COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia sex offender was indicted in federal court on Tuesday for a child pornography charge, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Andrew Charles Nicholls, 38, was charged last month in the Western District Court of Missouri with sending and receiving child pornography. He is being held at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police arrested two dozen people on Friday during parties celebrating the University of Missouri’s Reading Day. Officers responded to 45 incidents in the East Campus neighborhood, according to the Columbia Police Department.Officers arrested 24 people and issued 25 summonses. Police said the arrests were for charges including minor in possession of alcohol,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man is accused of shooting another man who was walking through yards in a residential neighborhood Friday. Kieran R. Piersee, 18, was charged Monday with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon for the Friday night shooting in the 900 block of Moss Street. An initial
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman accused of stealing almost $6,000 from the Centralia Band Booster Club pleaded guilty on Monday. Jeanie Whitlatch pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of stealing after she stole from the club in 2024. Court records show prosecutors amended her charge from a felony count of stealing to a misdemeanor. Whitlatch
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County man was charged Saturday after his arrest for allegedly attacking his mother with a knife, slashing her in the forehead. Andrew Henderson is charged with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action for the alleged attack in an apartment on Dewberry Drive, according to court records. Deputies found
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Customers stopped a domestic assault in progress in a bathroom at the Jefferson City Hy-Vee store Saturday, according to court documents. The assault took place when Jeremie M. McClain, 33, of Jefferson City, followed a woman into the bathroom and assaulted her after she tried to end their relationship, a probable
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man remained in the Cole County Jail on Monday after he was charged the previous day with punching a 7-year-old in the head. Ryan J. Duhon, 34, is charged with first-degree assault, third-degree assault and child abuse for the incident at a mobile home park in the 5100
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Four men are behind bars following a violent and busy week for the Columbia Police Department, which included two standoffs and a shooting. On Saturday, Columbia Police said 18-year-old Kieran Piersee was arrested in connection with a Friday night shooting on Moss Street in central Columbia. According to a press release from
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – In a press release Saturday morning, the Columbia Police Department announced they arrested 18-year-old Columbia man Kieran Piersee in connection to Friday night’s shooting on Moss Street. Piersee was charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. The statement also reported that police located a 32-year-old
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with a nationwide forgery and identity theft scheme, according to court documents and a press release from the Columbia Police Department. Lionel Monsanto, 26, and Salvador Ocasio, 55, were each charged in Boone County with trafficking in stolen identities, identity theft and three
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No injuries were reported after a gun was fired in Boonville, according to a Friday social media post from the Boonville Police Department. The post says that police were called to a report of shots fired at 3 p.m. at the intersection of Main Street and Rankin Mill Lane. Police wrote that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was arrested in relation to a large police response that occurred Thursday at Forest Village Apartments has been charged. Ramelus Bradley, 19, was charged in Boone County on Friday with unlawful use of a weapon, third-degree domestic assault and misdemeanor fourth-degree domestic assault. He is being held at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Another man has pleaded guilty to a lesser murder charge in a June 2023 fatal shooting on Dove Drive. Jajuan Crockett, 23, of Columbia, pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree murder, tampering with a motor vehicle, two counts of stealing and one count of tampering with evidence. He was sentenced to 10
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged after authorities say he allegedly assaulted a tenant at a Boone County residence on Thursday. Â Frederick Garver, 53, was charged with third-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and resisting arrest. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A hearing was held
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Holts Summit man was charged on Friday with several felonies after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in 2023. Jeffrey Wilcox, 28, was charged with first-degree sodomy, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond. A court date has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia man who is accused of firing a gun at a woman on Wednesday has been charged with multiple felonies. Josiah Willis, 21, was charged with first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Pettis County Jail on a $35,000 bond. Willis
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man accused of stealing an ambulance from Phelps Health Hospital in Rolla on Thursday has been charged. Jason Johnson, 44, of Bland, Missouri, was charged on Friday with first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle and aggravated fleeing. He is being held at the Phelps County Jail. According to the probable cause
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was sentenced to life in prison Friday after being found guilty of killing an 88-year-old woman in 2021. Lyle Miller, 68, of Madison, Missouri, was convicted by a jury in March of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the December 2021 death of Betty Hayes, 88.  Miller was arrested in July 2023. According
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – The two men arrested during a standoff in east Columbia had three felony warrants from three different counties between them. Assistant police chief Paul Dickinson said the department arrested 36-year-old Antonio Watson and 38-year-old Rodney L. Hayes II during an hours-long standoff on Lambeth Drive on Wednesday night. Online court records
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A large police presence was seen near a south Columbia apartment on Thursday evening. An ABC 17 News photographer saw a line of Columbia Police Department vehicles near Forest Village Apartments on South Providence Road, just away from the intersection with Green Meadows Road. The photographer saw at least 12 police officers
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