criminal threat conviction – 101.5 K-Rock Manhattan's Real Rock https://1015krock.com The Flint Hills Real Rock Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:03:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://i0.wp.com/1015krock.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/krock-fb-logo.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 criminal threat conviction – 101.5 K-Rock Manhattan's Real Rock https://1015krock.com 32 32 43031150 Birrell found guilty of threatening local priest https://1015krock.com/birrell-found-guilty-of-threatening-local-priest/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:03:44 +0000 https://1350kman.com/?p=437749

By Rose Gruenbacher

After less than an hour of deliberation, a Riley County District Court jury found Andrew Trevor Birrell guilty of criminal threat.

County attorney Barry Wilkerson said in his final address to the jury that threats made in a letter to Father James Buster were not veiled, but clearly intended to create fear.

He went on to say Birrell, 35, had an antagonistic relationship with Buster and would’ve clarified the gun he mentioned having in the letter was a BB gun if he didn’t wish to convey a threat. Wilkerson additionally referenced specific passages of the letter instructing Buster to take “one last walk” and quoted, “I will kill you.”

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]]> 249925 Man found guilty of aggravated kidnapping https://1015krock.com/man-found-guilty-of-aggravated-kidnapping/ Sat, 08 Feb 2025 13:53:27 +0000 https://1350kman.com/?p=432647

By Rose Gruenbacher

A jury found a Manhattan man guilty of aggravated kidnapping and other charges.

After the defense and prosecution rested in Jose Fuentes-Trinidad’s trial, the jury returned Thursday afternoon with a guilty verdict on all charges in Riley County District Court.

Fuentes-Trinidad’s charges included aggravated kidnapping, aggravated residential burglary, two counts of criminal threat against different victims, criminal deprivation of property and two counts of domestic battery, for which he’s been convicted two or more times in the past five years.

The Mercury is not publishing the victims’ names because of the nature of the crimes.

Fuentes-Trinidad will be sentenced at 9 a.m. Feb. 24.

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