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Lansing inmate who threatened attorney receives sentence

A Lansing Correctional Facility inmate who threatened an attorney has been sentenced to prison. Joseph Clifford Elms, 43, was convicted of criminal threat on July 10 after pleading guilty during a plea hearing. On Wednesday, Aug. 14, Elms was sentenced to 16 months in the Kansas Department of ...

Woman who forged checks for pizza pleads guilty

A Leavenworth woman who stole mail from mailboxes and used a forged check, but provided her real address and phone number for a pizza delivery, has pleaded guilty to charges of forgery and theft. During a plea hearing Wednesday, May 29, Scarlett Housworth, 53, pleaded guilty to theft and ...

Butler County man sentenced to probation for insurance fraud

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced Friday that a Kansas man had been sentenced to six months of probation for insurance fraud. Robert Heidbreder, 30, pleaded guilty in the District Court of Sedgwick County to one misdemeanor count of insurance fraud and one misdemeanor ...

Tonganoxie father sentenced to 11 years in vehicle fatality case

A 35-year-old Tonganoxie father has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on charges related to the death of his son. On April 4, 2024, a jury found Shane Michael Degraeve guilty of second-degree murder, three counts of aggravated endangering of a child and driving under the influence ...

Lansing Correctional Facility resident found dead in cell

Lansing Correctional Facility resident Robert Edwin Blanchette, 44, died Monday. He was found unresponsive in his cell, according to a Kansas Department of Corrections release. Staff and emergency medical service personnel administered life-saving measures but were unable to revive him. ...

Leavenworth man pleads guilty to aggravated battery in biting of baby

A 23-year-old Leavenworth man has pleaded guilty to aggravated battery after admitting to biting a baby. Benjamin Frederick Douglas Oaks admitted to a Leavenworth police detective that, on several occasions, he bit the victim, whom he was caring for when the abuse happened, according to a ...

Jury finds Leavenworth man guilty in connection with 2022 fatal shooting

A Leavenworth County jury convicted a 34-year-old Leavenworth man on charges stemming from the fatal shooting of a man inside an apartment in Leavenworth in 2022. On Tuesday, a jury convicted Ryan C. Cheatham on charges of voluntary manslaughter and criminal possession of a firearm in the ...

Leavenworth woman pleads guilty to second-degree murder and robbery

Patricia J. Perkins, 37, pled guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder and robbery in the 2019 shooting death of Travis A. Doughty, whose body was found in a ditch in rural Leavenworth County. According to court records, Perkins and two additional individuals schemed a plan to rob Doughty, 23 ...