Crime of the Week - Wichita and Sedgwick County
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The Bel Aire Police Department needs your help. Sometime between Monday night, Dec. 12, and Tuesday morning, Dec. 13, unknown suspect(s) burglarized Granite Transformations at 3821 N. Hillcrest. The burglar(s) used bolt cutters to cut the locks off three trailers in front of the business. Hand tools and construction supplies valued at more than $2,800 were taken. A second, nearby business that asked not be named also was burglarized during the same time period and in a similar manner. A 125-amp wire welder, valued at $1,500, was taken.

If you have information about these burglaries 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. 1152

Sometime over Thanksgiving weekend between Thursday, November 24 and Monday, November 28, two sculptures that are part of a traveling art display were vandalized in front of the Old Town parking garage at 2nd and Mosley. The 5-foot-tall sculpture of a woman walking her dog was completely destroyed. The second sculpture may be able to be repaired. They were part of the Art Council's annual sculpture walkabout project and were valued at $7,500.
If you have information about this vandalism 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 $1000.00 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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Just before 7 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, a man armed with a black handgun entered the Presto convenience store at 248 S Hillside. He went into the back office where an employee was counting money. The robber took the money and attempted to leave, but the employee had locked the front door. The suspect fired two shots, breaking the glass door, and was last seen running east on Waterman.

He is described as a black male, 6 feet tall and 170 pounds. He was wearing a dark hoodie with a red and white design on the front, a brown camouflage face mask, light colored blue jeans, brown boots and brown gloves.

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 $1000.00 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. 1150

Sometime between Friday, November 18, and Monday, November 21, someone vandalized the aquarium at the Wichita Water Center, 101 E. Pawnee. Located on the outside of the building, it houses fish native to Kansas. The vandals used landscaping stones and successfully broke one pane of glass. There was no water loss so all the fish survived, but damage exceeded $5,000.

If you have information about this vandalism 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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Three Californians arrested in theft of trailer-loads of goods

Three people from North Hollywood, Calif., have been arrested in an alleged scheme in which semi-trailer loads of goods were stolen from companies in California and an attempt to steal a load of processed beef was made in southwest Kansas, U. S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Wednesday.

Two of the three people, Oganes Nagapetian, 53, and his wife, Larisa Nagapetian, 46, are scheduled to be arraigned on a federal indictment in the U.S. District Court in Wichita on June 4; the third defendant, Tigran Nagapetian, 50, a brother of Oganes Nagapetian, appeared Tuesday before a U.S. magistrate judge in Los Angeles. He also is scheduled to appear for arraignment in Kansas on June 4.

All three are charged in the Kansas federal indictment, Grissom said.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 16:17 CDT
Ex-Wichita police officer charged with conspiracy, wire fraud

A former Wichita police officer and two other people were charged Wednesday with conspiracy and wire fraud after an internal investigation by police concluded that they were involved in scheme to keep the officer from losing her job, according to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom. . The police department submitted the results of its investigation to the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office for review.

Former officer Joletta Vallejo, 34, and her friends, Patrick Melendrez, 40, Wichita, and Courtney Foster, 30, Wichita, are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and seven counts of wire fraud.

The indictment alleges that on Oct. 16, 2011, a woman went to the Patrol North substation in Wichita to report that she had been abducted and beaten by her boyfriend, Larry Edmonds. Vallejo took the report and opened a case of misdemeanor domestic violence.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 16:50 CDT
Third arrest in last week’s shooting at 13th and Broadway

A third person has been arrested in connection with a shooting in broad daylight in north Wichita last week, police said.

The 29-year-old man was arrested at a motel in Hays late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, Lt. Randy Reynolds said. He had been implicated during questioning of a 31-year-old man who was arrested Tuesday morning following a brief police chase on North Topeka in Wichita.

A Crime Stoppers tip led to the Wichita arrest, Reynolds said.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 12:25 CDT
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