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CRIME STOPPERS CASE No. 1218

Sometime between the evening of Tuesday, April 4 and the morning of Tuesday, April 24 an unknown person(s) forced open the lock to a storage shed at Maple Grove Cemetery at 1000 N. Hillside. The suspect(s) took a 2008 John Deere Gator,  a gray 5 ft. by 8ft. single axle trailer, a Suzuki RMF black and yellow dirt bike, one air compressor, 5 chainsaws,  a pole saw, 5 weed eaters, and a toolbox of miscellaneous hand tools. Loss is valued at over $10,000.

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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Dead man proves to be key witness in murder trial

A Sedgwick County jury began deliberations Friday in a first-degree murder trial that started just six weeks after a key witness committed suicide.

But the testimony that the deceased witness gave at an earlier hearing proved to be some of the strongest evidence that prosecutors had in their case against Travis Knighten.

Knighten, 20, is charged in the May 7, 2011, shooting death of Mario Brown, 22, at an after-hours party in a parking lot at the southwest corner of 13th and Hillside.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 17:06 CDT
Man, 48, leaves note with ‘sexual overtones’ at bus stop for middle school girls

Police are looking into why a 48-year-old homeless man left a note for two girls at a school bus stop in north Wichita on Wednesday morning.

The man, who was staying in a tent city in Grove Park just off Hillside near 29th Street North, was arrested on an unrelated warrant, Lt. Doug Nolte said.

“He had written a note to them,” Nolte said of the man’s interest in the 11- and 12-year-old girls, who attend Hamilton Middle School. “It was waiting at the bus stop.”

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Thu, 16 May 2013 13:34 CDT
Wichita police looking for suspects after gun fired at vehicle near 13th, Broadway

Authorities on Thursday searched neighborhoods north of downtown for at least two men suspected in a shooting, prompting six nearby schools to lock down for part of the afternoon.

Wichita police Sgt. Ron Hunt said the pair remained at large by evening, several hours after an apparent shootout involving two vehicles at the Family Dollar near 13th and Broadway. A woman who owns one of the vehicles – an SUV that later crashed at 11th and Waco – was arrested on suspicion of obstruction of justice after she showed up at the scene and refused to cooperate with officers, Hunt said.

The “rolling disturbance” began shortly before 3 p.m., when someone in a white car fired at least three rounds at the SUV after it pulled into the parking lot of the Family Dollar in the 300 block of East 13th Street. At least one witness told police that someone in the SUV returned gunfire, Hunt said.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 06:56 CDT
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