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A driver spotted McCarthy on an area highway and reported the sighting to police, the Missouri Highway Patrol reports. McCarthy was apprehended on Missouri Route U shortly thereafter without incident.
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Two suspects who purportedly threw explosive devices at Joplin, MO, police during a traffic stop and ensuing pursuit Monday were captured later in the day by deputies.
Read More →The search for a man wanted in the murder of a Clinton, MO, police officer continued Tuesday afternoon after the search of a home in Chilhowee, MO, came up empty.
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A Clinton, MO, police officer was shot and killed Sunday night after making a traffic stop. The suspect is at large and the subject of a manhunt.
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The shooting’s aftermath thrust Jackson into the hot seat, making him the “primary focus of outrage” in its wake, he claims. And it was a few key decisions made during the initial hours after the shooting — including the “inflexible protocol” of leaving Brown’s body lying in the street for four hours — that he says created such a damaging narrative for police.
Read More →After an off-duty St. Louis police officer was wounded by “friendly fire” from a fellow officer looking for suspects after a stolen vehicle crashed late last month, the department is looking at whether more training might help.
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An off-duty police officer was shot by a fellow officer Wednesday night in St. Louis. One suspect was also wounded.
Read More →The family of Michael Brown, the city of Ferguson, former Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson and former police Officer Darren Wilson are nearing settlement of a lawsuit over Brown’s 2014 fatal shooting by Wilson, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
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Police union officials say St. Louis is facing a police staffing crisis. Currently, there are 1,196 sworn officers in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. But Jeff Roorda, business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association, believes that number is actually closer to 1,000 or 1,100 when considering military, maternity or sick leave.
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In December 2014 Officer Jacob Baldwin pulled over a green Honda Accord driven by Omar Maria for a vehicle registration violation. Maria jumped out of the vehicle and fired several shots from a semiautomatic handgun toward the windshield of Baldwin’s police car before Baldwin could get out, prosecutors said.
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