Crime of the Week - Wichita and Sedgwick County
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RIME STOPPERS CASE No. 1209

On Feb. 20, 2012, a Sheriff’s Deputy located six headstones in a roadway ditch at 5200 W. 87th St. South. The headstones are very old, ranging from 1867 to 1907. Investigators have confirmed that the headstones were stolen from Highland Cemetery at 1000 N. Hillside. Damage is estimated at more than $5,000.

If you have information about this theft 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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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 Saturday, May 28, 2011. After leaving a restaurant at 1770 S. Rock Rd., Thoung Phan got into an argument in the parking lot with three Asian males. They chased him across Rock Road onto Blues Stem, shooting him multiple times. He died at the scene. The suspects fled in an unknown four-door vehicle.

If you have information about this homicide or any cold case or 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. 1208

At 6:15 a.m. on Monday, Jan.16, a woman walked into a business in the 900 block of North St. Francis. As she entered, a man loitering in the area approached her from behind. He grabbed her purse and took it, using physical force. The robber also displayed a knife to her.

The suspect is described as a black male in his 40s, 6-foot-3, with a stocky or muscular build. He was wearing dark pants, a dark-colored jacket and a dark stocking cap.

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 $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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Sometime between 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, an unknown person or persons forced their way into the Honey Tree Academy at 2548 N. Maize Rd. The suspects vandalized the school and stole laptops, iPads and other electronics valued at more than $7,000. A Chrysler Town and Country minivan with the Honey Tree Academy logo on the side also was taken; it was recovered late Monday evening near Andover by the Wichita Police Department.

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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A fire, a body, a murder trial in Kingman after more than two years

On Monday, two years and 20 days after Vashti Forrest Seacat’s body was found in the charred remains of her Kingman home, attorneys will start picking jurors who will be asked to decide between two arguments already raised in court:

That the 34-year-old woman’s husband, Brett Seacat, a law enforcement trainer and former Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy, shot and killed her and set fire to their home, or that she started the blaze and then shot herself.

Felicia Ryder, who organized a candlelight vigil to remember Vashti Seacat soon after the tragedy, said that Brett Seacat’s first-degree murder trial will offer closure for the town. The case has been weighing on people, and the big old house where it all happened – now vacant and boarded up – is part of that weight, Ryder said.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 21:43 CDT
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
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