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OTR for March 24, 2015
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Great Bend Fire/EMS
Firefighters made six ambulance runs Friday, two Saturday and six Sunday.
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Barton County Sheriff
Two stop signs were vandalized on the Boyd blacktop (NW 70 Road and NW 30 Ave.) it was discovered Friday.
A non-injury accident was reported at 2 p.m. Friday in the area of Railroad Ave. and SW 5 Ave.
A vehicle hit a deer at 8:10 p.m. Friday on SE 20 Road and SE 60 Ave.
A burglary at 201 First St. in Olmitz was reported Saturday.
Someone ran over a mailbox at 11 SW 20 Road. Pieces of the vehicle were left at the scene.
Someone cut a fence in the 900 block of NW 160 Ave. and drove in the pasture sometime Friday night.
A injection pump and pump house at NW 90 Ave. and NW 220 were reportedly stolen between 1:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday.
A cabin at 13 SE 60 Ave. was burglarized, it was reported Sunday. Items were taken after someone broke in.

Great Bend Police
A hit-and-run driver struck a car at 19th and Washington, it was reported Friday.
Shelly Ann Dill, Great Bend, was arrested Friday at Walmart for alleged shoplifting and was booked in the county jail on a municipal case and for possession of marijuana and theft. She was released Saturday after posting a $2,500 surety bond.
A gas skip involving a black truck was reported at 5:39 p.m. Friday at 2716 10th St.
An unknown person punched the Redbox vending machine at the Kwik Shop, 2334 Main, and damaged it on Saturday.
Shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, police were advised that unknown subjects in a red truck dropped off a bike in the grass in the 1400 block of Pyle Street. The bike was collected and booked into evidence. A purple girls bicycle was left in a yard in the 1300 block of Lincoln St. on Sunday.
A hit-and-run vehicle struck a vehicle in the 300 block of Frey St., it was reported Saturday night.
A person on a bike broke the window on a 1999 Chevy passenger car in the 1400 block of Baker Ave., it was reported at 2:46 a.m. Sunday.
Sale of an alcoholic beverage at 2337 Washington St. on a Sunday was reported at 12:39 p.m. Sunday.
A hit-and-run vehicle struck a parked vehicle in the 1400 block of Ninth St.
At 7:22 p.m. Sunday, a burglary with theft of a firearm was reported at 2222 Monroe St. When suspect Beau Cavender, Great Bend, was located, he ran from officers, but was caught. Cavender was booked into the county jail on charges of felony obstruction and burglary, with bond set at $20,000.
A black pickup, driver unknown, struck a vehicle parked in the 1000 block of Taft St. around 10 p.m. Sunday.
A gas skip involving a man in a brown Grand Am was reported at 10:57 p.m. Sunday at 2716 10th St.