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John T. Booker Jr., Topeka, who was indicted April 16 in connection with an alleged plot to explode a bomb at the Fort Riley military base near Manhattan, Kan., will make an appearance in federal court at 9:30 a.m. April 21 in Kansas City, Kan.
At the hearing, Booker will be informed of the charges in the grand jury indictment, which were returned last week.
A former Kansas state legislator was sentenced Monday to 1.5 years in federal prison for defrauding Farmers and Merchants Bank of Colby, Kan., of more than $460,000, some of which he deposited in his campaign account, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. He also was ordered to pay $461,000 in restitution.
Trent K. LeDoux, 40, Holton, Kan., a former Republican state representative from the 50th District from 2011 to 2013, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud.
In his plea, he admitted he applied for three loans from the bank, falsely representing that he was going to use all the funds to buy cattle that would serve as the collateral for the loans. In fact, he used some of the money to pay off existing debts and to make contributions to his political campaign account, the U.S. attorney’s office stated.
Grissom commended the FBI and Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Hathaway for their work on the case.
A Honda Accord was traveling northbound on I-35 near 18th Street Expressway in Kansas City, Kan., at 2:12 p.m. Monday, April 20, when it had a flat tire, rotated, and then overturned, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.
The trooper’s report stated the car was traveling at highway speeds when it had a flat tire on the driver’s side rear. The vehicle rotated clockwise and entered the grass, the trooper’s report stated. As it traveled through the grass, it rotated counter-clockwise and then overturned, the report stated.
The Accord then came to rest in the ditch on its roof, the report stated.
The driver, a 20-year-old Kansas City, Kan., woman, was injured and taken to a Kansas City, Mo., hospital, the report stated.