Crime of the Week - Wichita and Sedgwick County
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RIME 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.

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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.
Crime Stoppers and the Wichita Police Department are asking for the public's help to solve several cold case homicides. Today we are seeking information on a homicide that occurred Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. Timothy McGuigan was suppose to have breakfast with his son that morning, but never arrived; he didn't show up for work either. Worried co-workers called his son and asked him to check on his father. The son went to his father's house in the 2500 block of North Woodridge and found him dead. When police arrived they discovered that McGuigan had been shot multiple times with a small caliber handgun. There was no sign of forced entry, and robbery does not appear to be the motive.

If you have information about this homicide 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.
RIME STOPPERS CASE No. 1203

 The Park City Police Department is investigating the theft of approximately 32 titanium blocks, each weighing 500 pounds, from TECT Aerospace at 5545 N. Mill Heights Dr. The theft occurred during the first couple of weeks of December 2011. The suspect(s) would have needed a forklift and a heavy-duty truck to remove the blocks. The loss totaled more than $100,000. 

 

 

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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RIME STOPPERS CASE No. 1202
On Tuesday, Dec. 12, the Presto convenience store at 4414 W. Maple was robbed by a man with a knife. The next day, Wednesday, the same suspect robbed the Presto convenience store at 7136 W. Central. Cash was taken from the register at both locations.

The suspect is described as a light skinned black male, 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-8 with a large build. He was wearing a black and blue hoodie and had a black and blue bandanna over his face. No suspect vehicle was seen.

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.

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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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