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Saline County Kansas Corrections Officer Eric A. Taylor Arrested, Fired, Charged With Sexual Attacks On Three Inmates
July 3rd, 2008
SALINE COUNTY, KANSAS - A Saline County Jail corrections officer was fired and arrested Monday after he was accused of touching three female inmates.
Eric A. Taylor, 27, Bridgeport, had worked for the sheriff’s office for two years, but Sheriff Glen Kochanowski said he did not believe this had been a pattern of behavior.
“As far as we know, this was a one-time event,” he said. “It’s something that should never happen, but it happens.”
Kochanowski said the three inmates were housed together. Taylor allegedly touched them in a sexual way June 24. When the sheriff’s office received information about the allegations, an internal affairs investigation and a sheriff’s office criminal investigation were launched simultaneously.
Kochanowski said the information about what was alleged to have occurred did not come from the inmates, but he refused to identify the source of that information.
Read MoreA Dozen Witnesses In A Single Case Prosecuted By Kansas City Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Becker Say They Were Pressured, Threatened, Or Offered Money To Lie By Investigators, Mostly Retired ATF Agent Dave True - 24 Of 60 Witnesses Had A Total Of 76 Felony Convictions And Shared In $50,000 Reward
June 28th, 2008
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS - Carie Neighbors said they threatened to take away her son. Jerry Rooks said they warned him he’d get a stiffer jail sentence. Alan Bethard said they charged him with a more serious crime.
Now, those witnesses and up to 12 others — many speaking publicly for the first time — have told The Kansas City Star that a federal investigator in the firefighters’ explosion case pressured them to lie.
Five who testified in the case admit they lied to the federal grand jury that indicted the defendants or later at their trial. The other witnesses said they refused to change their stories.
“You want me to fabricate some lies, and I don’t want any part of it,” Dave Dawson said he told federal investigators in the case. “That’s when they told me to have a good life in the penitentiary.”
Read MoreFormer Dodge City Kansas Police Officer Chris Tahah Sentenced To Life For Murdering Former Girlfriend
May 31st, 2008
DODGE CITY, KANSAS - A former police officer convicted of murder has been sentenced to a “hard 20″ in the death of his former girlfriend.
Ford County District Judge Leigh Hood sentenced Chris Tahah to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 20 years for the felony first-degree murder of Erin Jones.
Hood also sentenced Tahah to a consecutive eight-year sentence for criminal discharge of a firearm.
Tahah declined to say anything during the sentencing hearing. But his lawyer, John Peter Orsi, said Tahah continues to maintain his innocence and plans to appeal.
Ford County Attorney John Sauer said Tahah’s position as a law enforcement officer made the crime especially grievous.
A friend found Jones dead in her house in Dodge City on May 5, 2007. She had been shot. Appeared Here
Disgraced Cass County Kansas Assistant Prosecutor Michael Taylor Quits After Drunk Driving Arrest
May 13th, 2008
CASS COUNTY, KANSAS - The Cass County assistant prosecutor has resigned after being charged with driving under the influence.
Raymore police say an officer stopped Michael Taylor’s sport utility vehicle early Saturday and charged him with DUI. Police say Taylor’s SUV twice drifted toward the curb, then overcorrected and made a turn so wide that the vehicle traveled 50 feet in the oncoming lane.
An arrest report said Taylor’s eyes were bloodshot, his breath smelled of alcoholic beverages, his speech was slurred and he was swaying on his feet. Police said he refused to take a Breathalyzer test, so officers took his driver’s license and set a court date.
Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley said she accepted Taylor’s resignation.
Former Dodge City Kansas Police Officer Chris Tahah Found Guilty Of Murder After Shooting And Killing His Former Girlfriend
April 18th, 2008
DODGE CITY, KANSAS - Former Dodge City police officer Chris Tahah has been found guilty of shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend.
A Ford County jury on Thursday convicted Tahah of first-degree murder in the May 5, 2007 slaying of 25-year-old Erin Jones. A sentencing hearing has not been set.
Tahah was arrested May 11 along Interstate 70 in eastern Colorado after being chased in a stolen sport utility vehicle.
He had initially told investigators that he took a .270 caliber rifle to Jones’s home after seeing her at a bar dancing with another man. Tahah said he had talked himself out of shooting Jones and that the rifle went off as he lowered it outside the door.
But Tahah took the stand in his own defense Wednesday and denied ever being at Jones’ house, claiming that he made the story up.
Appeared Here
Woman Awarded $78,000 After Jail Attack By Sedgwick County Kansas Deputy Sheriff Dan Oliver
April 16th, 2008
SEDGWICK COUNTY, KS - A jury on Monday found that a Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy used excessive force against a woman being held in the jail, and awarded her about $78,000.
In her lawsuit in Sedgwick County District Court, Julia Desmarteau alleged that Deputy Dan Oliver broke her elbow and wrist in an alcohol-breath-testing room at the jail in 2004 after arresting her on suspicion of DUI.
Art Chalmers, a private attorney representing the Sheriff’s Office, said he doesn’t know of any other excessive-force verdict against the department.
“Obviously, we’re disappointed with the verdict,” Chalmers said. Regarding the finding that Oliver used unreasonable force, Chalmers said, “The county takes that seriously.”
Sheriff’s Maj. Jackie Stuart said the Sheriff’s Office had no comment beyond what its attorney said, and Oliver couldn’t be reached for comment.
Read MoreOlathe Kansas Police Officer Sgt. Ronald Brock Suspended After Threatening Anti-Abortion Activist With Arrest
April 14th, 2008
OLATHE, KS — An Olathe police sergeant is on paid leave amid allegations he violated an anti-abortion advocate’s free speech rights.
The sergeant allegedly threatened Ronald Brock with arrest Tuesday for driving a truck that displayed images of aborted fetuses. The vehicle, called the “Truth Truck,” belongs to the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
Group members have been parking the truck outside the Johnson County Courthouse in response to a criminal case against Planned Parenthood.
Police Chief Janet Thiessen has apologized to Brock, saying the officer made a mistake and the department is taking steps to correct it.
She says the officer considered the images obscene, when they were actually free speech protected by the Constitution.
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GREENSBURG GUN CONFISCATIONS - Sheriff’s Department, Kansas Highway Patrol, ATF, FEMA, National Guard, Police, And Government Officials Take Over Greensburg After Tornado, Break Into Homes And Steal Guns And Other Valuables
April 9th, 2008
GREENSBURG, KS - I would like to start this report by noting that I have personally spoke with several sources who were directly involved in the incidents that I am about to report that took place in Greensburg, KS in the aftermath of the horrible CAT 5 tornado that ravaged and destroyed that town. I will not be divulging their names in this article as they have requested I not do so.
Read MoreKansas Prison Guard Amber Lynn Goff Pleads Guilty After Aiding In Escape
April 4th, 2008
WICHITA, KANSAS - A former prison guard romantically involved with one of the two inmates she helped escape pleaded guilty Friday to a federal firearms charge, telling relatives she now realizes she was used.
“She also feels like one of the world’s greatest fools,” her mother, Laurie Ann Nutter, said. “She realizes now there wasn’t anything real in the relationship. She feels so extremely foolish, she is angry about it.”
Nutter spoke before Amber Lynn Goff, 24, pleaded guilty to a federal firearms charge in exchange for reduced charges and a recommendation by prosecutors for a five-year prison term and three years’ probation. She also agreed to pay $11,000 in restitution.
As part of the plea deal, three other federal firearms charges are to be dropped at sentencing. The state agreed not to prosecute Goff on additional charges.
A sentencing hearing is set for June.
Read More8 Sedgwick County Kansas Jail Lawsuits And 31 Complaints
March 23rd, 2008
SEDGWICK COUNTY, KS - When Ron Mires heard a man had been seriously injured in the Sedgwick County Jail last month, he thought of his brother.
To Mires, the cases bore a key similarity: Both men suffered critical head injuries allegedly during an altercation with a sheriff’s officer, allegedly while trying to force their way out of a cell.
Edgar Richard, a mentally ill 59-year-old, suffered a broken jaw and other injuries on Feb. 15.
John Mires, 50, sustained skull fractures and brain damage when his head struck a concrete cell wall after a DUI arrest Dec. 7, 2001. He died six days later.
Ron Mires, 68-year-old president of Mires Tool Co., sued the Sheriff’s Office, seeking more than $1.5 million.
It was one of eight excessive-force lawsuits by inmates or their families that the county has dealt with in the past five years, according to information the county counselor’s office provided in response to an open-records request by The Eagle.
Read MoreCrazed Ness County Kansas Attorney Craig Crosswhite Charges Man Who Cared For Woman Who Wanted To Sit On Toilet - Our Tax Dollars At Work
March 20th, 2008
NESS CITY, KANSAS — A man whose girlfriend authorities say spent nearly two years in a bathroom in their house, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered to her body, has been charged with mistreatment of a dependent adult.
Kory McFarren, 37, was charged Monday in Ness County District Court.
McFarren called the Ness County Sheriff’s Office in late February to say something was wrong with his girlfriend. When authorities arrived at the home, they found Pam Babcock, 35, stuck to the toilet, which they think she had sat on for about a month.
McFarren told authorities that Babcock feared leaving the bathroom and may not have left it in two years, although said he was unsure how long she was in there. He said that he took her food and water daily, and that he repeatedly asked her to come out but that she usually replied “maybe tomorrow.”
Read MoreDrunk Driving Case Tossed After Illegal Detentions And Use Of Uncertified Equipment By Cherokee County Kansas Sheriff’s Department
March 16th, 2008
COLUMBUS, KANSAS — Several drunken-driving cases are being thrown out in Cherokee County because a judge concluded the Sheriff’s Department illegally detained some of those who had been stopped. Other cases are being dismissed because the Sheriff’s Department for several months last year used equipment that was not certified to measure blood-alcohol content, according to the county attorney’s office.
The Sheriff’s Department has now changed its policy, said Cherokee County Attorney John Bullard. The department also is now using equipment that will stand up in court.
Recent cases
Cherokee County Magistrate Judge Bill Lyerla on Feb. 28 dismissed a felony DUI charge against Michael Aldrighetti, 44, of Columbus, ruling that the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department had detained him illegally.
Read MoreDuh! - South Hutchinson Kansas Police Fall For Decomposing Bear Foot In Parking Lot, Call In Reno County Sheriff’s Office To Assist At “Crime Scene”
March 6th, 2008
SOUTH HUTCHINSON, KANSAS - The mystery surrounding a severed foot that was found Wednesday in the parking lot of a South Hutchinson Alco store has been solved.
“It’s a bear foot,” Police Chief Scott Jones said this afternoon. “A B-E-A-R foot. As in an American black bear.
“It turned out to be a practical joke.”
Jones said the foot came from an Arkansas taxidermist who was making a rug from the fruits of a northwest Arkansas hunting trip. The target of his joke was a 25-year-old Nickerson man who happened to be visiting.
Jones said the taxidermist tied the bear foot to the front of the man’s pickup in January. The foot eventually made its way into the cab of the truck, Jones said, and it still there Wednesday afternoon when the man pulled into the Alco store.
Read MoreSedgwick County Kansas Deputy Sheriff Suspended After Beating Jail Inmate Who Wasn’t Receiving Medical Attention - Man In Coma And On Life Support
February 26th, 2008
SEDGWICK COUNTY, KANSAS - The family of an inmate severely injured in the Sedgwick County Jail was able to visit him in the hospital over the weekend.
“It was like looking at a dead man still hooked up to life support,” says the victim’s brother Donny Richard.
Meanwhile, a criminal investigation continues into what led to the altercation with a Sheriff’s deputy.
On Monday, the family asked a judge to release their brother from custody. Despite their plea, the judge says Edgar Richard will stay in custody while in the hospital, saying Richard showed violent tendencies in the past.
It was two Friday’s ago when Richard, in jail for a parole violation, claimed he wasn’t being given his proper medication. He tried to step out of his jail cell and that’s when the fight with the deputy started.
Richard had his teeth knocked out and his skull fractured.
Read MoreWichita Kansas School Security Officer Arrested, Charged After Attacking Student
February 14th, 2008
WICHITA, KANSAS - A Wichita Public School security officer is under arrest. He’s accused of injuring a Heights High School student. The incident happened Friday during the school day.
Freshman Aubreon Davis says he was walking down the hallway when he saw a school security officer roughing up one of his friends. Davis says when he stepped in to help, the officer started in on him.
“He tried to squeeze my neck,” said Davis. “My right eye is hurt and my head and ear were stinging a bit.”
Davis admits at first, he pushed the security guard back because he thought the officer was goofing around. But the Davis family says the officer’s behavior crossed the line.
“I think if he had a problem they should’ve gone to the office,” said mother Kim Davis. “Talk to somebody about it.”
Read MoreVideo Shows Wichita Kansas Police Officer Attacking Innocent Man Talking On Cell Phone, Assaulting Him With A Taser Weapon
February 14th, 2008
WICHITA, KANSAS - On April 2006 outside of an Old Town club, Mario Karagianis and his brother start arguing over who should have paid the tab. WPD Officers witnesses the conversation and step in. Karagianias walks to the curb to make a phone call, and that’s when his attorneys say something horrible happened.
Video HERE
“In this case, I think the video shows it all and says it all,” said Karagianis’ attorney Danny Saville.
What the video shows is a Wichita Police officer coming up behind Karagianis while he is on a cell phone. The officer shoves him into a concrete flower pot. The officer is on top of Karagianis, when he begins to taser him multiple times.
“I don’t see in any way, shape, or form how that could be any way to treat somebody,” Saville said.
Read MoreHero Sentenced To Probation And Fine After Burning Three Leawood Kansas Police Cars
February 13th, 2008
LEAWOOD, KANSAS - He admitted to torching three Leawood police cars, and now a teen will have to pay a fine of $50,000.
Miles Jackson, 19, of Stilwell, burned the cars at the Public Works Department on Kenneth Road in August 2007.
He pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree arson.
In addition to paying the $50,000 fine, Jackson will serve two years probation.
Olathe Kansas Police Evacuate Strip Mall Over Box Of Candy
February 13th, 2008
OLATHE, KANSAS - A local shopping strip mall was evacuated Tuesday night after a woman robbed a bank with a box of chocolate.
A woman carrying flowers and a box of candy walked up to a teller at the Capitol Federal Bank in the SuperTarget store at West 119th Street and Blackbob Road, police said.
She told the teller the box contained an explosive and demanded money.
The woman got away with an undisclosed amount of money.
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After X-raying the package, the bomb squad determined the box was filled with candy and harmless wires.
The store was back open on Wednesday.
“It makes you more aware of what’s going on around you,” said shopper Terry Beach, of Tonganoxie, Kan.
Former Conway Springs Kansas Police Officer Bradley Whorton Charged With Raping And Sodomizing 11 Year Old Girl - Hearing Posponed
February 7th, 2008
WICHITA, KANSAS - An ex-Conway Springs police officer accused of raping and sodomizing an 11 year-old Wichita girl and her 38-year old mother have had their court appearances postponed.
Bradley Whorton, 53, and Patricia A. Osborne, both of Wichita, were to have a preliminary hearing Monday, Feb. 4 but a two-week continuance has rescheduled it for 2 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Whorton is charged with two counts each of aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated indecent liberties with a child, and one count of aggravated endangerment of a child.
The ex-officer was arrested on Thursday, Jan. 17, after an investigation by Wichita police centered on an 11 year-old girl telling school officials about a relationship with Whorton who was living with her mother.
Osborne is charged with aggravated child endangerment and is a co-defendant in Whorton’s case.
Police allege the abuse may have been going on for the past two years.
Read MoreLabette County Kansas Deputy Sheriff Det. Scott Higgins Sentenced After Stealing 10 Guns From Evidence. Man Denied New Trial After Criminal Cop’s Involvement In Case
January 30th, 2008
LABETTE COUNTY, KANSAS - A man convicted of second-degree murder will not get a new trial, at least not for now.
In Labette County District Court Tuesday, District Judge Robert Fleming denied a request for a new trial for Charles C. Krider, 46, because of new evidence. Krider’s attorney filed the motion after a sheriff’s deputy involved in the case pleaded guilty to unrelated theft charges.
A jury convicted Krider in February 2007 for strangling Judith A. Shrum, 58, of rural Chetopa. Shrum disappeared from her home Jan. 19, 2004, and her body was found in a creek four days later. In a previous trial, a jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
Minutes before Krider’s hearing Tuesday, former sheriff’s Detective Scott Higgins was sentenced for taking 10 guns from the sheriff’s department’s evidence room between Oct. 6, 2005, and March 9, 2007, and selling them.
Read MoreKansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius And U.S. Magistrate Gary Sebelius’ Son Sells “Don’t Drop The Soap” Prison Board Game From Governor’s Mansion
January 27th, 2008
TOPEKA, KANSAS — The son of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is peddling a board game titled “Don’t Drop the Soap,” a prison-themed game he created as part of a class project at the Rhode Island School of Design.
John Sebelius, 23, has the backing of his mother and father, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Sebelius. Sebelius spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran said both parents “are very proud of their son John’s creativity and talent.”
John Sebelius is selling the game on his Internet site for $34.99, plus packaging, shipping and handling. The contact information on the Web site lists the address of the governor’s mansion. Corcoran said the address will change when John Sebelius moves.
The game also goes on sale starting Jan. 31 at a shop called Hobbs in the college town of Lawrence.
The site describes “Don’t Drop the Soap” as a game “Where no one playing enters through the front door!”
Read MoreWyandotte County Kansas Deputy Sheriff Michael Bridges Not Charged After Trying To Cash Fake Money Orders - Hmmmm…
January 26th, 2008
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS — A Wyandotte County sheriff’s deputy will not face charges after being accused of trying to cash fake money orders.
The district attorney’s office said all the charges were dropped against Michael Bridges.
He had been charged with five counts of falsifying writings when investigators said he tried to cash $500 worth of fake money orders at the Circle K store in the 4900 block of Roe Avenue.
Charges Against Former Dodge City Kansas Police Officer Chris Tahah Upgraded To First Degree Murder
January 23rd, 2008
DODGE CITY, KANSAS - Prosecutors have upgraded the murder charge against a former Dodge City police officer accused with killing his ex-girlfriend.
Ford County Attorney John Sauer upgraded the charge from second-degree to first-degree murder just before a preliminary hearing Tuesday during which Chris Tahah was bound over for trial in the May 5 death of Erin Jones. Tahah also is charged with criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied dwelling.
Authorities say Jones was shot with a .270 caliber rifle through an exterior door to her bedroom.
Tahah pleaded not guilty to the charges. His attorney, Peter John Orsi, declined to comment Wednesday.
In a videotaped interview played at Tuesday’s preliminary hearing, Tahah told an investigator that he had talked himself out of shooting Jones and that the rifle went off as he lowered it outside the door. But prosecutors said that as a policeman, Tahah should have known better than to put his finger on the trigger until ready to shoot.
Read MoreFormer Dodge City Police Officer Chris Tahah Charged With Murder After Shooting And Killing His Former Girlfriend After Seeing Her Dancing With Another Man
January 23rd, 2008
DODGE CITY, KANSAS - Charges against a former Dodge City police officer have been upgraded to first-degree murder in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend.
Chris Tahah was bound over for trial Tuesday in the May 4th death of Erin Jones. Jones died after she was shot with a rifle through an exterior door to her bedroom.
Authorities say Tahah had seen Jones dancing with another man that night.
Police say Tahah told investigators he had decided against shooting Jones but the rifle fired as he was lowering it.
Tahah was arrested May 11th in eastern Colorado after a pursuit on Interstate 70. Authorities say he was driving a sport utility vehicle that had been reported stolen in Denver.
Conway Springs Kansas Police Officer Bradley Whorton Fired After Being Charged With Child Molestation - 11 Year Old Girl Victim
January 23rd, 2008
CONWAY SPRINGS, KANSAS - A part-time police officer has been fired after being charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old Wichita girl.
Fifty-three-year-old Bradley Whorton of Conway Springs is being held without bond on two counts each of aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties with a child. A February 5th preliminary hearing is scheduled in Sedgwick County District Court.
The girl’s 38-year-old mother also is charged with one count of aggravated child endangerment. The 33-year-old father has been arrested in the case, but had not yet made a court appearance.
The mother was being held on $100,000 bond.
The identities of the girl’s parents are not being revealed because doing so would also identify the daughter.
Wichita police said the abuse started in October 2006 and occurred in Wichita, where the girl lived with her mother, and in Florence, where the father lives.
Read MoreConway Springs Kansas Police Officer Fired, Charged With Child Molestation
January 19th, 2008
WICHITA, KANSAS - A former part-time police officer and the parents of an 11-year-old Wichita girl are in jail and facing criminal charges after the girl reported that she had been sexually abused, police said Friday.
The former police officer in Conway Springs was an acquaintance of the mother, said Lt. T.K. Bridges of the Exploited and Missing Child Unit.
“This has been going on for a substantial time period,” Bridges said of the alleged abuse.
A police document indicates the abuse began in late October 2006. The girl reported it to a school district employee Wednesday. The employee followed policy and notified the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, which contacted police, Bridges said.
Detectives and supervisors worked “through the night” into Thursday, he said.
The child’s 33-year-old father was arrested Thursday at his house in Florence, said Marion County Sheriff Lee Becker.
Read MoreKansas City Kansas Police Deny Violating Civil Rights After Police Officers Mark Wilcox, Wayne Hopkins, Scarlett V. McConnell and Amy Allen, Sgt. Kenneth Schafer And Detective R. Nepote Invade Home Without A Warrant, Beating Guests, Assaulting Adults And Children With Pepper Spray, And Using Racial And Sexual Slurs At Teen’s Birthday Party
January 17th, 2008
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS - police officers denied violating the civil rights of those celebrating an 18-year-old’s birthday when officers broke up a party more than two years ago.
The answer was filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., on Tuesday in response to a federal lawsuit filed in November by seven members of Gerene Hamilton’s family and two guests.
The officers claim that the force they used when they broke up the party was justified and necessary to make lawful arrests and to defend themselves or others from bodily harm.
The plaintiffs claimed police entered the home without a warrant, ordered people to leave, and then kicked and hit adults and juveniles with fists and flashlights. They claim the officers used racial and sexual slurs.
They also accused police of using chemical spray on several people, including a 14-year-old boy with asthma and then denying him water.
Read MoreWilson Kansas Police Chief Brian Hill Fired After Conviction For Stealing Beer
January 9th, 2008
WILSON, KANSAS — A small-town police chief has been fired after he was convicted of stealing beer from the fire department’s refrigerator.
The city council in Wilson on Monday fired chief Brian Hill, effective Jan. 25. He has the option of a hearing within the next two weeks.
Hill was arrested Aug. 1 after a surveillance tape showed him taking the beer. He was convicted of misdemeanor theft on Dec. 26 and given probation. He had been suspended without pay pending an appeal of the conviction.
Authorities did not disclose how much beer was stolen, or why it was in the fire department. A warrant put the value of the beer at less than $1,000.
The two departments share a building, and the door separating the offices usually was unlocked, officials said.
The only person by the name of Brian Hill in the Wilson area has an unlisted phone number, so he could not be reached for comment.
Read MoreScranton Kansas Police Chief Robert Doepp Suspended - Details Hidden From Taxpayers And Media
January 4th, 2008
SCRANTON, KANSAS - 13 News has learned that Scranton, Kansas Police Chief Robert Doepp has been suspended from his duties in the Osage County town.
The City Clerk’s office says Doepp was suspended wednesday night. The reason is officially listed as a department management issue.
Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn tells 13 News her deputies will add Scranton to their patrol area till the police department problem is solved.
The Scranton City Council will hold a hearing on Doepp’s future as chief January 15.
Sex Scandal Rocks Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison
December 9th, 2007
TOPEKA, KANSAS - Attorney General Paul Morrison faces a sexual harassment claim tied to an extramarital affair he had with a subordinate in the Johnson County district attorney’s office that continued after he became the state’s top prosecutor this year.
Linda Carter, longtime director of administration in the district attorney’s office, revealed extensive details of the relationship with Morrison before quitting her job Nov. 30 in Olathe. Prior to the resignation, Carter’s civil rights claim was filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The Topeka Capital-Journal learned Carter had a two-year affair with Morrison that began in September 2005 with a sex act inside an office at the Johnson County Courthouse and continued until this September with a series of covert liaisons in Topeka, Wichita, Salina, Overland Park and cities in at least three other states.
Read MoreCrazed Wichita Kansas Police Invade Private Home Without A Warrant, Attack Naked Unarmed Deaf Man In His Bathroom With Taser Weapons
December 4th, 2007
WICHITA, KANSAS - Donnell Williams had just gotten out of the bath tub, wearing only a towel around his waist, when he turned the corner to see guns pointing right at him.
“I ain’t never been so scared,” says Williams.
Police forced entry into Williams home while responding to a shooting, but it turned out to be a false call. They had no idea at the time the call wasn’t real and that Williams is hearing impaired. Without his hearing aid he is basically deaf.
“I kept going to my ear yelling that I was scared. I can’t hear! I can’t hear!”
Officers were worried about their own safety because at the time it appeared Williams was refusing to obey their commands to show his hands. That’s when they shot him with a Taser.
Read MoreMissing Kansas College Student Emily Sander Is Web Porn Girl Zoey Zane
November 28th, 2007
[Update 2: Found, very dead.]
[Update 1: BCN has learned that Sander appears in child porn images that are now circulating following the recent attention surrounding her disappearance. It is said that she as had 'quite a following' in the past.]
EL DORADO, KANSAS - A missing Kansas college student believed to be the victim of foul play apparently led a double life as an Internet porn star by the name of Zoey Zane.
Nude photos of 18-year-old Emily Sander appeared on a Zoey Zane Web site before she vanished, and investigators are looking into whether her modeling had anything to do with her disappearance last Friday.
[yeah admin, not bad cops... just funny turn of events. R.A.]
Read MoreLawsuit Charges Wichita Kansas Police Officers With Brutal Beating Of Man Who Loitered
November 24th, 2007
WICHITA, KANSAS - Attorneys for a Wichita man have filed a lawsuit against the City of Wichita, Sedgwick County and several police officers, claiming the man was beaten so severely he suffered life-threatening injuries.
For six weeks, Jason Price lay in the intensive care unit. He couldn’t breathe on his own or even use the restroom. His stomach was exposed because, after doctors operated on his internal injuries, he was so swollen, he couldn’t be sewn up.
So, how did he get to this point?
Price’s attorney says it began in September of 2006 at a QuikTrip on East Harry. Police were called to the store because Price and his friends were loitering. His friend was arrested. Price expressed his disapproval by bumping into a police sergeant.
The complaint alleges the sergeant slammed Price against a Cadillac, causing facial injuries, and pushed him into the fin of the car, causing internal injuries.
Read MoreFired Pittsburg Kansas Deputy Police Chief Terry Davis Receives A Slap On The Wrist For Disclosing Information On Undercover Police Officers
November 20th, 2007
PITTSBURG, KANSAS - A former deputy police chief in Pittsburg has been put on a year’s unsupervised probation for giving a woman information on undercover officers.
Terry Davis was fired in May after Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison charged him with two misdemeanor counts of official misconduct.
Authorities say Davis told the woman the identities of undercover officers and their vehicles while she was under surveillance in drug cases.
Under a plea deal, one of the charges was dropped and Davis pleaded no contest to the other count.
Pittsburg police couldn’t say whether the information prevented them from arresting the woman.
Kansas Police, With Nothing Better To Do, Crack Down on Hallucinogenic Toad Licking Before It Spreads And Becomes A National Epidemic
November 15th, 2007
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Video Here
Former Kansas Prison Guard Amber Goff Returned From New Mexico To Faces Charges Of Aiding In Escape
November 10th, 2007
GRANTS, NEW MEXICO — A former guard accused of helping two men escape from a Kansas prison was extradited to Kansas on Friday.
Grants police Detective Moses Marquez said Kansas authorities picked up Amber Goff about 11 a.m. from the Grants-Milan Airport.
Goff has been charged in Kansas with aiding an escape and aiding a felon. She waived extradition earlier this week, and Kansas authorities were given 10 days to pick her up.
Authorities have said Steven Ford, 26, and Jesse Bell, 33, escaped from the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas last month. They, along with Goff, were arrested Oct. 31 in Grants.
Kansas has charged Bell and Ford with aggravated escape from custody. The men waived extradition to Kansas this week.
In New Mexico, Bell has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, receiving stolen property and resisting or evading a peace officer, District Attorney Lemuel Martinez said Friday.
Read MoreFired El Dorado Correctional Center Kansas Prison Guard Amber Goff, Charged With Aiding In Prison Escape, Takes An “I Was Threatened” Defense Instead Of Admitting Love For Dick And Begging Judge For Mercy
November 4th, 2007
WICHITA, KANSAS - A sobbing Amber Goff told her mother during a jailhouse telephone call that El Dorado inmate Jesse Bell “threatened” her, her mother said Saturday.
“I don’t believe she is lying to me,” Laurie Nutter said.
She said a law enforcement officer with Goff during the phone call Friday night acknowledged that authorities are aware of the contention, and he added that “Amber has been cooperating.”
Nutter said she told her daughter, “We got a whole different ballgame here. You sit tight. We’re going to get you home.”
Goff, 23, is charged in Kansas with aiding an escape and aiding a felon. She’s accused of helping Bell, 33, and Steven Ford, 26, escape from the El Dorado Correctional Facility on Oct. 28.
Bell and Ford have both been charged in Kansas with aggravated escape from custody.
All three were arrested early Wednesday in Grants, N.M.
Read MoreVeteran Former Pittsburg Kansas Police Officer Terry Davis Received Plea Deal For Revealing Undercover Drug Investigation
November 2nd, 2007
PITTSBURG, KANSAS. — A former Pittsburg police officer, accused of tipping off a woman with whom he was involved as to the identity of undercover authorities, has obtained a plea deal with the attorney general’s office.
At one time, Terry Davis was a major and deputy chief of police. He worked for the department for nearly 18 years. He was suspended indefinitely in March and was fired in May after Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison’s office charged him with two counts of official misconduct, a Class A misdemeanor.
Authorities said Davis supplied information, including the identities of undercover officers and their vehicles, to help a woman who was under drug surveillance avoid arrest or prosecution.
Davis recently reached a plea deal that dropped one of the charges, in exchange for 12 months of unsupervised probation, according to Ashley Anstaett, a spokeswoman with the attorney general’s office.
Read MoreFired El Dorado Correctional Center Kansas Prison Guard Amber Goff, A Great Mom, A Good Sister, Aided 2 Maximum Security Inmates In Escape, Goes On The Run With Them
October 30th, 2007
WICHITA, KANSAS — The brother of a former prison guard allegedly on the run with two prison escapees from the El Dorado Correctional Center pleaded Monday for his sister to “just come home.”
Authorities said the former corrections officer, Amber Goff, 23, played a role in helping the two inmates, Steven A. Ford and Jesse L. Bell, escape from a recreation yard Sunday night.
A vehicle traced to Goff that was found 15 miles away in Augusta contained items linked to the escape, prison officials said. Evidence found at Goff’s home — including driving directions to Canada — has also implicated her in the escape plot.
But the investigation’s focus later shifted to Sayre, Okla., where Oklahoma authorities found inmate clothing believed to be belong to the escapees shortly after 10 a.m. Monday, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. Sayre is about 300 miles southwest of El Dorado.
Read MoreVeteran Sedgwick County Firefighter Capt. William Henrie Arrested, Charged With Child Molestation, A 12 Year Old Girl Relative
October 22nd, 2007
WICHITA, KANSAS – A Sedgwick county fire fighter, with a respected career on the department, is now in serious legal trouble after allegations he sexually assaulted a child.
William Henrie has been on the Sedgwick county fire department 27 years. He’s a captain at the Bel Aire fire station, and we’re told was next in line to become battalion chief. Now his career is in jeopardy. Henrie is faces two charges of molesting a 12-year old girl, a relative in his family.
Henrie turned himself into the Greenwood County Sheriff’s Department Thursday afternoon.
“Mr. Henrie knew of this warrant,” Mark Kenneson, Greenwood County Sheriff said. “He turned himself in and was booked into the jail.”
Sheriff Kenneson said the assault was reported September 24th, but the incident actually occurred in Greenwood County between June 15th and 18th; Fathers day weekend.
Read MorePleasant Valley Police Officer Capt. Erik C. Henson Quits, Charged With Child Molestation, And Jailed
October 19th, 2007
PLEASANT VALLEY, KANSAS - A 37-year-old Pleasant Valley police captain resigned after he was confronted with allegations that he raped and sodomized a former teenage babysitter.
Erik C. Henson, who lives in the 200 block of East Brown Street in Liberty, was arrested Oct. 10 by his boss, Pleasant Valley Police Chief Jim Daum, and turned over to Liberty law enforcement authorities. Henson remained in the Clay County jail after failing to post a $100,000 bond.
Henson is accused of beginning a sexual relationship with the then-13-year-old Liberty girl in 2000 and continuing it until she was 18 years old. According to police, the girl, who is now 21, marked on her May 22, 2000, calendar “lost” for the day she lost her virginity to Henson.
Lt. Mark Misenhelter of the Liberty police said the woman reported the alleged crimes Oct. 2, and police launched an investigation.
Read MoreKansas City Police Shoot And Kill Half Naked Unarmed Man With Taser Weapons
October 2nd, 2007
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS An investigation is under way after a man died in police custody on Monday.
Family members said that Keith L. White, 44, was a drug user and was spotted by police Monday night as he went behind a church near North 57th Terrace and Nogard Avenue to get high.
“I lost my heart and soul. If I would’ve let him smoke crack in my house, he would still be alive, and I blame myself,” said Leyva White, Keith White’s mother.
When police tried to arrest him, White ran into a nearby creek and started fighting with officers, according to authorities.
“My baby was a drug user. He did not carry weapons or anything like that,” said White’s mother.
During the struggle, White was shot twice with a Taser gun.
Read MoreWyandotte County Kansas Deputy Sheriff Michael Bridges Arrested Trying To Cash 5 Bogus $500 Money Orders
September 22nd, 2007
ROELAND PARK, KANSAS - He’s supposed to uphold the law but a Wyandotte County sheriff’s deputy is in a lot of legal trouble after police said he tried to cash five bogus money orders.
According to the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office, Deputy Michael Bridges went to the Smart Check Store on Roe Boulevard in Roeland Park, Kansas and tried to cash five $500 money orders.
The clerks at the store told police the number of money orders was the first sign that there was something wrong.
The clerks also said the money orders did not have all of the security features on them that normal money orders have. So, they called police.
The 33-year-old Bridges works at the Wyandotte County Adult Detention Center. The center’s administrator said if Bridges is convicted, he will have a hard choice to make.
Read MoreHarvey County Kansas Deputy Sheriff Scott Motes Crashes - Second In One Week
September 16th, 2007
NEWTON, KANSAS - A chase with a rolling methamphetamine lab resulted in a second crash in a week for a member of the Harvey County Sheriff’s Department Wednesday night.
A member of the Newton Police Department attempted to stop a vehicle driven by Brian L. Green Jr., 21, for a noise violation at 8:24 p.m. Wednesday at Southeast 14th and Plum in Newton, Harvey County Sheriff A.J. Wuthnow said.
When the police officer engaged his siren, Green sped off.
Newton police were joined by Harvey County Sheriff’s deputies and later members of the Kansas Highway Patrol.
The chase preceded south to Halstead to U.S. Highway 50 then south on Burmac Road and through Burrton.
Near Burrton, Harvey County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Motes’ vehicle lost control on loose gravel and wrecked. Motes was taken to Newton Medical Center, where he was treated and released.
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