Kansas county to pay $37.5K to officer bitten by police dog
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December 1, 2019
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas county has agreed to pay $37,500 to a Wichita police officer who was bitten by a sheriff deputy's K-9, years after the deputy received her own settlement for being bitten by a police department dog.
The Wichita Eagle reported that documents it obtained through an open records request show the K-9 bit police officer Nathan Toman in the groin, thigh and wrist during a November 2017 burglary call. His attorney says the officer also suffered a fractured wrist.
The dog's handler, Sedgwick County Deputy Sarah Sinnett, successfully sued the city of Wichita for $67,000 af...
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