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OTR for Oct. 8, 2019
on the record
OTR for Aug. 22, 2016

Great Bend Fire/EMS

Emergency Medical Service made six ambulance runs Tuesday. There was one false fire alarm caused by a system malfunction.


Great Bend Police

A fraud case was reported Tuesday at The Reserves at Trail Ridge, 811 Grant, Apt. 426.

Fraud - unlawful use of a credit card, was reported at 705 Williams St.

Theft of an impact gun was reported at Best One Tire, 904 Washington St.

A juvenile battery case was reported.

Four reports of unlawful use of a credit card were made at the Great Bend Police Department, 1217 Williams St.

An injury crash was reported at 6:46 p.m. at Scooter’s Coffee, 3501 10th St., but no one was transported to the hospital.

At 11:10 p.m., an officer recovered a stolen license tag on a traffic stop in the 1000 block of Eisenhower Ave. The tag was booked into evidence.


Barton County Sheriff

A search warrant was executed at 10:29 a.m. Tuesday in the 1400 block of Park Ave., Great Bend.

A non-injury crash was reported at 9:16 p.m. at NE 140 Road and NE 60 Ave.


Barton County Jail

Booked Oct. 8

Bonnie M. Kuhn — Possession of methamphetamine, possession of paraphernalia

Jason Utley — Disorderly conduct, criminal trespass

Cecil Petrie, Newton — Contempt of court

Ryan Hardey, Hoisington — Battery

Dovey Thorne — Theft

Jenna Richter, Great Bend — Unlawful possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of methamphetamine; bond set at $10,000


Released Oct. 8

Matthew Harsh — To Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC)

Simon North — To Rush County

Heidi Wintholz — To Rush County

Fredrick McNett — Serve sentence in full

Adam Kevin Pekarek Jr. — To KDOC

Santia Henderson — To Harvey County

Joshua Frydendall — Serve sentence in full

Clinton Cheney — To Saline County

Bonnie M. Kuhn — $10,000 surety bond

Tiffany Wedgeworth — Order of release from Barton County District Court