Downtown meters robbed

About $1,500 was taken sometime last week from several parking meters in the downtown area, Lawrence Police said.

The incident was discovered Wednesday when a maintenance worker checked the meters, according to a police report. The meters were from the 600 to 1000 blocks of Massachusetts Street and in three city parking lots, police said.

The meters were not damaged, and police were trying to determine how the money was removed.

Last summer, downtown parking meters were periodically targeted by a thief. No one was arrested.

Suspect pleads guilty in child pornography case

Kansas City, Kan. Timothy Allen Groves, 56, formerly of Lenexa, entered a guilty plea to one count of receiving child pornography.

Groves was indicted in September 1994 and was a fugitive until his arrest April 4, 2002, in Orlando, Fla.

On Feb. 17, 1994, law enforcement officials found a videotape containing child pornography at Groves’ Lenexa residence. Groves said he had received the pornography from Britain.

Groves faces a maximum of 10 years in federal prison without parole. Sentencing is set for Oct. 7.