Jail and Corrections

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (44+ words) On Saturday morning, those wrongfully convicted were seen and remembered at the third annual “Miracle of Innocence” freedom walk in Overland Park. On Saturday morning, those wrongfully convicted were seen and remembered at the third annual "Miracle of Innocence" freedom…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (334+ words) WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - An overhaul of the Kansas parole system has been signed into law. The new board will be larger and will require more relevant history to serve. It comes after Jimmie Nelms, who killed Trooper Conroy O’Brien in…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (122+ words) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Wyandotte County judge sentenced a former Overland Park police officer on March 27 to 24 months probation in a 2023 criminal case. Omar Diosdado pleaded no contest to two counts of attempted aggravated battery, one count of criminal restraint…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (704+ words) TOPEKA — Jimmie Nelms was caught on a dead-end road. He rammed his 1973 white Mercury Marquis through a metal gate and a wire fence into a pasture, then head-on into a Kansas Highway Patrol car that had been tailing him. After…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (174+ words) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A former nurse at the Kansas City VA Medical Center will spend the next decade in a federal prison for child pornography crimes. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri announced on Thursday, Dec....

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (289+ words) A judge sentenced a 22-year-old Independence man to 20 years in prison last week for the fatal shooting of another man at a Kansas City midtown apartment building last summer, according to court documents. A Jackson County jury in August found…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (143+ words) One of two brothers charged in a 2024 shooting outside North Kansas City High School has pleaded guilty. Lavondre Smallwood entered his guilty plea Wednesday during a hearing. Smallwood pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree assault for injuring two victims…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (147+ words) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man who pleaded guilty to the murder of a six-year-old boy in 2023 in Kansas City, Kansas, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday. Lakevis Sloan, 23, shot and killed 6-year-old Sir'Antonio Brown outside the boy's home. Sloan…...

11+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1066+ words) KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCUR) - A sworn affidavit from a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent alleges Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Fatherley kept his knee on Charles Adair’s back for about a minute and a half while deputies tried to subdue…...

11+ mon, 6+ day ago   (555+ words) Kansas City, Missouri, is moving forward with plans for a temporary, modular jail. It would most likely consist of manufactured trailers securely built together to form a detention center compound. The modular jail would be used until the permanent detention…...