of sexual misconduct involving a child under 15. Prosecutors dismissed another attempted child endangerment count as part of the plea deal.
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CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Camdenton man is charged with multiple sex crimes against a child after a nine-month investigation after a tip from a parent. According to a press release, Thomas Lee Earl Carnahan is charged with three counts of statutory rape of someone under the age of 14 and two counts of statutory sodomy
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man was arrested for child pornography after an investigation began in October 2020 in Boone County. A tip to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office Cyber Crimes Task Force from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children showed a person in the Moberly area had uploaded files considered to be
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DAVENPORT, Iowa, (KMIZ) A North Callaway School District teacher and coach was arrested on June 16 for allegedly producing child porn and sextortion of an Iowa minor. According to court documents, 44-year-old Chad Craghead allegedly posed as a teen online and obtained nude images of a 16-year-old victim from Muscatine. After obtaining those images, Craghead
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man is back in the Boone County Jail after fleeing Columbia to Oklahoma on several charges dating back to December 2020. Jemor Taylor is charged with third-degree assault, first-degree property damage, second-degree sexual abuse, third-degree kidnapping and resisting arrest for a felony. Taylor was arrested on Dec. 5, 2020, and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County grand jury has also indicted a Hartsburg man after he was accused of rape in August 2020. Tomas Vino-Osorio is charged in Boone County with second-degree rape and sodomy. According to the victim, Vino-Osorio took the victim to a bedroom and started to have sex with the victim. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County grand jury has indicted a man for two counts of first-degree rape for two separate incidents. According to the indictment, Jay Strausbaugh is accused of raping two women. One woman was allegedly raped on Jan. 30 or 31, 2021 and the other woman was allegedly raped on March 4.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Highway Patrol is reviewing claims that a state lawmaker had sex with a drunk 19 year old while serving as a police officer in 2015. A spokesman on Thursday said a local prosecutor asked the patrol to investigate 42-year-old Republican Rep. Chad Perkins. A local police chief also went
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Hartsburg man is charged with second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy after an alleged sexual assault occurred on Aug. 21, 2020. According to court documents, Tomas Vino-Osorio went to meet the victim at a residence to watch a movie. According to the victim, Vino-Osorio took the victim to a bedroom and started
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Authorities detained two suspects and are now investigating after a human trafficking operation led to the discovery and rescue of nine victims and two children. The Columbia Police Department, Boone County Sheriff’s Office, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Missouri Attorney General’s Office, and other local, state, and federal agencies detained the two suspects
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man that pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of child pornography on July 9, 2020 has filed a motion to remove his plea. Dana Cline, 52, originally agreed to plead guilty to a single count of possession of child pornography after his arrest in 2018. Prosecutors originally
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. A federal judge sentenced a Fulton man to 12 years in federal prison without parole for transporting child pornography over the internet. Kevin Michael Downey, 35, a former Boone County corrections officer, was also ordered to pay a total of $30,000 in restitution to 10 of his victims. On Nov. 3, 2020,
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man is charged with child molestation after an investigation began April 13. According to court documents, Caleb “Logan” Phillips confessed to two people about molesting a 3-year-old. On April 14, the victim told two people that Phillips had hurt the victim. Phillips lived with the victim from Nov. 2020 to
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Charges have been filed in a reported from January Columbia rape. Jay Strausbaugh is accused of assaulting the victim while she was unconscious. According to court documents, the victim told police that she was drinking at Strausbaugh’s residence and started to fall asleep. The victim then woke up and was in a
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man is charged with several sex crimes involving a child after an investigation began on March 10. According to court documents, Chad Smith would go into the bedroom of a 14-year-old female at night from Nov. 2013 to Nov. 2015 and assaulted her at least three time. The victim told
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