This article is compiled from reports from the Sedalia Police Department.
On Wednesday night, officers were dispatched to the 2400 block of West Main Street in reference to a disturbance. When officers arrived, they could hear screaming from inside the residence. The agents knocked on the door, but there was no answer. The screaming continued and the residence was entered. During the course of the investigation, it was determined that the man was the primary physical aggressor. Malachi Quamayne Eugene Sims, 20, of Sedalia, was arrested for second-degree domestic battery and resisting arrest. Sims was transported to the Pettis County Jail, where he was held for 24 hours.
An officer responded to the lobby of the Police Department Wednesday afternoon for a civil matter. Tammy McKay said she bought a vehicle from the suspect, but he gave it the wrong title. The suspect did not provide the title more than a month after the sale. McKay wanted to press charges. A state charge of possession of open title was filed with the Pettis County Prosecutor’s Office on the suspect.
On Wednesday afternoon, officers initiated a traffic stop on a car because the registered owner’s license status was suspended. The traffic stop occurred near East 24th Street and South Ingram Avenue. The driver was the registered owner and a check through Dispatch showed that his license was suspended. Jesus Ubaldo Quetzecua, 25, of Sedalia, was arrested and transported to the Sedalia Police Department. Quetzecua was released with a fine from the city for Driving Suspended.
Sedalia police stopped a vehicle in the 2200 block of Clinton Road Wednesday morning after seeing expired license plates. A computer check through Dispatch revealed that the driver had an active and confirmed warrant for his arrest outside of Johnson County. The warrant was a default warrant for the original charges of overdue registration. The suspect was allowed to drop her children off at school and was later arrested. Charity M. Stacy, 43, of Sedalia, was transported to the Pettis County Jail to be held pending $200 cash-only bond.
On Wednesday afternoon, an officer responded to a robbery that occurred near the 700 block of North Osage. Connie Hankins said that on January 11 she believed someone had stolen a necklace from her residence. Hankins wanted to press charges.
Officers found a set of rosary beads on the records department counter in the lobby of the Police Department on Wednesday morning. A note with the bills said they were taken by accident and they wanted to return them to the owner. The owner does not have an address listed and has been deemed homeless in the city. No phone number was associated with the owner. The beads were collected and put into evidence as property found.
Early Wednesday morning, a car was pulled over in the area of South Lamine Avenue and East 7th Street for signs of impairment, including driving on the wrong side of the road on northbound Ohio Street. The driver was intoxicated, had a suspended license and a Phelps County warrant for failure to appear on the original charges of defective equipment with a $500 cash or surety bond. Elizabeth Laine Scheider, 23, of Sedalia, was arrested, taken to the police station, hospital, and then to the Pettis County Jail, where she was placed in protective custody for 12 hours. Scheider was booked on the warrant and state charges of driving while suspended and driving while intoxicated.
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