Camden County Deputies Wrestle Gun From Suspect Threatening To Shoot Himself

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — Multiple people are facing assault charges—among others—after the Camden County Sheriff’s Office says they hit and blew snot at deputies who had placed them under arrest for DWI.

LAKE OZARK, Mo. — A Florida man has been charged with second-degree assault after a fight on The Strip in Lake Ozark in the early morning hours of May 17.

LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Authorities are asking the public to report if they think they may have been the victim of recent theft, after recovering allegedly stolen items during an investigation on Tuesday.

MILLER COUNTY, Mo. — An Eldon man is facing felony kidnapping and assault charges after an alleged hostage situation resulted in him being shot by a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper and arrested.

ELDON, Mo. — An officer-involved shooting early Wednesday morning left an Eldon man hospitalized.

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — On April 9, 2020, Camden County learned it was the victim of a cyber-attack. The county got hacked.

MILLER COUNTY, Mo. — Authorities are investigating a body found in a small pond, on private property near Highway 52.

MILLER COUNTY, Mo. — Miller County Sheriff’s deputies executing a search warrant came across an improvised explosive device at a residence off Highway W, near Lake Ozark, on Tuesday.

LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. — Two men are facing a heap of felony charges in multiple counties, after authorities say they allegedly broke into and/or burned down several commercial buildings over the past few weeks.

LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. — Recent burglaries, thefts, and arsons in the Lake area have been linked, authorities say, and the Camden County Sheriff's Department has announced their first arrest as a result of the investigation.

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — A firearms business in Montreal, Mo. was damaged during an attempted burglary last night, and authorities are asking the public's help in catching the alleged perpetrators.

CAMDENTON, Mo. — A "suspicious" fire damaged a Camdenton laundromat on Thursday morning, and authorities are investigating.

LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. — A Kansas couple is facing rape, sodomy and drug charges stemming from an incident on a boat, and authorities are asking the public for help in what they say is a regional investigation.

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — A Camdenton man is facing three felony charges after authorities say he ran a car off the road on Sunday, Feb. 23.

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — The Camden County Sheriff's Office just got the ability to continue funding a full-time Domestic Violence Investigator.

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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.