Crime of the Week - Wichita and Sedgwick County
Print
CRIME 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.

Click here to view more images

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.

Archives
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:

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:26 CDT
Last Refreshed 5/21/2013 7:03:25 AM