Peabody man charged in father's shooting death

A rural Peabody man was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his father.

Harvey County authorities said the body of Richard Wiebe, 78, was found Sunday morning in a fifth-wheel trailer at his home in the 3400 block of Southwest 60th, which is halfway between Newton and Sedgwick.

An autopsy found that he had been shot in the chest with a shotgun.

Lamoine Wiebe, 43, was arrested by Wichita police earlier that morning on unrelated drug and traffic charges. He was moved Monday to the Harvey County Jail, where he is being held on a $750,000 bond.

Prison and court records show that Lamoine Wiebe has a long criminal history that includes mostly drug and nonviolent crimes. His most recent case was a felony drug conviction that led to him being sentenced Feb. 24 to two years of probation.

Lamoine Wiebe has served time in several Kansas prisons on more than a dozen charges, one of which involved the theft of a Wichita police car on Oct. 27, 1994.

Police at the time said Wiebe was arrested on a drug charge at 10th and Ash and placed in a patrol car with his hands cuffed behind his back.

As the arresting officers were outside the car talking with their supervisor, police said, Wiebe brought the handcuffs under his feet, climbed into the front seat of the patrol car and drove off.

The squad car was found abandoned at 19th and Washington less than an hour later. Police said Wiebe was arrested the next day after stealing a pickup and leading police on a chase that ended in northern Sedgwick County.

This story was originally published March 30, 2011 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Peabody man charged in father's shooting death."