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Kansas authorities looking for suspect who seriously injured man while stealing his car
MIAMI COUNTY, Kan. (KCTV) – The Miami County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help identifying a suspect involved in a reported car theft.
In a Facebook post, the sheriff’s office detailed an incident that happened around 3:45 a.m. on June 22.
According to the post, deputies were called to 69 Highway at 232nd Street and found a man with a serious head injury.
They learned that one of the man’s family members had called him for help after their car broke down on the side of the highway. The man drove to the site in a black 2004 GMC Envoy and was helping the family member when an unknown man approached them and stole the GMC.
The victim tried to intervene, but was either hit by or thrown from the GMC in the process. He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries and is in critical condition.
The sheriff’s office described the suspect as a tall white man with a tattoo on one of his wrists, possibly the left wrist. At the time of the theft, he was wearing black or gray pants, a black t-shirt and a black baseball cap.
He was last seen driving the GMC north on 69 Highway, and other law enforcement agencies have been alerted to its stolen status.
Investigators are asking the public to step forward with any of the following:
- Anyone who saw someone walking near 69 Highway and 232nd Street between 2:15 a.m. and 3:45 a.m.
- Anyone who saw the theft or the injured victim
- Anyone who saw a silver Mercury Grand Marquis parked on the 69 Highway off-ramp at 247th Street between 2:15 a.m. and 3:45 a.m. Investigators have tried to contact the registered owner multiple times without success.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Office Investigations Division at (913) 294-3232 ext 7157 for Det. Peuser or remain anonymous by calling the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS (8477).
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Bates County Circuit Court judge Friday sentenced a Linn County, Kansas, man in connection with the December 2025 death of Airen Andula, 13.
Damon Leonard, 47, was sentenced to four years in prison for abandonment of a corpse, according to court records.
He pleaded guilty to the charge of abandoning a corpse on May 22.
Andula disappeared from his Pleasanton, Kansas, home on Dec. 21, 2025. A day later, law enforcement found the boy’s body in a ravine in Bates County, Missouri. He had died from multiple dog bite injuries.
Police were led to the boy’s body after a phone call from Leonard.
Court documents said Leonard “admitted that he transported the deceased child from Kansas to Missouri and left the body in the bottom of the creek” before he returned home.
KSHB 41 reporter Fernanda Silva spoke with Andula’s family earlier this week — after the guilty plea and ahead of Friday’s sentencing.
His family shared that the guilty plea brought a small sense of justice, but it didn’t do much to ease the pain of their loss.
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“We’re missing our kid every day of our lives,” the boy’s father Charles Andula told Silva.
Leonard received credit for time served of 158 days in his sentence, per court records.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – It may not seem like a lot of relief, but gas and diesel prices have declined over the past week.
Friday morning’s national average for a gallon of unleaded gas was $4.39, according to the Automobile Association of America.
That’s down three cents from $4.42 on Thursday; down 16 cents from a week ago; but was up 17 cents from $4.22 a month ago and up $.23 from $3.16 a year ago.
In Kansas, AAA says, unleaded gas on Friday was averaging $3.96 a gallon — down four cents from $4.00 on Thursday; down 13 cents from $3.96 a week ago; but up 26 cents from $3.70 a month ago; and up $1.07 over $2.89 a year ago.
Diesel fuel also was dropping in price. AAA says Friday’s national average for a gallon of diesel was $5.52 a gallon — down three cents from $5.55 on Thursday; down 12 cents from $5.64 a week a go; but up six cents from $5.46 a month ago and up $1.98 from $3.54 a year ago.
Kansas diesel fuel prices, according to AAA, checked in at an average of $4.98 on Friday. That’s five cents below $5.03 on Thursday; down 16 cents from $5.14 a week ago; but up 24 cents over $4.74 a month ago; and up $1.72 from $3.26 a year ago.
In Topeka, GasBuddy.com on Friday morning showed unleaded gas prices ranging between $3.77 and $4.09 in Topeka, with diesel fuel going for between $4.94 and $5.29 a gallon.
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