WICHITA — Wichita police say a man who was convicted in a 1984 murder is suspected of raping an 8-year-old girl he was babysitting. KAKE-TV reports 56-year-old Clifford Cox is being held on $250,000 bond after being arrested Monday. Officer Charley Davidson said a parent reported his 8-year-old daughter was possibly assaulted by Cox on several occasions in the last few years. He says the alleged assaults occurred while Cox was caring for his children and the girl’s siblings. He says Cox and the girl’s parents were acquaintances. Cox was released from prison in 2006 after serving time for the…
Author: KMAN Staff
Quinton Shorter, 64, of Manhattan was arrested while in the 1100 block of Westloop Pl. in Manhattan on August 21, 2018 at approximately 8:00 PM. Shorter was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant for driving under the influence. Shorter was issued a total bond of $5,000.00. Shorter was not confined at the time of this report. Officers filed a report for criminal damage to property in the 1600 block of Laramie St. in Manhattan on August 22, 2018 at approximately 1:30 AM. Officers listed Edgar Patino, 21, of Manhattan as the victim when he reported a known female…
Wednesday’s guests were Blue Valley-Randolph Superintendent Brady Burton, Riley County Superintendent Cliff Williams, Reps for Friday night’s “Retro Gaming Night”, and Hope 22 Founder Brooke Brown.
Riley County commissioners heard from representatives from the City of Riley on the issue of ambulance services to the northern portion of the county Monday. Riley City Commissioner Greg McKinley and Mayor Tim Sharp were both present at the meeting. McKinley responded to a monthly call for services report from EMS Director David Adams earlier during the meeting. “it’s like a financial statement, he’s using dollars and cents saying it doesn’t pay to have anything in the north county because there aren’t enough people there,” said McKinley, “But the ambulance, I thought was a service not a business. You don’t…
Riley County Police Department Director Brad Schoen said the department will be purchasing a Lenco Bearcat armored personnel carrier at the Riley County Law Board meeting on Monday. The purchase will be funded by money seized as a result of various cases and investigations and would not impact any government’s budgets or taxes. The RCPD seizure fund was only expected to grow marginally over the last 10 years, but it grew significantly after two cases worked in conjunction with federal authorities in the county which added sums of $154,000, $283,000 and $180,000 to the overall fund. The seizure fund balance totaled…
Tuesday’s guests were Manhattan Mayor Linda Morse and City Manager Ron Fehr.
TOPEKA — A newly-released autopsy reports says a 72-year-old Lawrence man was driving drunk when he collided with a vehicle driven by an off-duty Topeka police officer, killing both men. The crash on May 29 killed 25-year-old officer Trey McCluskey, of Mayetta, and Peter Bieri. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the autopsy found Bieri’s blood-alcohol level was much as three times the legal limit when he drove the wrong way on U.S. 75 north of Topeka and collided with McCluskey’s vehicle. The autopsy listed “ethanol intoxication” as a contributing factor in Bieri’s death. No alcohol or drugs were found in McCluskey’s…
TOPEKA — State officials have cancelled training sessions on open government in Colby and Garden City due to lack of interest. The Kansas attorney general’s office says in a news release it determined too few people were interested in attending this week’s training in western Kansas to justify the expense of providing them. Just eight people registered for the two sessions. Sessions scheduled on Thursday and Friday in Topeka and Fredonia are still on. Others are being planned for Topeka and Johnson County. The free public seminars about the Kansas Open Records Act and the Kansas Open Meetings Act are…
WICHITA — Wichita police say the deaths of a woman and her son appear to a murder-suicide. Officers were called to a Wichita home late Sunday by a woman who said her family was concerned because they had not been able to reach her sister. Police found 55-year-old Debra Fisher dead from a stab wound. Her 28-year-old son, Cody Comstock, was found dead in a separate room of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police say they are not looking for any suspects in the two deaths.
Officers filed a report for rape in Manhattan on August 21, 2018. Officers listed a 29 year old female as the victim and a male known to her as the suspect. Due to the nature of the crime reported, no additional information will be released. Keith Hawkins, 38, of Manhattan was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on August 20, 2018 at approximately 10:10 PM. Hawkins was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant for distribution of methamphetamine, conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine. Hawkins was issued a total bond of $10,000.00 causing him to…