California Police Department hit with misconduct allegations

California Police Department hit with misconduct allegations. After noticing some concerning habits in the California Police Department’s evidence handling process and the integrity of its leadership, a group of officers say they tried to escalate their concerns...

Former Harrison County Sheriff Deputy charged with felony of tampering with physical evidence

Lawson is accused of destroying the original evidence log with the purpose to impair or obstruct investigations related to public corruption, felony tampering, and/or felony distribution of a controlled substance. January 14, 2021A former Harrison County Sheriff...

DNA connects St. Louis man to cold cases in Arizona, more victims possible

Lance David Ray was arrested and charged with crimes from 20 years ago. He’s accused of killing a man and kidnapping and sexually assaulting two teens at gunpoint December 29, 2020ST. LOUIS — A man who most recently lived in St. Louis has been arrested and...

IML police chief arrested, charged with stealing drug evidence, false impersonation

admitted to taking the methamphetamine evidence from the locker and ingesting it September 21, 2020The police chief of Iron Mountain Lake has been arrested and faces felony charges this week following an alleged police pursuit outside of his jurisdiction that...

Attorney general announces DNA “hits” from rape kit testing effort

Of 16 kits that were uploaded to CODIS, the national DNA database of prior offenders, 11 generated matches. September 9, 2020An ongoing initiative to process untested sexual assault kits in Missouri has produced 11 matches to DNA profiles of known criminal offenders,...

Video Footage May Indicate Police Evidence Was Compromised In Laurie

Evidence Room July 25, 2020New video footage obtained by KRMS News might show that police evidence was compromised in the City of Laurie.The video was taken during an investigation of former police chief Mark Black and former assistant police chief Angela Nickerson,...