Police: Kan. man critically burned removing fuse from transformer box

Kroulik from an April arrest in Marshall County By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina Post A Kansas man allegedly shut down the electricity to half of a hote...

June 1, 2023
5:22 AM

Kroulik from an April arrest in Marshall County By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina Post A Kansas man allegedly shut down the electricity to half of a hotel and ended up in the hospital after an incident in Salina late Tuesday afternoon. Just after 5p.m., police and EMS were dispatched to Spangles, 1720 W. Crawford Street for report of a person who was covered in burns, according to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester. Forrester said the man, identified as Jay Kroulik, 44, of Cuba, Kansas, had walked to the Spangles parking lot seeking help after he allegedly removed a fuse from an Evergy transformer box behind Value Inn and Suites, 1640 W.