Junction City

Former police chief charged with theft

Topeka — A former Junction City police chief has been charged with four counts of felony theft and accused of stealing $10,954 from the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police.

Atty. Gen. Phill Kline filed the charges Thursday in Crawford County District Court against John Warren. The 51-year-old Warren lives in Lawrence but was a Crawford County resident in 2002, when Kline alleges the thefts occurred.

He lived in Crawford County after serving as chief in Junction City.

In a complaint, Kline said Warren was serving as treasurer of the association and wrote unauthorized checks, then deposited the checks in his personal bank account.

The penalty for each count is between five and 17 months in prison, plus a fine of up to $100,000.

Warren did not return a telephone message left Friday at his Lawrence home.

History

C-SPAN recording institute-sponsored tour

A cameraman and producer from C-SPAN are among those on a 10-day tour of historic East Coast sites sponsored by the Dole Institute of Politics.

The tour, which began Friday and runs through Oct. 12, includes 34 Lawrence-area residents. It is led by Richard Norton Smith, the institute’s director.

Stops include Sagamore Hill, home of Theodore Roosevelt, in New York; Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s estate at Hyde Park, N.Y.; Plymouth Notch, Vt., the scene of Calvin Coolidge’s inaugural in August 1923; the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston; the Quincy, Mass., home of John Adams and John Quincy Adams; the Waldorf Astoria’s presidential suite; the Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills, N.Y.; Boston’s Freedom Trail; and a visit to the Old North Bridge and other Revolutionary War sites in Concord and Lexington, Mass.

A broadcast date hasn’t been set for the C-SPAN coverage. Erik Nelson, associate director of the Dole Institute, said producers were considering turning footage from the tour into a documentary.

Courts

Murder trial delayed

The jury trial for Raymond Boothe, a Cameron, Mo., man accused in the August 2002 slaying of his 11-year-old disabled son, Levi, has been pushed back two weeks in Leavenworth County District Court.

The trial is now set to begin Dec. 15 before District Judge Frederick Stewart.

According to Deborah Owens, victim witness coordinator with the Leavenworth County Attorney’s Office, a sheriff’s detective described as a key witness, was unavailable on the original date of Dec. 1.

Gasoline prices

Pump Patrol seeks deals

The Journal-World has found Lawrence-area gasoline prices as low as $1.32 at Citgo, 2005 W. Ninth St., Zarco 66, 900 Iowa, and Hillcrest Amoco, 914 Iowa.

If you find a lower price, call 832-7154.