Operation 100 News

09/20/2026

A 15-year-old girl is in critical condition after a three vehicle crash on Interstate 35 early Saturday afternoon.

The 15-year-old was taken to a hospital and a 19-year-old who was driving was sent to another local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

09/17/2026

“During the trial, when you were up testifying, I made a note of it, you couldn’t say you killed Miss Patterson,” Judge Ryan said. “You had kind of a way of saying it, but you couldn’t just say, ‘Yeah, I did it’.”

Sadowski will receive credit for 407 days already served in jail and will be required to register as a violent offender for 15 years.

Isaiah Sadowski will serve 10 years and three months in state prison for killing 75-year-old Barbara Patterson in a crash in December 2021.

09/16/2026

“As officers were at the residence, the woman drove past them and accelerated away at a high rate of speed,” Chavez said. “Officers activated their emergency equipment and attempted to catch up to the vehicle but remained a significant distance behind it.”

Chavez says officers located the vehicle crashed on Canyon Creek Boulevard near 100th Street.

Lenexa Police say Emily A. Porter, 53, drove past officers at her home and sped away before her vehicle crashed on Canyon Creek Boulevard near 100th Street.

09/13/2026

A volunteer dive team, now confirmed to be Echo Divers, located a missing person's vehicle in a Leawood pond on Saturday morning.

The vehicle was recovered with the assistance of the Overland Park Police Department dive team on Saturday afternoon.

Leawood Police say they're contacting the family.

The divers used sonar to find the vehicle at the bottom of a retention pond in the 14700 block of Norwood Street in southern Leawood.

09/11/2026

Axel Arellanes-Vara was one of three men charged in connection to the killings of two people in 2021 but the only one to go to trial.

The shooting happened on November 20, 2021, in the 1000 block of East Fredrickson in Olathe.

45-year-old Angela Santiago and 42-year-old Jose Arellano-Rascon, both of Tonganoxie, Kansas, were found shot to death inside of their vehicle, which was still running and in drive when police arrived.

Axel Arellanes-Vara was one of 3 men charged in connection to the killings of two people in 2021 but the only one to go to trial.

09/11/2026

I visited the Overland Park Fire Department 9/11 Memorial at the Fire Training Center, 12401 Hemlock Street, around 9 p.m. on Thursday.

A slow but steady stream of people came to pay their respects.

I counted 14 visitors to the memorial in the hour that I was there.

The fire department will be livestreaming this year's ceremony on YouTube, beginning at 7 a.m. https://www.youtube.com/live/fZAATaLWj7I?si=3SXc3V35UPKYZuS7

09/09/2026

Prairie Village Police say the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office has declined to file charges against a driver who struck and killed a construction worker.

The driver, who has not been officially identified, will instead be issued traffic citations.

Prairie Village Police say the case was referred to the DA's office for possible involuntary manslaughter. The driver will face a municipal traffic citation.

09/05/2026

Officers from five area departments responded to the Roeland Park Walmart after gunfire was reported on Friday afternoon.

There were no reports of injuries or property damage.

Police are still looking for the people involved.

Roeland Park Police say they found shell casings in the Walmart parking lot and are looking for possible suspects. Nobody was reported injured.

09/05/2026

Overland Park Police took Kaiden Jimenez, 20, into custody this week, and he now faces extradition to Leavenworth County where a deadly wreck occurred in April 2025.

Overland Park Police took Kaiden Jimenez, 20, into custody. He now faces extradition to Leavenworth County where a deadly wreck occurred in April 2025.

09/01/2026

A 43-year-old KCK man was killed in a single-vehicle crash this morning on Interstate 35 in Olathe.

Troopers say a KCK man drove off the right side of the highway in Olathe for an unknown reason and struck a pillar of the Lone Elm Road bridge.