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Sabetha man arrested on attempted murder charge

By Greg Bebermeyer

11/13/2025

Gerry Rilinger/Credit: Brown Co Sheriff's Office

(KNZA)--A Sabetha man was arrested on multiple charges, including attempted murder, following a domestic incident last week.

Brown County Sheriff John Merchant, in a release, said the Sheriff's Office dispatched a deputy to a local hospital on November 8th to take a report from a victim of battery.

The deputy obtained suspect information from the victim while at the hospital, and then alerted other Brown County deputies.

A short time later, deputies encountered the suspect, 43-year-old Gerry Rilinger, in Fairview.

When a deputy approached Rilinger for questioning, Merchant said he
became argumentative, defiant and initiated a scuffle, which resulted in
his arrest.

Rilinger was booked into the Brown County jail on charges of 2nd-degree attempted murder, aggravated domestic battery, aggravated kidnapping, two counts of misdemeanor battery on a law enforcement officer, felony battery on a corrections officer, felony obstruction and transporting an open container.

Bond has been set at $2 million.

The Sabetha Police Department assisted.

Merchant said the investigation is still ongoing.

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