Great Bend Fire Department Firefighters made four ambulance runs on Friday, four Saturday and 11 Sunday. At 8:28 a.m. Friday they checked a possible gas leak at 1608 Heizer St. There was a small grass fire half a mile west of NW 50 Ave. at 2:48 p.m., and a possible structure fire at 1401 Ninth St. was reported at 8:55 p.m., but no fire was found. There was a burn complaint ...
Pawnee Rock man seriously injured in rollover Clifford W. Allen II, 22, of Pawnee Rock, was ejected from a pickup that overturned in Barton County, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported Saturday. The exact time of the one-vehicle accident was not known. Allen lost control of a GMC pickup in the 900 block of NW 80 Ave., one mile south and one mile east of Olmitz. The accident was discovered at ...
Great Bend Police A vehicular burglary at 1121 Morphy St. was reported Wednesday. An identity theft case was reported Wednesday. Barton County Jail Booked Oct. 27 Dustin W. Bosack, Great Bend - Driving while suspended and illegal tag Jessie R. Roat, Dodge City - Battery domestic violence Released Oct. 27 Arron L. Whittington, Hutchinson - Partial sentence served Ashley Labranche, Salina ...
Great Bend Police A burglary at 2909 16th St. was reported Tuesday. Tools were stolen. Theft of money from a vehicle at 5201 17th St. Terrace, Apt. 3, was reported. A hit-and-run vehicle struck a vehicle in the Dillon's parking lot, 1811 Main, around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. A motorist is a green pickup reportedly left without paying for $45 worth of fuel, Tuesday night at 1221 10th St. A ...
Barton County Sheriff Talon Finnigan, Great Bend, sustained minor injury Monday in a rollover accident just north of NW 10 Ave. and NW 50 Road. He was driving south at 1:50 p.m. and lost control of his vehicle, a Geo Metro, on the sand road. The car entered the ditch and the wheels dug in, causing it to roll onto its top. Hoisington ambulance responded, but Finnigan refused medical treatments. Kansas Highway Patrol ...
Barton County Sheriff An aggravated assault at a Chisholm Trail residence was reported at 11:58 a.m. Saturday. Shots were reportedly fired into the air during a domestic dispute. An individual reported Saturday that an unknown person had, for the second time, criminally damaged her husband's grave site at Hillcrest Cemetery by attempting to dig up the urn. Great Bend Police (Editor's note: Friday's call log from the ...
Barton County Jail Booked Oct. 21 Demarkaus Newman, Pratt - Failure to appear Marcus Taylor - Revoke bond on possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and no driver license Lee R. Stout, Great Bend - Aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aggravated sodomy of a child; bond set at $250,000 Demond A. Agee, Wichita - Failure to appear Nicholas E. Torgerson, Wichita - Parole violation Released ...
Kansas Highway Patrol Roger Eugene Rousch, 61, of Stafford, was injured Thursday afternoon when his semi-trailer went off a Stafford County road. He was northbound on SE 80 Avenue at 2:45 p.m. and left the roadway due to a medical condition. The Peterbilt truck rolled in the east ditch. Rousch was taken to the hospital in Stafford. Great Bend Police A burglary at 2901 18th St. reportedly ...
Crime Stoppers Sometime between 10:30 p.m. Monday and 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, a red 1985 Honda CH-150 moped was stolen from a garage at 2703 Broadway in Great Bend. Loss was $1,500. Police Chief Dean Akings encourages anyone with information about this crime or any other crime to contact Crime Stoppers by calling 792-1300 or 1-888-305-1300. Barton County Sheriff A motorist was driving north in the 300 ...
Great Bend Fire Department Firefighters made four ambulance runs on Monday. There were no fires. Barton County Jail Booked Oct. 15 Amy Turner, Holyrood - Failure to appear Neal Burdette Baxter, Great Bend - Serve sentence Chad Roberson, Great Bend - Serve sentence Matthew Brandon Dunlap, Claflin - Serve sentence Frank Symank, Great Bend - Driving while suspended, no insurance and speeding Released ...
Ambulance meets parents rushing toward Great Bend A Rush County couple rushed toward Great Bend with their 5-month-old baby on Sunday, after the infant was accidentally dropped. A Rush County dispatcher contacted Barton County's dispatch center at 10:07 a.m., saying a deputy was giving them an escort as they headed toward Albert on K-96, driving "right at 100 mph" to a Great Bend hospital. They were advised to pull over to the ...
Great Bend Police Theft of a wallet from 1201 Adams St. was reported Thursday. A hit-and-run vehicle struck a parked vehicle in the 1500 block of Odell St. on Thursday. A hit-and-run vehicle struck a parked vehicle at 3503 10th St. on Thursday. Barton County Sheriff An inmate at the jail was allegedly "digging through a wall" in A-Pod, at 1 a.m. Thursday. Additional information was ...
Great Bend Police Theft of a checkbook from a vehicle at 3400 17th St. was reported Wednesday. Criminal use of a Great Bend resident's financial card in El Paso, Texas, was reported Wednesday. Ronald Lee Warren was driving east on 10th St. at 3:11 p.m. Wednesday and struck a vehicle driven by Helen Appel, who was turning south off of 10th onto McKinley St. A gas skip at 1000 Main ...
Two injured in rural collision Two motorists were taken to Great Bend hospitals Wednesday after vehicles collided on Bissell's Point Road (NE 30 Road), the Barton County Sheriff's Office reports. Kayci M. Stevenson, 17, Great Bend, was in an eastbound Ford Escort in the 100 block of NE 30 Road at 9:05 a.m. and attempted to turn north onto NE 20 Ave., pulling in front of a Ford Contour driven by ...
Multiple car burglaries reported The Great Bend Police Department received reports Monday from people whose vehicles had been broken into over the weekend. Items were reportedly stolen from a locked car at 5932 Westridge Drive, and an iPod was taken from a vehicle at the same address. A cell phone was taken from a vehicle at 6036 Broadway Ave. Monday afternoon, a subject reported cash had been stolen from a ...
Robert D. Allen, improper backing, $25 Rogelio Ayala, parking in alley, $25 Roberta S. Barlow, seat belts (18 and older), $10 Santana Angel June Barnett, seat belts (18 and older), child safety restraint system, $131 Tyler James Base, no proof insurance, $557 Bret D. Bauer, inattentive driving, $111 Zachary Paul Bealer, improper backing, $111 Danny R. Boone, inattentive driving, $111 Benjamin C. Bruce, battery domestic violence, $622 Sandra Calderon-Medina, violate traffic control sign, seat belts ...
The Barton County Jail log for April 30 contained an error. Derrell J. Cox was charged with criminal threat, and not criminal theft as originally reported.
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