SHAWNEE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for armed robbery and asking the public to help with additional details.

Just before 10p.m. Wednesday, police responded to a fast-food restaurant in the 1100 Block of South Kansas Avenue in Topeka after report of an armed robbery, according to a media release.

Police saw two suspects running from the business and caught one of them. Police booked Brendon Randell Thompson, 30, Topeka, for requested charges of Aggravated Robbery and Aggravated Assault.  He has a previous drug conviction in Shawnee County.

A second person of interest was located a short time later and it was determined he was not involved.  Police are still searching for a second suspect.

There were no injuries reported.

Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to call police.

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SHAWNEE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for armed robbery and asking the public to help with additional details.

Just before 10p.m. Wednesday, police responded to a fast-food restaurant in the 1100 Block of South Kansas Avenue in Topeka after report of an armed robbery, according to a media release.

Police saw two suspects running from the business and caught one of them. A second person of interest was located a short time later and it was determined he was not involved. There were no injuries reported.  Police did not release the name of the suspect arrested

Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to call police

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has given her approval to a deal in a lawsuit filed against the Wilson County sheriff over his jail’s policy of allowing inmates to receive and send only postcards in the mail.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson preliminarily approved on Wednesday the class action settlement that would allow inmates to receive letters at the southeast Kansas jail. The jail houses an average of 40 people daily.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and the Social Justice Law Collective sued Sheriff Pete Figgins last year alleging the policy violated the free speech and due process rights of prisoners and the people who write to them.

A fairness hearing on the settlement is set for Oct. 25 in the federal courthouse in Kansas City, Kansas.

BROWN COUNTY- Two people died in an accident just before 2p.m. Wednesday in Brown County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1996 Chevy Suburban driven by Michael Patrick James, 52, Horton, was northbound on U.S. 73 four miles south of U.S. 36.

The vehicle went left of center and struck a 2011 Toyota Siena driven by Delywn A. Boldt, 80, Upland, NE., just right of center.

James and a passenger in the Toyota Patricia Boldt, 80, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Delywn Boldt was transported to KU Medical Center.

Passengers in the Toyota Luke Boldt, 15, Leland, NC, was transported to Children’s Mercy and Jack Boldt, 15, Leland, NC, was transported to the Hospital in Horton.

Luke Bolt was wearing a seat belt improperly, according to the KHP. James was not wearing a seat belt.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Kansas sex offenders confined indefinitely in a state program for post-prison mental health treatment.

U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten ruled this week that the suit failed to provide details to support claims that the treatment the offenders are receiving at Larned State Hospital in western Kansas is so inadequate that their confinement is unconstitutional.

Kansas law allows the courts to order sex offenders held indefinitely for treatment after they’ve served their prison sentences.

The 25 men who filed the lawsuit in 2014 are among more than 250 offenders confined in the program. Only a relative few have been released since it began in 1994. The U.S. Supreme Court declared the program constitutional in 1997 because of the promised treatment.

RILEY COUNTY -Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for alleged Felony DUI again.

Just after 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, police arrested Benjamin Joseph Oleary, 36, Leonardville, according to a booking report from the Riley County Police Department.

Oleary has three previous Felony DUI convictions, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.

He was operating a vehicle without the breath alcohol ignition interlock device, according to a police report. Oleary is being held on a $4,000 Bond.

HARVEY COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Harvey County used a drone to find a missing man on Tuesday.

Just before 11:30p.m. Tuesday, deputies received a call in reference to a missing 91-year-old man at a residence two miles north of Walton, according to Harvey County Sheriff Chad Gay.

The terrain and the vegetation in the quarter section they were searching made the job almost impossible, according Harvey County Sheriff’s Department Corporal Brandon Huntley.

After 3 hours of ground search, Huntley decided to use the department’s Drone to search. The Drone identified a hot spot. Deputies directed emergency crews to the location. After approximately 30-minutes, Hesston EMS transported to victim to Newton Medical Center where he is recovering.

Huntley said the victim was missing for over 9 hours. He is expected to make a full recovery. The department purchased the drone as a life-saving tool. It is the first time the sheriff’s department has successfully used the drone.

SHAWNEE COUNTY- Law enforcement authorities are investigating a robbery and assault at a home improvement store.

On June 7, a man entered Menards, 6401 SW 17th Street, Topeka and stole merchandise, according to a media release from police.  He then physically assaulted one of Menards Employees and left in a white Ford Escape.

Anyone with information on this suspect is asked to Email the TPD Criminal Intelligence Unit ([email protected]) or TPD Detective Steve Adkins ([email protected]) or call him at #785 368-9033.

Or contact Crime Stoppers 234-0007

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a man has shot and killed his 62-year-old stepfather during an argument at a suburban Kansas City townhome.

The Kansas City Star reports that the shooting happened early Wednesday in Overland Park, Kansas.

Police spokesman John Lacy says the suspect’s mother called 911 and told dispatcher that her son who’s in his 30s and her husband were arguing. Officers heard gunshots as they approached the townhome and took cover.

Lacy says the mother told dispatchers her son had shot his stepfather.

The suspect was arrested after leaving the townhome. The victim was found dead inside the townhome, and his name wasn’t immediately released. Lacy said he didn’t know why the two had been arguing.

A weapon was found inside the home.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is granting the Trump administration’s request to more strictly enforce its ban on refugees, at least until a federal appeals court weighs in.

But the justices are leaving in place a lower court order that makes it easier for travelers from six mostly Muslim countries to enter the United States.

The high court acted Wednesday on the administration’s appeal of last week’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson that required the government to allow in refugees formally working with a resettlement agency in the United States. Watson also vastly expanded the family relations that refugees and visitors can use to get into the country.

The justices said the federal appeals court in San Francisco should now consider the appeal.

SALINE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating a reported theft of over $2,200 from the Central National Bank on Tuesday.

Just before 3:30 p.m., a bank employee told Salina Police that a man entered the bank, located inside Walmart, 2900 South Ninth, and asked to exchange $4,800 in $20 bills for $100 bills, according Police Captain Paul Forrester.

The man then asked to exchange the $100 bills for Canadian currency.

When the bank employee told the man that the bank did not do currency exchanges, he asked for the $20 bills back.

While the clerk was collecting the $4,800 in $20 bills, the man pocketed $2,200 from the stack of $100 bills. He and a female suspect then left the bank with $7,000.

The suspects left in a white or silver GMC Acadia, according to Forrester.

Authorities hope to release surveillance camera video Wednesday.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A second suspect has been arrested in the weekend shooting death of a semi-pro football player in Wichita.

A  second 18-year-old Wichita man was booked into jail Monday on suspicion of first-degree murder in the killing of 19-year-old Timothy Golden, who was a tight end for the Kansas Cougars. He hasn’t yet been formally charged.

Police say Golden was found dead Saturday afternoon inside an apartment building and that another 18-year-old suspect was arrested that day. Police had been searching for three men in the shooting.

Police say more than a dozen rounds were fired into Golden’s apartment.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a woman suspected of stealing a car from a Kansas City, Kansas, gas station as a 3-year-old girl slept in the back seat has surrendered.

The Wyandotte County prosecutor’s office said 29-year-old Karri Reich turned herself in Tuesday. She and an alleged accomplice, 28-year-old Tyler Letzig, are charged with kidnapping, aggravated child endangerment and theft.

KSHB-TV station crew aboard a helicopter spotted the abandoned vehicle in nearby Tonganoxie about an hour after last week’s theft. Video showed the girl as she ran to an officer. Police say the girl wasn’t hurt but was taken to a hospital as a precaution.

Reich’s attorney, Josh Allen said in a written statement that his client “very much looks forward to addressing this situation and concluding the same in the near future.”