Crime of the Week - Wichita and Sedgwick County
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RIME STOPPERS CASE No. 1222
On Monday, October 31st, 2011 a fire broke out at the Islamic Association of Mid-Kansas, located at 3406 W. Taft. After analysis of evidence collected by the Wichita Fire Department the fire has been ruled an arson and the cause of the fire officially determined as incendiary. The mosque suffered extensive damage valued at over $150,000.

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If you have information about this arson 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. 1221
Crime Stoppers and the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office are asking for the public’s help to solve several cold cases. Today we are seeking information on a missing person that is a potential victim of a homicide. In March of 2001, Jennifer Wilson was 27 years old and lived with her roommate in the area of 143rd ST. E. and 63rd ST. S. Wilson and her roommate were involved in an argument at the residence and the roommate left. When the roommate returned Wilson was gone. Wilson left her car, all her belongings, and her dog, which she was known to take everywhere. At the time of her disappearance Jennifer Wilson was 5’07, weighed 115 pounds, with brown curly hair and blue eyes. Today Wilson would be 39 years old.

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If you have information about this cold case 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.
At approximately 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 6, two women were jogging along the Arkansas River in the 700 block of North Amidon in Sim Park. A man jumped out from behind some bushes and grabbed one of the joggers by her shirt. She was able to get loose and call 911 on her cell phone while they were running away. Police received a second call a short time later from another jogger. This woman said she was running in the same area at about the same time when a man jumped out of the bushes and grabbed her by the wrist. This jogger also got away and ran home and called called 911. 

The suspect is described as a white male in his late 20s. He is about 6 feet tall with short, brown curly hair. He had a large earring in his left ear and was wearing a blue and white collared shirt, blue jeans and black shoes.

If you have information about this assault 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. 1219
Sometime between 4:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21, an unknown person(s) kicked open the front door to a residence in 11100 block of South Anthony Lane near Mulvane. Once inside the suspect(s) took two laptop computers; two jewelry boxes containing miscellaneous rings and necklaces; more than 50 collectable knives with the display cases; and approximately 20 handguns, shotguns and rifles. Loss is valued at more than $12,000.
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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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Man convicted of murder in 2011 strangling case

A man was convicted Friday of strangling a Wichita woman in 2011 while on parole for murdering a woman in Lawrence more than two decades earlier.

A Sedgwick County jury deliberated less than four hours before convicting Tyrone Walker, 47, of first-degree murder in the death of Janis Sanders, 44. Her nude body was found between an abandoned house and a small business in the 1100 block of South Washington on June 4, 2011.

During his trial, jurors were told that Walker was convicted in Douglas County of second-degree murder in the death of Tamara Baker, 25, who was reported missing on Oct. 31, 1989. Her body was found six months later in a wooded area of Lawrence. Walker was sentenced to 12 years to life in prison on that charge and was paroled to Wichita in February 2011.

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:52 CDT
Deputy’s killer won’t collect $4,560 seized from his home

An inmate serving a life sentence for the April 2005 killing of Harvey County sheriff’s Deputy Kurt Ford will not collect more than $4,000 in cash that was seized from his home on the day of the shooting, a judge has ruled.

District Judge Warren Wilbert denied a motion filed by Gregory A. Moore, who was hoping to recover the money. A search warrant shows that the KBI found $200 in an envelope and $4,360 in a zip-top plastic bag in the master bedroom of the home at 131 SE 14th St. in Newton where the shooting occurred.

Harvey County Attorney David Yoder said in a written response to Moore’s motion that Moore owes more than $200,000 in damages that was awarded to Ford’s widow in a wrongful death lawsuit. Yoder also said the state may file a claim against Moore for back child support.

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:01 CDT
State to rest case in 2011 murder trial

The state is expected to rest its case today in the retrial of a Wichita man accused of strangling a Wichita woman in 2011 while on parole for murdering a woman in Lawrence more than two decades earlier.

Tyrone Walker, 47, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Janis Sanders, 44, whose nude body was found between an abandoned house and a small business in the 1100 block of South Washington on June 4, 2011. A jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of conviction at Walker’s first trial in March.

During that trial, jurors were told that Walker was convicted in Douglas County of second-degree murder in the death of Tamara Baker, 25, who was reported missing on Oct. 31, 1989, and whose body was found six months later in a wooded area of Lawrence. Walker was sentenced to 12 years to life in prison on that charge and was paroled to Wichita in February 2011.

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