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Armed robbery and possible hostage situation near Grove lotWichita KS

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Wichita, KS

Reports of an armed robbery near an empty lot on Grove, north of a church in Wichita. There may be a person held at gunpoint or hostage. Police are responding and have detained some individuals. The situation involves a possible hostage and gunpoint threat in a public area.

Audio|Source: Sedgwick County Law Enforcement
05:6
Transcript:
00:00
Who does that are where these people went that are reporting this exclusive armed robbery? And I'm not showing any priors of this address. Stand by my duo[2].
00:17
1024.
00:18
Here is who. Good. Can you please put me back on the disturbance?
00:27
135 you can show us out.
00:29
Jim Phillip, you know if you're here.
00:32
305, you should be back on it now.
00:33
That topic was for 302.
00:36
Yeah, there's a Northside for a shifter-in-route.
00:38
I'm not sure if the EVLs are working, but monsters why I sold the Norset Station, but they're aware of it.
00:42
10-4[1], thank you.
00:44
All right.
00:45
All right through to dispatch for the paying on that.
00:48
Is it going to be more in the alleyway or in that empty lot back area?
00:53
302 will you tonight?
00:54
302, could I get another tape number three?
00:56
It will be 7290, 7290,
00:58
thank you.
00:59
It's showing it more a little bit in the empty lot, on Grove just north of the church, the back side of that lot.
01:07
Never, thank you.
01:08
Four area. Ten four. Ten four.
01:09
That's fish a one or six hundred six hundred.
01:11
Good. Hey, one of those two detained is one of our guys, right?
01:14
Sorry, ten nights. One of the two people you have detained is one of the Sussex that we were originally called out for, correct?
01:19
Stand for, we don't have PC for our own charges out here, so we only have one of them detained at this point, and it's going to be the runaway with the EMCU[3] case.
01:25
Okay, I would just carry a short shop client's vaccine and that's suspect's back, but you have to release them, that's what it is.
01:32
Stand for ya, you can go ahead and you would do better clear it.
01:35
Sounds good, thanks.
01:36
35 chopper just fine.
01:37
Good. Hey, this is a ping location or was this given by the CP?
01:40
Let me ask.
01:41
129, 77, Norse 7.
01:43
Can you share me 83, please?
01:44
Yeah, this one.
01:45
Please. All right.
01:46
799, Norrify has Tiefing a decision.
01:48
It just got two calls on it.
01:50
People are getting text messages that someone's being held hostage or held at gunpoint here.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment
[2]
duo: Unit/Partner (contextual, not a code)
[3]
EMCU: Exploited and Missing Child Unit (contextual, not a code)

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