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Police respond to report of armed suspect
Suspect now in custody; no shots fired.
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OTR for Dec. 29, 2013
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Great Bend Fire/EMS
Firefighters made 10 ambulance runs Thursday.
At 7:17 a.m. they responded to a possible fire when someone reported smoke in the area of 620 Adams St. They found smoke coming from an oil-burner in the shop that had just started up.

Great Bend Police
A vehicle driven by Chelsea Brown struck a vehicle driven by Patricia Smith, who had stopped in traffic at 9:26 a.m. Thursday at Ninth and Pine St.
A woman reported buying a phone from an unknown subject and learning the phone had been stolen.
A bicycle was reportedly stolen from 321 Fruit St.
Two known males got into a fight around 9 p.m. Thursday in the 2500 block of 17th St.
A fraud case was taken after a women reported someone had picked up her prescription at Walmart.
At 12:20 a.m. Friday, a male reported being battered by two males in the 1500 block of Main St.
At 12:40 a.m., a woman reported possible prowlers; two subjects wearing dark clothes were in the 1400 block of 17th St. Officers did not find them.

Barton County Jail
Booked Dec. 26
David K. Hoien, Hoisington — Serve sentence
Larry Norman, Great Bend — Contempt of court
Kristine Lynn Depiesse, Hoisington — Battery domestic violence
Nichole R. McConkey, Hoisington — Battery domestic violence
Michael Mickle, Salina — Great Bend Municipal Court charges of disorderly conduct and interference with police dogs

Released Dec. 26
Mercedes Mater Hoisington — $20,000 own-recognizance bond