Kansas Sen. Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop. (Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office booking photo)
Updated story – 6 a.m. March 17
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A judge has ordered the release of a Kansas Senate leader from jail in Topeka after finding that there was not enough evidence to support his arrest hours earlier on suspicion of driving under the influence and attempting to flee from a law enforcement officer.
Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop was booked into the Shawnee County jail just before 4 a.m. Tuesday following his arrest on Interstate 70 by the Capitol Police.
But Shawnee County District Judge Penny Moylan ruled only hours later that a Capitol Police officer’s report did not include “pertinent information” about the arrest and ordered Suellentrop’s release.
The Shawnee County Sheriff s Office reported it arrested a Topeka woman and seized methamphetamine after stopping a car for a traffic violation about 8 p.m. Tuesday in the 2800 block of S.W. Burlingame Road.
The methamphetamine was found after a drug-detecting police dog was sent to the scene, said Sheriff Brian Hill.
Shawnee County Jail records indicated April Nichole Rivera, 28, was being held without bond Wednesday afternoon in connection with one count each of possessing methamphetamine and possessing drug paraphernalia.
Rivera was also being held on a bond totaling $7,165 on an outstanding Topeka Municipal Court warrant charging her with unspecified misdemeanors, according to jail records.
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