TOPEKA –Law enforcement authorities have made an arrest of a wanted Kansas felon.

On Monday evening, Officers from the Community Policing Unit in Topeka received information on a suspect wanted by the US Marshalls service for weapons violations.

Officers saw the suspect identified as 39-year-old Anastacio Gallardo in the 1100 block of SW Washburn in Topeka and attempted to take him into custody.

He ran into a home, but came out after officers convinced him into surrendering.

Officers arrested Galardo and booked him into Shawnee County Department of corrections for his warrant.

Gallardo has previous convictions for traffic in contraband in a correctional institution and a sex crime while in jail.

 

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A woman who worked as a supervisor in the post office in Shawnee Mission was sentenced Monday for stealing mail, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister.

Stacey L. Kampfer, 40, Kansas City, Kan., was sentenced to a year on probation and ordered to pay about $785 in restitution.

Kampfer pleaded guilty to one count of mail theft. In her plea, she admitted that while she was employed as a supervisor of customer services she opened mail and stole gift cards and debit cards. Investigators identified 214 people whose mail was opened and property stolen.

McAllister commended the U.S. Postal Service-Office of Inspector General and Assistant U.S. Attorney Tris Hunt for their work on the case.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A jury found two men guilty in a fatal shooting at a Lawrence motel but could not reach a verdict on a third defendant.

The Douglas County jury on Monday found 20-year-old Tyrone Carvin and 23-year-old Ramone Singleton, both of Kansas City, Kansas, guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the death of 23-year-old Cameron Hooks of Lenexa. A mistrial was declared for 19-year-old Shawn Smith, of Kansas City, Missouri. A new trial for him was scheduled for Jan. 22.

Two other men were shot in the confrontation at a Motel 6 in September during a party involving at least nine people.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports prosecutors allege the three defendants shot Hooks during an attempted robbery.

Defense attorneys argued the three defendants fired shots in self-defense because others tried to rob them first.

JACKSON COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a  suspect on drug and theft charges.

On Monday afternoon, a deputy sheriff initiated a traffic stop on a 2001 GMC Sierra pickup on U.S. Highway 75 near 198th Road, according to sheriff Tim Morse.  The tag on the truck didn’t match the vehicle.

The pickup had been reported stolen from Topeka.

Deputies arrested the driver 49-year-old Debra Ann Blevins of Topeka. She is jailed for alleged possession of stolen property, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving without an interlock device. Bond on Blevins is pending at this time.

COWLEY COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for alleged aggravated battery.

Just after 9:30 a.m. Friday, police were dispatched to an Arkansas City residence for a report of a domestic disturbance.

They made contact with the alleged victim, a 37-year-old Arkansas City woman who reported being battered multiple times. During the altercation, the suspect allegedly attempted to stab her with a knife and eventually succeeded in stabbing her through one ear.

The Arkansas City Fire-EMS Department was called to the scene to evaluate the victim. She later sought treatment of her injuries at South Central Kansas Medical Center.

The suspect, who was identified as Evaristo Gutierrez, 47, could not be located at the time of the initial report. He later was arrested and taken into custody on Saturday afternoon in the 100 block of West Cedar Avenue, according to the release.

He was transported to and booked into the Cowley County Jail in Winfield in lieu of $10,000 bond through Cowley County District Court in Arkansas City on one felony count of aggravated battery-domestic violence. 

 

BARTON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating 3 suspect for alleged burglary.

Just after 3p.m. Sunday, the Barton County Sheriff’s Office responded to 1252 Northeast 190 road near the City of Claflin, according to Sheriff Brian Bellendir.

An alert citizen had observed a vehicle that he did not believe belonged there. The rural location was not occupied at the time of the burglary.

Sheriff’s officers and a Kansas Highway Patrol unit were able to quickly locate the suspect vehicles and stop them.

Three suspects were arrested in the area. They were identified as Eric Reed 46, Shayla Richmeier, 27  and Harold Mason age 47, all of Great Bend.

They were booked on burglary and theft charges.

Bond was set at $20,000.00 on all three. Reed posted bond and was released. Richmeier and Mason remained in jail Monday afternoon, Mason was out on bond from a previous burglary charge when he was arrested this weekend.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer’s campaign chairman is endorsing independent candidate Greg Orman instead of GOP nominee Kris Kobach after Colyer’s narrow primary loss to Kobach.

Orman’s campaign announced Monday that Steve Baccus, a former Kansas Farm Bureau president, will become one of Orman’s campaign co-chairmen. Orman and the Democratic nominee, state Sen. Laura Kelly, of Topeka, are wooing Republican voters alienated by Kobach’s in-your-face conservatism and advocacy of tough immigration policies.

Colyer endorsed Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, after Kobach won the Republican primary by 350 votes out of more than 317,000 cast. Colyer reiterated the endorsement Monday and said Orman’s announcement was the first Colyer and his aides knew of Baccus’ plans.

Orman is a Kansas City-area businessman, and Baccus said Orman is best qualified to improve the state’s economy.

Baccus is an Ottawa County farmer who served 12 years as Farm Bureau president before retiring from the post in 2014. The Farm Bureau endorsed Colyer in the primary.

Kobach said the Baccus endorsement means, “Topeka insiders are sticking together.”

Kelly spokeswoman Johanna Warshaw said the Baccus endorsement shows Orman won’t move Kansas past the past experiment in cutting Kansas income taxes championed by former GOP Gov. Sam Brownback or the budget woes that followed. Colyer was Brownback’s lieutenant governor before Brownback resigned in January to take an ambassador’s post.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas City that stopped providing medication-induced abortions when its provider left five months ago is facing licensing issues as it works to resume offering the procedure.

The license that allowed the procedure at the midtown clinic expired earlier this month. After its previous provider left, the clinic secured another one. But Planned Parenthood said state health officials want to start the licensing inspection process from scratch.

“It’s hard for me to imagine how this isn’t for purposes of delay,” said Emily Wales, Planned Parenthood’s general counsel and chief compliance lawyer.

“We met our deadlines and submitted things to them as requested and, without any other information from the department, we hear that our license has expired, with no response to our application until after the date of expiration,” she said.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment left Monday by The Associated Press.

Because the midtown clinic’s new abortion provider doesn’t have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, it’s unclear whether it would be able to offer abortion services even if its license is renewed. A lawsuit is being fought over an admitting privilege requirement.

Emily Miller, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Great Plains, which operates the midtown facility, said the clinic continues to provide reproductive and other health services to patients, and has been directing patients interested in an abortion to its Overland Park, Kansas, facility.

“When abortion patients are contacting us to schedule appointments, we’re just talking with them about their alternatives,” Miller said. “We can’t keep people waiting around, so we’re trying to meet the need with services at our Overland Park location if that’s possible for people.”

For patients who depend on public transportation, that may be inconvenient at best and, in some circumstances, not possible at all.

“For a lot of patients, this is a much more accessible location,” Miller said. “So this is why we really feel like we need to restore care here.”

SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a fatal altercation and have identified the victim.

Just after 2 a.m. Sunday, police were contacted outside the Patrol North Police Station in Wichita by a 45-year-old man who stated a 46-year-old man was injured at a home in the 2300 block of north Chautauqua and needed help, according to officer Charley Davidson.

Officers located the victim identified as Desmond Winesberry with trauma to his body and he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Captain Brent Allred.  An investigation determined there was a verbal and physical altercation inside the residence, according to Allred and police do not believe this is a random incident.

Police originally reported the incident was a shooting. On Monday, Allred said to protect the integrity, police did not want to confirm the specifics on the type of trauma hat killed Winesberry.

 It is the 37th homicide in Wichita this year.

If anyone has any additional information they can call Crime Stoppers at 316-267-2111 or WPD Detectives at 316-268-4407.

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SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a fatal shooting.

Just after 2 a.m. Sunday, police were contacted outside the Patrol North Police Station in Wichita by a 45-year-old man who stated a 46-year-old man was injured at a home in the 2300 block of north Chautauqua and needed help, according to officer Charley Davidson.

Officers located the victim with trauma to his body and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police do not believe this is a random incident, according to Davidson. Police have not released the victim’s name or reported an arrest. It is the 37th homicide in Wichita this year.

If anyone has any additional information they can call Crime Stoppers at 316-267-2111 or WPD Detectives at 316-268-4407.