Bringing back fugitives wanted on felony warrants falls on the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Judicial Division. Deputy pilots Steve Saffell and Nathan Bevis fly on the sheriff’s airplane to retrieve some 200 inmates a year. What may seem like an extravagance actually saves taxpayers more than $100,000 a year. Read the story on Kansas.com and follow the deputies on a one-day trip — shown here in two parts today and Monday.
(Watch Part 1 after the jump)
Colleagues of Clarence “Butch” Pugh, a former Sedgwick County sheriffs’ detention deputy killed in a motorcycle accident last month, are planning a benefit Friday to raise money to help bring his wife home to Wichita.
A dinner, silent auction, car show and karaoke contest are scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Friday at Signatures Lounge, 1621 S. Woodlawn.
The aim is to raise $25,000 to bring Debi Pugh back home from a hospital in Billings, Mont., where she is recovering after suffering multiple broken bones and having her left leg amputated. Butch and Debi Pugh had taken their new Honda Goldwings on vacation to Yellowstone Park. A driver of a pickup truck fell asleep at the wheel June 20, crossed the center line and hit the couple, killing Butch Pugh, and injuring Debi Pugh. Butch was 53.