Topeka

A.G.: Psychologist sales can include client files

The sale of a psychologist’s practice may include client records, an opinion released Wednesday by the Kansas Attorney General’s Office said.

The Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board asked for the opinion addressing the question of disposition of client records when a psychologist’s practice changes hands.

Once the sale occurs, the selling psychologist is no longer the owner or custodian of client records, the opinion states.

The opinion further states “while not required by law, the selling psychologist may find it advisable to notify clients of an intended sale of the practice and determine whether any client objects to the transfer of their records to the purchasing psychologist.”

Kansas City, Kan.

Drug convict ordered to turn over property

A judge has ordered a Kansas City, Kan., woman to turn over $10 million in property to the federal government and serve 10 years in prison after being convicted of participating in efforts to sell large amounts of crack cocaine.

A jury convicted 28-year-old Sherie Johnson in October of conspiring to possess and distribute crack cocaine, distributing the drug and maintaining a home for drug distribution.

Prosecutors said Johnson and six others — including her brother and father — were involved in a conspiracy from 1997 through 2002 to covert between 4 pounds and 22 pounds of powered cocaine into crack for sale in the Kansas City area every two to three weeks.

Under the sentence handed down Monday by U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum, Johnson must forfeit proceeds from illegal drug sales.

Brewster

Husband charged in fatal shooting

A Sherman County man has been charged in the shooting death of his wife.

Lanny Bevington, 33, was charged with first-degree murder late Monday in the death of his wife, Kerrie Bevington, 27.

Investigators initially considered the shooting accidental but changed their minds based evidence that included results of an autopsy, Sheriff Doug Whitson said.

Lanny Bevington told officers he was retrieving the shotgun from the passenger side of the couple’s pickup truck when it accidentally discharged Sunday, striking his wife, who was in the driver’s seat.

The last homicide in Sherman County was 14 years ago, and it remains unsolved.