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January knife attack leads to March arrest

By Brian Hagen

03/21/2025

Michael Leach/Credit: Atchison Police

(KAIR)--A January disturbance, at an Atchison apartment that left one of two women requiring hospital care due to knife-related injuries, has led to an arrest.

Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, in a release, says 42-year-old Michael Leach was arrested Thursday afternoon, around 3:30, at a residence in the 1000 block of Kearney Street. He was taken into custody on an Atchison County District Court warrant charging him with aggravated robbery, robbery, aggravated intimidation of a witness, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, criminal threat, and battery.

Booked into the Atchison County Jail following his arrest, bond, for Leach, is set at $500,000.

According to Wilson, officers, early New Year's morning around 1:30, responded to an apartment in the 1200 block of North 4th Street after two women, aged 37 and 46, reported that a man known to them, identified as Leach, threatened and injured them with a knife before taking their cellphones by force and leaving the apartment prior to police arrival.

One of the two women was treated for knife-related injuries, then released, from the hospital.

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