Crime of the Week - Wichita and Sedgwick County
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Around 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, 2011 a residence in the 6500 block of West Briarwood was burglarized. The suspect broke the glass pane in the front door and was able to unlock the deadbolt. The suspect took two safes containing cash and jewelry valued at over $45,000.00.

Surveillance video of the home showed the suspect to be an Asian or Hispanic male, about 5'10” tall with a medium build and wearing wearing a light colored t‐shirt, blues jeans and a hard hat. The suspect's vehicle is a newer model, gray, midsize Chevy vehicle.


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 Shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, Aug. 15, two black males robbed the Quik Trip at 2801 S. Hydraulic.  One suspect entered the store armed with a handgun; the other held a stun gun. One suspect used the stun gun on an employee stocking the shelves. They then  forced the employee to open the cash register and give them the money and fled on foot. Loss was minimal, and the clerk was not injured.

The suspect with the stun gun was in his 20s, 5-foot-11 and 170 pounds. He was wearing a black shirt; black pants; black shoes with white soles; a black hat with a gold sticker on the bill and gold writing on the front; a black mask; and brown cloth gloves.

The other man was also in his 20s, 5-foot-11 and 170 pounds. He was wearing a green shirt, black pants, a black mask and brown cloth gloves.


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On Tuesday, Aug. 9, at approximately 9 p.m. the Dollar General Store at 915 S. Glendale was robbed. A black male entered the store with a black handgun and demanded  money from the register and a customer standing in line. A second employee attempted to intervene, and the suspect struck that employee in the head multiple times with the gun. The robber fled without any money; the employee suffered minor injuries.

The suspect is in his late teens to early 20s, 5-foot-9 and 180 pounds. He wore a gray mask, black short sleeve shirt, black pants and  black shoes.


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In the early morning hours of Thursday, July 28, an arsonist struck at the First Pentecostal Church, 1755 E. MacArthur. The target was a fleet of buses used by the church to transport members to services. Trash cans were placed in two buses and lit on fire, which spread to other buses in the lot. Four buses are a total loss; four other buses suffered fire damage. Total loss exceeded $30,000.


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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

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

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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