Suspect Arrested After String Of Burglaries, Arsons In Lake Area

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A former Missouri Highway Patrol trooper involved in the 2014 drowning of a handcuffed Iowa man ended his fight to get his job back after the state agreed to pay him more than $200,000.

Missouri's Sex Offender Registry lists more than 19,000 sex offenders in the state.

MILLER COUNTY, Mo. — Mark Edwards, former teacher at School of the Osage, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday, Feb. 14, after pleading guilty to Statutory Sodomy. Edwards admitted sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl on a school bus, during a school trip in 2018.

CAMDENTON, Mo. — The man who allegedly brandished a firearm at Gerbes Supermarket and stole hundreds of prescription pills was still in critical condition at University Hospital, in Columbia, after authorities say he shot himself. The man has been identified as 28-year-old Clayton G. Phillips.

The suspect in Sunday's armed robbery at Gerbes Supermarket shot himself during a standoff, police say, and is in serious condition.

CAMDENTON, Mo. — A man who allegedly brandished a gun and held up the Gerbes Supermarket pharmacy on Sunday is on the run, and police are asking the public for help.

MILLER COUNTY, Mo. — A woman who eluded law-enforcement for more than 17 years now faces accessory to first-degree murder on a nearly 19-year-old murder case in Miller County, but she says there were more people at the scene of the murder.

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — A 54-year-old man is dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, after a domestic disturbance on Monday, authorities say.

MILLER COUNTY, Mo. — A 19-year-old cold case murder has heated up. Miller County Law Enforcement on Tuesday morning announced one person has been arrested and charged in connection with the July 23, 2001 murder of Jerry Jeffries.

MILLER COUNTY, Mo. — A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

LINN CREEK, Mo. — Three people have been charged with felonies and misdemeanors after an early-morning raid uncovered a wide range of drugs in a Linn Creek home.

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — A man who is alleged to have burglarized several businesses in Macks Creek has been arrested and charged with four felonies.

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — A Lake Ozark man gave authorities some trouble on Sunday, including urinating on the jail floor and kicking a deputy in the groin, authorities say.

MILLER COUNTY, Mo. — Mark Edwards, a former teacher at School of the Osage—as well as another Lake of the Ozarks area school—has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a female student while on a school bus. Edwards entered his guilty plea on Tuesday, Nov. 19.

OSAGE BEACH, Mo. — Two people have been arrested after reports of vehicle thefts and break-ins across Osage Beach in the last several weeks.

CAMDENTON, Mo. — Camdenton Police say they are investigating threatening comments allegedly made by a Camdenton High School student on Friday, Nov. 15.

OSAGE BEACH, Mo. — Two people were arrested after authorities say they found about a pound of meth and a range of drug paraphernalia in a room at Osage Village Inn, on Friday, Nov. 15.

KIRKWOOD, Mo. — A developer with a long list of creditors at Lake of the Ozarks has been sent to prison for a year for running what a U.S. District Judge likened to a Ponzi scheme in Kirkwood.

MILLER COUNTY, Mo. — A sex offender who admitted to "deviate sexual intercourse" with an 18-year-old male has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

LEBANON, Mo. — A string of arsons left nine homes scorched in a 24-hour period this week, and Lebanon Police say they are speaking to a person of interest in the case.

LEBANON, Mo. — Lebanon Police say they’d like to speak with the driver of a truck that they believe may have been in the area of a fatal hit-and-run that took place at the intersection of N. Highway 5 and N. Adams Street on Sept. 28. The victim was 12-year-old Jailei Luke, of Lebanon.