COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia teenager has been charged after he was accused of threatening a family with a gun on Saturday. Chauncey Williams, 19, is charged with armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and fourth-degree assault, a misdemeanor. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A hearing was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council during a Monday work session called into question the value of recent public safety meetings with University of Missouri System President Mun Choi. During the discussion, City Council officials confirmed meeting with Choi in two prior meetings. However, members voiced concerns at the meeting structure that barred the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Danville man was charged with 10 felonies after he allegedly tried to attack his family on Sunday in Montgomery County. Trysten Jones, 20, was charged with three counts of first-degree domestic assault, one count of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, three counts of unlawful use of a weapon and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Stover woman was charged in Morgan County after she was accused of choking a youth on Friday morning. Stacy Jackson, 52, was charged with child abuse and giving marijuana to a child. She is being held at the Morgan County Jail on a $150,000 bond. An arraignment is scheduled for 9
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No charges will be filed against a deputy who shot and killed a Columbia man in September in the 200 block of Railroad Street in Harrisburg. A press release from the Audrain County Prosecutor’s Office – which was named the special prosecutor for the investigation – says lethal force by Boone County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man is behind bars Saturday after being arrested by Audrain County Sheriffs Friday evening. According to a press release from the Audrain County Sheriff’s Office, Jefferson City Police were investigating 21-year-old Syvonn Byrd for a kidnapping and domestic violence incident. Byrd also had a felony arrest warrant for harassment.
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PARIS, Mo. (KMIZ) A judge has ordered the prosecution to move forward against two women accused of harboring a man who got into a deadly shootout with law enforcement. The state presented parts of its case against Patty and Lois Armour on Friday in a preliminary hearing in front of a Monroe County judge. Judge
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A pair of self-identified “urban explorers” were arrested in Mexico, Missouri, after they went into the old hospital on Thursday afternoon, according to a press release from the Mexico Public Safety Department. The release says 18-year-olds Jacob Hayse and Jerome Hawkes, both of Hartsburg, were arrested on suspicion of trespassing. Police were
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was arrested Wednesday after an hour-long standoff in Callaway County was charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor. Antonio Watson, 37, was charged with resisting arrest, failing to register as a sex offender and misdemeanor drug possession. He is being held at the Callaway County Jail on a $30,000
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man has been arrested and charged after he was accused of raping a woman several times in 2024. Brendan Proctor, 21, was charged on Thursday in Cole County with first-degree rape and two counts of second-degree rape. He is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. A
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was charged with rape earlier this year and was arrested in St. Louis last month is now in the Boone County Jail. Antonio Bates, 58, was charged in June with first-degree rape. He was arrested in late November in St. Louis and was booked into the Boone County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri System President Mun Choi met with Gov. Mike Kehoe on Tuesday to discuss public safety in the city, but some area leaders were absent. “I was disappointed, not just that I wasn’t there, that’s not a big deal, but that my police chief wasn’t there,” Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Arson charges were unsealed Wednesday against a Mexico, Missouri, man more than two months after a fire that caused significant damage to a home. Mexico police arrested Kent D. Erwin on Wednesday afternoon on warrants for second-degree arson, a felony, and third-degree arson, a misdemeanor. He was in Audrain County Jail custody
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was arrested in Callaway County on Wednesday afternoon, following a standoff with the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office. According to an email from the Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the 4400 block of Samantha Road outside Millersburg to arrest Antonio Watson on warrants out of Randolph County for failing to register
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CNN By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, Casey Gannon, Devan Cole, Austin Culpepper, CNN (CNN) — During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible motive for the bombs placed near the DNC and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man who ran a daycare is facing additional child sex crimes after a grand jury indictment was filed on Tuesday in Callaway County. Jacob Stockglausner, 39, is now charged in Callaway County with three counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old and three counts of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Deputies are looking for more than one person in a Tuesday morning shooting that injured a 15-year-old, according to a Boone County Sheriff’s Office spokesman. Brian Leer, of the sheriff’s office, told ABC 17 News in an email on Wednesday that law enforcement is looking for more than one person, but would
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Nigerian national who admitted earlier this year to fraudulently obtaining a student visa and other documents was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal court, according to a Wednesday press release from the Department of Justice. Mercy Ojedeji pleaded guilty in federal court in April to unlawful use of fraudulent immigration documents
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A south Boone County neighborhood is still shaken after a 15-year-old was taken to a local hospital after they were shot in the face early Tuesday morning. The Boone County Sheriff’s office said in a release that Joint Communications received a call about a juvenile being shot in the face at 12:04
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Overcrowding at the Boone County Jail is costing the county, with officials now housing more inmates in out-of-county facilities than in the jail itself. According to Cpt. Brian Leer with the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, the county has spent more than $1.8 million so far this year on housing inmates in other
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