Salina Post

SALINA, Kan — A Salina man and woman have lost thousands of dollars in a scam where they thought they had won a lottery on Facebook.

Salina Police Capt. Chris Trocheck said a friend told them he saw they had won the MF Facebook Lottery.

The man and women checked Facebook and since June 14, the 43-year-old man and 49-year-old woman sent several Moneygrams totaling $6,000 to locations in Nigeria and Mississippi to cover taxes and fees before contacting police this week to report the fraud.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, the first anniversary of Secretary of State John Kerry’s signature of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), U.S. Senators Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) again expressed frustration with the administration’s decision to sign U.N. ATT. Additionally, they are concerned with how the U.N. is handling the treaty’s implementation.

“It is deeply disturbing that the Government of Mexico, of all the nations in the U.N., has been selected to take the lead,” the senators said in a letter. “Our concern is increased by the fact that the Mexican Government is working closely, and behind closed doors, with advocacy organizations that share its desire to expand the treaty’s scope…If the Arms Trade Treaty were amended as Mexico desires, our worst fears about the Treaty’s impact on our Second Amendment rights would be realized.”

Click here to view the letter to the president.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State Treasurer Ron Estes says the Kansas Cash booth at this year’s state fair resulted in more than $750,000 in unclaimed property being returned to its rightful owners.

The treasurer says the number of people stopping at the booth and searing for missing money in a computerized database this year was far greater than in recent years. More than 2,400 claims were filed, with the largest being for more than $93,000.

Estes says the unclaimed assets come from forgotten bank accounts, stocks, bonds, insurance premium overpayments, refunds and other sources.

Those who didn’t check for property at the fair can do so online at www.kansascash.com or by calling 1-800-432-0386.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas father and son have been convicted of manufacturing and selling synthetic marijuana through a worldwide network.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says a federal jury on Thursday found 55-year-old Clark Sloan and 33-year-old Jonathan Sloan guilty on 20 counts each. They were acquitted on five other counts.

Clark Sloan lives in Tonganoxie. His son lives in Lawrence, where he was co-owner of a shop where the synthetic marijuana business began.

Prosecutors said the Sloans’ operation involved the manufacture of K2, a substance treated with the active ingredient in marijuana and marketed as an all-natural herbal product.

The enterprise grew to include suppliers, vendors and others throughout the U.S. and in countries around the world. Investigators said the defendants made at least $3.3 million from selling the drugs.

PERRY, Kan.- A Kansas man died in an accident just before 11 a.m. on Thursday in Jefferson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2009 Nissan Frontier driven by Darin E. Christman, 49, Lecompton, was northbound on Lecompton Road just south of U.S. 24 and made a left hand turn, failing to yield to a southbound 1994 Harley Davidson driven by Kurt A. Lucas, 49, Valley Falls.

The motorcycle attempted to avoid the collision but and struck the Nissan in the passenger fender.

Lucas was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Barnes Funeral Home. Christman was not injured.

The KHP reported Lucas was not wearing a helmet.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas chemical company has been fined $1.5 million after pleading guilty to storing hazardous waste without a permit required by federal law.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says Harcros Chemicals, of Kansas City, Kansas, entered the plea Thursday in federal court.

Harcros makes industrial chemicals including surfactants and antifoaming agents. The company admitted in its plea that it stored waste chemicals from May 2006 through January 2009 without a permit to store them for more than 90 days.

The company told The Kansas City Star the chemicals were kept in cabinets and storage areas for potential future use and were never released into the environment. Harcros also said the chemicals were properly disposed of shortly after a regulatory inspection that took place in 2008.

 

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Bond has been set at $1 million for a man who police say was running around bloodied, naked and screaming outside the Topeka home where his girlfriend’s body was found.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the suspect in the death of 22-year-old Lacie Atchison appeared Thursday in Shawnee County Circuit Court. Judge Steve Ebberts told a prosecutor the district attorney’s office would have until Monday afternoon to file charges.

For now, the suspect is being held on suspicion of premeditated first-degree murder, child endangerment, misdemeanor battery and criminal restraint.

After neighbors called Wednesday to report the nude man, police used a stun gun to subdue the suspect and then found Atchison’s body. Officers also took an uninjured child from the home and placed her in protective custody.

FORT RILEY – The Department of Defense today identified the 1st Infantry Division as the headquarters unit to deploy as part of the upcoming transition of authority in Iraq. The deployment involves a division headquarters element to support the combatant commander’s mission
requirements.

About 500 soldiers from the 1st Inf. Div.’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion will deploy to the Central Command area of responsibility in late October. Of those 500, about 200 will deploy to Baghdad and Irbil, Iraq, as part of the 475 troops President Barack Obama authorized Sept. 10 to deploy to Iraq part of the nation’s strategy to degrade and destroy ISIL. The troops will advise and assist the Iraqi Security Forces to help them go on the offense against ISIL and conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flights. This will also increase the United States’ capacity to target ISIL and coordinate the activities of the U.S. military across Iraq.

“As brave, responsible and on-point Soldiers in the ‘Big Red One,’ we stand ready to deploy anywhere in the world to protect the United States of America, her citizens and her allies,” said Maj. Gen. Paul E. Funk II, 1st Inf. Div. and Fort Riley commanding general. “We are ready for anything because we know we have the nation behind us.”

The Big Red One Soldiers will replace service members who have been in Iraq since June. These forces provide a similarly sized headquarters staff to oversee the expanded range of activities that these U.S. personnel in Iraq were assigned and expand the headquarters of the Joint Forces Land Component Command, which has operational control over activities in Iraq reporting to U.S. Central Command.

The 1st Inf. Div. Soldiers will begin to deploy in October and are preparing for a one-year mission.