COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police in Mexico arrested a man for allegedly stabbing someone on Monday. Police Chief Brice Mesko said in a news release on Tuesday that Darrell Smith, 42, was taken into custody for allegedly stabbing a man in the 700 block of Singleton in Mexico. Smith is charged with second-degree assault and armed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Gasconade County man was charged last week after investigators accused him of killing a man who had been living in his garage in 2018. Daniel W. Russell was charged Thursday with first-degree murder, abandonment of a corpse and evidence tampering. The case had been sealed until this week. The Gasconade County
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A Cole County judge will let some of Columbia Public Schools’ lawsuit over a new charter school in Boone County proceed. Judge Emily Fretwell decided on Monday to let CPS pursue claims against the state, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway and the State Board of Education over a 2024 law that permitted
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The California Missouri Police Department requested the help of Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a call was made over the weekend about someone allegedly trying to “self-deport,” an email from Police Chief Scott John. California police announced in a Sunday social media post “there were a few ICE agents from Kansas City
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Camdenton man was charged with several felonies, including arson, on Monday after he allegedly tried to set a garage and tiny home on fire early Friday. Previn Tauer, 48, was charged in Miller County with two counts of second-degree burglary, two counts of second-degree arson and two counts of first-degree property
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man charged with felony murder in a 2024 shooting at a Columbia White Castle was charged with an additional felony on Friday. Antione Lamont Armstrong, 26, is charged with illegal gun possession, second-degree felony murder, two counts of armed criminal action and a count of delivery of a controlled substance in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former University of Missouri student who was accused of strangling a victim at a residence hall last year has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Maxwell Warren, 19, of Overland Park, Kansas, pleaded guilty on Friday to two counts of second-degree domestic assault and one count of fourth-degree domestic assault.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man was charged on Wednesday with multiple child sex crimes. Justin Stegeman, 33, was charged in Callaway County with sexual misconduct involving a child younger than 15 years old, fourth-degree child molestation and second-degree statutory rape. He is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond. A bond hearing
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Phelps County coroner announced in a Monday social media post that a car that was left running in a garage on June 19 led to the deaths of five people. Four men and a woman were found dead that day in a home in the 11000 block of Village Circle in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Audrain County man was charged over the weekend with seven felonies, including first-degree assault, after three people were injured with a knife in a bar fight. Robert H. LeCoque, 37, of Benton City, is accused of stabbing three people early Sunday after climbing onto a stage where a band was performing
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Deputies in eastern Missouri arrested a man Sunday in connection with the 2019 discovery of human remains on the banks of the Gasconade River. The Gasconade County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook that Jefferson County, Missouri, deputies arrested Daniel W. Russell of High Ridge, Missouri, on Sunday on suspicion of first-degree murder,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Former University of Missouri head football coach Gary Pinkel pleaded guilty Monday to a July 2025 DWI, according to court documents filed Monday morning. The plea details filed by Pinkel’s lawyer, Bogdan Susan, state that Pinkel is pleading guilty to misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. Prosecutors recommended “a fine of $1,000, court
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man accused of killing a woman and hiding her body in a trash bin that was found in a creek pleaded not guilty Monday. Andrew Acton pleaded guilty during his arraignment before Judge Stephanie Morrell. Last week, a Boone County grand jury indicted Acton, who is accused of killing his
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Pettis County Sheriff’s Office said a three-day joint operation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement resulted in 18 arrests. The operation targeted people investigators identified as fugitives or individuals tied to existing criminal investigations, according to the sheriff’s office. In a statement to ABC 17 News, the Department of Homeland Security
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HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A judge has found a former Moberly police officer guilty in the murder of a woman who confronted him at his front door, Judge Robert Koffman found David Heyde guilty of second-degree murder in the case of Baily Scott at the end of his bench trial Friday morning. Koffman ruled that there
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County grand jury on Friday indicted a Columbia man accused of killing his romantic partner and disposing of her body in a trash bin that was found in a creek. Andrew Acton is accused of strangling or smothering the 47-year-old woman sometime between Oct. 1, 2025, and May 10, 2026.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County man was charged Friday with two counts of child enticement — the latest in a string of defendants charged with similar crimes this week. John Binu, 25, tried to meet with two 16-year-old girls on Thursday for sex after meeting them online, according to a probable cause statement. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office filed one count of driving while intoxicated against former Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel on Friday, according to court records. Pinkel was arrested on July 7, 2025, but no charges had been filed until now. According to the probable cause statement, Pinkel flagged down a state trooper
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police in Bloomington, Illinois, say a suspect in a Mid-Missouri casino robbery was arrested without incident this week. Hollis C. Vanleer Jr., 21, was arrested Wednesday afternoon by Bloomington police and U.S. Marshals, according to a release from the Bloomington Police Department. Police arrested Vanleer during a traffic stop, and he was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were arrested Wednesday morning in Sedalia during a law enforcement operation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Lazaro Joaquin-Ruiz, of Sedalia, was charged with drug possession, resisting arrest and violating an order of protection. Alondra Reyes Hernandez was charged with drug possession and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child. Both
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