Steve Fry
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Topeka, KS, United States
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Kent Lindemuth’s attorneys: More money, more time needed to adequately defend client
Kent D. Lindemuth first told a federal judge on Tuesday he wanted his 117-count criminal trial in U.S. District Court to start on Sept. 12, which would be in five weeks. → Read More
Topeka lawyer for elderly women takes Fifth, disbarred amid ethics questions
Topeka lawyer Margo E. Burson faced a formal complaint based on the losses of more than $183,000 by two Topeka women. → Read More
Kent Lindemuth, Topeka developer, wants postponement of bankruptcy trustee
Kent Lindemuth and Vikki Lindemuth are clashing on his request to a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge to postpone the appointment of the Chapter 11 trustee appointed to handle his portion of the couple’s bankruptcy. → Read More
Phill Kline, former Kansas A.G., to appeal loss of law license to U.S. Supreme Court
Folllowing a federal court of appeals decision gainst him in early Julyformer Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to seek to reclaim his indefinitely suspended Kansas law license, Kline’s lawyer said this week. → Read More
Andrew Slack, Topeka motorist, pleads guilty in 2015 death of Washburn Rural student
A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty on Monday to a manslaughter charge in the 2015 traffic death of his 17-year-old half brother. → Read More
18-year-old Topekan ID’d as naked man who was found unresponsive in street
A man who was nude when he was found on Wednesday on a southwest Topeka street has been identified as Joseph Daniel Irwin, 18, of Topeka, city spokeswoman Amy McCarter said Friday. → Read More
Gas leak caused by natural gas line being struck leads to downtown Topeka Ramada evacuation
Scores of people evacuated the Ramada Hotel Inn and Convention Center, 420 S.E. 6th, on Friday morning after a natural gas line was damaged at S.E. 5th and Jefferson, releasing the odor of gas into several buildings. → Read More
Joseph Irwin, man who was found naked and unresponsive, died Friday from injuries
A Topeka man who was nude and unresponsive when he was found on Wednesday on a southwest Topeka street died Friday afternoon, city spokeswoman Amy McCarter said. → Read More
2nd jury trial in drive-by Topeka killing rescheduled 6 weeks later
A Shawnee County District Court judge instructed the defense attorney of De’Angelo Megle Martinez, who is charged with murder, to narrow the list of witness transcripts he was seeking Thursday from the co-defendant’s earlier jury trial. → Read More
Man wielding knife robs southwest Topeka liquor store late Wednesday
A man armed with a knife robbed a southwest Topeka liquor store on Wednesday night, Topeka police said. → Read More
Robber armed with gun escapes Topeka police dogs’ search
Topeka police dogs and their handlers attempted to track a gunman who robbed a man late on Wednesday in the area of S.W. 18th and Clay. → Read More
Kent Lindemuth’s attorneys want to quit. A judge says they know what they signed up for.
A federal district court judge didn’t deny the request on Monday by Kent D. Lindemuth’s two defense attorneys to withdraw as his attorneys, citing they weren’t getting paid. → Read More
John Booker Jr., a Topeka man, sentenced to 30 years in prison for Fort Riley bomb plot
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — John T. Booker Jr., a Topeka man convicted in a plot to detonate an explosive device at Fort Riley, was sentenced Monday to a life term of 30 years in a federal prison. → Read More
Washburn art professor’s widower wants motorist to serve prison sentence
If a Crawford County District Court judge revokes Todd Kidwell’s probation in the traffic death of Washburn University art professor and administrator Glenda Taylor, Joe Saia hopes Kidwell is imprisoned as a result, Saia said on Wednesday. → Read More
Christopher Pattillo, 18, convicted of first-degree murder in Topeka drive-by killing
Christopher Shawn Pattillo lowered his head and shook it from side to side after jurors convicted him Monday of felony first-degree murder in the drive-by Topeka shooting death of a 20-year-old man in 2016. → Read More
Jurors continue deliberating Monday in Topeka murder trial of Christopher Pattillo
Jurors continued deliberating Monday on the sixth day of the trial Christopher Shawn Pattillo, who is charged with the drive-by killing of a 20-year-old man in 2016 in Topeka. → Read More
Judge denies bifurcated divorce to Vikki Lindemuth, husband Kent
At times, remarks were pointed Monday during the divorce pre-trial hearing of Topeka businessman Kent D. Lindemuth and Vikki Lindemuth in Shawnee County District Court. → Read More
Murder defendant takes witness chair, denies intending participation in slaying
Murder defendant Christopher Shawn Pattillo testified Friday it wasn’t his “intention to help shoot someone” when he drove a van past two brothers, one of whom was fatally wounded when a barrage of shots was fired from the van in a southeast Topeka neighborhood on April 8, 2016. → Read More
Topeka police gang expert: Disrespect may have fueled fatal drive-by shooting
A public act of disrespect to Christopher Shawn Pattillo, a gang member, by the member of a rival gang could motivate the shooting death a day later of Brian Wade Miller, 20, a Topeka police expert on street gangs testified Thursday. → Read More
Witness in Topeka murder trial: Gunman fired 16 shots, two passing through apartment occupied by boy, 7
Jurors saw photographs of a string of shell casings lying in a southeast Topeka street that marked the 14-shot barrage a gunman unleashed as he rode in a slow-moving van, mortally wounding a 20-year-old man. → Read More