CHASE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating five Louisiana men on drug allegations after a weekend arrest during their hunting trip to Kansas.

Just before 4:30a.m. Sunday, deputies stopped a vehicle near mile marker 336 on Highway 50, according to a media release from the Chase County Sheriff's office. The traffic stop led to an application for a search warrant at a home in Cottonwood Falls. After an investigation, deputies found illegal drugs at the home and arrested five men who were on a hunting trip in Kansas. 

Christopher Phillips, 24, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was jailed on requested charges of transporting an open container, interference with an investigation and possession of drug paraphernalia.

 Robert Phillips, 30 and Webb Phillips, 27, both of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was jailed on requested charges of marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession and interference with an investigation.

Hayden Lowery, 23, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was jailed on requested charges of Possession of Depressants, drug paraphernalia and transporting an open container.

Max Grabert, 24, New Iberia, Louisiana, was jailed on requested charges of Possession of hallucinogenic drug, opiates, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, interference with an investigation and no drug tax stamp.

Grabert is the only suspect who remains in custody, according to online jail records.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704807181340.png" alt="Phillips-photo Chase Co." />
 <figcaption>Phillips-photo Chase Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>CHASE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating five Louisiana men on drug allegations after a weekend arrest during their hunting trip to Kansas.Just before 4:30a.m. Sunday, deputies stopped a vehicle near mile marker 336 on Highway 50, according to a media release from the Chase County Sheriff's office. The traffic stop led to an application for a search warrant at a home in Cottonwood Falls. After an investigation, deputies found illegal drugs at the home and arrested five men who were on a hunting trip in Kansas. <figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704807271976.png" alt="Robert Phillips-photo Chase Co." />
 <figcaption>Robert Phillips-photo Chase Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Christopher Phillips, 24, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was jailed on requested charges of transporting an open container, interference with an investigation and possession of drug paraphernalia. Robert Phillips, 30 and Webb Phillips, 27, both of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was jailed on requested charges of marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession and interference with an investigation.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704807318575.png" alt="Webb Phillips-photo Chase Co." />
 <figcaption>Webb Phillips-photo Chase Co.</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704807352243.png" alt="Lowery-photo Chase Co." />
 <figcaption>Lowery-photo Chase Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Hayden Lowery, 23, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was jailed on requested charges of Possession of Depressants, drug paraphernalia and transporting an open container.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704807582286.png" alt="Grabert-photo Chase Co." />
 <figcaption>Grabert-photo Chase Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Max Grabert, 24, New Iberia, Louisiana, was jailed on requested charges of Possession of hallucinogenic drug, opiates, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, interference with an investigation and no drug tax stamp.Grabert is the only suspect who remains in custody, according to online jail records.

Men on Kansas hunting trip jailed on drug allegations

Recent Booking Activity for the Geary County Detention Center. All persons included in this post are innocent of crimes until proven guilty in a court of law.

Bonds have been posted. Photos are unavailable.

Vanessa Nixon, Operate a motor vehicle without a valid license, arrested 01/05

Elizabeth Mitchell, Failure to appear, arrested 01/05

Nowah Sandy, Interference with LEO: Conceal/alter/destroy evidence in felony case, arrested 01/05

Macaiah Anderson, Failure to appear, arrested 01/05

Michael Smith, Failure to appear, arrested 01/06

Sheree Wilson, Unlawful damage to property, arrested 01/06

Cordesia Harper, Failure to appear, arrested 01/07

Recent Booking Activity for the Geary County Detention Center. All persons included in this post are innocent of crimes until proven guilty in a court of law.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704831211228.jpeg" alt="Janese Duncan, Failure to appear, arrested 01/05" />
 <figcaption>Janese Duncan, Failure to appear, arrested 01/05</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704831247340.jpeg" alt="Britney Hileman, Failure to appear, arrested 01/05" />
 <figcaption>Britney Hileman, Failure to appear, arrested 01/05</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704831282424.jpeg" alt="Reggie Lyons, Flee or attempt to elude LEO by engaging in reckless driving, Interference with LEO: Conceal/alter/destroy evidence in felony case, arrested 01/05" />
 <figcaption>Reggie Lyons, Flee or attempt to elude LEO by engaging in reckless driving, Interference with LEO: Conceal/alter/destroy evidence in felony case, arrested 01/05</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704831363459.jpeg" alt="Tommy Shears, Possession of marijuana, Use/possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia into human body, arrested 01/06" />
 <figcaption>Tommy Shears, Possession of marijuana, Use/possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia into human body, arrested 01/06</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704831508163.jpeg" alt="Jennifer Krinhop, Failure to appear (Three counts), Probation violation, arrested 01/06" />
 <figcaption>Jennifer Krinhop, Failure to appear (Three counts), Probation violation, arrested 01/06</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704831556461.jpeg" alt="Romele Dixon, Failure to appear, arrested 01/06" />
 <figcaption>Romele Dixon, Failure to appear, arrested 01/06</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704831597952.jpeg" alt="Shawquana Williams, Interference with LEO, Felony, arrested 01/07" />
 <figcaption>Shawquana Williams, Interference with LEO, Felony, arrested 01/07</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704831636979.jpeg" alt="Terry Woods Williams, Violation of protection order, arrested 01/07" />
 <figcaption>Terry Woods Williams, Violation of protection order, arrested 01/07</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704831685757.jpeg" alt="Steven Bowman, Probation violation (Two counts), arrested 01/07" />
 <figcaption>Steven Bowman, Probation violation (Two counts), arrested 01/07</figcaption>
 </figure>Bonds have been posted. Photos are unavailable.Vanessa Nixon, Operate a motor vehicle without a valid license, arrested 01/05Elizabeth Mitchell, Failure to appear, arrested 01/05Nowah Sandy, Interference with LEO: Conceal/alter/destroy evidence in felony case, arrested 01/05Macaiah Anderson, Failure to appear, arrested 01/05Michael Smith, Failure to appear, arrested 01/06Sheree Wilson, Unlawful damage to property, arrested 01/06Cordesia Harper, Failure to appear, arrested 01/07Recent Booking Activity for the Geary County Detention Center. All persons included in this post are innocent of crimes until proven guilty in a court of law.

Geary County Booking Photos Jan. 6-8

SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating two teen suspects on multiple allegations after a weekend arrest.

Just after 11a.m. January 6, sheriff's&nbsp;deputies were dispatched to TJ’s Express, 5305 South Topeka Blvd. in Shawnee County on a report of a burglary that&nbsp; occurred overnight. 

During the investigation Deputies located footprints in the snow going away from the business. Deputies were able to follow the footprints to the suspect's home in the 6800 block of south west Knoll Court. 

At the home deputies located items from this burglary as well as items from a burglary that occurred at the Pauline Food Center, 5812 South Topeka Blvd., on December 2.

Deputies arrested Jayden J. Hanner, 17, and Matthew K. Rodenbaugh, 16, both of Topeka, and booked them into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on requested charges of burglary, theft and felony criminal damage to property.

SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating two teen suspects on multiple allegations after a weekend arrest.Just after 11a.m. January 6, sheriff's&nbsp;deputies were dispatched to TJ’s Express, 5305 South Topeka Blvd. in Shawnee County on a report of a burglary that&nbsp; occurred overnight. During the investigation Deputies located footprints in the snow going away from the business. Deputies were able to follow the footprints to the suspect's home in the 6800 block of south west Knoll Court. At the home deputies located items from this burglary as well as items from a burglary that occurred at the Pauline Food Center, 5812 South Topeka Blvd., on December 2.Deputies arrested Jayden J. Hanner, 17, and Matthew K. Rodenbaugh, 16, both of Topeka, and booked them into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on requested charges of burglary, theft and felony criminal damage to property.

Kan. deputies followed teens' footprints in the snow, make arrest

KANSAS CITY —Law enforcement authorities investigating a homicide in Kansas City have identified the victim as 46-year-0ld John W. Bartrom, according to Police Captain Corey Carlisle. Bartrom is the founder of Jericho Home Improvement in Kansas City, according to his website.

Just after midnight Saturday, officers responded to 62nd and Prospect on a medical call, according to Sheriff Daryl Forte'.

First responders found Bartrom lying in a parking lot suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.&nbsp;The incident is being investigated as a homicide. Police has not reported an arrest or possible suspects.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704631133794.png" alt="photo Sheriff Darly Forte'" />
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 </figure>KANSAS CITY —Law enforcement authorities investigating a homicide in Kansas City have identified the victim as 46-year-0ld John W. Bartrom, according to Police Captain Corey Carlisle. Bartrom is the founder of Jericho Home Improvement in Kansas City, according to his website.Just after midnight Saturday, officers responded to 62nd and Prospect on a medical call, according to Sheriff Daryl Forte'.First responders found Bartrom lying in a parking lot suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.&nbsp;The incident is being investigated as a homicide. Police has not reported an arrest or possible suspects.

Police ID KC business owner as victim in deadly shooting

SALINE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a woman for an alleged violent altercation.

Just after 7:30a.m. Sunday, Salina police responded to a call from out of state about a disturbance at a residence in the 1400 Block of Derby Street in Salina, according to Salina Police Captain James Feldman.

The out of state caller reported that while she was on an earlier call to the residence, 29-year-old Jecsi Kent and the victim began arguing and it escalated.

During that argument, the victim was stabbed in the right leg with a barbecue fork, according to Feldman. Officers made contact with Kent, and she was arrested on requested charges of aggravated battery, domestic battery, and criminal damage to property.

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 <figcaption>Kent photo Saline County</figcaption>
 </figure>SALINE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a woman for an alleged violent altercation.Just after 7:30a.m. Sunday, Salina police responded to a call from out of state about a disturbance at a residence in the 1400 Block of Derby Street in Salina, according to Salina Police Captain James Feldman.The out of state caller reported that while she was on an earlier call to the residence, 29-year-old Jecsi Kent and the victim began arguing and it escalated.During that argument, the victim was stabbed in the right leg with a barbecue fork, according to Feldman. Officers made contact with Kent, and she was arrested on requested charges of aggravated battery, domestic battery, and criminal damage to property..

Police: Kan. woman stabbed man in the leg with a barbecue fork

NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly two decades, journalists, police detectives, FBI agents, lawyers and amateur sleuths have pried into the depraved world of Jeffrey Epstein.

Yet even after the release of thousands of pages of court records in recent days, some questions about the millionaire pedophile remain unanswered. The documents have gotten a lot of attention, but they shed little new light on the financier’s habitual sexual abuse of underage girls.

<a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4355835/giuffre-v-maxwell/">Click here </a>to read the documents released 1/8/24 (caution adult content)

More than anything, the public is still fascinated with the possibility that some of the rich and powerful men in Epstein's social circle were also involved in the abuse.

Here's a look at what we know — and what we don't — about Epstein and his crimes:

Epstein first began getting media attention in 2002 after news organizations, including The Associated Press, covered a trip to Africa by former President Bill Clinton, actor Kevin Spacey and comedian Chris Tucker. The five-day tour of Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa was intended to draw attention to the fight against AIDS.

After the visit, New York magazine ran a profile of the man who provided the private jet for the trip: Jeffrey Epstein. The story portrayed him as an “international moneyman of mystery,” who cultivated relationships with Nobel Prize-winning scientists and diplomats but puzzled Wall Street insiders who couldn't figure out how a college dropout got so rich.

“Terrific guy,” Epstein's neighbor in both Florida and New York, Donald Trump, said in the story. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Those celebrity contacts made it big news when Epstein was arrested in 2006 over allegations that he had hired multiple teenage girls to give him sexualized massages at his home in Palm Beach, Florida.

Two years later, prosecutors allowed Epstein to plead guilty to a charge involving a single victim. He served 13 months in a jail work-release program, then quietly started rebuilding his network of influential friends, with the help of his socialite former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

After a series of Miami Herald stories about the plea bargain that deprived Epstein's victims of justice, federal prosecutors in New York revived the investigation and charged Epstein in 2019 with sex trafficking.

When Epstein killed himself in jail, prosecutors charged Maxwell with facilitating his illicit sexual encounters and participating in some of the abuse. She was convicted and is serving a 20-year prison term.

In 2009, one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre, filed a lawsuit saying he had flown her around the world for sexual encounters with billionaires, politicians, royals and heads of state.

She initially kept the names of those men secret, but in later legal filings started providing names: Britain's Prince Andrew, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, the French modeling scout Jean Luc Brunel, the billionaire Glenn Dubin and the law professor Alan Dershowitz, who had represented Epstein.

Some details of Giuffre's allegations have changed over time. She initially said she was 15 when Epstein began to abuse her, but she later acknowledged that she met him the summer she turned 17.

In 2022, she withdrew her allegations against Dershowitz, saying she “may have made a mistake” in identifying him as one of her abusers. She said she “was very young at the time” and “it was a very stressful and traumatic environment.”

In one newspaper interview, for which Giuffre was paid $160,000, she described dancing with Prince Andrew at a club but said there was no sexual contact. Later, she said they had three sexual encounters. She said the newspaper had refused to print those allegations.

In another interview, she described riding in a helicopter with Bill Clinton and flirting with Donald Trump, but she later said in a deposition that those things hadn't happened and were mistakes by the reporter.

Giuffre's allegations have been investigated by the FBI. No charges have been brought based on her claims, but because of the attention generated by them Brunel was investigated in France and charged with raping other underage girls. He killed himself while awaiting trial.

Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor in 2020, Geoffrey Berman, sought to speak with Prince Andrew about matters related to Epstein, but the royal declined to be interviewed. Berman blasted Andrew at the time for falsely portraying himself to the public as eager to cooperate when he was actually dodging questions.

Andrew has repeatedly denied having sex with Giuffre and said he couldn’t recall ever meeting her, though a photograph appears to show them together, and a member of Epstein's household staff also testified about seeing the two at Epstein's home in New York.

Many of the documents unsealed in recent days involve efforts by Maxwell's lawyers to discredit Giuffre, and Giuffre's lawyers' efforts to gather evidence backing up her accounts.

The records released in the case have contained scant evidence of wrongdoing by famous figures, but testimony from multiple witnesses confirmed Giuffre's accounts of Epstein's sexual misconduct.

Any chance that Epstein himself might have been able to answer questions about his famous friends died with him at a federal detention center in Manhattan in August 2019.

The death, a month after he was arrested, has&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-a1ef16a612bd4130a18479c01bd72586">fueled conspiracy theories</a>. But multiple investigations, including an autopsy and FBI probe, have concluded Epstein died by suicide.

Justice Department&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-department-of-justice-investigation-50c229b7953096f0301bfa1e7f0b7703">Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a June report</a>&nbsp;that Epstein was able to take his own life because of “negligence, misconduct and outright job performance failures” within the jail.

The Metropolitan Correctional Center&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-7f6797153ee7fa391731af9cf7c93603">was shut down in 2021</a>&nbsp;amid concerns about squalid conditions, COVID-19, crumbling infrastructure and lingering questions about Epstein's death.

Overworked officers assigned to guard Epstein had failed to recognize he had amassed a surplus of bed linens. After a first suspected suicide attempt, jail officials left him alone and never assigned him a new cellmate.

On the night Epstein died, officers sat at desks just 15 feet (4.6 meters) from his cell, shopping online and snoozing instead of making required rounds every 30 minutes, prosecutors said.

The day before Epstein killed himself, a federal court unsealed about 2,000 pages of records in Giuffre's lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell — the same case involved in the records released in recent days.

That, combined with a lack of significant interpersonal connections and “the idea of potentially spending his life in prison were likely factors contributing to Mr. Epstein’s suicide,” prison officials wrote in&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-jail-suicide-prison-death-8d194a756f2b429067f009a0c70f96c0">documents obtained by The Associated Press</a>.

Whether Epstein would have ever been keen to answer questions to clear up some of the mysteries surrounding his life is a different story. In a 2016 deposition in Giuffre’s lawsuit, he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.

The document dump isn’t over yet. So far, 191 of the approximately 250 files that U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska authorized for release have been made public. Lawyers involved in the case are posting them to the docket on a rolling basis, as per the judge’s instructions.

Another batch is expected Monday, though there is little indication they will yield more than what has already been seen in the nearly 3,000 pages of deposition transcripts, legal memos, emails and other records made public since Wednesday.

Versions of many of those records had already been made public in past years, though with some sections blacked out for privacy reasons or to protect the identities of Epstein's victims.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704416234390.png" alt="FILE —&nbsp; A photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell&nbsp; shown during a news conference, July 2, 2020, in New York. While some previously sealed court records are indeed being made public, the great majority of the people whose names appear in those documents are not accused of any wrongdoing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)" />
 <figcaption>FILE —&nbsp; A photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell&nbsp; shown during a news conference, July 2, 2020, in New York. While some previously sealed court records are indeed being made public, the great majority of the people whose names appear in those documents are not accused of any wrongdoing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)</figcaption>
 </figure>NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly two decades, journalists, police detectives, FBI agents, lawyers and amateur sleuths have pried into the depraved world of Jeffrey Epstein.Yet even after the release of thousands of pages of court records in recent days, some questions about the millionaire pedophile remain unanswered. The documents have gotten a lot of attention, but they shed little new light on the financier’s habitual sexual abuse of underage girls.<a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4355835/giuffre-v-maxwell/">Click here </a>to read the documents released 1/8/24 (caution adult content)More than anything, the public is still fascinated with the possibility that some of the rich and powerful men in Epstein's social circle were also involved in the abuse.Here's a look at what we know — and what we don't — about Epstein and his crimes:JETSETTER TO CONVICTEpstein first began getting media attention in 2002 after news organizations, including The Associated Press, covered a trip to Africa by former President Bill Clinton, actor Kevin Spacey and comedian Chris Tucker. The five-day tour of Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa was intended to draw attention to the fight against AIDS.After the visit, New York magazine ran a profile of the man who provided the private jet for the trip: Jeffrey Epstein. The story portrayed him as an “international moneyman of mystery,” who cultivated relationships with Nobel Prize-winning scientists and diplomats but puzzled Wall Street insiders who couldn't figure out how a college dropout got so rich.“Terrific guy,” Epstein's neighbor in both Florida and New York, Donald Trump, said in the story. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”Those celebrity contacts made it big news when Epstein was arrested in 2006 over allegations that he had hired multiple teenage girls to give him sexualized massages at his home in Palm Beach, Florida.Two years later, prosecutors allowed Epstein to plead guilty to a charge involving a single victim. He served 13 months in a jail work-release program, then quietly started rebuilding his network of influential friends, with the help of his socialite former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.After a series of Miami Herald stories about the plea bargain that deprived Epstein's victims of justice, federal prosecutors in New York revived the investigation and charged Epstein in 2019 with sex trafficking.When Epstein killed himself in jail, prosecutors charged Maxwell with facilitating his illicit sexual encounters and participating in some of the abuse. She was convicted and is serving a 20-year prison term.WAS ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED?In 2009, one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre, filed a lawsuit saying he had flown her around the world for sexual encounters with billionaires, politicians, royals and heads of state.She initially kept the names of those men secret, but in later legal filings started providing names: Britain's Prince Andrew, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, the French modeling scout Jean Luc Brunel, the billionaire Glenn Dubin and the law professor Alan Dershowitz, who had represented Epstein.Some details of Giuffre's allegations have changed over time. She initially said she was 15 when Epstein began to abuse her, but she later acknowledged that she met him the summer she turned 17.In 2022, she withdrew her allegations against Dershowitz, saying she “may have made a mistake” in identifying him as one of her abusers. She said she “was very young at the time” and “it was a very stressful and traumatic environment.”In one newspaper interview, for which Giuffre was paid $160,000, she described dancing with Prince Andrew at a club but said there was no sexual contact. Later, she said they had three sexual encounters. She said the newspaper had refused to print those allegations.In another interview, she described riding in a helicopter with Bill Clinton and flirting with Donald Trump, but she later said in a deposition that those things hadn't happened and were mistakes by the reporter.Giuffre's allegations have been investigated by the FBI. No charges have been brought based on her claims, but because of the attention generated by them Brunel was investigated in France and charged with raping other underage girls. He killed himself while awaiting trial.Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor in 2020, Geoffrey Berman, sought to speak with Prince Andrew about matters related to Epstein, but the royal declined to be interviewed. Berman blasted Andrew at the time for falsely portraying himself to the public as eager to cooperate when he was actually dodging questions.Andrew has repeatedly denied having sex with Giuffre and said he couldn’t recall ever meeting her, though a photograph appears to show them together, and a member of Epstein's household staff also testified about seeing the two at Epstein's home in New York.Many of the documents unsealed in recent days involve efforts by Maxwell's lawyers to discredit Giuffre, and Giuffre's lawyers' efforts to gather evidence backing up her accounts.The records released in the case have contained scant evidence of wrongdoing by famous figures, but testimony from multiple witnesses confirmed Giuffre's accounts of Epstein's sexual misconduct.DEATH BEHIND BARSAny chance that Epstein himself might have been able to answer questions about his famous friends died with him at a federal detention center in Manhattan in August 2019.The death, a month after he was arrested, has&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-a1ef16a612bd4130a18479c01bd72586">fueled conspiracy theories</a>. But multiple investigations, including an autopsy and FBI probe, have concluded Epstein died by suicide.Justice Department&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-department-of-justice-investigation-50c229b7953096f0301bfa1e7f0b7703">Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a June report</a>&nbsp;that Epstein was able to take his own life because of “negligence, misconduct and outright job performance failures” within the jail.The Metropolitan Correctional Center&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-7f6797153ee7fa391731af9cf7c93603">was shut down in 2021</a>&nbsp;amid concerns about squalid conditions, COVID-19, crumbling infrastructure and lingering questions about Epstein's death.Overworked officers assigned to guard Epstein had failed to recognize he had amassed a surplus of bed linens. After a first suspected suicide attempt, jail officials left him alone and never assigned him a new cellmate.On the night Epstein died, officers sat at desks just 15 feet (4.6 meters) from his cell, shopping online and snoozing instead of making required rounds every 30 minutes, prosecutors said.The day before Epstein killed himself, a federal court unsealed about 2,000 pages of records in Giuffre's lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell — the same case involved in the records released in recent days.That, combined with a lack of significant interpersonal connections and “the idea of potentially spending his life in prison were likely factors contributing to Mr. Epstein’s suicide,” prison officials wrote in&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-jail-suicide-prison-death-8d194a756f2b429067f009a0c70f96c0">documents obtained by The Associated Press</a>.Whether Epstein would have ever been keen to answer questions to clear up some of the mysteries surrounding his life is a different story. In a 2016 deposition in Giuffre’s lawsuit, he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.WHAT’S NEXTThe document dump isn’t over yet. So far, 191 of the approximately 250 files that U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska authorized for release have been made public. Lawyers involved in the case are posting them to the docket on a rolling basis, as per the judge’s instructions.Another batch is expected Monday, though there is little indication they will yield more than what has already been seen in the nearly 3,000 pages of deposition transcripts, legal memos, emails and other records made public since Wednesday.Versions of many of those records had already been made public in past years, though with some sections blacked out for privacy reasons or to protect the identities of Epstein's victims.

Read the batch of Epstein documents released Monday

SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas man on multiple allegations after a weekend standoff.

Just after 4 p.m. Jan. 6, police responded to a barricaded individual in the 1500 block of SW 23rd Park in Topeka, according to a media release. It was reported that an adult male had a firearm and was experiencing a mental health crisis.

Topeka Police Department’s Crisis Negotiations Team and Response Team responded to the incident to make contact with him.

A short time later, the occupants exited the residence and the suspect later identified as 65-year-old Lawrence Lovejoy was taken into custody and transported to a local medical care facility to receive care.

As a result of the investigation Lovejoy was arrested and booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on requested charges Aggravated assault; Use of a deadly weapon, Criminal Restraint, Interference with LEO; obstruct/resist/oppose misdemeanor warrant service or execution Warrant

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 </figure>SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas man on multiple allegations after a weekend standoff.Just after 4 p.m. Jan. 6, police responded to a barricaded individual in the 1500 block of SW 23rd Park in Topeka, according to a media release. It was reported that an adult male had a firearm and was experiencing a mental health crisis.Topeka Police Department’s Crisis Negotiations Team and Response Team responded to the incident to make contact with him.A short time later, the occupants exited the residence and the suspect later identified as 65-year-old Lawrence Lovejoy was taken into custody and transported to a local medical care facility to receive care.As a result of the investigation Lovejoy was arrested and booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on requested charges Aggravated assault; Use of a deadly weapon, Criminal Restraint, Interference with LEO; obstruct/resist/oppose misdemeanor warrant service or execution Warrant

Kan. man moved from hospital to jail after standoff with police

FINNEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for an alleged violent attack that injured a baby.

Just after 2:30 a.m. Sunday, police were dispatched to the east part of Garden City for a reported battery, according to a media release.

Officers learned that 29-year-old Brandon Pugh and a woman known to him got into an argument when Pugh allegedly began punching the woman as she held a 2-month-old child.

 At some point while battering the woman, Pugh struck the infant in the head. The infant was transported to St. Catherine Hospital by Finney County EMS and later flown to Wichita due to the extent of their injuries. 

Pugh was arrested and is being held in the Finney County Jail on requested charges of Domestic Battery, Abuse of a Child and Aggravated Child Endangerment. 

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704733188240.png" alt="Pugh-photo Finney Co." />
 <figcaption>Pugh-photo Finney Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>FINNEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for an alleged violent attack that injured a baby.Just after 2:30 a.m. Sunday, police were dispatched to the east part of Garden City for a reported battery, according to a media release.Officers learned that 29-year-old Brandon Pugh and a woman known to him got into an argument when Pugh allegedly began punching the woman as she held a 2-month-old child. At some point while battering the woman, Pugh struck the infant in the head. The infant was transported to St. Catherine Hospital by Finney County EMS and later flown to Wichita due to the extent of their injuries. Pugh was arrested and is being held in the Finney County Jail on requested charges of Domestic Battery, Abuse of a Child and Aggravated Child Endangerment.

Baby air-lifted to Kan. hospital after alleged violent attack

RILEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for alleged car theft.

Just before 5p.m. Saturday, officers filed a report for recovery of a stolen vehicle in the 4400 block of Riverpond Road in Manhattan, according to the Riley County Police Department activity report.

A known male suspect test-drove a 2002 Jeep Wrangler and never returned it. Police arrested 62-year-old Barry Sullivan of Topeka on requested charges of possession of stolen property, use/possession of drug paraphernalia with the intent to use, and possession of a stimulant.&nbsp; He is being held on a total bond of $8,000, according to the RCPD.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704732693687.png" alt="Sullivan from an earlier arrest in Shawnee Co." />
 <figcaption>Sullivan from an earlier arrest in Shawnee Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>RILEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for alleged car theft.Just before 5p.m. Saturday, officers filed a report for recovery of a stolen vehicle in the 4400 block of Riverpond Road in Manhattan, according to the Riley County Police Department activity report.A known male suspect test-drove a 2002 Jeep Wrangler and never returned it. Police arrested 62-year-old Barry Sullivan of Topeka on requested charges of possession of stolen property, use/possession of drug paraphernalia with the intent to use, and possession of a stimulant.&nbsp; He is being held on a total bond of $8,000, according to the RCPD.

RCPD: Suspect test drove SUV, didn't return it

SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating four suspects on multiple allegations after an arrest at a Kansas home.

On January 4, members of the Topeka Police Department Narcotics Unit served a search warrant in the 500 Block of NE Fairchild Street in Topeka, related to an ongoing investigation, according to Police Lt. Ronnie Connell.

&nbsp;Officers located methamphetamine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and stolen property.

As a result police arrested 40-year-old Candice King; 24-year-old Tiffani Armstrong; 33-year-old Thomas Lathrom and 25-year-old Dillon Sonnier.

Candice King is being held on requested charges of Distribution of Methamphetamine, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Stolen Property, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and&nbsp;&nbsp;Distribution of a Simulated Controlled Substance.

Dillon Sonnier is being held on requested charges of&nbsp;Distribution of Methamphetamine,&nbsp;&nbsp;Criminal Possession of a Firearm, Possession of Stolen Property and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia

Tiffani Armstrong is in jail on a requested charge of Possession of Methamphetamine

Thomas Lathrom is no longer in custody on a requested charge for Possession of Marijuana.

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 </figure>SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating four suspects on multiple allegations after an arrest at a Kansas home.On January 4, members of the Topeka Police Department Narcotics Unit served a search warrant in the 500 Block of NE Fairchild Street in Topeka, related to an ongoing investigation, according to Police Lt. Ronnie Connell.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704464671968.png" alt="Sonnier-photo Shawnee Co." />
 <figcaption>Sonnier-photo Shawnee Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>&nbsp;Officers located methamphetamine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and stolen property.As a result police arrested 40-year-old Candice King; 24-year-old Tiffani Armstrong; 33-year-old Thomas Lathrom and 25-year-old Dillon Sonnier.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704464528833.png" alt="King-photo Shawnee Co." />
 <figcaption>King-photo Shawnee Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Candice King is being held on requested charges of Distribution of Methamphetamine, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Stolen Property, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and&nbsp;&nbsp;Distribution of a Simulated Controlled Substance.Dillon Sonnier is being held on requested charges of&nbsp;Distribution of Methamphetamine,&nbsp;&nbsp;Criminal Possession of a Firearm, Possession of Stolen Property and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704464597326.png" alt="Armstrong-photo Shawnee Co." />
 <figcaption>Armstrong-photo Shawnee Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Tiffani Armstrong is in jail on a requested charge of Possession of Methamphetamine<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704465108426.png" alt="Lathrom-photo Shawnee Co." />
 <figcaption>Lathrom-photo Shawnee Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Thomas Lathrom is no longer in custody on a requested charge for Possession of Marijuana.

Police find stolen property during drug bust at Kansas home

MCPHERSON COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating two suspects after following chase in McPherson County.

Just before 10p.m. Friday, a deputy with the McPherson County Sheriff's Office attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle on Interstate 135, according to a media release.

 The vehicle fled into the City of Moundridge where it wrecked and two individuals fled from the vehicle.

A McPherson County Sheriff K-9 unit was deployed. The K-9 located one of the suspects and he was apprehended. The man was evaluated and transported to McPherson Hospital by Moundridge EMS. He was later released and transported to the McPherson County Jail.

Newton Police Department deployed their UAV drone where it located the second suspect. He was taken into custody, evaluated by McPherson EMS, and then transported to McPherson County Jail.

Kasey Haag, 31, is being held on requested charges of assault of a law enforcement officer; use of a deadly weapon, flee or attempt to elude; driving the wrong way in opposing traffic, interference with law enforcement, reckless driving, driving while suspended, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, failure to stop at an accident, probation violation, transporting an open container and possession of opiates and drug paraphernalia. Haag has four previous convictions for burglary and additional convictions for theft and aggravated robbery, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.

Malek Halabi, 22, is being held on requested charges that include interference with law enforcement, knowingly flee, drug possession and transporting an open container.

&nbsp;Newton Police Department, Kansas Highway Patrol, Inman Police Department, Moundridge Police Department, Moundridge EMS, &amp; McPherson EMS all assisted in the sheriff's office with the arrest and transport.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704632339056.png" alt="Halabi-photo McPherson Co." />
 <figcaption>Halabi-photo McPherson Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>MCPHERSON COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating two suspects after following chase in McPherson County.Just before 10p.m. Friday, a deputy with the McPherson County Sheriff's Office attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle on Interstate 135, according to a media release. The vehicle fled into the City of Moundridge where it wrecked and two individuals fled from the vehicle.A McPherson County Sheriff K-9 unit was deployed. The K-9 located one of the suspects and he was apprehended. The man was evaluated and transported to McPherson Hospital by Moundridge EMS. He was later released and transported to the McPherson County Jail.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704631722442.png" alt="Haag-photo McPherson Co." />
 <figcaption>Haag-photo McPherson Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Newton Police Department deployed their UAV drone where it located the second suspect. He was taken into custody, evaluated by McPherson EMS, and then transported to McPherson County Jail.Kasey Haag, 31, is being held on requested charges of assault of a law enforcement officer; use of a deadly weapon, flee or attempt to elude; driving the wrong way in opposing traffic, interference with law enforcement, reckless driving, driving while suspended, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, failure to stop at an accident, probation violation, transporting an open container and possession of opiates and drug paraphernalia. Haag has four previous convictions for burglary and additional convictions for theft and aggravated robbery, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.Malek Halabi, 22, is being held on requested charges that include interference with law enforcement, knowingly flee, drug possession and transporting an open container.&nbsp;Newton Police Department, Kansas Highway Patrol, Inman Police Department, Moundridge Police Department, Moundridge EMS, &amp; McPherson EMS all assisted in the sheriff's office with the arrest and transport.

Drone helped catch wanted Kansas felon after chase, crash 

KANSAS CITY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a homicide in Kansas City.

Just after midnight officers responded to 62nd and Prospect on a medical call, according to Sheriff Daryl Forte'.

First responders found a man lying in a parking lot, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.&nbsp;The incident is being investigated as a homicide. Police has not reported an arrest or identified the victim.&nbsp;

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704631133794.png" alt="Police on the scene early Sunday-photo Sheriff Daryl Forte'" />
 <figcaption>Police on the scene early Sunday-photo Sheriff Daryl Forte'</figcaption>
 </figure>KANSAS CITY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a homicide in Kansas City.Just after midnight officers responded to 62nd and Prospect on a medical call, according to Sheriff Daryl Forte'.First responders found a man lying in a parking lot, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.&nbsp;The incident is being investigated as a homicide. Police has not reported an arrest or identified the victim.&nbsp;

Homicide: Man found dead in Kansas City parking lot

SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas teen on child sex allegations.

Just before 10:30p.m. Jan. 3, a deputy with the Shawnee County Sheriff's office responded to the Law Enforcement Center to assist Topeka Police with a child sex crime investigation, according to Sheriff's Lt. Scott Wanamaker.

Some of the alleged crimes occurred outside the city limits of Topeka in the 6700 Block of SW Windwood Lane in the unincorporated community of Montara. Deputies arrested 18-year-old Christopher M. Belk of Topeka on requested charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, according to Wanamaker.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704386510889.png" alt="Belk-photo Shawnee County" />
 <figcaption>Belk-photo Shawnee County</figcaption>
 </figure>SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas teen on child sex allegations.Just before 10:30p.m. Jan. 3, a deputy with the Shawnee County Sheriff's office responded to the Law Enforcement Center to assist Topeka Police with a child sex crime investigation, according to Sheriff's Lt. Scott Wanamaker.Some of the alleged crimes occurred outside the city limits of Topeka in the 6700 Block of SW Windwood Lane in the unincorporated community of Montara. Deputies arrested 18-year-old Christopher M. Belk of Topeka on requested charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, according to Wanamaker.

Kansas teen accused of child sex crimes

SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities investigating a suspicious death have made an arrest.

Just before 6p.m. Tuesday, police were dispatched to a welfare check in the 600 Block of SW 14th Street in Topeka, according to Police Lt. Edward Stanley.

Upon arrival, the Officers located an individual who was found deceased. On Jan. 4, police reported they were&nbsp; investigating this death as a homicide and investigators believe the incident occurred sometime on December 28.

Police identified a suspect and arrested 22-year-old as Daniel V. Hesler of Topeka and booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on requested charges: 1st Degree Murder and robbery, according to online jail records.

On Jan. 5, police reported their investigation led to a second arrest. Officers located 28-year-old Jordan R. Reynolds Taylor, 28, of Topeka and arrested him on requested charges of 1st Degree Murder and Aggravated Robbery, according to police Lt. Edward Stanley.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704547559509.png" alt="Reynolds-Taylor-photo Shawnee Co." />
 <figcaption>Reynolds-Taylor-photo Shawnee Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities investigating a suspicious death have made an arrest.Just before 6p.m. Tuesday, police were dispatched to a welfare check in the 600 Block of SW 14th Street in Topeka, according to Police Lt. Edward Stanley.Upon arrival, the Officers located an individual who was found deceased. On Jan. 4, police reported they were&nbsp; investigating this death as a homicide and investigators believe the incident occurred sometime on December 28.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704317558256.png" alt="Hesler-photo Shawnee Co." />
 <figcaption>Hesler-photo Shawnee Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Police identified a suspect and arrested 22-year-old as Daniel V. Hesler of Topeka and booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on requested charges: 1st Degree Murder and robbery, according to online jail records.On Jan. 5, police reported their investigation led to a second arrest. Officers located 28-year-old Jordan R. Reynolds Taylor, 28, of Topeka and arrested him on requested charges of 1st Degree Murder and Aggravated Robbery, according to police Lt. Edward Stanley.

2nd suspect accused in robbery, murder at Kansas home

JACKSON COUNTY–Law enforcement authorities are investigating two women on multiple allegations after a traffic stop.

Just before 11p.m. January 3, a Sheriff’s Deputy conducted a traffic stop on a 2000&nbsp; black Nissan Xterra near 150th&nbsp;and Q. Road for a traffic violation, according to Sheriff Tim Morse

 The stop led to a search of the vehicle which revealed what was believed to be drug contraband.

The front seat passenger, Masheika Tanay Davis, 43, of Topeka, was arrested after she was observed attempting to throw a container into the ditch which contained a hallucinogenic drug and methamphetamine.

Davis was arrested on requested charges of Possession of methamphetamine, Possession of a hallucinogenic drug, Possession of drug paraphernalia, Felony interference with LEO and Transporting an open container.

During the traffic stop, it was discovered the backseat passenger, Victoria Elizabetha Everett, 41, of Webster, Texas, was a non-compliant registered offender for distribution of methamphetamine.

Everett was arrested on requested charges of Violation of offender registration and Transporting an open container.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704415260360.png" alt="Everett-photo Jackson Co" />
 <figcaption>Everett-photo Jackson Co</figcaption>
 </figure>JACKSON COUNTY–Law enforcement authorities are investigating two women on multiple allegations after a traffic stop.Just before 11p.m. January 3, a Sheriff’s Deputy conducted a traffic stop on a 2000&nbsp; black Nissan Xterra near 150th&nbsp;and Q. Road for a traffic violation, according to Sheriff Tim Morse The stop led to a search of the vehicle which revealed what was believed to be drug contraband.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704415237228.png" alt="Davis photo Jackson Co." />
 <figcaption>Davis photo Jackson Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>The front seat passenger, Masheika Tanay Davis, 43, of Topeka, was arrested after she was observed attempting to throw a container into the ditch which contained a hallucinogenic drug and methamphetamine.Davis was arrested on requested charges of Possession of methamphetamine, Possession of a hallucinogenic drug, Possession of drug paraphernalia, Felony interference with LEO and Transporting an open container.During the traffic stop, it was discovered the backseat passenger, Victoria Elizabetha Everett, 41, of Webster, Texas, was a non-compliant registered offender for distribution of methamphetamine.Everett was arrested on requested charges of Violation of offender registration and Transporting an open container.

Sheriff: Kan. woman tried to throw drugs from SUV during traffic stop

NEW YORK (AP) — The release of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-documents-prince-andrew-harvey-weinstein-1e20f426af0c610db7963cdaf85c209f">dozens of previously sealed court documents</a>&nbsp;from a lawsuit involving Jeffrey Epstein might disappoint online sleuths who anticipated explosive new information.

The nearly 200 documents released as of Friday largely mention figures whose names were already known, including&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-prince-andrew-bill-clinton-donald-trump-385ccf8d49d337ae4866022877aa9a90">high-profile friends</a>&nbsp;of Epstein’s and victims who have spoken publicly. In fact, the judge who made the call last month to release the information said she was doing so largely because much of it is already public.

<a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4355835/giuffre-v-maxwell/?filed_after=&amp;filed_before=&amp;entry_gte=&amp;entry_lte=&amp;order_by=desc">Click here to read </a>the documents released 1/5/24 (caution Adult content)

The plan to release the documents had&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-jeffrey-epstein-list-released-006487910615">prompted rumors</a>&nbsp;that they contained a list of “clients” or “co-conspirators,” and misinformation about their contents is continuing to&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/epstein-court-documents-misinformation-3a1df03616ec6b58684be434398de4b7">run rampant</a>&nbsp;on social media.

Still, the records&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-court-records-e5a924b6e97413850517df9237715a44">do include fresh details</a>&nbsp;about the financier’s sexual abuse of teenage girls, and offer a reminder of how he leveraged his powerful connections to recruit his victims and help cover up his crimes.

The documents unsealed this week are the latest of thousands previously made public in lawsuits involving Epstein.

Here’s what we know about the documents released so far:

A millionaire known for associating with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and academic stars, Epstein became the subject of a police investigation in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2005 after he was accused of paying a 14-year-old girl for sex. He was arrested in 2006.

Dozens of other underage girls described similar sexual abuse, but prosecutors ultimately&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-florida-e2a4431f7319afd037023d9a586aa291">allowed the financier to plead guilty</a>&nbsp;in 2008 to a charge involving a single victim. He served 13 months in a jail work-release program.

Some famous acquaintances abandoned Epstein after his conviction, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, but many did not. Epstein continued to mingle with the rich and famous for another decade, often through philanthropic work.

Reporting by the Miami Herald renewed interest in the scandal, and federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein in 2019 with sex trafficking. He&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-department-of-justice-investigation-50c229b7953096f0301bfa1e7f0b7703">killed himself in jail</a>&nbsp;while awaiting trial.

The U.S. attorney in Manhattan then prosecuted Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell for helping recruit his underage victims. She was convicted in 2021 and is&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-sentencing-aeac127f9cc3811d975ce8e10d171260">serving a 20-year prison term</a>.

The documents being unsealed are part of a 2015 lawsuit filed against Maxwell by one of Epstein’s victims,&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-entertainment-lifestyle-virginia-prince-andrew-60348f70fd605c26c26615ffc5ed5f14">Virginia Giuffre</a>. She is one of the dozens of women who sued Epstein saying he had abused them at his homes in Florida, New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands and New Mexico.

Giuffre said the summer she turned 17, she was lured away from a job as a spa attendant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club to become a “masseuse” for Epstein — a job that involved performing sexual acts.

Giuffre also claimed she was pressured into having sex with men in Epstein's social orbit, including Britain's Prince Andrew, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell and the billionaire Glenn Dubin, among others. All of those men said her accounts were fabricated.

Giuffre&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-lawsuit-settlement-8b04c775aa46f761d81c05ef12e3a94f">settled a lawsuit against Prince Andrew</a>&nbsp;in 2022. That same year, Giuffre withdrew an accusation she had made against Epstein's former attorney, the law professor Alan Dershowitz, saying she “&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-new-york-lawsuits-prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-2a7202e552c38ed03c5fe39d6a29721b">may have made a mistake</a>&nbsp;” in identifying him as an abuser.

Giuffre’s lawsuit against Maxwell was settled in 2017, but the Miami Herald went to court to access court papers initially filed under seal, including transcripts of interviews the lawyers did with potential witnesses.

About 2,000 pages were unsealed by a court in 2019. Additional documents were released in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

The batch currently being released contains around 250 records with sections that were blacked out or were sealed entirely because of concerns about the privacy rights of Epstein’s victims and other people whose names had come up during the legal battle but weren’t complicit in his crimes.

Nearly 200 have been released as of Friday. The judge hasn’t set a target for when all the documents should be made public, but more are expected to come.

U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska, who evaluated the documents to decide what should be unsealed, said in her December order that she was ordering the records released because much of the information within them is already public.

Some records have been released, either in part or in full, in other court cases.

The people named in the records include many of Epstein's accusers, members of his staff who told their stories to tabloid newspapers, people who served as witnesses at Maxwell's trial, people who were mentioned in passing during depositions but aren't accused of anything salacious, and people who investigated Epstein, including prosecutors, a journalist and a police detective.

There are also boldface names of public figures known to have associated with Epstein over the years, but whose relationships with him have already been well documented elsewhere, the judge said.

One of them is Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent close to Epstein who was awaiting trial on charges that he raped underage girls when he&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/europe-arts-and-entertainment-paris-jeffrey-epstein-edfbdb84c6cdd5f736ac7e1c2bac657b">killed himself in a Paris jail</a>&nbsp;in 2022. Giuffre was among the women who had accused Brunel of sexual abuse.

His name was peppered throughout the documents released Wednesday.

Clinton and Trump both factor in the court file, partly because Giuffre was questioned by Maxwell's lawyers about inaccuracies in newspaper stories about her time with Epstein. One story quoted her as saying she had ridden in a helicopter with Clinton and flirted with Trump. Giuffre said neither of those things actually happened. She hasn't accused either former president of wrongdoing.

The judge said a handful of names should remain blacked out in the documents because they would identify people who were sexually abused. The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they decide to tell their stories publicly, as Giuffre has done.

WHAT MISINFORMATION IS SPREADING ABOUT THE DOCUMENTS?

In addition to false claims that the documents represent some kind of list identifying Epstein’s “clients,” the internet is rife with misinformation about exactly who is named in the records and what that means.

Ahead of the release, social media users wrongly claimed that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s name might appear, spurred by a joke New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made Tuesday on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show.”

Kimmel said in a response on X that he had never met Epstein and that Rodgers’ “reckless words put my family in danger.” His name did not appear in the documents released so far.

After the documents began emerging, social media users seized on names that appeared in passing, falsely suggesting it was proof of wrongdoing.

For instance, some suggested that the documents included allegations about Stephen Hawking, who died in 2018. In reality, the theoretical physicist's name appears, misspelled, in a 2015 email Epstein sent proposing a reward be paid to anyone who could debunk a baseless claim about Hawking.

Other social media users are&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/epstein-court-documents-misinformation-3a1df03616ec6b58684be434398de4b7">spreading fabricated images</a>&nbsp;made to look like documents that they claim show people making allegations against Hawking and Kimmel. The quotes in the images don't appear anywhere in the records.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/1/1704330351229.png" alt="Jeffrey Epstein New York Sex Offender Registry" />
 <figcaption>Jeffrey Epstein New York Sex Offender Registry</figcaption>
 </figure>NEW YORK (AP) — The release of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-documents-prince-andrew-harvey-weinstein-1e20f426af0c610db7963cdaf85c209f">dozens of previously sealed court documents</a>&nbsp;from a lawsuit involving Jeffrey Epstein might disappoint online sleuths who anticipated explosive new information.The nearly 200 documents released as of Friday largely mention figures whose names were already known, including&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-prince-andrew-bill-clinton-donald-trump-385ccf8d49d337ae4866022877aa9a90">high-profile friends</a>&nbsp;of Epstein’s and victims who have spoken publicly. In fact, the judge who made the call last month to release the information said she was doing so largely because much of it is already public.<a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4355835/giuffre-v-maxwell/?filed_after=&amp;filed_before=&amp;entry_gte=&amp;entry_lte=&amp;order_by=desc">Click here to read </a>the documents released 1/5/24 (caution Adult content)The plan to release the documents had&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-jeffrey-epstein-list-released-006487910615">prompted rumors</a>&nbsp;that they contained a list of “clients” or “co-conspirators,” and misinformation about their contents is continuing to&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/epstein-court-documents-misinformation-3a1df03616ec6b58684be434398de4b7">run rampant</a>&nbsp;on social media.Still, the records&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-court-records-e5a924b6e97413850517df9237715a44">do include fresh details</a>&nbsp;about the financier’s sexual abuse of teenage girls, and offer a reminder of how he leveraged his powerful connections to recruit his victims and help cover up his crimes.The documents unsealed this week are the latest of thousands previously made public in lawsuits involving Epstein.Here’s what we know about the documents released so far:WHO IS JEFFREY EPSTEIN?A millionaire known for associating with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and academic stars, Epstein became the subject of a police investigation in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2005 after he was accused of paying a 14-year-old girl for sex. He was arrested in 2006.Dozens of other underage girls described similar sexual abuse, but prosecutors ultimately&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-florida-e2a4431f7319afd037023d9a586aa291">allowed the financier to plead guilty</a>&nbsp;in 2008 to a charge involving a single victim. He served 13 months in a jail work-release program.Some famous acquaintances abandoned Epstein after his conviction, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, but many did not. Epstein continued to mingle with the rich and famous for another decade, often through philanthropic work.Reporting by the Miami Herald renewed interest in the scandal, and federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein in 2019 with sex trafficking. He&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-department-of-justice-investigation-50c229b7953096f0301bfa1e7f0b7703">killed himself in jail</a>&nbsp;while awaiting trial.The U.S. attorney in Manhattan then prosecuted Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell for helping recruit his underage victims. She was convicted in 2021 and is&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-sentencing-aeac127f9cc3811d975ce8e10d171260">serving a 20-year prison term</a>.WHAT ARE THESE RECORDS ABOUT?The documents being unsealed are part of a 2015 lawsuit filed against Maxwell by one of Epstein’s victims,&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-entertainment-lifestyle-virginia-prince-andrew-60348f70fd605c26c26615ffc5ed5f14">Virginia Giuffre</a>. She is one of the dozens of women who sued Epstein saying he had abused them at his homes in Florida, New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands and New Mexico.Giuffre said the summer she turned 17, she was lured away from a job as a spa attendant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club to become a “masseuse” for Epstein — a job that involved performing sexual acts.Giuffre also claimed she was pressured into having sex with men in Epstein's social orbit, including Britain's Prince Andrew, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell and the billionaire Glenn Dubin, among others. All of those men said her accounts were fabricated.Giuffre&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-lawsuit-settlement-8b04c775aa46f761d81c05ef12e3a94f">settled a lawsuit against Prince Andrew</a>&nbsp;in 2022. That same year, Giuffre withdrew an accusation she had made against Epstein's former attorney, the law professor Alan Dershowitz, saying she “&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-new-york-lawsuits-prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-2a7202e552c38ed03c5fe39d6a29721b">may have made a mistake</a>&nbsp;” in identifying him as an abuser.Giuffre’s lawsuit against Maxwell was settled in 2017, but the Miami Herald went to court to access court papers initially filed under seal, including transcripts of interviews the lawyers did with potential witnesses.About 2,000 pages were unsealed by a court in 2019. Additional documents were released in 2020, 2021 and 2022.The batch currently being released contains around 250 records with sections that were blacked out or were sealed entirely because of concerns about the privacy rights of Epstein’s victims and other people whose names had come up during the legal battle but weren’t complicit in his crimes.Nearly 200 have been released as of Friday. The judge hasn’t set a target for when all the documents should be made public, but more are expected to come.WHAT DO THE DOCUMENTS SHOW?U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska, who evaluated the documents to decide what should be unsealed, said in her December order that she was ordering the records released because much of the information within them is already public.Some records have been released, either in part or in full, in other court cases.The people named in the records include many of Epstein's accusers, members of his staff who told their stories to tabloid newspapers, people who served as witnesses at Maxwell's trial, people who were mentioned in passing during depositions but aren't accused of anything salacious, and people who investigated Epstein, including prosecutors, a journalist and a police detective.There are also boldface names of public figures known to have associated with Epstein over the years, but whose relationships with him have already been well documented elsewhere, the judge said.One of them is Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent close to Epstein who was awaiting trial on charges that he raped underage girls when he&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/europe-arts-and-entertainment-paris-jeffrey-epstein-edfbdb84c6cdd5f736ac7e1c2bac657b">killed himself in a Paris jail</a>&nbsp;in 2022. Giuffre was among the women who had accused Brunel of sexual abuse.His name was peppered throughout the documents released Wednesday.Clinton and Trump both factor in the court file, partly because Giuffre was questioned by Maxwell's lawyers about inaccuracies in newspaper stories about her time with Epstein. One story quoted her as saying she had ridden in a helicopter with Clinton and flirted with Trump. Giuffre said neither of those things actually happened. She hasn't accused either former president of wrongdoing.The judge said a handful of names should remain blacked out in the documents because they would identify people who were sexually abused. The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they decide to tell their stories publicly, as Giuffre has done.WHAT MISINFORMATION IS SPREADING ABOUT THE DOCUMENTS?In addition to false claims that the documents represent some kind of list identifying Epstein’s “clients,” the internet is rife with misinformation about exactly who is named in the records and what that means.Ahead of the release, social media users wrongly claimed that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s name might appear, spurred by a joke New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made Tuesday on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show.”Kimmel said in a response on X that he had never met Epstein and that Rodgers’ “reckless words put my family in danger.” His name did not appear in the documents released so far.After the documents began emerging, social media users seized on names that appeared in passing, falsely suggesting it was proof of wrongdoing.For instance, some suggested that the documents included allegations about Stephen Hawking, who died in 2018. In reality, the theoretical physicist's name appears, misspelled, in a 2015 email Epstein sent proposing a reward be paid to anyone who could debunk a baseless claim about Hawking.Other social media users are&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/epstein-court-documents-misinformation-3a1df03616ec6b58684be434398de4b7">spreading fabricated images</a>&nbsp;made to look like documents that they claim show people making allegations against Hawking and Kimmel. The quotes in the images don't appear anywhere in the records.

Read 3rd batch of Epstein documents released Friday

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A federal jury convicted a Kansas man for taking part in a retaliatory shooting that injured two people, including a federal task force officer.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, 24-year-old G’Ante Butler of Kansas City, Kansas, was found guilty of one count of forcible assault on a federal law enforcement officer and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

On August 3, 2020, Kansas City, Kansas police officers responded to a “shots fired” call on Farrow Avenue, where the defendant’s parents lived. Later that evening, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,

Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agents and federally deputized Task Force Officers (TFOs) went to North Allis Street and arrested one of the individuals responsible for the earlier Farrow Avenue residence shooting. 

After executing a search warrant at the North Allis Street residence, and as the officers were returning to their vehicles, multiple shooters began firing at them. The officers tried to immediately take cover, however, not before an officer and a civilian bystander were struck by gunfire.

Based on evidence gathered during the subsequent investigation, ATF agents learned the shooting was orchestrated by G’Ante Butler and other individuals in retaliation for the earlier incident on Farrow Avenue. Their plan was to shoot at the North Allis Street home and any individuals they encountered there. Officers later recovered approximately 101 casings and two live rounds (including 9mm, .40 caliber, .45 caliber, 5.56 caliber, and 7.62 caliber casings) from an alley west of the targeted North Allis Street home.

Co-defendants Nadarius Barnes, 24, Chase Lewis, 23, and Donnell L. Hall, 28, all of Kansas City, Kansas, each pleaded guilty to one count of forcible assault on a federal law enforcement officer and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

A fifth defendant is scheduled to stand trial in February 2024.

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 </figure>KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A federal jury convicted a Kansas man for taking part in a retaliatory shooting that injured two people, including a federal task force officer.According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, 24-year-old G’Ante Butler of Kansas City, Kansas, was found guilty of one count of forcible assault on a federal law enforcement officer and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.On August 3, 2020, Kansas City, Kansas police officers responded to a “shots fired” call on Farrow Avenue, where the defendant’s parents lived. Later that evening, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agents and federally deputized Task Force Officers (TFOs) went to North Allis Street and arrested one of the individuals responsible for the earlier Farrow Avenue residence shooting. After executing a search warrant at the North Allis Street residence, and as the officers were returning to their vehicles, multiple shooters began firing at them. The officers tried to immediately take cover, however, not before an officer and a civilian bystander were struck by gunfire.Based on evidence gathered during the subsequent investigation, ATF agents learned the shooting was orchestrated by G’Ante Butler and other individuals in retaliation for the earlier incident on Farrow Avenue. Their plan was to shoot at the North Allis Street home and any individuals they encountered there. Officers later recovered approximately 101 casings and two live rounds (including 9mm, .40 caliber, .45 caliber, 5.56 caliber, and 7.62 caliber casings) from an alley west of the targeted North Allis Street home.Co-defendants Nadarius Barnes, 24, Chase Lewis, 23, and Donnell L. Hall, 28, all of Kansas City, Kansas, each pleaded guilty to one count of forcible assault on a federal law enforcement officer and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.A fifth defendant is scheduled to stand trial in February 2024.

Kan. man orchestrated retaliation shooting at law enforcement

Recent Booking Activity for the Geary County Detention Center. All persons included in this post are innocent of crimes until proven guilty in a court of law.<figure>
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 </figure>Recent Booking Activity for the Geary County Detention Center. All persons included in this post are innocent of crimes until proven guilty in a court of law.

Geary County Booking Photos Jan. 5

By OLIVIA BERGMEIERSalina Post

Late Thursday night, Salina Police officers arrested Darryl Jones Jr., a 50-year-old Salina resident, for allegedly battering a 39-year-old victim.

According to SPD Capt. James Feldman, officers arrived around 10 p.m. at the 400 block of South Connecticut Avenue after a neighborhood resident called SPD and reported a disturbance.

"During the investigations, officers determined Mr. Jones had battered a 39-year-old female," Feldman said. "During that, he had strangled her, threatened her life and then also battered her regularly."

Once officers determined that Jones had allegedly battered the victim, they arrested him without incident.

SPD officers requested charges for aggravated domestic battery, domestic battery and criminal threat.

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 </figure>By OLIVIA BERGMEIERSalina PostLate Thursday night, Salina Police officers arrested Darryl Jones Jr., a 50-year-old Salina resident, for allegedly battering a 39-year-old victim.According to SPD Capt. James Feldman, officers arrived around 10 p.m. at the 400 block of South Connecticut Avenue after a neighborhood resident called SPD and reported a disturbance."During the investigations, officers determined Mr. Jones had battered a 39-year-old female," Feldman said. "During that, he had strangled her, threatened her life and then also battered her regularly."Once officers determined that Jones had allegedly battered the victim, they arrested him without incident.SPD officers requested charges for aggravated domestic battery, domestic battery and criminal threat.

Kansas man jailed for alleged violent attack on a woman

RENO COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for alleged sex crimes.

The investigation began when the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) received a Cyber Tip about the possession of sexually explicit depictions of children. ICAC turned the investigation over to the Reno County Sheriff's Office. 

On Thursday, the Reno County Sheriff's Office, with the aid of the Harvey County Sheriff's Office, arrested&nbsp; 25-year-old Matthew Whitehurst on requested charges of Sexual Exploitation of a Child. 

This is still an active investigation. If you have any information that may assist in the investigation, contact the Reno County Sheriff's Office at 620-694-2735 or if you wish to remain anonymous and be considered for a cash payout, contact Reno County Crime Stoppers at 620-694-2666 or 1-800-222-TIPS, refer to case number 2023-11501. 

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 </figure>RENO COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for alleged sex crimes.The investigation began when the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) received a Cyber Tip about the possession of sexually explicit depictions of children. ICAC turned the investigation over to the Reno County Sheriff's Office. On Thursday, the Reno County Sheriff's Office, with the aid of the Harvey County Sheriff's Office, arrested&nbsp; 25-year-old Matthew Whitehurst on requested charges of Sexual Exploitation of a Child. This is still an active investigation. If you have any information that may assist in the investigation, contact the Reno County Sheriff's Office at 620-694-2735 or if you wish to remain anonymous and be considered for a cash payout, contact Reno County Crime Stoppers at 620-694-2666 or 1-800-222-TIPS, refer to case number 2023-11501.