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Board Meetings:
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
9:00 a.m., 6th Floor, Board Room
Business Meetings:
Thursday, October 9, 2008
9:00 a.m., 6th Floor, Board Room
Audit Committee Meeting,
Monday, September 8, 2008
9:30 a.m., 6th Floor, Board Room
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Chief joins Mayor in effort against illegal guns
Police Chief James Corwin will join Mayor Mark Funkhouser, City Councilwoman Cathy Jolly and others in supporting the Mayor’s participation in the national Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, on the front steps of Kansas City Police Headquarters, 1125 Locust St.
After a weekend in which three people were killed by guns in Kansas City and another seven were shot, KCPD stands firmly behind Mayor Funkhouser’s efforts to be part of the more than 320-member bipartisan group of mayors nationwide committed to getting illegal guns off the streets.
“Fifty-two of the 65 murders that have taken place in Kansas City this year have been carried out with firearms,” Chief Corwin said. “Being part of Mayors Against Illegal Guns will reinforce our city’s commitment to getting these guns out of the hands of criminals and will help provide us with resources to do so.”
Mayors Against Illegal Guns was formed in April 2006 by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to discuss strategies for stopping the flow of illegal guns into America’s cities. Its statement of principles has been endorsed by organizations such as the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Conference of Black Mayors. Those principles are:
1.) Punish – to the maximum extent of the law – criminals who possess, use and traffic in illegal guns.
2.) Target and hold accountable irresponsible gun dealers who break the law by knowingly selling guns to straw purchasers (individuals who by guns on behalf of someone else)
3.) Oppose all federal efforts to restrict cities’ right to access, use and share trace data that is so essential to effective enforcement, or to interfere with the ability of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to combat illegal gun trafficking.
4.) Work to develop and use technologies that aid in the detection and tracing of illegal guns.
5.) Support all local, state and federal legislation that targets illegal guns; coordinate legislative, enforcement, and litigation strategies; and share information and best practices.
6.) Invite other cities to join the coalition.
Mayor Funkhouser’s announcement Tuesday will coincide with the 25th Annual Night Out Against Crime, a day in which thousands of neighborhoods across the country will address crime issues and prevention in their communities.
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Cold Cases
Investigators to conduct unprecedented canvass Tuesday for clues in bank robbery and murder
Kansas City Police detectives, FBI agents and other federal investigators will go door-to-door looking for cold-case murderers Tuesday and Wednesday in the area’s largest-ever canvass in a criminal case.
They seek suspects in the murder of 71-year-old Dwight Mayhugh, a security guard who died in a botched bank robbery on Feb. 24, 2006, at the UMB Bank at 79th Street and Wornall Road. The same bank was robbed previously on Feb. 9, 2006, by the same suspects. A $60,000 reward is being offered for information in the case.
The more-than 100 investigators will canvass an unprecedented 498 residences in the area of 24th and Oakley streets near Blue Valley Park over the course of two days. The operation’s command post will be in the park near 23rd and Topping streets. The media is invited to meet at the command post at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12, to learn more about the operation and accompany some of the investigators conducting the canvass.
“I’m pretty confident that this canvass is going to generate something that will solve this case,” said Detective James Herrington of KCPD’s Career Criminal Unit.
Detectives and agents are targeting the 24th and Oakley area because cars stolen in both of the February 2006 UMB robberies were found in that vicinity. A recent tip has reignited the case and led investigators to believe someone in the area has more information.
Monte Strait, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Kansas City Division, stated that the cooperation among law enforcement in the extensive canvass being conducted should be seen as a clear message to the suspects that their actions will not be tolerated by the Kansas City community nor law enforcement.
“With support from the public, these criminals will be identified, located and brought to justice,” he said.
The first robbery took place at 6:40 a.m. Feb. 9, 2006. Using a gun, two black males forced a female teller to give them money and then stole her car (a picture is in the attached flier). The second robbery happened at 6:30 a.m. on Feb. 24, 2006, as Mr. Mayhugh arrived to open up the bank. The suspects shot him in his car and then took him inside the bank demanding money, but Mr. Mayhugh had no access to the bank’s money, and the suspects got away with nothing except for Mr. Mayhugh’s car (picture in attached flier). Mr. Mayhugh died the next day from his injuries.
Along with KCPD detectives and FBI agents, agencies assisting in the operation include the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Anyone with information about the case is urged to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS or the Kansas City FBI Office at 816-512-8200.
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