KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A Johnson County man has been sentenced to about six years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges of bank fraud and money laundering. The U.S. Attorney’s office for Kansas says in a release that Paul L. Hartfield, 56, was also ordered this week to pay about $2.6 million in restitution. In charges filed against Hartfield in 2010, prosecutors said he owned Hart Investments and Diamond Mortgage and obtained $4.9 million in loans to rehabilitate more than 40 homes in the Kansas City metro area. But he stopped rehabilitating the homes in October 2006 and…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court is considering the appeal of a man sentenced to die over the killings of a Great Bend couple in 2004. The justices were hearing arguments Friday in the case of Sidney Gleason. He is challenging his convictions for capital murder and other crimes and his death sentence. The murder victims were Miki Martinez and boyfriend Darren Wornkey. Their deaths were days after the robbery of a 76-year-old man in February 2004. Prosecutors say Gleason and cousin Damien Thompson worried about what Martinez would tell police about the robbery. Workney was shot while he…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A northeastern Kansas woman is expected to admit to stealing from the credit union where she once worked as manager. A court notation entered Thursday sets a change-of-plea hearing for 47-year-old Pamela Emig of Solomon for Nov. 6 in federal court in Topeka. Emig is charged in one count of embezzlement for allegedly stealing $817,167 from April 2005 to August 2011 from Enterprise Credit in Enterprise. Her defense attorney, Christopher Joseph, has said his client is a good person who found herself in a difficult financial situation and made a series of bad decisions to save her…
A string of daytime burglaries have hit Pottawatomie County over the past month with the most recent happening on Thursday. The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s office has reported that the incident occurred on Moody Road. Detective Gerald Schmidt, with the sheriff’s office, said that a report earlier in the day, however, has brought interest to a vehicle when a woman told detectives that a man in his mid 20s stopped by asking if a person lived there and then said he had the wrong address. Upon further observation, the woman noticed the car was backed up in her driveway. The vehicle is described as…
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A Manhattan man was taken into custody late Wednesday on a failure to appear charge. Tony Kolterman was originally charged with criminal deprivation of property. He remains confined on a $5,000 bond. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Early Thursday morning around 1:40, Riley County Police responded to Kites bar, located in Aggieville on north 12th street. Kites employee, 35 year old Jonathan Mitton of Manhattan had asked a patron, 23 year old Cade Hutchinson to leave the premise. Hutchinson refused and proceeded to threaten Mitton with a knife. Hutichinson was charged with aggravated assault, and remains confined on a $5,000 bond. ________________________________________________________________________________________ An unknown…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The former head of a western Kansas program that took World War II veterans to Washington is accused of stealing more than $100,000. LaVeta Miller was arrested Thursday on a warrant charging her with theft by deception. A Barton County records clerk says Miller is jailed on $20,000 bond. The clerk didn’t know if Miller had an attorney. The Wichita Eagle reports that Miller worked as program director for Central Prairie Honor Flight until she was fired in July. The Great Bend group raised nearly $1.2 million and conducted 17 Honor Flights that took 1,100 WW II…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Trial dates have been set for the parents of two children found bound and blindfolded in a Walmart parking lot in eastern Kansas. The Douglas County district attorney’s office says Adolfo Gomez, 52, will stand trial on Jan. 7. His wife, Deborah Gomez, 44, is set for trial Feb. 4. The Gomezes, of Northlake, Ill., have pleaded not guilty to charges of child abuse and child endangerment. They were arrested June 13 after Lawrence police found two children, ages 5 and 7, tied up outside the family’s vehicle. Three other older children were inside the SUV unrestrained.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Justice Department’s watchdog agency is objecting to more than $12 million in fees racked up during the first three months of Hawker Beechcraft’s bankruptcy proceedings. In a filing Thursday, U.S. Trustee Tracy Hope Davis particularly chided the company for fees lawyers billed for the company’s failed attempt to pay its eight senior executives millions in bonuses. The government called the fees excessive and unreasonable. And the trustee noted the lawyers spent more time working on the bonus plan than other projects. More than $12.2 million in compensation and $642,000 in expenses were billed between May and…
HILL CITY, Kan. (AP) A northwest Kansas woman who won her battle to get Kansas to pay for an out-of-state transplant has lost her fight against liver disease. The Kansas City Star reports Mary Stinemetz, 66, of Hill City died Sunday at a Colorado hospital located near her daughter, three years after she learned she needed a new liver. The Jehovah’s Witness refused to undergo a transplant at the University of Kansas Hospital because she would need a blood transfusion, which went against her religion. Last year a Kansas appeals court found the state violated her constitutional right to exercise…