Topeka: Traffic stops yield more than 380 pounds of pot

Kansas Highway Patrol troopers seized more than 380 pounds of marijuana and arrested four people in one day in two unrelated Shawnee County traffic stops, a spokesman for the patrol said.

Second Lt. John Eichkorn said Monday troopers seized 255 pounds of marijuana from a pickup truck stopped for displaying an illegal tag shortly before 3 p.m. Saturday on Interstate 70. Two Overland Park men were arrested.

Eichkorn said 125 pounds of marijuana were seized from a car stopped for making an unsafe lane change at about 10:30 p.m. on the Kansas Turnpike, about four miles east of the East Topeka interchange. A man and woman from Phoenix, Ariz., were arrested.

Topeka: Treasurer seeks return of buyout pay

Shawnee County Treasurer Rita Cline said she has asked a former employee to return $20,456 she received in December and January as a buyout of her employment contract.

After reading the contract on Monday, Cline said she came to the conclusion that she had made a mistake.

Cline bought out Kate Carty’s one-year contract for $21,915 after Carty managed the Shawnee County Motor Vehicle Office at White Lakes Mall for more than a year.

The Topeka-Capital Journal on Friday published an article about the buyout. Carty and Cline now are partners in a Missouri business.

Olathe: Kansas Guard unit called up

The 137th Transportation Company has been called up for duty as part of the country’s war on terrorism, the Kansas Army National Guard said Tuesday.

Fewer than 100 soldiers from the unit, whose mission is to haul equipment on trailers, will be deployed. Some soldiers from the 778th Transportation Company, which is also part of the Kansas Army National Guard, are becoming part of the 137th for this deployment.