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☆ Loyal dog helped solve owner's grisly murder as cousin jailed for life
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A loyal dog that refused to leave his dead owner's side helped solve the case of her murder by allowing detectives to identify her body, prosecutors said. Mandy Rose Reynolds, 26, was shot before her body was “burned beyond recognition” in a field fire in Robinson, Texas. Prosecutors Ryan Calvert and Alyssa Killin and Investigator Keith Kunz along with Mandy Reynolds' dog, Titan. A search of Reynolds' car in Wichita led police to find a .380 handgun in the driver’s seat floorboard. Video also showed him leaving the store in Reynolds’ car and Titan sticking his head out the car window.

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Five people are dead after multiple shootings that took place in three different homes in Wichita, Kansas. Officers responding to the residence found a man dead from an apparent gunshot wound, the Wichita Police Department said in a statement. There, officers said they discovered three additional victims with apparent gunshot wounds, the statement said. Police then entered and found another man dead from an apparent gunshot wound. "While our investigation is still in its preliminary stages, we suspect that one of the victims may be the possible shooter."

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☆ Police Announce an Arrest in the Theft of a Jackie Robinson Statue
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Julie Bosman | More About Julie Bosman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A 45-year-old Kansas man has been charged in the theft of a life-size bronze statue of the baseball legend Jackie Robinson from a park in Wichita, Kan. The police in Wichita said on Tuesday that the motive for the crime was probably to sell the statue for scrap metal. The man, Ricky Alderete, was charged on Monday with felony theft, aggravated criminal damage to property and making false information, the police said. “The investigation has not revealed any evidence indicating this was a hate-motivated crime,” Lieutenant Moses said. “Instead, we believe this theft was motivated by the financial gain of scrapping common metal.”

Persons: Jackie Robinson, Ricky Alderete, Aaron Moses of, Moses Organizations: Wichita Police Department Locations: Kansas, Wichita, Kan

☆ Retail crime has hit a bustling Kansas metropolis
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Republican Kris Kobach, Kansas’ attorney general, said retail crime is a “spiraling problem” in his state, adding that Kansas and Missouri are among the top 10 states in the nation for volume of retail crime. “There is a link between drug trafficking and organized retail crime,” Kobach told lawmakers in June. “Organized retail crime is a problem that is getting worse, not better. Organized retail crime offers criminals a business model of pure profit, “with no overhead, rent, product cost. In early June, Kobach testified before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on “Organized Retail Crime and the Threat to Public Safety.”“When one thinks about the explosion of organized retail crime in the United States, the State of Kansas may not intuitively jump to mind,” he told lawmakers.

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