Former YWCA Aquatic Center Option 1 Rendering Courtesy Berkshire Hathawy Home Services Stein and Summers Real Estate
The former YWCA Aquatic Center building is up for sale or lease, this time without the pool.
Ray Sisson is the listing agent with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Stein and Summers Real Estate. He said Logan Walker purchased the building located at 802 Jules St. from the YWCA last year as an investment property. Walker has filled in the pool and is looking at other architectural designs for the building.
“It’s ready to be developed, probably for office space,” said Sisson. “We’ve met with Creal Clark & Seifert and they have given us the elevations on the exterior of the building after we take off the canopy that’s across the front of it.”
Sisson said the building could be used for many different things from retails, to office space.
“It is ready to be marketed and show,” Sisson said. “We have started to talk to potential clients.”
The building was placed back on the market in June.
“We wanted to get this elevation determined in what it’s going to look like when we’re done,” Sisson said. “Because it’s not going to look like this when we’re through.”
A preliminary hearing will be scheduled next week for a St Joseph man charged with manslaughter for the death of his passenger in a crash in January.
Richard Osborne was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Daniel Maddock, who police say ran a stop sign at 12th and Church streets January 3. The vehicle struck a Toyota driven by Adindi Okemba of Kansas City. Osborne was killed in the crash. Mr Maddock suffered serious injuries in the crash. Mr Okemba was taken to the hospital as well.
Maddock was arrested on Friday. During a hearing Tuesday Judge Keith Marquart scheduled a preliminary hearing docket call July 24, and was asked to lower Maddock’s bail. Instead Judge Marquart raised it to $60,000. Officials told the judge that the defendant moved out of the area to avoid prosecution.
Courthouse officials say Mr Maddock has paid part of a retainer fee for an attorney in the case, but not all of it, and thus it’s not clear if Mr Maddock has legal representation. By Tuesday afternoon, there had been no notice to the court of a formal appearance by the lawyer.
Maddock is charged with one Class-C felony count of vehicular involuntary manslaughter involving intoxication.
St. Joseph’s largest arts festival said it’s in need of a few helping hands.
Trails West! ® announced Monday that it’s looking for community volunteers to assist with various tasks for the 2015 festival.
This year’s festival celebrates the “heART for the City” and will run August 21-23.
The festival is looking for volunteers to help with festival set up, clean up in the food court, site preparation, site decorations, removal of decorations, and delivery of Trails West!® marketing materials.
“This is a great opportunity for volunteers this year, because they can easily sign up to be a part of Trails West!®and show their heART for the City,” said Jolene Dempster, festival volunteer chair.
To volunteer fill out a volunteer application on the Trails West!® page, www.trailswest.org, by clicking on the volunteers tab.
Police are once again asking for assistance in connection with a a woman previously identified from surveillance photos by the public.
Linda Sue Pennell (Helton) is wanted by the St. Joseph Police Department for outstanding warrants and is the subject of interest in several thefts.
She is described as about 5’9″ and 170 lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes and multiple tattoos on her legs and arms including a rose tattoo on the outside of her lower right leg with the name Pennell above it.
Dozens of people are signing up to see who will be top dog in a local hot dog eating contest.
“The hot dog eating contest is one of a kind and has never been done here,” said Tony Scudiero, St. Jo Frontier Casino General Manager. “We wanted to do a promotion that was similar to the national contest but on a little smaller scale.”
Scudiero is referring to the Nathan’s International Hod Dog Eating Contest held every 4th of July where thousands of people descend on Coney Island to try to eat the most hot dogs.
He said the casino decided not to hold their contest on Independence Day because of the number of activities already taking place around the casino with the annual fireworks display so they decided on July 18.
“We’re always looking for new things to find out what our customers of the people in this area like so we just thought what the heck let’s try a hot dog eating contest and if it works we’ll bring it back next year,” said Scudiero.
The contest will be held Saturday, July 18 at 2 p.m. at the St. Jo Frontier Casino. It’s free but participants must be 21 to enter. A $1,000 grand prize will be awarded to whoever can eat the most dogs.
“We’ll be cooking quite a few hot dogs here on a large scale,” said Scudiero. “We could probably be looking at 2,000 hot dogs so that we don’t run out.”
As of Friday afternoon there were already 25 people signed up for the contest. Participants have until July 17 as of closing time to sign up with the St. Joe Frontier Casino, it’s free to participate.
“We would love to have at least 50 for our first ever hot dog contest,” he said. “Amateurs only, no professionals.”
Unlike the national hot dog eating competition, Scudiero said participants will not have to eat any buns, it’s hot dogs only.
“We wanted to make it a little simpler and hopefully a little less difficult on participant’s stomachs,” he said.
SJPD looks to reduce “Neighborhood Isolation” File Photo
The St. Joseph Police Department is urging area residents to get to know one-another.
“When I was a kid and when most of us were kids we had a neighborhood and people knew what was going on and they knew the guy next door and they knew what the neighbor’s drove so when they saw a different car in the driveway they knew it didn’t belong there,” said Sgt. Greg Gilpin, Crime Prevention officer with the St. Joseph Police Department. “Anymore and it’s not just St. Joe it’s all over the place we kind of got just a group of homes where people go to work, come home, pull in the garage and don’t come back out until it’s time to go to work or school or something.”
The department even took to social media to try and combat “Neighborhood Isolation.” In a Facebook post the department asked residents to try and get out this summer to visit their neighbor’s and get back to knowing who lives around them.
“How well do you know your neighbors…I mean really know them? Do you know them by name, what they drive, where they work, and when they are usually at home? Unfortunately many people would answer no,” the post said.
Gilpin said he feels technology has been a big factor in the change over the years.
“I kind of think of that Tracy Lawrence song ‘If the world had a front porch like we did back then,’ you know when people sat on the front porch and got to know people,” Gilpin said. “But everybody’s so busy with technology that instead of talking to them they just send them a text. They never really talk to somebody face-to-face.”
He said getting to know your neighbors can be a big factor in security.
“If you look over at your neighbor’s house and you see a red truck backed up to a garage and some guy loading stuff up out of the garage to an officer driving down the street that might not look suspicious but if you know that that neighbor is usually at work this time of day and that he drives a brown 4-door car and that doesn’t look right to you pick up the phone and give us a call,” Gilpin said. “I think just people had a better idea of what was going on around them because they spent more time outside.”
So Gilpin is asking residents to make an effort to get to know their neighbor’s this summer.
“I’d just like people to get outside, and meet people face-to-face and introduce themselves,” Gilpin said. “If somebody new moves in, walk over and say ‘Hi’ and introduce yourself. That’s kind of the way neighborhood’s used to work.”
A man’s life was saved Thursday in St. Joseph when a police officer stopped to see what was going on.
“Officer Kyle Graham was en-route to a call last night, he observed a subject along the side of the road bleeding profusely from his arm. He stopped, rendered first-aid, applied a tourniquet to the arm, contacted an ambulance, the ambulance arrived and rushed the gentleman to the hospital,” Commander Eric Protzman said. “He had a cut to a brachial artery. Had it not been for officer Graham’s quick actions the gentleman would have lost blood and probably been deceased.”
31-year-old Graham has only been with the St. Joseph Police Department since January of this year. He was on his way to a report of a stolen vehicle call on Lake Avenue just before 7 p.m. when he notice the man on the side of the road.
“You never know when you respond somewhere what you may come across, what you may encounter so you need to be prepared and ready to do whatever with what may come up,” Protzman said.
The man was taken to Mosaic Life Care for treatment. Protzman did not know the cause of the man’s injury when the St. Joseph Post spoke to him. However, he said the Police Department will likely recognize Graham’s quick actions that saved the man’s life.
“We have a procedure we go through,” Protzman said. “We have an awards panel that looks over incidents and determines what the appropriate recognition would be.”
The public is asked to help in a robbery investigation in Caldwell County.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol around 5:19 a.m. an armed subject entered the Casey’s convenience store in Polo, Mo. and stole an undisclosed amount of cash. The subject ran away from the scene on foot.
The MSHP and the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Department is asking for help in the investigation.
A description of the subject was not provided.
Anyone with information in reference to this incident is asked to contact the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Department at 816-586-COPS.
The St. Joseph Police Department is looking for three suspect after a woman was allegedly tased with a stun gun trying to prevent her store from being robbed.
Officers responded to Famous Footwear located at 5201 N. Belt Highway around 1:40 p.m. to a report of a woman being assaulted trying to prevent a robbery.
Officer Scott Vanover said the store manager attempted to stop alleged shoplifters who then pushed her out of the way. He said the suspects went to leave in their vehicle and the store manager followed attempting to get their license plate number.
“A black male grabbed a taser and chased the store manager,” Vanover said. “Tased her once knocking her to the ground.”
Vanover said the store manager got back up and tried to get away when the man tased her again and hit her.
She sustained only minor injuries and refused medical treatment.
Police have released descriptions of three suspects wanted in connection with this incident. Commander Eric Protzman said police are looking for a black man around 5’5 of medium build with curly blond hair, a black female around 5’10 skinny with a shaved head, and a black female with long wavy hair. The vehicle they drove away in is described as a white car, possibly a Pontiac Grand Prix.
Protzman said authorities are currently looking into the possibility of surveillance footage that may help in the investigation
Anyone with information is asked to call the St. Joseph Police Department or the TIPS Hotline at (816) 238-TIPS.
A man has been arrested and charged in Nodaway County for possessing hundreds of videos and photographs of child porn.
The Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office arrested 28-year-old Derek Joseph Oberhauser Wednesday at his mother’s home in Maryville after an investigation that began in April. Oberhauser has been charged in Nodaway county with five felony counts of possession of child pornography.
Court documents state that in April the Child Protection System observed a computer at a Maryville residence use a file sharing program to download known child pornography files. After obtaining a search warrant in May investigator’s seized two computers from the home where three family members lived.
“It was confirmed that one family member was working day shift at their place of employment and a second family member was at high school during the period of time the child pornography files were downloaded,” said Sgt. Jamie Vicker with the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office, Western Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force. “The third family member, Derek J. Oberhauser, was unemployed and believed to be home.”
Authorities found around 350 possible child pornography videos and around 300 pictures of possible child porn located on one of the computers that was seized.
“I reviewed the images and videos located and each image and video depicted females between the approximate ages of 3 to 14 involved in sexual acts,” Vicker said.
Investigators found that Oberhauser moved to the address where the computer with child pornography was located on the first of April and left around April 27 after an argument with a family member.
“The downloads occurred between April 14, 2015 – April 21, 2015,” Vicker said. “Before Mr. Oberhauser left, he dismantled and apparently attempted to destroy a desktop computer that was then seized during the search warrant.”
Vicker said during an interview after being read his Miranda rights Oberhauser admitted to downloading child pornography and using it for “personal gratification.”
“Oberhauser also stated that he was sexually attracted to girls under the age of 10 and that he also ‘fantasized’ about having sexual contact with the girls in his fantasy,” Vicker said.
He is currently being held on $100,000.00 cash or corporate surety bond.
