MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Moberly issued a water shut-off and boil order advisory after water service was interrupted on Saturday due to an emergency water main repair. According to a release from the city, customers in the 600 and 700 blocks of S 4th and S 5th Streets, Carpenter to McKinsey Streets, Williams
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A warrant was served to a woman in Moberly who is accused of editing video related to a child molestation case. Kristina Flores was charged on Jan. 17 with tampering with physical evidence in a felony prosecution. A warrant was served and she posted a $5,000 bond, court records indicate. She has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man and a woman in Moberly were accused of shooting at a man in a truck early Wednesday. Gavin Ray Lancaster, 20, and Katie Sheets, 24, were charged on Wednesday with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. They are both being held at the Randolph County Jail on $50,000 bonds. Court
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Moberly on Wednesday announced a boil advisory for water customers in the 1700 block of Parkwood Drive. Water service was shut off in the area on Wednesday because of an emergency water main repair. The boil advisory will last 48 hours, the release says. During an advisory, water should
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported in a house fire Tuesday in Moberly in the 600 block of Burkholder Street. Moberly Fire Department Lt. Cory Putnam told ABC 17 News in an email that firefighters were dispatched for a report of a house fire that had one person and multiple pets in the home.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dangerously cold temperatures have led to a number of area schools to either call off classes on Tuesday or have a late start. Overnight wind chills in parts of Mid-Missouri are expected to hit minus-20 degrees, according to the ABC 17 News Stormtrack Weather Team, who issued a Weather Alert Day for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was in a nearly day-long standoff with law enforcement in Moberly in 2022 was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Monday, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Stephen Thorp, 62, was found guilty by a jury in July for being a felon in possession of a
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A boil advisory near the 500 block of Patton Street in Moberly was extended on Monday. The city had announced an advisory on Saturday after water service was interrupted on Saturday because of water main repairs. The city wrote in Monday’s press release that an emergency water main repair occurred on Monday.
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly woman was arrested Thursday for illegally having a gun, according to a press release from the Moberly Police Department. The release states around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 9, Moberly SWAT and the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department’s tactical team executed a search warrant in the 700 Block of Monroe Avenue. A
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Moberly’s armored rescue vehicle was deployed to arrest a man in Moberly on Thursday, according to a press release from the Moberly Police Department. According to the release, around 12 p.m. on Thursday, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department requested the use of the vehicle to help arrest a man
Continue Reading MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Moberly on Saturday announced a boil advisory for water customers near the 500 block of Patton Street. The city made the announcement in a Saturday press release. Water service was interrupted on Saturday because of water main repairs, the release says. The city wrote that water service would be
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged on Friday with child molestation after he allegedly sexually assaulted a child last week at a restaurant in Moberly. Hector Marcos-Perez, 32, was charged with second-degree child molestation of a child younger than 12 years old. A press release from the Moberly Police Department says that Marcos-Perez is
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After logging heavy hours clearing the state’s roadways this past week, roughly 1,500 snowplow operators across Missouri are bracing for another round of winter weather. Mid-Missouri was hit hard with a winter storm over the weekend with some areas in Randolph County receiving up to 8.5 inches of snow. Jefferson City Public
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Audrain County man who was already sentenced to 50 years in prison was given another sentence for five years on Thursday in Randolph County. William Dahl, 40, was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after he entered an Alford plea for first-degree statutory rape. He was previously sentenced 50
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged after he was accused of attacking another man with a hammer on Sunday in Moberly. Rex Barstow, 47, was charged with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action. Court records list his address as Columbia, but jail records say he is from Moberly. He is being held at
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) Joshua Jenkins got behind the wheel of his snowplow just before 7 a.m. Monday. Ten hours later, he was still busy cleaning up the aftermath of this weekend’s winter storm that swept through Mid-Missouri. Jenkins is one of hundreds of snowplow operators across the state who were busy clearing snow out of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday after he was accused of committing pandemic-related fraud. Steven Hendren, 32, was indicted in the Eastern District Court of Missouri in St. Louis for three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to a Wednesday
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit over a 2022 Cooper County crash that killed a Moberly woman. Randall Hendricks filed the lawsuit in February against Inocente Prisciliano-Miranda, of Sedalia, in the Cooper County Circuit Court. Hendricks is the father of Belinda Hendricks, who was killed in a crash on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Moberly Mayor Brandon Lucas has picked Mike Skubic to replace outgoing Councilman Austin Kyser, according to a social media post from the city. Kyser won the Randolph County Western District Commissioner seat in a landslide on Nov. 5. He officialy resigned from his council seat on Tuesday, the post says. “We thank
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former mail carrier pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to stealing rebates from mail intended for Randolph County residents, a Monday press release from the Department of Justice says. Dawn Dowling, 59, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in St. Louis to embezzling mail by a Postal Service employee.
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