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Osage County Jail Log, March 16 – March 18, 2023

The following individuals were booked into the Osage County Jail in connection with charges or warrants as listed by the arresting agency.

Osage County Jail Log, March 7 – March 10, 2023

The following individuals were booked into the Osage County Jail in connection with charges or warrants as listed by the arresting agency.

Filings in the Osage County Courthouse, March 3 – March 9, 2023

The following information was compiled March 3 to March 9, 2023, from records at the Osage County Courthouse, Lyndon, Kan.

Osage County Jail Log, Feb. 27 – March 8, 2023

The following individuals were booked into the Osage County Jail in connection with charges or warrants as listed by the arresting agency.

Filings in the Osage County Courthouse, Feb. 24 – March 2, 2023.

The following information was compiled Feb. 24 to March 2, 2023, from records at the Osage County Courthouse, Lyndon, Kan.

Filings in the Osage County Courthouse, Feb. 17 – Feb. 23, 2023

The following information was compiled Feb. 17 to Feb. 23, 2023, from records at the Osage County Courthouse, Lyndon, Kan.

Osage County Jail Log, Feb. 22 – Feb. 26, 2023

The following individuals were booked into the Osage County Jail in connection with charges or warrants as listed by the arresting agency.

Osage County Jail Log, Feb. 13 – Feb. 20, 2023

The following individuals were booked into the Osage County Jail in connection with charges or warrants as listed by the arresting agency.

Filings in the Osage County Courthouse, Feb. 10 Feb. 16, 2023

The following information was compiled Feb. 10 to Feb. 16, 2023, from records at the Osage County Courthouse, Lyndon, Kan.

Carbondale teen dies after crash with wrong-way driver on U.S. 75

SHAWNEE COUNTY, Kan. – A Carbondale teen died Friday from her injuries sustained in a wrong-way driver accident Wednesday evening on U.S. Highway 75, and a Scranton man has been arrested on charges connected with the accident.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported that Anthony Ray Tugwell, 40, Scranton, Kan., was driving a 2010 Chevrolet Impala northbound in the southbound lanes of U.S. 75, near 97th Street in Shawnee County, around 9 p.m. Feb. 15, 2023, when his vehicle ran head on into a southbound 1995 Dodge Intrepid driven by Alyssa Marie Lee, 16, of Carbondale, Kan. The location is about 1.5 miles north of the Osage County-Shawnee County line.

Both drivers were transported to Stormont Vail Hospital, Topeka, where Lee later died. Each were the sole occupants of their vehicles and had safety restraints in use.

Tugwell was reported as having minor injuries; he was arrested by the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office and booked into the Shawnee County Jail Thursday on charges of aggravated battery, driving under the influence causing great bodily harm or disfigurement, driving under influence of alcohol or drugs misdemeanor, and driving the opposite direction on divided highway. Jail records show he is being held on $50,000 cash or surety bond, and a first court date has been set for 1 p.m. June 1, 2023, in Shawnee County District Court.

Osage County District Court records indicate Tugwell is currently under a 24-month probation order after a conviction last year of failure to comply with offender registration. Part of the conditions of probation include that he must not possess or consume narcotics or controlled substances except as prescribed, or use alcohol or cereal malt beverage. He was required to register as an offender due to a 2011 conviction in Shawnee County of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

Filings in the Osage County Courthouse, Feb. 3 – Feb. 9, 2023

The following information was compiled Feb. 3 to Feb. 9, 2023, from records at the Osage County Courthouse, Lyndon, Kan.

Filings in the Osage County Courthouse, Jan. 27 – Feb. 2, 2023

The following information was compiled Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, 2023, from records at the Osage County Courthouse, Lyndon, Kan.

Osage County Jail Log, Jan. 30 – Feb. 12, 2023

The following individuals were booked into the Osage County Jail in connection with charges or warrants as listed by the arresting agency.

Filings in the Osage County Courthouse, Jan. 20 – Jan. 26, 2023

The following information was compiled Jan. 20 to Jan. 26, 2023, from records at the Osage County Courthouse, Lyndon, Kan.

Osage County Jail Log, Jan. 22 – Jan. 28, 2023

The following individuals were booked into the Osage County Jail in connection with charges or warrants as listed by the arresting agency.

Kahler files motion in Osage County District Court to overturn death sentence

James Kraig Kahler is led out of the Osage County Courthouse to the county jail after his sentencing, Oct. 11, 2011. File photo.

LYNDON, Kan. – A man condemned to death for murdering his wife, two daughters, and grandmother-in-law at a Burlingame, Kan., home in 2009, has made a possible last ditch effort to reduce or overturn his sentence.

James Kraig Kahler, convicted of the quadruple capital murder and sentenced by an Osage County jury in 2011, filed a civil lawsuit Jan. 19, 2023, against the state of Kansas in Osage County District Court. In the filing, Kahler and his attorney, Julia S. Spainhour, of the Kansas Capital Habeas Office, Topeka, Kan., seek a motion for the court receive evidence on his claims for relief and vacate and set aside his convictions and death sentence.

The motion relies on a state law that allows a prisoner to claim the right to be released on grounds that a sentence was imposed in violation of the constitution or laws of the United States or Kansas, or the court was without jurisdiction to impose such sentence, or other grounds. KSA 60-1507 provides prisoners a filing time limit of one year from the last time an appellate court exercised jurisdiction.

Kahler has previously appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court, which affirmed his conviction and sentence. March 23, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its judgement affirming the Kansas court’s decision. The Kansas Supreme Court subsequently mandated Osage County District Court to execute judgment of the court, with that filing made May 5, 2022, and which set the one-year clock for Kahler to file the current motion.

The motion outlines 14 grounds that allege substantial violations of Kahler’s constitutional and statutory rights to receive effective assistance of counsel and due process of the law, to enjoy equal protection of the laws, to demand witnesses to testify on his behalf and to effectively confront the witnesses against him, to receive a fair trial conducted by an unbiased judge, and to have his evidence heard and decided by an impartial jury. Kahler also alleges the state of Kansas has violated his constitutional right to be free from cruel or unusual punishment.

In a separate motion to appoint counsel and set a status conference, Kahler, who is currently incarcerated under special management status in El Dorado Correctional Facility, El Dorado, Kan., asks for a one-year period to investigate and gather evidence to support his motion.

Following a two-week trial in August 2011, an Osage County jury convicted Kahler, then 48, of killing his wife, Karen Kahler, 44, his daughters, Emily, 18, and Lauren, 16; and Karen’s grandmother, Dorothy Wight, 89, on Nov. 28, 2009, in Wight’s Burlingame home. In addition to capital murder, Kahler was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated burglary. During the Oct. 11, 2011, sentencing hearing, then-Osage County Chief Judge Phillip Fromme affirmed the jury’s verdict of the death sentence.

After an almost 12-hour manhunt following the killings, a Shawnee County deputy found Kahler the next morning sitting in a roadside ditch along Auburn Road. The murder weapon was never found.

The current motion might not be Kahler’s last chance to attempt to overturn his death sentence. Although he has exhausted his direct appeals, and his capital murder convictions and death sentence have been affirmed, further appeals are possible. If Kahler’s motion is granted, he will also retain the right to appeal the court’s final decision.

Sheriff locates person of interest in Santa Fe Trail High School burglary

Update: Jan. 24, 2023, the Osage County Sheriff’s Office reported Dalton R. Quimby has been located, and charges against him for the burglary of Santa Fe Trail High School have been submitted to the county attorney’s office.

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Osage County Jail Log, Jan. 17, 2022 – Jan. 19, 2023

The following individuals were booked into the Osage County Jail in connection with charges or warrants as listed by the arresting agency.

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