Need Your Help
Federal officials are urgently asking for the public's help to rescue a young child who may be a victim of ongoing sexual exploitation, and to identify and arrest a "Jane Doe" suspected of producing child pornography.
Wichita police have released photos of a man who is alleged to have robbed a Bank of America branch office in northwest Wichita on Wednesday afternoon.
Police are still looking for the suspect. The public is asked to report any information by calling Crime Stoppers at 267-2111.
Someone vandalized the aquarium at the city water department building at Pawnee and Broadway over the weekend, and police want the public’s help in finding them.
Crime and Courts
Woman pleads guilty to taking urine from 11-year-old girl

A 24-year-old woman pleaded guilty Monday to two felony charges for forcing an 11-year-old Haysville girl into a gas station bathroom and ordering her to urinate into a cup so the woman could use the urine to pass a court-ordered drug test.

Crystal Hopper, who listed a Wellington address after her arrest, pleaded guilty to interference with parental custody and aggravated endangering a child. She had been scheduled to stand trail this week in Sedgwick County District Court on kidnapping and robbery charges.

Prosecutors said the crimes arose from a Haysville Municipal Court case. In court papers, prosecutors said that:

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Mon, 20 May 2013 15:37 CDT
Man convicted of second-degree murder in 2011 shooting

A Wichita man was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in a case where some of the prosecution’s strongest testimony came from a man who committed suicide less than six weeks before the trial began.

Travis Knighten, 20, was convicted in the shooting death of Mario Brown, 22, at an after-hours party in a parking lot at the southwest corner of 13th and Hillside on May 7, 2011. He also was convicted of aggravated battery for shooting and wounding a second man.

The jury began its deliberations late Friday afternoon and delivered its verdict shortly before noon Monday.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56 CDT
McPherson County man sentenced to 260 years in prison for producing child porn

A McPherson County man was sentenced Monday to 260 years in federal prison for using a 9-year-old child to produce child pornography.

Philip Andra Grigsby, 50, of Marquette pleaded guilty to eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of possession of child pornography and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

Grigsby initially was charged in a criminal complaint filed in July in U.S. District Court in Wichita. The complaint stated the investigation began in Australia earlier in 2012 when an Australian man was arrested by police in that country. Evidence in that case showed the man had received child pornography over the Internet from other men, including Grigsby in Kansas.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 15:26 CDT
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