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| Kansan DOC official retires |
| By cjonline.com - Ann Marie Bush |
| Published: 09/19/2011 |
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John Lamb’s days of fighting crime in the streets may be over, but he has plenty of memories from his 30-plus years in the criminal justice field to sustain him. Lamb, 60, of Topeka, recently retired as director of enforcement, apprehension and investigations for the Kansas Department of Corrections. One of those memories includes the night he was shot at in Nebraska. In 1977 when Lamb was working as a sheriff’s deputy in Ogallala, Neb., he received a call about a liquor store that had been robbed. Lamb discovered a car matching the description given as a car involved in the robbery at a convenience store along Interstate 80. He ended up chasing the two men involved down I-80 at speeds near 90 mph. “The next thing I hear is zing,” Lamb said. “Then I hear another zing. They were shooting at me.” More recently, he recalls a trip he took to Las Vegas when he helped bust a drug dealer. A co-worker jokingly told Lamb he might be on the same flight as a wanted drug dealer. Lamb didn’t hesitate looking at photographs and aliases. Sure enough, Lamb encountered the man on a flight and helped Las Vegas law enforcement officials nab the drug dealer. “He had $17,000 in cash on him,” Lamb said. “There were a number of other arrests made down the road because of that. I can’t go into more details.” Lamb was born in Ogallala, but his parents moved to Kansas when he was in elementary school. He graduated from Decatur Community High School. “I knew I wanted to go into criminal justice,” Lamb said. “I was thinking about a legal career. I was also very interested in wildlife.” Lamb attended Kansas State University, but before graduating, he took a job as a police officer in Nebraska. After working as police officer for about two years, Lamb took a position as a sheriff’s deputy in Nebraska and began serving on the search and recovery dive team, which is how he learned to scuba dive. “I decided I needed to go back to college, so I went back to K-State to finish my degree,” he said. Read More. |
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