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Tweet Miami County District Attorney Elizabeth Sweeney-Reeder on Friday filed charges against two SM East students in the November ATV accident on a rural Miami County farm that killed SM East senior and soccer star Tyler Rathbun. The district attorney’s office’s press release is copied below: On today’s date, May 3, 2013, charges were filed [...]
Tweet View Larger Map The QuikTrip gas station at 4700 Lamar in Mission was robbed early this morning, but no injuries were reported. Mission police said the suspect entered the store at 1:56 a.m. and demanded cash. The clerk handed over the money in the register and the suspect left the area on foot without [...]
Tweet The 14-year-old boy involved in the shooting of his cousin in a Mission chiropractor’s office this week has been charged with aggravated battery and as a juvenile in possession of a firearm, according to the Johnson County District Attorney’s office. He was still in custody in juvenile detention Thursday after the shooting which occurred [...]
Tweet A 6-year-old girl was shot in the leg Tuesday morning in a Mission chiropractor’s office just across the street from the Sylvester Powell, Jr., Community Center on Martway. The suspect in custody is related to the victim, police said. Police captured a suspect just over an hour later only about a block farther east when [...]
Tweet Fairway Police Chief Mike Fleming sent out a notice to residents Tuesday afternoon warning them about a group of door-to-door scammers posing as SM East students: Dear Fairway Resident: Shawnee Mission East High School has received calls from residents in Prairie Village concerning a raffle and or BBQ supposedly sponsored by the school. Individuals presenting [...]
Tweet Two Mission Hills residents have pleaded guilty to federal health care fraud and false tax return charges, and are facing prison time and probation as a result. On Saturday, Carol Ann Ryser, 76, and Michael Earl Ryser, 68, closed their Health Centers of America-Kansas City medical clinic as part of a plea deal with [...]
Tweet Northeast Johnson County law enforcement agents were among those breathing a sigh of relief at news last week that a “catburglar” had been arrested in the act. Leawood police apprehended Raymond K. Dorsey, 24, last Tuesday as he emerged from a garage, apparently attempting to complete the latest in a string of overnight burglaries [...]
Tweet View Larger Map KMBC News reports that Overland Park Police are investigating the attempted abduction of an Indian Hills Middle School student as she was on her way to the bus stop this morning. The girl told police she was on her way to the bus stop near 80th Street and Glenwood this morning [...]
Tweet This weekend, people across the country will hear the story of a courageous Prairie Village woman’s fight for survival in the face of a brutal assault, and the expert investigative work by local law enforcement that brought her attacker to justice. After months of production, CBS News’ 48 Hours will air “The Stranger You [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police on Monday arrested a 35-year-old Overland Park man after two citizens called to report suspicious activity in the vicinity of 75th Street and Nall Avenue. The first call came in just before 3:15 p.m., when a citizen reported seeing a man peering into the windows of a house and then darting [...]
Tweet So when it comes to burglaries in Prairie Village, there’s good news, and there’s bad news… The Prairie Village Police Department’s final tally of crime statistics for 2012 show a marked drop in residential burglaries from 2011. Police logged 45 residential burglary reports in 2012, a 22 percent drop from the 58 recorded in [...]
Tweet Just a reminder to lock those doors, folks… Prairie Village police have filed reports on 10 attempted or completed burglaries in January, including an incident Monday in the 4600 block of 72nd Street. Capt. Wes Lovett said a burglar or burglars entered the home through an unlocked door between 4 and 6 p.m. They [...]
Tweet Westwood Mayor John Yé sent a message to residents today warning them of increased burglary activity in the area and asking for help alerting law enforcement of suspicious activity: As with most Cities during the holiday season, the Northeast Johnson County area is typically hit with an increase in burglaries and attempted break-ins. With [...]
Tweet An attempted burglary in the 2500 block of 77th Street in Prairie Village Thursday night was thwarted by the homeowner’s dog, which chased the culprit back onto the street. Prairie Village police say the resident was in the home when the burglar made entry through a back door. The homeowner’s dog then began to [...]
Tweet An intra-family squabble left a Fairway septuagenarian stabbed in the chest early Thursday, according to a report from the Kansas City Star. Fairway police responded to a call from a home in the 6200 block of Howe Drive at 7 a.m. today where they found a man in his 70s with a stab wound [...]
Tweet Fox 4 News reports that burglars stole the gifts from under a Prairie Village family’s Christmas tree Monday while they were at dinner. Ted and Kirby Leeper were at Ted’s parents’ house for about an hour and a half Christmas Eve. When they returned home, they found their door had been kicked in and [...]
Tweet Mission police are investigating an early morning shooting that left a University of Kansas Hospital employee dead. The shooting occurred at 7:14 a.m. in a parking lot behind an office building at Broadmoor and 58th Streets, just a couple of blocks north of Johnson Drive and immediately south of Broadmoor Park. The male employee [...]
Tweet Residential burglaries — a crime category that had remained persistently high in Prairie Village in recent years — is down markedly in 2012, according to figures released by the Prairie Village Police Department. Crime statistics through the third quarter of the year show there have been 28 residential burglaries in the city so far [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police have released a series of photos of the man who attempted to rob the Hy-Vee Gas station at State Line Road and Cambridge Street Monday. Here’s the statement they put out with the pics: On 10/1/2012 at about 1522 hrs, the pictured male subject entered the HyVee gas station located at [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police today are looking for a man who burst into the Hy-Vee Gas station at State Line Road and Cambridge Street with a weapon Monday afternoon and demanded money. Capt. Wes Lovett of the Prairie Village Police Department told the city council last night that the woman who worked at the store refused [...]
Tweet Hear about the Overland Park city council’s move last month to explicitly allow the open carry of loaded hand guns in public places? Well, if you’re one of those people for whom the sight of a stranger on the street packing heat would be a comfort (and apparently those people exist…), we’ve got bad [...]
Tweet A mother and daughter who pleaded guilty to selling drugs from a home on Village Drive in Prairie Village, received jail time of 30 days and 14 days respectively when sentenced in a Johnson County courtroom Monday. Both will spend 18 months on probation. The mother, Lynn Turner, 54, had pleaded guilty to two [...]
Tweet Lock those cars at night, Villagers. At least seven Prairie Village residents who live in the vicinity of Canterbury and Windsor Streets had their cars burglarized between Sunday night and Monday morning. Capt. Wes Lovett of the Prairie Village Police Department said all of the cars hit by the burglars were unlocked. The burglars [...]
Tweet A wave of recent unlocked car burglaries has gotten the attention of the Fairway Police Department, which issued a crime prevention awareness alert for residents today: In the last month or so several cities in the Northeast part of Johnson County have taken reports of unlocked cars being entered overnight; in addition to items [...]
Tweet Lock those cars at night, Villagers. Prairie Village police report that a burglar or burglars hit a string of unlocked vehicles in the neighborhood a quarter mile west of SM East between Sunday night and Monday morning, culminating with the theft of a 2004 Chevy Silverado pickup. Police investigators took half a dozen reports [...]
