Kansas City Crime Scene: Corporate Crook Convicted, Juror Regret & Mob Ties

As we noted this morning . . . Kansas City crime continues to ramp up amid the unofficial start to Summer. 

In this post we share a bevy of crime reporting from the metro to NYC . . . All connected to this increasingly violent place we call home.

Check TKC news gathering . . .

Judge sentences Kansas City man to four years of prison for involvement in $1.1 million insurance fraud case

A Kansas City, Mo., man will spend the next four years in federal prison after being sentenced in a $1.1 million insurance fraud conspiracy scheme. Michael Stuart Smith will also have to pay nearly $41,000 in restitution to victims. The scheme involved making false claims of injuries suffered in car accidents.

'My best friend': Sister mourns man shot and killed Friday by Kansas City police officer

Eboney Allmon knows her son will be processing trauma for years after he saw his uncle and a family friend fatally shot by a Kansas City police officer while he was riding in the friend's car Friday. Allmon rushed to the scene after she heard her brother might have been hurt in the shooting.

Man files lawsuit alleging he was slammed to ground in 2021 by KCK officer

A man alleges in a lawsuit he was slammed into the ground by a Kansas City, Kansas, officer at a hotel in 2021.

City of Leawood and two police officers dropped from lawsuit alleging excessive force

The City of Leawood and two of its police officers have been removed from a lawsuit that alleged police used excessive force against a woman seeking treatment at a local hospital. Muriel Martin, 76, of Kansas City, filed a federal lawsuit on May 19 in the U.S. Court for the District of Kansas.

Missouri Case Illustrates the Reality of Juror Regret in Capital Cases and the Danger of the Death Penalty's Finality

Amherst professor Austin Sarat comments on the recent execution of Michael Tisius by the state of Missouri, despite a request by several of the jurors who sentenced him to death in 2010 that his sentence be commuted to life without parole.

New Kansas law meant to target human smuggling raises questions, concerns

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - On July 1, Kansas will have two new crimes in the law meant to target human smuggling, one of which is a source of concern for immigration advocates and members of the Latino community. That concern is about the consequences of the law on people or families who provide support or resources to people who are undocumented.

One Last Job? 60-Somethings With Mob Ties Charged in Jewel Heists

Four older men with extensive criminal records, including killings and a jailbreak, were charged this week in two brazen armed robberies in Manhattan. When four men were charged this week in the brazen armed robberies of two Manhattan jewelers, their ages suggested it might not be their first encounter with the criminal justice system.

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