Pulaski County

JEFFERSON CITY -   Gov. Jay Nixon  today appointed  Ronda L. Cortesini , of  Waynesville , as  Pulaski County Associate Circuit Judge .   The position became available upon the appointment by Gov. Nixon of the Honorable  Greg Warren  as Circuit Judge for the 25 th  Circuit, which includes Maries, Phelps, Pulaski and Texas counties. Cortesini is an attorney with the St. Robert law firm of Smith & Turley and represents clients in civil and criminal litigation.

DIXON, Mo. --The Pulaski County Sheriff's Department is on the lookout for an inmate who escaped from the county jail in Dixon early Monday morning. Sheriff J.B. King says two men were able to break out as a third man distracted an on-duty dispatcher.  Shortly after the jail break, the two escaped inmates broke into a home on Burlington Road near Crocker and robbed the family. Shortly after the robbery, one of the suspects was found in a nearby abandoned house. At this time the remaining inmate, Brandon Kelley Monell, age 23, who is from the Crocker area is still at large.  Monell was being held on a charge of statutory rape.

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WAYNESVILLE, Mo. -- The Pulaski County Sheriff's Department asks for the public's help in catching three fugitives believed to be in the area.  These individuals are: Ryan Kelley, 31, 6-foot-1, 190 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes, usually wears a baseball cap; Ryan has multiple felony arrest warrants for burglary and firearm-related crimes in Pulaski County; he has an extensive criminal background, and should be considered “armed and dangerous.” ...

A deadly accident on the Big Piney River has killed a man from New Mexico. Troopers say Rene Martinez-Hernandez was floating on an inflatable chair on the river near Fort Leonard Wood when he fell off and couldn't swim. He was 30 years old.

A Pulaski County man faces drug charges after deputies bust a working meth lab. The sheriff says deputies were performing a spot check at a home in Dixon where they discovered a meth lab and a stolen vehicle. Officers booked 26-year-old Jacob Mason on an outstanding warrant for drug possession.  No word on if Mason was the one operating the meth lab.

DIXON, Mo. -- The Pulaski County Sheriff's office is asking for help in trying to find a woman reported missing last Thursday, April 28. The family of 54-year-old Deborah Lynn Cirrincione says she left her home to go to the Wal-Mart in St. Robert. Family members have not heard from her since. Mrs. Cirrincione is described as a white female, 5'5", 175 pounds, with short red hair and brown eyes. She was driving a 2005 blue Jeep Wrangler with Missouri license SF1-N6Y. She has not made contact with her family and is not answering her phone.  If anyone has information on the location of Deborah Cirrincione, the sheriff's office would ask that you call 573-774-6196.

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. -- A suspect is in custody for a deadly shooting near Dixon.  Charles Wagoner, 50, of Dixon is charged with first-degree murder.  He's in the Pulaski County jail in lieu of a $1 million bond. Law officers found Roy Monroe's body on Wednesday morning under a railroad bridge on Highway N near Dixon.  He was shot inthe back and was covered with a blanket.  Investigators also found blood on the bridgerailing above the body as well as a trail of blood the length of the bridge.

ST. ROBERT, Mo.-- Police in St. Robert say a 44-year-old man was killed around 2:30 Saturday morning.  He rolled his pick-up truck after veering off the road, then over-correcting which caused him to flip his truck. The driver was headed south on Route Y in Pulaski County and was approaching Link Drive when he went off the road and down an embankment.  The driver was the only one in the truck.  Police are not releasing his name, but say he is from Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Officers on the scene say he was not wearing a seat belt.

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. - Sheriff's deputies in Pulaski County say they have solved a theft ring that had gone on for weeks -- and the thieves' primary targets were firearms. Ryan Kelley, Justin Cristoffer and Joseph Paschell are in the Pulaski County Jail after all having been arrested last week. They face a variety of charges, including possession of stolen property, felon in possession of a firearm and burglary. Pulaski County deputies say many residents over the past few weeks had found their homes broken into upon returning home.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Waynesville, Mo., couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in a nearly $414,000 conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Pulaski and Laclede counties. Bruce Conant, 58, and his wife Rendy Conant, 52, both of Waynesville, were charged in a four-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Mo., on May 8, 2013.

ST. ROBERT, Mo. -- A suspect accused in a week long crime wave has been captured. Deputies Saturday morning arrested 38-year-old Chad Lange in Rolla.  Lange is wanted for numerous felony charges, including auto theft and burglary.  Law enforcement officials initially began searching for Lange after he was suspected of numerous car thefts and burglaries in the Dixon area over the past week.  The search escalated on Thursday evening when the...

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. -- A county-wide manhunt continues in Pulaski County on Friday for a fugitive.  The search began early Thursday evening and continued during the night.  Chad Lange, 38, is wanted for numerous felony charges, including auto theft and burglary. Law enforcement officials initially began searching for Lange after he was suspected of numerous car thefts and burglaries in the Dixon area over the past week.  The Dixon Police Department, the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies have been actively seeking Lange since warrants were issued for his arrest.

RICHLAND, Mo. -- Pulaski County Assessor Roger Harrison died last Saturday after falling while working on a barn near Richland.  An ambulance took Harrison to the hospital at Fort Leonard Wood but doctors were not able to save him. Harrison, 65, had served as county assessor since 1989.  He was elected to his seventh term last November, but assessors' terms don't begin until Sept. 1 because of the cycle of the work of their offices. Sheriff Ron Long said in an e-mail message that the fall appears to be “an accident, with no suspicious elements surrounding it.” Harrison's funeral is Wednesday at 2 at First Baptist Church in Richland.  The assessor's office is closed until Thursday morning.  County commissioners ordered flags at county facilities to be lowered to half staff in his honor on Wednesday.

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. - The Pulaski County jail is closed for repairs.  Sheriff Ron Long said late Friday afternoon that the repairs would take several weeks.  He said details about the repairs and the jail closure would be released on Sunday. While the jail is closed, Pulaski County inmates will be housed in jails in nearby counties.  Pulaski County has paid to house prisoners in nearby county jails, including Miller and Phelps, for many years when its jail got full.  Long said his deputies would continue to arrest people and lock them up while the jail is closed.

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. --  Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday appointed Ronda Cortesini of Waynesville, as Pulaski County associate circuit judge.  The position became available upon the appointment by Gov. Nixon of Associate Circuit Judge Greg Warren as circuit judge for the 25th Circuit, which includes Maries, Phelps, Pulaski and Texas counties. Cortesini is an attorney in St. Robert with the law firm of Smith & Turley.  She represents clients in civil and criminal litigation. Cortesini has been in private practice in Pulaski County since 2003.  She is president of the Pulaski County Bar Association, and a past president of the Waynesville/St.

JEFFERSON CITY -   Gov. Jay Nixon  today appointed  Ronda L. Cortesini , of  Waynesville , as  Pulaski County Associate Circuit Judge .   The position became available upon the appointment by Gov. Nixon of the Honorable  Greg Warren  as Circuit Judge for the 25 th  Circuit, which includes Maries, Phelps, Pulaski and Texas counties. Cortesini is an attorney with the St. Robert law firm of Smith & Turley and represents clients in civil and criminal litigation.

WAYNESVILLE, Mo -- It's a success story in Pulaski County. The Veterans Court launched in July, and it started receiving its first participants in October. The goal of the court is to put more emphasis on treatment and rehabilitation rather than punishment. So far the program is working. "The amount of success and progress that we see during the short period of time," said Veterans Justice Outreach Coordinator Danielle Easter, "a year to 18 month program, is phenomenal. " "We view this court as a partnership with our local communities, with our military, and our veterans administration," said Pulaski County Veterans Court Judge Colin Long.

BUCKHORN, Mo -- A single car crash in Pulaski County on Saturday afternoon killed an 8-year old girl.  A vehicle driven by a 15-year old girl ran off the road on Interstate 44 near the 152 mile marker, which is west of Waynesville near the Missouri 17 exit. The driver over-corrected, ran off the other side of the road, overturned several times and finally came to rest on its wheels, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.  Hannah Lamb was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene.

RICHLAND, Mo. - The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office is waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death for a young man who was found dead over the weekend. An 18-year-old man was found dead in his Richland home Sunday morning. Authorities say he had been at a social gathering in a nearby town the night before. Sheriff Ron Long says foul play isn't suspected.