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Kansas man issued citations after police respond, shoot aggressive dog
FRANKLIN COUNTY—A police officer was forced to shoot a dog during an incident onMonday, March 3rd, in Ottawa. Just after 2:00 p.m. on Monday, a citizen reported a pit bull running loose and being aggressive in the 700 block of South Cypress Street in Ottawa, according to a media release from police. Responding officers arrived and located the canine, and it charged at them. Officers attempted to catch the dog but could not due to the aggressive behavior of the canine, so they requested a unit with a tranquilizer gun respond. Prior to the officer arriving with the tranquilizer gun, the dog charged another officer, who discharged their duty weapon, striking the canine. The dog retreated to a fenced-in pen with another dog that was also aggressive, which delayed medical treatment. Officers retrieved the injured canine, which was immediately transported to a local veterinarian for emergency treatment. No officers or citizens were injured during the incident. Police issued citations to 61-year-old Floyd Atchison on the following charges: Keeping Vicious Animals; Animal At Large; Keeping Prohibited Pit Bull; No City Animal Registration; and No Current Rabies Vaccination. (Hays Post)
Two charged in the deaths of three Chiefs fans whose bodies were found in friend’s backyard
KANSAS CITY—Two men were charged Wednesday, March 5th, in the deaths of three Kansas City Chiefs fans whose bodies were found in the backyard two days after they got together to watch the final game of the regular football season in 2024. Jordan Willis and Ivory Carson are each charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of delivery of a controlled substance in a case that gained widespread attention on social media. Their bond is set at $100.000.00 cash only. Speculation about what happened started after 38-year-old Ricky Johnson, 36-year-old Clayton McGeeney, and 37-year-old David Harrington were found dead in Willis’ Kansas City, Missouri yard on January 9th, 2024, after McGeeney’s fiancé went looking for him. A doctor with a forensic lab later determined that the combined toxicity of Fentanyl and cocaine killed them, according to the probable cause statement. Witnesses said the friends were using cocaine when they got together, first at Harrington’s home and then at Willis’ on January 7th, 2024, to watch the Chiefs play the LosAngeles Chargers. The witnesses said Willis had a history of offering cocaine to his friends when they were low on money and that he bought it from Carson, according to the probable cause statement. But Willis’ lawyer, John Picerno, said there is no evidence that Willis bought the drugs that his friends ingested before their deaths, noting they had been partying all day. And he said Willis didn’t know that they were still in his backyard—or that they needed medical attention—until police showed up. “It has been a very, very long year for Jordan,” Picerno said. “He’s lost his job. He’s lost his home. He’s lost his friends. The public is pointing at him as someone who essentially killed them.And nothing could be further from the truth.” Willis told police that he believed McGeeney, Harrington, and Johnson possibly got a hold of some Fentanyl at some point on the Sunday the game wasplayed, and he thought they all left his home around 4:00 a.m. the next morning. Weather records indicate the night’s low temperature was around 33 degrees (1 degree Celsius). Investigators interviewed Carson, who admitted to selling cocaine to Johnson, Willis, Harrington, and McGeeney before January 1st, 2024, the probable cause statement says. No attorney is listed for Carson in online court records. In the weeks and months since the three deaths, the case went viral on TikTok and other social platforms for its true-crime overtones. The family members of the three men have taken their frustrations to Kansas City-area media, questioning when there would be charges. (Hays Post)
Hutchinson Correctional Facility resident’s death
HUTCHINSON—Hutchinson Correctional Facility (HCF) resident Lamoine Wiebe, 57, died Saturday, March 1st, 2025. Wiebe was found unresponsive in his cell in the morning, with staff immediately starting life-saving measures and continuing after emergency medical services arrived, but were unsuccessful. The cause of death is pending the results of an independent autopsy. Wiebe was serving a 233-month sentence for one conviction of voluntary manslaughter in Harvey County, Kansas. (Kansas Department of Corrections)
