Crime

Sixty-two-year-old Webb Ketcherside is charged with kidnapping and aggravated indecent liberties of a child. Court documents show his bond is set at $75,000.

The Sumner County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting in Wellington.

A former Lyons, Kan. man Wednesday was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for uploading child pornography to his Yahoo Messenger account.

Wichita Police responded to a shooting call in the 5100 block of E. Harry around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday where the man was shot in the face by a known male suspect.

Fourteen people have been injured in connection with a shooting on Chicago’s South Side. First Deputy Eric Carter says the shooting occurred outside a funeral home, where mourners were fired upon from a passing SUV.

Four people were shot in two separate incidents last month.

The boy was able to break free and run for help.

One man is in custody after shooting at deputies during a standoff in Reno County.

The Dodge City Police Department is asking for the public’s help to locate a man wanted in reference to an attempted 2nd-degree homicide.

A probable cause affidavit sheds light on the investigation that led to arrests of two men in connection to internal thefts made at the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office Property and Evidence Storage site.

During the disturbance, according to police, Aubriana Wilburn intentionally struck a man with a red Ford Focus and dragged him about one and a half blocks before fleeing.

The Wichita man charged in the 1999 deaths of an Oklahoma couple and the disappearance and presumed deaths of their teenage daughter and her friend has pleaded guilty to an accessory-to-murder charge.

A Sedgwick County District Court judge Wednesday sentenced a woman involved in a September 2019 chase involving shots fired at Wichita police officers to four years, three months (51 months) in prison.

A chase in Sedgwick County Tuesday afternoon ended in a three-vehicle crash near Cheney.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), the Logan County Sheriff’s Office, the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are investigating after improvised explosive devices were found Monday (July 13) in Logan County.

A 41-year-old woman was arrested in connection to a fatal shooting in northeast Wichita last month.

A 13-year-old male was arrested for making a bomb threat at a business in east Wichita, according to Wichita Police.

The Wichita Police Department is investigating an overnight shooting reported in the area of Kellogg and Grove in east Wichita.

The Arkansas City Police Department is investigating an attempted kidnapping reported Monday (July 6) that ended with a man identified as the suspect in this case stealing a woman’s car to flee.

A detention deputy with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office was arrested Monday (July 6), accused of having sexual encounters with two female inmates at the Sedgwick County Jail.

The Wichita Police Department is investigating a man’s death as a criminal homicide.

A Barton County judge Monday sentenced a Florida man to life in prison for the deaths of Sonny and Pauline Carpenter, killed in 2018 in Barton County. The Wichita couple’s bodies were found in Arkansas.

The man accused of killing two people in January at the Hotel at WaterWalk in the 700 block of South Main, heard formal charges against him Monday (July 6) In Sedgwick County District Court. Kyle Young ins charged with capital murder, aggravated burglary, and criminal possession of a weapon by a felon.

Police arrested Zachary L. Province on charges of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a firearm in the June 29 shooting death of 25-year-old Joshua Steele in the 6900 block of East Ayesbury Circle.

A 33-year-old man was arrested in connection to a shooting that happened earlier this year at Hotel at WaterWalk.

The 23-year-old, who Wichita Police did not name, saw Vonn Campbell, 48, in a disturbance with a woman in the McDonald’s parking lot in the 400 block of S. Broadway.

Marc Gordon, the former property and evidence technician, was booked for felony official misconduct and three counts of misdemeanor theft.

A lit firework was thrown on to the patio of Pumphouse and exploded by a table of patrons.

The department is asking for help in identifying a suspect who has caused thousands of dollars in losses by stealing and vandalizing surveillance cameras at Hyde Elementary School, Mead Middle School, and Clark Elementary School.

A suspect in the shooting of two Oklahoma police officers early Monday morning is now in custody.