Lee's Summit city employee Daren Fristoe faces criminal charges - + KSHB.com
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. - A city official is now on paid administrative leave after he turned himself in to authorities.
The Missouri Highway Patrol said 51-year-old Daren Fristoe posted bond on felony theft charges in Jackson County on Monday.
Fristoe, the Lee's Summit assistant city manager, is accused of stealing money from his former non-profit automotive industry employer, C-CAR.
The assistant city manager is on paid administrative leave from Lee's Summit until a judge and jury decide whether Fristoe is innocent or guilty of stealing more than $120,000 from C-CAR.
Fristoe called Lee's Summit City Hall on Friday with the news.
"Mr. Fristoe advised me around 3:30 Friday afternoon that criminal charges were filed against him and that was the first we had learned of that," City Attorney Stephen Arbo said. "I was surprised."
Neither Fristoe nor his attorney were available for comment on Monday.
But the Jackson County Prosecutor's probable cause statement details Fristoe stole around $120,000 from the national organization and siphoned the money into his own personal bank accounts, paid off credit cards, a telephone bill, a bank loan and paid off loans to friends.
"He was very well thought of, highly considered," Arbo described of Fristoe when the city hired him in April 2013.
Arbo described Fristoe as an exemplary employee and a civic leader who passed all his background checks.
"I think we made the right choice in hiring him based in what we knew," Arbo said.
In 2013, Lee's Summit's Mayor awarded Fristoe the Mayoral Ethics in Business Award.
If he's convicted of felony theft charges, Fristoe faces 15 years in prison.
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Lee’s Summit police investigate vehicle fatality | The Kansas City Star
Lee’s Summit police investigate vehicle fatality | The Kansas City Star
A Lake Lotawana man died after his pickup truck struck a concrete traffic signal base Friday morning in Lee’s Summit, police said.
Kenneth D. Bias, 74, was driving north on Southwest Oldham Parkway, approaching Third Street, when his 2013 Toyota Tacoma veered into oncoming traffic and struck the traffic signal about 9 a.m.
Wreck debris hit a school bus waiting in traffic nearby. No students were on board.
Bias was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Lee’s Summit school lockdown lifted after gun scare | fox4kc.com
Lee’s Summit school lockdown lifted after gun scare | fox4kc.com
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — A lockdown at a Lee’s Summit elementary school has been lifted.
According to the Lee’s Summit School District, a crossing guard working outside Prairie View Elementary School, 501 S.E. Todd George Pkwy., called police Friday morning when the guard thought he or she spotted someone armed with a gun.
Lee’s Summit Police tell FOX 4 that the school was put on lockdown as a precaution.
In its message informing families, the Lee’s Summit School District said that at approximately 8:35 a.m., a white van pulled up to the crossing guard with three male passengers inside displaying a firearm.
Janice Phelan, district spokesperson, says the van immediately pulled away and afterwards school officials quickly notified police. She said no students were in the crosswalk or near the area when the incident occurred.
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