A 24-year-old Leavenworth man has been convicted on charges related to possessing and dealing fentanyl. Kevin L. Thomas entered no-contest pleas Friday in Leavenworth County District Court to individual counts of distributing fentanyl and possession of fentanyl. The judge accepted the pleas ...
A 28-year-old inmate who damaged property during a riot at the Lansing Correctional Facility is now awaiting sentencing. On Nov. 13, Hakeem W. Malik entered a no-contest plea to a single count of criminal damage to property, which the court accepted, finding him guilty. According to court ...
A jury found a Lansing Correctional Facility inmate guilty of one count of battery against a law enforcement officer Monday in Leavenworth County District Court. According to court documents, Justin D. Pierce, 41, injured one corrections officer during a disturbance that happened inside the ...
A 31-year-old Lansing Correctional Facility prisoner has been sentenced for beating and strangling his cellmate to death. On Wednesday, Sept. 11, Al’Ryon Perkins was sentenced to 653 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections for murder in the second degree. That equals a sentence of ...
A federal judge in Kansas has tossed out a machine gun possession charge and questioned if bans on the weapons violate the Second Amendment. If upheld on appeal, the ruling by U.S. District Judge John W. Broomes in Wichita could have a sweeping impact on the regulation of machine guns, ...
The Leavenworth County Attorney’s Office has issued a scam warning after area residents reported a Facebook post offering numerous items for sale. Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson issued the alert after area residents reported interacting with a Facebook post earlier this week. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
