Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
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Justin Patrick Ramirez, a 44-year-old Spring Hill resident and 10-year Johnson County Sheriff's Office deputy, was charged with rape in Johnson County District Court after allegedly assaulting an unconscious or physically powerless victim on Aug. 3. He was fired the same day he was arrested.
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Rodrigo Sanchez-Flores, 27, of De Soto, a Johnson County Community College police officer, faces first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy charges in Jackson County after an alleged 2024 sexual assault near a Westport club.
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David Alan Boutte, 60, of Olathe pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of mail theft after investigators found 141 gift cards, $1,624 in cash, roughly 1,700 stamps and a USPS master key at his home.
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A daycare bus carrying five children was involved in a three-vehicle crash Wednesday near Wildcat Run and Moonlight in Gardner; one child complained of pain but was not hospitalized, and police have not released the cause.
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De Soto city crews began milling and repaving three road segments on Waverly Road and Kickapoo Street on Tuesday, Sept. 22, with single-lane closures and flaggers expected through mid-October.
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Matthew Bray, 50, was sentenced to 82 months Thursday in Johnson County District Court for the DUI hit-and-run that killed Olathe South student Ben Van Buskirk on I-35 in July 2024, with the teen's mother calling out Kansas's lack of Good Samaritan protections in its criminal code.
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A Johnson County judge sentenced Isaiah Sadowski to 123 months in state prison, the maximum for reckless second-degree murder, for the December 2021 crash that killed 75-year-old Barbara Patterson at 127th and Quivira in Overland Park.
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A measles case traced to an Aug. 27 Amtrak train ride has exposed at least 251 people in Jackson County and triggered a Johnson County health investigation after the infected person visited two Overland Park businesses.
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Lenexa police identified Emily A. Porter, 53, as the woman killed Monday when her vehicle crashed on Canyon Creek Boulevard after she fled officers conducting a welfare check at her home.
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A fatal single-vehicle crash near 100th Street and Canyon Creek Boulevard in Lenexa on Monday, Sept. 14, closed the road while Lenexa Police investigate.
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Jackson County Public Health confirmed a measles case in an eastern Jackson County resident who visited two Overland Park businesses on Sept. 7 while infectious. Johnson County residents who were at either location should monitor for symptoms and can call the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment at 913-826-1303.
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A Johnson County jury found Axel Arellanes-Vara guilty of capital murder Wednesday for the November 2021 shooting deaths of Angela Santiago and Jose Arellano-Rascon on East Fredrickson Drive in Olathe. Sentencing is set for Tuesday, Nov. 3.
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