A Missouri state trooper has been placed on administrative leave after police in West Plains charged him with rape. Court documents say a woman reported that Ethan Minge came to her home on July 27 and tried to have sex with her, KMBC reports. When she repeatedly said no, he allegedly pushed her onto her …
A Missouri couple have been charged in what police say is one of the worst child abuse case they’ve ever investigated. The investigation began months ago when one of their three children arrived at school with a significant cut, KMOV reported. When Amberly Britton and Mark Myers failed to respond to attempts to contact them, …
A Missouri woman has been charged with murder and child endangerment after she was seen on video firing fatal gunshots at a woman in another room, where she and a child were located. The St. Louis County Police Department said it responded late Wednesday afternoon to a call about the shooting in the north of …
A Missouri man was arrested on arson charges last month after he allegedly set a home in Independence on fire with four people inside. None of the people inside were hurt in the fire, which the Independence Fire Department extinguished, KCTV reported. Tylor A. Burghoff, 35, was arrested two blocks from the fire, and police …
An off-duty Missouri US Air Force airman shot and killed a neighbor who tried to intervene in a domestic dispute between him and a woman on Wednesday. The airman, assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base, fired at police officers who responded to the scene and was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the …
Investigators are looking for an Indiana man they say manipulated his girlfriend into killing an ex-lover three years ago. Cordero Cervantes, 35, and McKayla Archambeau, 25, were both initially arrested in July 2022 in connection with the death of 31-year-old Taylor Hawkins a month earlier, as CrimeOnline reported. Cervantes was initially indicted on one count …
A Missouri man has been charged with stalking, kidnapping, and child endangerment after he allegedly followed a woman home from a Target store earlier this month and grabbed her while she was holding her toddler son. Joshua Allen York, 30, claimed he struck up a conversation with his victim at the store and she invited …
A Missouri woman has been charged with with domestic assault after a violent fight with her boyfriend ended when she hit him with garden shears and tried to run him over with his truck. Cheri Newark, 48, denied trying to hit him with his truck as he ran for safety in the house, KTLO reported. …
A 20-year-old Missouri man has been charged with murder in a road rage shooting a month ago that left a a 57-year-old man dead. Laken Logan claimed the car driven by Cleveland Wright “swerved into his lane” so he “decided” to follow and “confront the driver,” a probable cause statement says. The incident took place …
A Missouri man has been charged with murder in a housefire in Columbia on June 15. Brandon Butchkoski, 47, was previously charged with arson in a second fire at the same house on June 29, a probable cause statement said. And residents at the home where the fires took place said there had been three …
Police in Missouri are seeking charges against man accused of kidnapping a 4-year-old boy with autism on Saturday before he was located in another city and crashed his vehicle trying to get away. The California Police Department said that the child’s mother reported early Sunday morning that the 4-year-old and Stephen Curtner had not been …
A 25-year-old Missouri man was arrested last week for the murders of his estranged wife and their unborn son. Sidney Fredrick Wilson V was charged on Thursday with first degree murder in the deaths of Reagan Lynn Wilson, 21, and their son, Silas, the Lebanon Police Department said. He has also been charged with armed …
