Crime of the Week - Wichita and Sedgwick County
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If you have information about these or any felony crime, call Crime Stoppers at 267-2111 or toll free at 1-800-222-TIPS (8177). You can also submit a tip online or from your mobile phone by texting TIP217 then your message to CRIMES (274637). 

CSofWS.jpg All methods are secure and anonymous. If your tip leads to an arrest you may be eligible for a cash reward up to $1,000.00 and Crime Stoppers will never ask your name. Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County is a non-profit organization of citizens against crime.

Sgt. Scott Plummer
Wichita/Sedgwick County Crime Stoppers

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Crime Stoppers and the Wichita Police Department are asking for the public's help to solve several cold case homicides. Today we are seeking information on a homicide that occurred Saturday, May 28, 2011. After leaving a restaurant at 1770 S. Rock Rd., Thoung Phan got into an argument in the parking lot with three Asian males. They chased him across Rock Road onto Blues Stem, shooting him multiple times. He died at the scene. The suspects fled in an unknown four-door vehicle.

If you have information about this homicide or any cold case or felony crime, call Crime Stoppers at 267-2111. You can also submit a tip online at www.wsccs.com or from your mobile phone by texting TIP217 then your message to CRIMES (274637). All ways are secure and anonymous. If your tip leads to an arrest you may be eligible for a cash reward up to $1,000, and Crime Stoppers will never ask your name. Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County is a non-profit organization of citizens against crime.


RIME STOPPERS CASE No. 1208

At 6:15 a.m. on Monday, Jan.16, a woman walked into a business in the 900 block of North St. Francis. As she entered, a man loitering in the area approached her from behind. He grabbed her purse and took it, using physical force. The robber also displayed a knife to her.

The suspect is described as a black male in his 40s, 6-foot-3, with a stocky or muscular build. He was wearing dark pants, a dark-colored jacket and a dark stocking cap.

If you have information about this robbery or any felony crime, call Crime Stoppers at 267-2111. You can also submit a tip online at www.wsccs.com or from your mobile phone by texting TIP217 then your message to CRIMES (274637). All ways are secure and anonymous. If your tip leads to an arrest you may be eligible for a cash reward up to $1,000, and Crime Stoppers will never ask your name. Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County is a non-profit organization of citizens against crime.

 


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Sometime between 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, an unknown person or persons forced their way into the Honey Tree Academy at 2548 N. Maize Rd. The suspects vandalized the school and stole laptops, iPads and other electronics valued at more than $7,000. A Chrysler Town and Country minivan with the Honey Tree Academy logo on the side also was taken; it was recovered late Monday evening near Andover by the Wichita Police Department.

If you have information about this burglary or any felony crime, call Crime Stoppers at 267-2111. You can also submit a tip online at www.wsccs.com or from your mobile phone by texting TIP217 then your message to CRIMES (274637). All ways are secure and anonymous. If your tip leads to an arrest you may be eligible for a cash reward up to $1,000, and Crime Stoppers will never ask your name. Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County is a non-profit organization of citizens against crime.


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RIME STOPPERS CASE No. 1205

129124.png  The Wichita Police Department needs your help to catch three men who robbed five Wichita businesses between Oct.. 14 and Nov. 7, 2011. The Golden Corral at 616 Southridge Circle was robbed at closing time. The suspects, wearing white masks and latex gloves, forced the employees back into the office. The loss was money and cell phones. Food Mart, 1400 N. Market; Downtown Wireless, 1617 E. Central; Family Video,1759 S. Hillside; and Credit Union of America, 5055 S. Broadway, were robbed by the same suspects, but these victims hands and feet were secured with duct tape. The suspects also got more violent, striking several of the victims and a customer. Loss in these robberies was cash, cell phones and cigarettes.

The suspects are black males of average height and build. They all wore dark clothing and carried handguns. The vehicle used in the robberies was possibly a maroon-colored SUV.

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If you have information about these robberies or any felony crime, call Crime Stoppers at 267-2111. You can also submit a tip online at www.wsccs.com or from your mobile phone by texting TIP217 then your message to CRIMES (274637). All ways are secure and anonymous. If your tip leads to an arrest you may be eligible for a cash reward up to $1,000, and Crime Stoppers will never ask your name. Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County is a non-profit organization of citizens against crime.

Crime Stoppers and the Wichita Police Department are asking for the public's help to solve several cold case homicides. Today we are seeking information on a homicide that occurred Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. Timothy McGuigan was suppose to have breakfast with his son that morning, but never arrived; he didn't show up for work either. Worried co-workers called his son and asked him to check on his father. The son went to his father's house in the 2500 block of North Woodridge and found him dead. When police arrived they discovered that McGuigan had been shot multiple times with a small caliber handgun. There was no sign of forced entry, and robbery does not appear to be the motive.

If you have information about this homicide or any felony crime, call Crime Stoppers at 267-2111. You can also submit a tip online at www.wsccs.com or from your mobile phone by texting TIP217 then your message to CRIMES (274637). All ways are secure and anonymous. If your tip leads to an arrest you may be eligible for a cash reward up to $1,000, and Crime Stoppers will never ask your name. Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County is a non-profit organization of citizens against crime.
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The story goes like this: Steve Gradert was standing before a federal judge with his client when a cellphone ring pierced the courtroom.

Everyone looked around.

U.S. Senior District Judge Wesley Brown looked annoyed — disgusted, even.

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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:33 CST

An addition to local crime-fighting efforts is already paying noteworthy dividends, law enforcement officials say.

Two months ago, crime analysts were assigned to each of the city’s four police bureaus. They study crime data, looking for trends.

“Where is the latest trend?” said Capt. Hassan Ramzah of the Patrol East Bureau. “They’re looking to identify the potential emerging crime wave.”

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Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:46 CST

Rod Page, special agent in charge with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, remembers the sinking feeling one morning last June when he stepped outside his Wichita home and realized someone had broken into his undercover vehicle.

The thieves seemed prepared. They used bolt cutters to steal a semiautomatic rifle that had been locked in. They took binoculars used for aerial spotting.

Page learned from investigators that four other law enforcement agencies in surrounding counties had vehicles that had been hit around the same time. Authorities arrested some of the thieves, and Page knows of one who ended up in prison. They were “meth heads” targeting police vehicles for the valuable equipment inside, Page said.

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