Crime News

A Perryville, Missouri, man broke another man's arm and hit him in the head with a baseball bat, police said. The Perry County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Joshua S. Stenberg, 34, with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. Stenberg contacted the victim in a car near a residence in the 8900 block of Route O, according to a probable-cause statement filed in the case by Perry County sheriff's Sgt. James Rice...

A Marble Hill, Missouri, man faces kidnapping and domestic-assault charges after beating a woman and holding her against her will, police said. The Cape Girardeau Prosecuting Attorney's Office on Sunday charged Dale E. Coleman, no age given, with third-degree domestic assault and second-degree kidnapping...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Cory Hutcheson will remain free on bond after Cape Girardeau County Associate Circuit Judge Gary Kamp denied the prosecutor's request to revoke the bond of the Mississippi County Sheriff. Missouri assistant attorney general Gregory Goodwin had filed a motion to revoke Hutcheson's bond in the case, which was set at $50,000 cash or surety when criminal charges were filed against Hutcheson on April 5...

A Cape Girardeau man stabbed a longtime friend in the head and arm after being ejected from a strip club Thursday, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Ivan Sanchez with first-degree assault and armed criminal action Friday...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson should have his bond revoked because of the death of an inmate in the county jail, Missouri assistant attorney general Gregory Goodwin told a judge Thursday. At the end of the hearing in Mississippi County Circuit Court, Judge Gary Kamp took the matter under advisement. Kamp said he expects to rule on the motion within the next several days...

A Thebes, Illinois, man faces charges he took the wheel from the passenger seat and tried to cause a crash and kill himself and the driver of the vehicle, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Larry A. Henderson, 34, with first-degree domestic assault Thursday...

Five more people face drug charges resulting from police narcotics investigations conducted several months ago, police said. The suspects are charged with selling drugs including methamphetamine, marijuana and LSD to undercover officers, according to charging documents filed this week...

A man and woman broke into a Cape Girardeau storage facility and stole a large amount of jewelry Tuesday, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Jason D. Goodman, 35, of Marble Hill, Missouri, with second-degree burglary and possession of burglar's tools Wednesday. Both are felonies...

Two men sold methamphetamine to an undercover police officer in downtown Cape Girardeau, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office on Tuesday charged Jamie W. Donner, 21, of Cape Girardeau with delivery of a controlled substance, a felony...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A lawmaker says Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens will sign his bill to ban people convicted of sex offenses against children from coming within 500 feet of children’s museums. Cassville Republican Sen. David Sater said Wednesday he’s meeting with Greitens for a bill signing today in Jefferson City. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Aspiring Missouri college police officers will face the same training as other future cops under a bill signed by the governor. Republican Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday signed the legislation. Current law calls for at least 320 hours of training for college police compared to at least 470 hours for most other aspiring officers. ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — University of Missouri System president Mun Choi wants the university to rescind an honorary degree given to Bill Cosby nearly 20 years ago. The system’s board of curators will vote Friday on Choi’s recommendation. A university staff memo sent to the curators states sexual-assault allegations against Cosby are “incompatible” with the honorary doctorate in humane letters given to him in 1999. ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Poplar Bluff, Missouri, man preempted his trial by pleading guilty Monday morning to six felonies, including a murder charge in connection with the shooting death of a good Samaritan who had given him a ride. Joseph Wade Wisdom, 33, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful use of a weapon before Circuit Judge David Jones, according to Butler County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Paul Oesterreicher. ...

Two Georgia men, accused in Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court of abducting and robbing a woman before releasing her unharmed last week, also face federal charges of carjacking. Federal prosecutors filed charges of motor vehicle theft/carjacking in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau on Friday...

Two men accused of abducting and robbing a Cape Girardeau woman before releasing her unharmed were arrested Friday night by officers of the Kansas Highway Patrol and the U.S. Marshals Service.

A former Cape Girardeau police officer faces prosecution on a misdemeanor charge of stealing by deceit. Michael Kidd, 42, of Jackson is accused of being paid more than $1,300 for work he did not do, according to a probable-cause statement. From June 2015 to April 2016, Kidd claimed he worked 16 driving-while-intoxicated "special paid overtime details."...

A 28-year-old Cape Girardeau man, charged with assaulting a woman, made phone calls to the victim in an effort to convince her to tell authorities “none of that ever happened,” police said. Darius Isiah Lamar Love, 822 Good Hope St., initially faced charges including domestic assault over a May 18 incident...

LAS VEGAS -- A man suspected of killing his young daughter, leaving the body in an abandoned property in Illinois and forcing his wife into prostitution in Las Vegas was charged Friday with abusing two other daughters kept captive in an apartment. Jason Scott Quate was not asked to enter pleas during his arraignments on 34 felony counts of child sexual assault, abuse, lewdness and possession of pornography...

A woman was abducted Thursday morning from the Wal-Mart Supercenter parking lot in Cape Girardeau and later found unharmed in a field near Chaffee, Missouri, police said. Police are searching for two men in a silver 1999 Suzuki Grand Vitara with a North Carolina license plate that reads EFK7387, Sgt. Rick Schmidt said...

A Jackson man was arrested Thursday on charges of distributing and possessing methamphetamine. Jackson police said Donald G. Caruthers, 47, of 735 Dallas St., was arrested at his residence after police, along with officers from the SEMO Drug Task Force and the Sikeston, Missouri, Department of Public Safety, served a narcotics search warrant. ...

FULTON, Mo. — Prosecutors are reviewing evidence in the case of a 31-year-old developmentally disabled Missouri man whose body was found encased in concrete. Fulton police chief Steve Myers said he believes prosecutors will decide what charges to file in the coming weeks. ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A former teacher’s assistant has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography after admitting he placed a pen camera in the bathroom of a southwest Missouri elementary school. Federal prosecutors said 20-year-old Dalton Cole Sherman of Buffalo pleaded guilty Tuesday. ...

A Jackson woman rammed a vehicle with her truck Monday, trying to hit another woman, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Claudia M. Howe, 61, with first-degree assault and armed criminal action, both felonies...

LAS VEGAS -- A mother jailed in Las Vegas awaiting transfer to Illinois to face charges of concealing the death of a child whose body was found in a garage at an abandoned St. Louis-area property had been named in criminal warrants in two Illinois counties, according to documents obtained Wednesday...

A Cape Girardeau man faces assault charges after putting a woman in a chokehold hard enough to bruise her throat, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office on Tuesday charged Christopher W. Ford, 33, with second-degree domestic assault...