Category: Kansas City Kansas

Kansas City, Kan., police reports

March 13

Criminal damage, 1000 block of Reynolds, seven windows, $700 value.

Burglary, criminal damage, 4000 block of South Minnie, window and frame, laptop computers, camera, $1,550 value.

Burglary, criminal damage, 2600 block of Essex, window, video game console, $450 value.

Battery, 2400 block of North 38th.

March 12

Criminal damage, 100 block of North 13th, window, $50 value.

Burglary, criminal damage, 1100 block of North 18th, Christ Church of the Jesus Hour, lock, speakers, sound board, $450 value.

March 11

Theft, 3500 block of North 55th, Cadillac, $15,000 value.

Criminal damage, 5000 block of Freeman, drywall, vanity, ceiling fan, 9 doors and windows, $3,500 value.

March 9

Criminal damage, theft, 500 block of Minnesota, five Coke machines damaged, $700 value; currency, $181 value.

March 3

Burglary, criminal damage, 800 block of Reynolds, door, gas stove, door handle, $480 value.

Freed after 19 years on death row, former inmate to address topic of death penalty

Curtis McCarty, on death row for 19 years in Oklahoma for a crime he did not commit, will be the guest speaker April 8 at Donnelly College, 608 N. 18th St., Kansas City, Kan.

The event will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in Donnelly’s Community Event Center.

McCarty spent more than 21 years in prison – including 19 years on death row – before being exonerated in 2007.

McCarty was re-convicted twice and re-sentenced to death three times. It took more than 16 years for McCarty to secure proper DNA testing, and another three years to win a new trial with this evidence.

Since being exonerated, McCarty has been advocating for repeal of the death penalty all over the world. hand the flaws in the death penalty system, and the possibility of a state making the biggest mistake of all: executing an innocent person.

His appearance April 8 is sponsored by Donnelly College and the Archdiocese of Kansas.

The event is free and open to the public.

Car goes airborne off I-70

A car went airborne on I-70 near 18th Street Expressway on Thursday, hitting a tree and landing upright, according to a Kansas Turnpike Authority trooper’s accident report.

The Nissan Versa was westbound on I-70 about 9:25 p.m. April 3 when the driver took evasive action to avoid another vehicle and lost control, the report stated.

The car slid into the north ditch, hit a rock wall, then went airborne and hit a tree, coming to rest upright, the trooper’s report stated.

The driver of the car, a 20-year-old Lenexa, Kan., woman, was injured and taken to a hospital, according to the report.

A passenger, a 19-year-old woman from Kansas City, Mo., also was injured and taken to a hospital.