Missouri Crime & Safety

On Thursday at approximately 5 p.m., Pettis County Deputies, the Mid-Missouri Drug Task Force, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol executed a search warrant at 706 McVey Road, reference drug activity. In March of this year, Pettis County Sheriff Brad Anders received intelligence implicating Melissa Tobin (Bacon) in the sales...

BUCHANAN COUNTY—Two people were injured in an accident just before 10:30p.m. Thursday in Buchanan County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Ford Crown Victoria driven by Paul E. Jackson, 83, St. Joseph, was northbound on Interstate 29 just south of Washington Township. The car traveled off the road...

A Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in the Springfield, Mo., area. Cheyenne W. Conn, 45, of Everton, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

MCDONALD COUNTY, Mo. – Authorities arrest three family members for kidnapping a 13- and 9-year-old. The biological mother had lost parental rights and the kids were in the custody of the state of Texas. That’s according to the McDonald County Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office says on Tuesday, July 20,...

(BUCHANAN COUNTY, Mo.) Two people were sent to the hospital following a crash on Interstate-29 Thursday night. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 83-year-old Paul Jackson, of St. Joseph, was driving northbound on I-29 when the vehicle traveled off the east side of the road, went down and embankment, and struck a ditch.

LAKE OZARK, Mo. (KY3) -The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Christopher McClain, 64, of Lincolnshire, Il. drowned Thursday night. The patrol says McClain did a back flip off a high dive and didn’t resurface. The Lake Ozark Fire Department, Mid-County Fire and Rescue and Rocky Mount Fire Department were also...

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is reporting arrests Thursday evening, July 22, 2021, in Daviess and Caldwell counties. A man from Tomball, Texas, 39-year-old Harry Hicks, was taken on a 24-hour hold to the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail. The highway patrol in Daviess County accused Hicks of resisting arrest, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, and driving while intoxicated. He’s also accused of driving a commercial vehicle while allegedly under the influence of a controlled substance. Other accusations are careless and imprudent driving, driving without a valid commercial driver’s license, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

NEWTON COUNTY, Mo. — Missouri State Highway Patrol respond to reports of a crash shortly after 2:15 p.m. on Thursday near US-59 and MO-86 east of Neosho. A tandem-trailer left the right side of the road just south of MO-86 junction. The rear tandem trailer had fallen to the side.

DAVIESS COUNTY — An Excelsior Springs man was injured in a Daviess County motorcycle accident Thursday morning. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, 51-year-old Leslie K. Keasling was driving a Harley Davidson eastbound on Missouri Route 6, just west of Jamesport around 10:45 a.m. Thursday. His motorcycle failed to negotiate a curve and traveled off the right side of the roadway.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — An O'Fallon man has been sentenced to life in prison for the death of his girlfriend's 4-month-old son. Devon M. Coleman, 34, was sentenced Monday for the death of Dexter Gabel on Dec. 7, 2017, at a home in O'Fallon. Coleman was convicted in May of child abuse resulting in death.

An Illinois man is dead after he drowned at the Lake of the Ozarks. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol's online report, Christopher McClain, 64, of Lincolnshire, IL, did a backflip off of a high dive from a deck. He did not resurface. The medical examiner pronounced him dead...

This is a compilation of reports released by the Pettis County Sheriff's Office:. On July 18 at 12:34 a.m., the Pettis County K9 unit, with the assistance of the Missouri State Highway Patrol and Sedalia Police, conducted a traffic stop at Graham Drive and Clinton Road on a vehicle failing to display license plates. During the traffic stop, the driver, identified as Scott W. Mathis of Cole Camp, threw a crystal substance out the window. Mathis was then arrested for driving while suspended, possession of a controlled substance and tampering with physical evidence.

A tractor trailer that overturned on I-70 brought westbound traffic to a halt late Thursday morning in Saline County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that a westbound 2012 Freightliner, driven by 37-year-old Andree J. Gavilan of Saddle Brook, New Jersey, was on I-70 at the 63.4 mile marker (between Emma and Sweet Springs) at 11:30 a.m., when another vehicle cut him off and Gavilan attempted to avoid impact by steering to the right and braking, causing the vehicle to skid. The Freightliner then traveled off the right side of the roadway, returned to the roadway, and overturned, coming to rest on its side.