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A 30-year-old homeless man faces four criminal charges linked to assaults on women in downtown Wichita over a three-week period.

Timothy J. Thompson is accused of attacking four women between May 19 and June 11, said Georgia Cole, a spokeswoman for the Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office.

Thompson is charged with two counts of sexual battery -- one May 19 and one June 11 -- one count of rape for an incident June 6 and one count of attempted rape June 11.

His bond was set at $100,000, and his preliminary hearing scheduled for July 1.

Wichita Police Lt. Troy Livingston said authorities knew of only two incidents when they sought the public's help in identifying a man believed to be connected to two assaults on Douglas downtown.

A Johnson County judge chastised District Attorney Phill Kline on Tuesday for not cooperating with defense attorneys in the Kelsey Smith case, but declined to impose sanctions requested by the defense.

Edwin Hall, 27, of Olathe is charged with capital murder in the kidnapping, rape and slaying of the 18-year-old Smith, who disappeared on June 2, 2007, from a Target parking lot in Overland Park. Her body was found four days later near a lake across the state line in Missouri.

Defense attorneys told District Judge Peter Ruddick that they still hadn't received a Target store video or follow-up reports on 1,100 leads. Ruddick responded that he had never handled a murder case that required so many hearings to get evidence to the defense.

"How long have they been asking for the video?" Ruddick asked Kline.

"Very early on," Kline responded.

Abbott, David M. and Huff, Jennifer H., both of Derby.

Alexander, Brady E. and Bevan, Samantha A., both of Wichita.

Androes, Steven C., Perry, Okla., and Richardson, Regina L., Wichita.

Antle, Justin M. and Mauch, Jessica M., both of Wichita.

Armentrout, Kris E. and Morris, Cynthia S., both of Wichita.

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

Beat 11

Burglary

1300 block of N. Meridian, June 6.

1600 block of W. 13th, June 9.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a 24-month prison sentence for David Wittig, a former Westar Energy Inc. executive convicted in 2003 of bank fraud.

It was the third time the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had considered the sentence against Wittig, former chief executive of the Topeka-based utility. The three-judge panel based in Denver had earlier rejected sentences of 51 and 60 months as too harsh.

Wittig served a little over a year in prison before being released on appeal, meaning he likely would have to return to finish out his sentence. An attorney for Wittig didn't immediately return a phone call for comment Tuesday.

The panel in 2006 had recommended a sentence of no more than six months, but said in its ruling that U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson provided adequate reasoning that a longer sentence was required because of the seriousness of the crime and because Wittig's co-defendant was sentenced to five years.

"Though a 24-month sentence was certainly not the only reasonable sentence the district court could have arrived at, we discern no abuse of discretion," the court said.

A financial counselor will fill the remaining term of Rep. Ted Powers, who died earlier this month.

Republican party leaders nominated Pete DeGraaf on Tuesday night.

DeGraaf also plans to run for Powers' seat in the November general election.

Powers, 73 and a Republican, died May 13 of complications from a massive stroke.

His District 81 seat covers parts of Sumner and Sedgwick counties.