Kansas City Crime Scene: Police Blame Pandemic For Holiday Crime Surge

Tonight we take a glimpse at more local crime news as violence continues to escalate across the metro despite the holiday season and whilst Americans cope with worsening scarcity with no stimulus in sight.

COVID SPIKES KCMO CRIME?!?!

Business break-ins more common this year; KC police point to pandemic as likely reason

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Business break-ins are on the rise, and police say the COVID-19 pandemic could be the cause. On Sunday, FOX4 introduced you to Tanner McKenzie, a 22-year -old entrepreneur whose CBD business was ransacked by thieves. Local police said CBD and marijuana businesses are at greater risk of being targeted due to [...]


Burnouts Rule Downtown

Rubber-burning car shows block streets downtown for second straight weekend

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -- Another Sunday night of burnouts and donuts is frustrating to people who live and work downtown. For the second week in a row, groups of cars blocked Grand Street near the T-Mobile Center as drivers performed noisy stunts around 10 p.m.


Domestic Drama Turns Deadly In The Stix

Smithville woman charged with killing fiancé, the city's first homicide in over 15 years

SMITHVILLE, Mo. - An argument between two people who were engaged to marry whirled out of control and resulted in murder, local prosecutors say. Lori A. Ackerman, 47, was arraigned on Monday afternoon in a Clay County courtroom. Ackerman faces charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Inner Suburb Accusations

Grandview woman charged in Sunday murder

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A 21-year-old Grandview woman is facing a second-degree murder charge in connection to a shooting Sunday that left a man dead. Just after 12 p.m. Sunday, officers were sent to the 13200 block of Winchester Avenue on a reported shooting. When they arrived, they located a victim suffering from gunshot wounds.


Stealing Golden Ghetto

Lenexa police looking for vehicle, suspect tied to 'porch pirate' thefts

LENEXA, KS (KCTV) -- The authorities are looking for a vehicle in connection with two "porch pirate" incidents. The Lenexa Police Department shared a picture on Twitter of a dark vehicle that appears to be a Ford Windstar driven by a white male. The two thefts happened in the area of 79th and Pflumm last week.


Danger In The Dotte

Wyandotte County Sheriff's Office juvenile care worker charged

KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV) - A juvenile care worker with the Wyandotte County Sheriff's has been charged with battery, mistreatment of a confined person and endangering a child. Jorge Navarro was charged Sunday evening by the Wyandotte County District Attorney's Office. The charges stem from an alleged incident at the Wyandotte County Juvenile Detention Center on Oct.


Local Tech Troubled

Ransomware attack causes utility billing issues in Independence

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - People in Independence are unable to pay their utility bills online due to a ransomware attack on the city's computer systems. The cyberattack, which the city announced happened last week, is also causing a delay in bills being delivered by mail.

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Comments

  1. Lots of broke people for Christmas in KC. Most of them hang out on this dumbass blog.

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  2. ^^^ I’m no where near broke, I’m rolling in cash, speak for your self!

    Only because I don’t live in kc proper! You have no idea how glad I am of that! Lmao!

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  3. 9:25 I do get your drift though, the unnecessary shutdowns have killed everybody... thanks you stupid ass dimwit mother fuc.......

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  4. The only people to blame are the murderous blacks

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  5. It’s ok to admit who the problem is, because if you continue to deny who the problem is nothing will change. The kkkdimwopits want murder and mayhem in the black community because they are racist and hate black people that much that they would want them eliminated from the USA.

    It’s true, they hate black people that much.

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  6. i see the rubber burning downtown as a money making opportunity.

    carefully monitor the situation, figure out when the most cars can be rounded up at the same time and then call in the troops along with their urban assault vehicles and tow trucks and start cachinging away.

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  7. If I woke up and found myself engaged to that, she wouldn't have to kill me.

    I would commit suicide.

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  8. with chicken lips like that you may be right - she's of no use for a man unless she can cook food well.

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  9. Does this mean that the wedding is cancelled?

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  10. It's a pandemic all right. The Black plague.

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  11. Her puny lips remind me of Barbara Bollier's. Grandpa always said a woman with no lips tells many lies -- and sucks with the sack in the sack.

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