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Crime

A Shawnee police officer who fired two rifle rounds February 18, halting an armed disturbance and killing a suspect at a Shawnee QuikTrip was justified and will not face charges, District Attorney Steve Howe said at a Monday press...
Overland Park Police are investigating a strong-armed robbery at the QuikTrip near Shawnee Mission Parkway and Foster Street. According to the department’s online calls-for-service log, officers were dispatched at 8:03 p.m. Saturday for a reported robbery. A strong-armed robbery typically means...
Shawnee Police are investigating after a woman was reportedly shoved to the ground before two men took off in her vehicle Saturday night. According to the police department’s calls for service log, officers were called to the 7400 block of...
A Lenexa man has been charged for his alleged role in the Sunday shooting death of a man outside of a McDonald’s restaurant. The Johnson County District Attorney’s Office has charged Dmariea V. Avance, 24, with three felonies following the...
A Johnson County man will spend the next five years in prison after a judge sentenced him for child sex crimes committed on Christmas Eve 2020. Jake Ruthrauff, 27, of Prairie Village was sentenced Jan. 4, after reaching a plea...
A former Johnson County Sheriff’s deputy who was charged with rape and aggravated sodomy in 2021 lost his state certification as a law enforcement officer in November, more than three years after the sexual assault was alleged to have...
The man suspected of robbing three Kansas City area QuikTrip locations, including ones in Lenexa and Overland Park, in mid-December has been arrested and charged in Johnson County. Lenexa Police announced on social media early Friday afternoon that they had...
A 19-year-old man was shot in the arm during a disturbance in Merriam on Sunday evening. Police were called to the Georgetown Apartments in the 9200 block of West 73rd St. just before 6:30 p.m. Recorded radio traffic indicates that the...
Olathe Police are investigating a reported stabbing that left two men injured on New Year's Eve. Officers were called to an apartment building in the 300 block of South Walnut St., just after 8:30 on Sunday evening. Recorded radio traffic states...
A man is in police custody after he allegedly fired a gun inside of his home and threatened to shoot police officers late on Thursday evening. In a news release posted to the department’s social media, Shawnee Police say they...
For the second night in a row, police in Johnson County are investigating after a man with a gun held up a local QuikTrip. Lenexa Police were called to the QuikTrip at 12355 West 95th St., just east of Interstate...
A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper and Mission police officer were justified in firing their service weapons at a suspect who fatally shot a Fairway police officer during an August standoff inside a QuikTrip bathroom and will not face criminal...