SHAWNEE COUNTY -Law enforcement authorities in Shawnee County are investigating a murder and have made an arrest.

On Tuesday afternoon, police arrested Arthur Lee Ford IV, 36, Topeka, in the 6300 Block of SW 10th Street in Topeka for the December 16, murder of Mark Everett Johnson, according to a media release.

Just after 8p.m. on Friday, December 16, officers were dispatch a residence in the 600 Block of SW Taylor in Topeka and found the body of Johnson.

Police indicated Johnson died of blunt force trauma.  Ford was booked into the Shawnee County Jail for 2nd Degree Murder, according to police.

The AP contributed to this report.

SEWARD COUNTY – Two people died in an accident just before 6:30p.m. on Tuesday in Seward County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2016 Freighliner semi driven by Abdullah Muhammad, 26, Orlando, FL., was southbound on U.S. 54 east of Liberal. The driver failed to stop at the stop sign and collided with a 2014 Toyota RAV 4 driven by Jerry Dean Slykhuis, 73, Cedar Rapids, IA., that was southbound on county road 7.

Slykhuis and a passenger Jacqueline Jane Slykhuis, 70, Cedar Rapids, were pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Brenneman’s Funeral Home.

The Muhammad and a passenger from Florida were not injured.

All four were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

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SEWARD COUNTY -First responders were on the scene of a fatality accident just after 6p.m. on Tuesday in Seward County .

U.S. 54 was closed east of Liberal, according to the KHP.

Road closed! US54 closed E of Liberal due to fatality wreck. Traffic detoured at US83 and US160. Updates at https://t.co/nZu8dgbDxo

— SWKansasKDOT (@SWKansasKDOT) December 21, 2016

No additional details were released until next of kin were notified and authorities were able to complete their investigation.

RENO COUNTY – A Kansas man serving time for violating the offender registration act is facing additional drug charges.

On Tuesday, Erik Lamunyon, 37, Hutchinson, appeared from the Reno County Correctional Facility via video feed where he was told that the state has charged him with possession of methamphetamine and personal use drug paraphernalia for crimes on Sept. 30, 2016.

The drug case will now move to a future waiver-status docket.

In 2009, Lamunyon was convicted of lewd and lascivious behavior, aggravated battery and aggravated burglary for exposing himself to two boys, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections

WICHITA- An Arizona man pleaded guilty Monday to using a stolen identity in an effort to buy a $52,000 car from a Kansas auto dealer, according to U.S. Attorney Tom Beall.

Thomas Rye, 36, Phoenix, Ariz., pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.

In his plea, he admitted that on Jan. 2, 2016, he called Eddy’s Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Wichita and applied for a pre-approved line of credit to purchase a car.

He used a stolen identity for a credit check and tried to use the victim’s credit to buy a Dodge Challenger Hellcat valued at $52,725.

Mistakes in the credit application paperwork caused employees of the dealership to become suspicious and they called police. Rye was arrested at the scene.

Rye was one of 13 defendants named in an indictment in May alleging they were part of an organization that attempted to fraudulently obtain a total of $3.5 million in credit and cash. The indictment alleged the conspirators divided up the work of stealing mail from mailboxes, fraudulently applying for credit and shopping with stolen identities.

Sentencing is set for March 6. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Spirit AeroSystems has filed a $20 million construction permit for the building where it manufactures a part of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Sedgwick County.

The Wichita Eagle reports the permit was filed last week. A Spirit spokesman says the permit is not specifically for a defense program but for current and future growth opportunities. No other details about the project were available.

The building is Spirit’s Composite Manufacturing Facility, where is makes composite forward fuselages. Earlier this year, Boeing raised Spirit’s monthly 787 production rate from 10 fuselages a month to 12.

ANDERSON COUNTY – A search party found the body of a missing Kansas man in rural Anderson County on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation

Devyn Long, 24, Welda had been missing since Saturday. An autopsy to determine the cause of death is pending. No additional details were released.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been ordered to spend more than 32 years in prison for his role in abducting people he forced to withdraw money from their bank accounts.

Twenty-three-year-old Kristopher Williams of Wichita was sentenced Monday in Sedgwick County. That’s where he was convicted of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and robbery.

Those charges related to a Subway restaurant holdup in November of last year and robberies of people throughout Sedgwick County in December 2015 and April of this year.

Prosecutors say that Williams accosted residents returning home after dark and forced them at gun point to get back into their vehicles and drive to automated teller machines to withdraw cash.

A co-defendant is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 3.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials are looking at converting a soon-to-close juvenile corrections center into a new unit for holding sex offenders indefinitely for treatment after they leave prison.

Acting Department for Aging and Disability Services Secretary Tim Keck said Tuesday the department is working with the state fire marshal’s office to determine how the state’s juvenile facility in Larned would have to be renovated.

The Department of Corrections plans to close the juvenile facility in March.

The state operates both an adult prison and a state mental hospital in Larned in western Kansas. The hospital includes the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.

The number of patients in the sexual predator program continues to grow. Keck told a legislative committee that two dozen of them might be better served in a new medical facility.

ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) — Police say two city snowplows in Atchison were involved in separate accidents due to icy conditions.

Police reports show the first incident happened Friday. Deputy public works director Clinton McNemee says the snowplow hit icy conditions as it traveled down the road, slid sideways, hit a shoulder and fell on its side. McNemee says the driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

A police report says the second accident happened Sunday, when a snowplow struck a vehicle parked along the road. There was damage to the vehicle.