Check lane announced and results from last week's efforts

Posted: May 10, 2012 - 4:11am
Updated: May 10, 2012 - 4:30am

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The Overland Park Police Department announced that they will be conducting a DUI Check Lane, Friday night into early Saturday morning, May 11-12, 2012.

Police say they will have assistance from other local law enforcement agencies including; Lenexa, Merriam, Mission and Olathe.

A statement released Wednesday afternoon encourages people to designate a sober driver.

A similar check lane held last Friday night, May 4th, by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, checked 362 cars. Deputies say they made 12 DUI arrests, two drug arrests, 1 for transporting an open container and one for driving while suspended.

The Olathe Police Department's Traffic Unit conducted a driver's license check lane and saturation patrol last Saturday night, May 5th. A statement released by Olathe police says that Officers issued 68 traffic citations during the effort, 37 of those citations were for no driver's license. Four were for driver's license suspensions, eight seat belt violations, two DUI arrests and two narcotics arrests.

Funding for most of these efforts is provided by a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), designed to reduce alcohol related crashes in the State of Kansas

KDOT says, across the State of Kansas, fatality accidents are down 26.2% from the same time last year with much of the credit going to enforcement of the primary seat belt law and DUI enforcement.

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Escaped Lansing Inmate back in custody

Posted: May 9, 2012 - 3:07pm
Updated: May 10, 2012 - 6:34pm

The Kansas Department of Corrections announced this afternoon that escaped Lansing Inmate Gary Leslie Furthmyer is back in custody.

Authorities says that Furthmyer was captured around 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon in the 600 block of Nebraska Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas.

Officials say they received more than a dozen tips regarding Furthmyer and one of those led directly to his arrest.

Officers booked Furthmyer into the Wyandotte County Jail on Wednesday afternoon where he will await transfer back to the Lansing Correctional Facility.

Furthmyer walked away from his minimum security job assignment at the Lansing Correctional Facility's steam plant around 3 a.m., April 18th.

There were several possible sightings of Furthmyer including several near a downtown Kansas City, Missouri homeless shelter last Friday.

His sentence was six to 25 years for a conviction of indecent liberties with a child and aggravated failure to appear, in 1985.

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One person critically injured in violent crash

Posted: May 8, 2012 - 2:19am
Updated: May 8, 2012 - 8:26am

The Overland Park Police Department's Traffic Unit is investigating after a driver was critically injured in a rollover accident near 87th Street and Conser Street around 2:15 a.m., Tuesday.

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Police arrived on the scene, about two minutes after being dispatched, to find one vehicle on its roof and the driver partially ejected from the rolled Jeep Cherokee. An Overland Park Fire Department unit arrived and reported heavy damage to the vehicle. Fire crews worked about 20 minutes to extricate the critically injured driver, who was partially pinned under the overturned Jeep.


Police say the Jeep Cherokee was stolen, sometime overnight, from an address in Overland Park. The same Jeep was also involved in a hit and run accident, of at least one parked car, in the 8300 block of Robinson Street. A witness to that crash then followed the suspect. That witness tells Police that the suspect turned off all of the vehicles lights and tried to speed away. The suspect attempted to turn eastbound on 87th Street from Robinson when the vehicle rolled over.

The driver has only been identified as a male in his 20's with extremely critical injuries. Officers say the man did not have any form of identification with him.

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Severe weather strikes Douglas & Johnson counties Sunday

Posted: May 7, 2012 - 5:50am

Update: May 7, 2012 - 6:07am

This morning, the National Weather Service says two tornadoes briefly touched down in Olathe on Sunday evening.

The first touchdown was reported at 6:10 p.m., near Kansas 7 Highway (K-7) and Santa Fe Street by a Trained Weather Spotter.

About 10 minutes later, another touchdown was, reported at 6:22 p.m., near Interstate 35 and United States Highway 169 (US-169) by Olathe Fire Department personnel. See the YouTube video at the bottom of this post for audio of this report.

Weather Spotters and Law Enforcement also reported rotation and lowering in the area of K-7 south of 119th Street and to the southwest of the K-7 and K-10 interchange. This lowering was not reported to have made contact with the ground.

No injuries or damage were reported directly related to the brief tornado touchdowns.

Severe Weather Reports to the National Weather Service

Hail was also reported just outside of Eudora and in Lawrence. Hail reports in Douglas County varied from Dime to Half Dollar in size. Minor damage was reported to a few vehicles in Douglas County as a result of the hail.

Several hundred were without power for times in both Douglas and Johnson Counties. Westar Energy reported nearly 600 Douglas County customers without power around 6:30 p.m..

Here is a rare glimpse behind the scenes of what was going on here at Operation 100 News as the second touchdown was being reported in Olathe. This recording includes audio from four scanners, with audio from Law Enforcement, Fire Department, and Weather Spotters. Some of the audio is difficult to understand as scanner volumes varied and the camera was closer to the Law Enforcement scanner than it was to the Spotter and Fire Department scanners. 

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As always, Operation 100 News is the work of one person. Therefore I may not always be available to provide you with weather updates when severe weather is headed for your neighborhood. Please do not rely solely on one source for emergency weather information. A NOAA Weather Radio is a great option to have handy. More Information here

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WaterOne's Quivira Road construction completed early

Posted: May 4, 2012 - 5:17pm
Updated: May 5, 2012 - 2:58am

Johnson County WaterOne has wrapped up their part of a major construction project which forced the closure of the southbound lanes of Quivira Road from 75th to 85th Street.

The project began Wednesday, April 25th and was fully reopened around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, May 4th. Work was initially expected to last as long as three weeks.

Crews replaced valves on the 30-inch transmission water line which lies under the southbound lanes of Quivira Road. A statement released late Friday says that crews often worked until 10 or 11 p.m. and this allowed them to complete the project in only 10 days.

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