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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

An inmate has been accused of setting a fire at the Saline County Jail in that caused a number of inmates to be displaced in January 2024 has been charged. 4

Jonnie Grimes, 41, was charged with first-degree arson, having a weapon at a jail and first-degree property damage. He is being held at Ozark Correctional Center and is serving a three-year sentence after he pleaded guilty on Dec. 11, 2023 to tampering with electronic monitoring equipment.

The probable cause statement says that a fire was started in the southeast corner of the work release pod and that Grimes was the only inmate carrying personal items. Video allegedly show Grimes grab a basket while other inmates were sleeping and move to the corner, the statement says.

The top of Grimes’ head was allegedly seen on video the same time a flash occurred from the same area, the statement says. He was then allegedly seen carrying the items on video, the statement says. He was transferred to Pettis County and was found with a lighter, the statement says.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Overnight roadwork for a number of downtown Columbia streets and roads near the University of Missouri’s campus will begin 5 p.m. Thursday, according to a Monday press release from the City of Columbia.

Crews will mill and overlay pavement for about three weeks, with an expected completion set for 7 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, the release says. Vehicles parked in in working areas may be towed. Parking garages in the city are free from 6 p.m.-8 a.m.

The list of affected streets includes:

Rogers Street from Rangeline Street to North College Avenue

East Broadway from Tenth Street to Hitt Street

Cherry Street from Hitt Street to South Seventh Street

Locust Street from South Providence Road to South Fifth Street

University Avenue from South Ninth Street to South College Avenue

Hamilton Way from Hitt Street to Waugh Street

South Fifth Street from Turner Avenue to East Stewart Road

South Fifth Street from Cherry Street to Ash Street

South Seventh Street from Park Avenue to Locust Street

South Eighth Street from Park Avenue to Elm Street

South Ninth Street from Park Avenue to East Broadway

South Ninth Street from Cherry Street to Conley Avenue

South Tenth Street from Rogers Street to Elm Street

Conley Avenue from South Fifth Street to the concrete west of Tiger Avenue

Conley Avenue from South Ninth Street to the concrete east of Tiger Avenue

Tiger Avenue from Conley Avenue to Kentucky Boulevard

Richmond Avenue from Rollins Street to Kentucky Boulevard

Rollins Street from South College Avenue to Hitt Street

Rollins Street from Hitt Street to Tiger Avenue

Hitt Street from Rollins Street to Lake Street

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

One man is out of the hospital Monday night after a fight with his brother led to a stabbing in a northeast Columbia neighborhood.

An ABC 17 News reporter saw at least eight Columbia police officers in a yard in the 1400 block of Lambeth Drive. Police said they were called there just before 5:45 p.m. Monday.

Officers were seen putting police tape around a pole in the yard. The reporter also saw an ambulance and fire personnel at the residence.

A woman who arrived to a home in the neighborhood told ABC 17 News that they saw a man get stabbed following a fight.

“I start hearing screaming and Look over and I start watching these two guys start to scream at each other. They start to throw trash at each other. They were wrestling on the ground,” Emily Dearing said. “I watched one of them stab the other one. He was stabbed I think about three times from what I could see.”

Columbia Police Department Lt. Andy Muscato said at the scene that two men were involved in a fight and that the men know each other. Police later confirmed they were family members. A woman claiming to be the mother of the two men told an ABC 17 News reporter they were brothers.

Dearing tells ABC 17 the area isn’t a stranger to crime. Back in May, ABC 17 News was at a standoff on the same street where two people were arrested.

“That house back there had a police blockade happening on our street because of a search warrant or arrest warrant that was happening over there, like a few months ago,” Dearing said. “I mean, I have young siblings and I don’t like the fact that they live near this.”

Both were brought to University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Muscato said.

Muscato said no one is in custody and an investigation is underway. He also said there is no threat to the public.

A family member told ABC 17 News that one of the men was already out of the hospital on Monday night.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A man who was set on fire on his porch last month has died.

Donovan “Tyler” Baylis died on Monday morning, his mother Nan Oliver told ABC 17 News on Monday afternoon. Baylis was 31.

Police had said the man was burned on June 15 in the 1500 block of Paris Road. Suspect information has not been released, nor has a motive. ABC 17 News reached out to the Columbia Police Department on Monday for additional details.

Previous reporting indicates that a man who said he witnessed the attack — but wanted to stay anonymous because of safety concerns — told ABC 17News he saw someone throw gasoline onto the porch, lighting the victim on fire, and said the victim was later transported to a St. Louis hospital.

Baylis’ injuries were described as life-threatening on June 16.

The suspect left on a bicycle toward College Avenue, police say. Police describe him as a man wearing a hat and white T-shirt with brown hair and a mustache, 35-40 years old, about 6-feet tall and thin, according to previous reporting.

The Columbia Police Department asks anyone with information to call the department at 573-874-7652 or CrimeStoppers at 573-875-8477.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A man who was accused of leading law enforcement on a boat chase Saturday in Morgan County was charged with a felony and multiple misdemeanors.

Loren Peters, of Sunrise Beach, was charged with aggravated fleeing and four misdemeanors, including boating while intoxicated, not displaying navigation lights, not registering a boat and recklessly operating a boat. Court filings show he posted a $50,000 bond on Sunday.

The probable cause statement says that around 8:19 p.m. Saturday, law enforcement was called after a man allegedly threw a woman from a boat in Davey Hollow Cove. Law enforcement found Peters driving the orange boat at the 10-mile marker of the man channel, the statement says.

Peters allegedly sped away after troopers tried to contact him on the water, drove to the Gravois Arm before getting to Mill Creek Cove, abandoned the boat at a dock and ran into the woods, the statement says.

Peters eventually gave himself up and appeared to look drunk, troopers wrote. Peters allegedly refused a breath test, according to the statement.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Columbia man was charged with first-degree domestic assault on Monday after he allegedly assaulted a woman on June 30.

Christopher Rowden, 38, is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. An initial court appearance was held on Monday.

Court documents say that he assaulted the victim between 8:30-9:30 p.m. on June 30. The probable cause statement says that police were called to University Hospital and the victim allegedly told them that they were slapped and pushed by Rowden and that he drove them to the emergency room.

The victim had shoulder replacement surgery on July 10 because of the assault, the statement says. The victim allegedly told family initially that she fell, according to court documents.  The victim allegedly did not initially report the assault because they feared Rowden would become upset.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Moberly man who pleaded guilty last month to sodomy has now been charged with enticing a child.

Billy Vanbibber, 40, was charged on Monday with enticing a child younger than 15 years old. He is being held at the Randolph County Jail on a $100,000 bond. He pleaded guilty on June 11 to second-degree sodomy and has a sentencing hearing scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13.

The probable cause statement in his new case says that he sent pornographic images of women to a minor and tried to meet with the child for intercourse. The victim gave police the phone number of the sender, which was linked to Vanbibber, the statement says.

Police searched Vanbibber’s home and found the phone that contained the messages, the statement says. Vanbibber claimed the messages were a prank and he didn’t know the victim’s age, the statement says.

In his other case, Vanbibber met the victim on social media in September 2024 and the victim believed they were meeting a woman, the probable cause statement says. Vanbibber allegedly kept himself hidden until the encounter occurred and the victim punched him when they realized he was a man, the statement says.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A man who was charged with statutory rape earlier this year after moving into a home with a teenager and her father is now charged with having child pornography.

Travis Kalchbrenner, 32, was charged on Saturday with possessing child porn and is being held at the Cole County Jail. He was charged earlier this year with first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, two counts of statutory rape, one count of first-degree sexual abuse and one count of fourth-degree child molestation.

He has a hearing scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday, July 28 in his rape case.

Previous reporting indicates that the victim and her father brought Kalchbrenner from Florida to live with them in Russellville. Kalchbrenner allegedly admitted to multiple sexual assaults after law enforcement was called to the home in March, according to court documents in previous reporting.

The child’s father, Frederick Copping, 47, was also charged in the case with child abuse, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, first-degree accessory to rape, first-degree accessory to sodomy, two counts of second-degree accessory to statutory rape, one count of first-degree accessory to sexual abuse and fourth-degree accessory to child molestation.

Copping is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond and had a hearing scheduled for Monday afternoon.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Mexico, Missouri, woman was charged with several child sex crimes after she allegedly sodomized and molested a child multiple times since 2021.

Kaila Browning was charged with five counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old and five counts of first-degree child molestation. A warrant was issued on Monday and no bond was set.

 Court documents say that the victim was interviewed at the Child Advocacy Center on May 7 and described several assaults while identifying various items.

Browning allegedly admitted to some of the assaults to law enforcement when she was interviewed.

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