COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department is working to launch a 911 co-responder program that will pair mental health professionals with officers on calls involving people in behavioral crisis. Days after police safely detained a man who was in a standoff with law enforcement at Stephens Lake Park, who aimed to be killed by
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Stover man who was charged last month with several child sex crimes has been accused of several more crimes. Joseph Kucera, 79, was charged on Thursday with four counts of second-degree child molestation of a child younger than 12 years old. He was charged last month with four counts of third-degree
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of shooting at three people in a vehicle last year in downtown Columbia has been sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in prison. Charlie Sneed III, 42, of Aurora, Colorado, was found guilty by a jury on June 4 of unlawful use of a weapon involving shooting at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman was charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor after she was accused of assaulting another person with a baseball bat. Essence Jones, 25, was charged with second-degree domestic assault, second-degree robbery, armed criminal action and second-degree property damage, a misdemeanor. She is being held at the Boone County Jail
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged on Wednesday after authorities say he raped a child in July. Jason White, 47, was charged with first-degree rape and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child involving drugs. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A court date has not been scheduled.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Cole County’s top prosecutor will not accept criminal cases submitted by a deputy who recently pleaded guilty to a pair of misdemeanors. Prosecutor Locke Thompson wrote a letter to Cole County Sheriff John Wheeler saying he would not take cases submitted by Mercy Gonzalez, who pleaded guilty last week to reckless driving
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A registered sex offender has been charged with a felony after he allegedly kept child pornography on his cellphone that was generated by artificial intelligence. Charles Hooton, 63, of Columbia, was charged with possessing child porn. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. An initial court appearance was
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Authorities are claiming a man whose sentence was commuted by former President Joe Biden violated his parole. Malcolm Redmon, 42, is being held in the Cole County Jail without bond on a U.S. marshal hold. Redmon was taken into custody by Columbia police on Friday and taken to the Boone County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who is accused of shooting a woman in her car last month had his murder charge upgraded on Friday after a grand jury indictment was filed. Isaiah Goins, 26, of Columbia, is now charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Boone County Jail
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a Sturgeon man, whose blind and deaf dog was shot by a police officer, alleges the City of Sturgeon failed to properly train its officers, neglected to investigate the shooting and paid the officer $16,000 in back pay following his suspension. Body camera footage ABC
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COLUMBIA, Mo. Charges have been filed against the man involved in an hours-long standoff at Stephens Lake Park on Monday. Tre’Shon Terrell Smith, of Columbia, is charged with third-degree assault of a special victim, fourth-degree assault, first- and second-degree property damage and resisting arrest. Two of the charges are felonies. The probable cause statement says
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has pleaded guilty to committing an armed robbery earlier this year. Gerion Young, 26, pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery on Tuesday. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was previously charged with first-degree robbery, two counts of armed criminal action and one count of unlawful use of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton woman was charged in Callaway County on Tuesday with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child. Stephanie Deere, 27, is being held at the Callaway County Jail on a $10,000 bond. A court date has not been scheduled. The probable cause statement says Deere and a witness brought the child
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman accused of killing a 4-year-old boy in 2018 has been deemed competent to stand trial. Quatavia Givens, 33, was charged with first-degree murder, child abuse, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and abandoning a corpse in relation to the death of 4-year-old Darnell Gray in 2018. She is listed on the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Audrain County man has been charged with eight child sex crimes. Jimmy Graves, of Mexico, Missouri, was charged with three counts of first-degree child molestation, three counts of first-degree statutory sodomy and two counts of first-degree statutory rape. The probable cause statements detail assaults committed against more than one victim spanning
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City Police Department detective will not be allowed to testify at a murder trial about what the suspect’s cellphone said about his whereabouts the day of the crime. The defense for Sergio Sayles, 39, has filed the motion to exclude the detective’s testimony. A hearing was held on Tuesday morning.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia/Boone County chapter of Crimestoppers typically offers rewards in cases involving warrants and drugs. However, the organization has a role in helping solve the city’s unsolved homicides, too. Crimestoppers board president and former Boone County Sheriff’s Office deputy John Fields said the local chapter was founded in 1980. Fields estimates the
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President Donald Trump on Monday pledged to clean up crime in the nation’s capital, announcing the federal takeover of Washington, D.C., police and the activation of the National Guard. Trump said one of the first moves will be to clear homeless encampments. Critics pointed out lower violent crime numbers in official statistics and said the
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was detained by police following a multi-hour standoff at Stephens Lake Park on Monday. The Columbia Police Department urged the public to avoid Stephens Lake Park on Monday afternoon as police tried to talk down a man having a mental health crisis. “Please avoid Stephens Lake Park! Columbia Police are
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia man was charged in Pettis County with a pair of felonies and a misdemeanor after he led law enforcement on a chase on Saturday. Gunner Saulbeamer was charged with aggravated fleeing, first-degree assault and misdemeanor fourth-degree assault. He is being held at the Pettis County Jail on a $25,000 bond.
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