Pill Mill Doctor Pleads Guilty to Medicaid Fraud, Drug Charges
Oklahoma City, OK – A former Oklahoma City physician, charged in 2016 with 29 felony counts and one misdemeanor, pleaded guilty last week to Medicaid fraud and multiple drug offenses. Harvey Jenkins operated Aria Orthopedics in south Oklahoma City, where he prescribed large volumes of opioids and other narcotics from January 2010 to February 2015. His […]
Kansas House Votes to Legalize Fentanyl Test Strips Because the Drug is ‘Killing People’
Topeka, KS— Kansas lawmakers are again trying to legalize fentanyl test strips to keep people alive amid a pandemic of soaring overdoses. “We aren’t used to dealing with pills being made that are killing people at this level. So the danger of this has really caught the nation by surprise,” said state Rep. Eric Smith, […]
UPDATE: Suspect arrested in Crawford County homicide
Crawford County, KS- Travis Conness has been located and is no longer at large. Conness has been arrested and will be charged with suspicion of attempted premeditated first degree murder and felony murder. Conness was arrested without incident and booked into the Crawford County Jail. The case will be prosecuted by the Crawford County […]
Officers Determine No Threat in School Graffiti
Manhattan, KS – Manhattan High School West Campus was cleared around 4:40 p.m. this afternoon after a graffiti message that was found in a school bathroom circulated over Snapchat causing the school to go on lockdown. The message was perceived as a threat to a planned pep rally. Shortly before 2:00 p.m. Friday afternoon, […]
Drummond Takes on Prosecution of Oklahoma Attorney Accused of Assisting Illegal Marijuana Operations
Oklahoma City, OK- Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced today that his office will take on the responsibility of prosecuting a Canadian County attorney indicted by a multi-county grand jury late last year for illegal marijuana business practices. Matt Stacy was charged with 13 felony counts in Garvin County District Court last October after an affidavit […]
One Kansas County Lets People Donate to After-School Programs to Reduce their Criminal Penalties
Topeka, KS— Diversion agreements keep criminal charges off someone’s record and even spare them jail time — assuming they can afford the cost of diversion. A DUI diversion in Thomas County in northwest Kansas has a $750 fine and $158 of court costs tacked on, but the county adds an additional, mostly unheard of, clause: […]
NSP Seeks Information on Disappearance of Thayer County Man
Lincoln, NE— The Nebraska State Patrol is requesting assistance from the public in locating a person who went missing from Bruning, Nebraska on February 2. Jamie Balluch, 43, of Bruning, was last seen at his place of employment, Bruning Grain and Feed Company, on Thursday, February 2. Balluch is believed to be missing under suspicious […]
Jeana Foley Arrest
Junction City, KS- The mother who abducted her three children has turned herself in. Jeana Foley turned herself into the Junction City Police Department on Monday at approximately 1 pm according to the Junction City Police Department. Jeana was taken into custody on her felony warrant for 3 charges of aggravated interference with parental custody. […]
“Grandparent Scams”
Wichita, KS – The Consumer Protection Division is warning Sedgwick County residents to be on the lookout for the “Grandparent Scam.” The Office of the District Attorney received a report today that a citizen received two calls attempting to scam him out of $14,000. The first caller pretended to be his grandson who said he […]
Handgun Fired at Officers in Clay Center
Clay Center, KS- On February 4th, 2023, at approximately 6:30am the 911 Dispatcher received a report that a man was shooting a firearm out of his front door in the 2200 block of Eisenhower Drive in Clay Center. When law enforcement officers approached the residence a suspect fired a handgun at them from inside […]