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Authorities in Mexico have granted the extradition of Israel Mireles to the United States to stand trial in the murder of Emily Sander, the Kansas Attorney General's Office announced Tuesday.

Mireles has the right to appeal the ruling. The deadline for an appeal is believed to be Friday, said Ashley Anstaett, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office.

Mireles, 25, faces capital murder, rape and sodomy charges in the Nov. 24 death of Sander, 18, of El Dorado.

Authorities allege Mireles left a bar near El Dorado with Sander and killed her before going to Mexico. Mexican police arrested him Dec. 19.

-- Stan Finger

Edgar Richard's lawyer and prosecutors have agreed in principle on a plan that would allow the injured, mentally ill jail inmate to be released to a private care facility.

There would be conditions for the release, which would have to be approved by a judge, Bill Cummings, Richard's lawyer, said Tuesday.

On Feb. 15, Richard suffered a severely broken jaw and other injuries in an incident involving a Sedgwick County jail deputy. Sheriff's officials said an altercation occurred when Richard tried to leave his cell. Local and federal authorities are investigating the incident.

At the time of the incident, he was accused of violating his probation. He had been accused of carrying a concealed weapon -- a kitchen knife -- and accused of exposing himself.

About a week ago, Richard was returned to the jail from a Wichita hospital where he had been treated.

A 44-year-old McPherson man was arrested Tuesday and accused of capital murder in the May 18 strangulation death of an 85-year-old woman in a Buhler retirement home.

Marvin J. Gifford Jr. was arrested in McPherson County, where he is serving a two-year sentence for lewd and lascivious behavior. Jailers said he began that sentence May 29.

Law enforcement officials said Gifford also has been linked to a series of other attacks and attempted attacks on elderly women in recent weeks in Reno County.

Pearl Arthaud died May 18 at the Buhler Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community.

Prosecutors said Arthaud survived a March 21 attack in which she was sexually assaulted and strangled. They said Gifford allegedly returned to her apartment two months later and killed her.

Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they will seek the death penalty against Jason Tisdale,, one of 28 alleged Crips gang members accused of operating a racketeering enterprise to sell drugs.

"The defendant killed three people in order to advance his position and reputation in the Crips street gang and to advance the reputation of the Crips," U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren said in a statement.

Federal prosecutors in Wichita have used the federal death penalty law in three other cases, but none resulted in a death penalty that survived an appeal.

The indictment charges Tisdale, 28, and his co-defendants with using violence to protect their drug trafficking operations. The indictments cited four murders and 11 attempted murders from 1992 to 2006.

Tisdale is charged with the Feb. 3, 1998, killing of Tisha Jones and Keith James, who were shot in a duplex at 2226 S. Glendale that they shared with their 7-month-old daughter. At the time of her death, police said, Jones was scheduled to testify as a witness in a robbery trial of a Crips gang member.

Storm damage may make this the month to call for home repairs. But if repairmen you didn't call knock on your door, be wary.

Wichita police warn they may be part of a traveling scam.

Detective Bradley Bryant said the con men tell homeowners they have been working in the area and have leftover materials to repair the resident's roof, home or driveway.

The scam is not new. Bryant said these traveling repairmen usually appear in the Wichita area in the spring or after severe storms.

Three incidents involving elderly victims have been reported locally so far.

With time running out, the grand jury investigating abortion provider George Tiller has yet to see any medical records subpoenaed directly from the doctor, the judge overseeing the panel said.

District Judge Paul Buchanan told the Associated Press that independent experts reviewing the records have gotten fewer than 20 redacted medical files so far in the first installment from Tiller. Jurors have not yet received them.

The two experts, a doctor and a lawyer, will review the material before it goes the grand jury. Buchanan said he expects to eventually receive a sampling of between 160 and 170 redacted files dating from Jan. 1, 2004 to the present.

The grand jury's term expires July 8, and under Kansas law cannot be extended again, said Judge Michael Corrigan, the county's chief judge.

"They have a lot to do by July 8 and it is questionable how quick it will take to get something done," Corrigan said.

Criminal complaints from police beats in Wichita. Missing dates indicate days where no reports were filed.

Beat 11

Burglary

1700 block of N. Meridian, May 27.

Larceny

Adcock, Kevin L. and Erwin, Lacey D., both of Wichita

Aitken, Andrew N. and Schmidt, Rendilyn P., both of Wichita

Alberson, Michael K. Sr. and Littlejohn, Pazora M., both of Wichita

Anschute, Adam D. and Logan, Crystal A., both of Wichita

Aswarithdumrong, Boondarig and Paitoon, Sunita, both of Wichita