COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Portland, Missouri, man pleaded guilty to several charges related to firing guns at cars at a Callaway County campground. Wally Spencer, 48, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to unlawful use of a weapon, aggravated DWI and illegal gun possession in one case and two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rolla man who secretly recorded women at the hospital where he worked was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison, a press release from the Department of Justice says. Ian Wood, 45, pleaded guilty in January to producing child pornography and receiving child pornography. He admitted to recording young children
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County woman accused of shooting and killing a woman at an apartment complex earlier this month is out on bond. Heather M. Smith, 37, was charged with second-degree murder, child endangerment, armed criminal action and three counts of unlawful use of a weapon. Her bond was lowered to $150,000 on Monday
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A registered sex offender in Columbia has been charged with a federal child porn charge. Andrew Charles Nicholls, 38, was charged on Tuesday in the Western District Court of Missouri with sending and receiving child pornography. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A court date has not
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Scott County Prosecutor’s Office has been named the special prosecutor in a pair of cases involving a Columbia restaurant owner. Crystal Umfress is charged with felonies in two cases in southeast Missouri. In one case, she’s charged with second-degree arson. In another, she was charged with two counts of filing false
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was charged with a felony after she allegedly drove in the wrong lane and caused a head-on collision while she was drunk on Tuesday night in northeast Columbia. Taylor Clayton was charged with driving while intoxicated and misdemeanor driving in the wrong lane. Her address is listed as Fayette on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old Fulton girl was seriously injured in a crash on Tuesday morning on Route O at Callaway County Road 155, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report. The report says the girl was driving a 2003 Ford Escape westbound on Route O when it went off the right side of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Randolph County man is behind bars after he was accused of hitting a woman with a gun on Tuesday morning. Tracy McLemore, 28, of Renick, was charged on Tuesday with second-degree domestic assault and unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at the Randolph County Jail on a $20,000
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was arrested in Colorado in relation to a missing Missouri teenager. A press release from the Fort Collins Police Department says the Fort Collins Police Cyber Crimes Unit received a tip from a Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force about a possible kidnapping. A youth went missing in December. The release
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A basketball prospect for the University of Missouri has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a campus visit in September. Keiner Asprilla, 18, was charged in Boone County as an adult on Tuesday with first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and second-degree kidnapping. A petition was filed in juvenile court on Jan.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Morgan County man who was accused of kidnapping his children from Nebraska before getting into a crash that killed one of them entered an Alford plea on Monday. Larry Lunnin Sr. entered an Alford plea to second-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of child abduction. An Alford plea occurs when a defendant maintains
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Holts Summit man pleaded guilty on Monday to three felonies and was sentenced to 21 years in prison. Freeman Myron Larnerd, 54, pleaded guilty to child enticement of a youth younger than 15 years old and two counts of child porn possession. He is being held at Callaway County Jail. Court
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Indiana man who was in a crash this past summer after a chase with law enforcement in Callaway County was sentenced on Monday to eight years in prison. Christopher Voiles, 47, of Kokomo, Indiana, pleaded guilty in January to interfering with an arrest for a felony, resisting arrest by fleeing, leaving
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Roughly six months ago, Dominique Ford died after being shot in his apartment building, but the search for the killer remains ongoing. According to an October press release from police, Ford was found with life-threatening injuries in the 1400 block of Mokane Road on Oct. 25. Police later said Ford died from
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EDITOR’S NOTE: An incorrect bill number has been removed from the story. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Black Missourians are reported missing at disproportionately higher rates than their share of the population, a troubling trend now affecting a Columbia family. Desire Smith, 15, has been missing for nearly four months after she was last seen in Columbia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A lower bond has been set for a woman who is accused of shooting and killing a woman at a Holts Summit apartment complex earlier this month. Heather M. Smith, 37, was charged with second-degree murder, child endangerment, armed criminal action and three counts of unlawful use of a weapon. Her bond was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Camden County man was sentenced on Monday to eight years in prison for child sex crimes. Joshua Ginsberg, 44, of Roach, Missouri, pleaded guilty in February in Morgan County to two counts of sexual conduct involving a child younger than 15 years old. He is being held at the Morgan County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man has been charged with six felonies after authorities claim he trafficked stolen identities. Christian Blackmore, 31, of Sunrise Beach, has been charged with trafficking stolen identities, first-degree tampering with a vehicle, two counts of drug possession, one count of tampering with evidence, driving revoked and an infraction of displaying plates
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The criminal investigation into Sedalia councilman who resigned last week may include sexual harassment of a juvenile, according to a Monday email from Pettis County Sheriff Brad Anders. Former Ward 1 Councilman Tom Oldham stepped down on Thursday after “serious allegations” were brought against him, the City of Sedalia wrote in a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Auxvasse man was charged in Callaway County on Friday after he allegedly shot and killed his neighbor’s a cat on Thursday night. Tristen Poirier, 39, was charged with a pair of misdemeanors: Animal abuse and unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at the Callaway County Jail on a
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