A Lawrence man was ordered to stand trial for sexual assault and burglary for incidents reported in May 2002, but a Douglas County District Court judge on Monday dismissed two other charges against the suspect.

Police investigating a sexual assault and a series of break-ins near Clinton Parkway and Kasold Drive arrested the 20-year-old man on May 16, 2002, when they saw him trying to enter a townhouse in the 3500 block of west 22nd Street.

He was charged with four separate incidents in that area, the most serious being a sexual assault in the 3700 block of West 24th Street in which a woman reported waking up to find a man with a knife in her bed.

Judge Jack Murphy on Monday ordered the man to stand trial for that incident, as well as for trying to burglarize the townhouse police saw him try to enter during the stakeout.

But Murphy found there was no probable cause to try the man for two other incidents.

In one, a woman who lived in the complex where the man was arrested testified she woke up about 4:50 a.m. one day in late April and saw a man looking in her bedroom door. She said that the next morning, she found muddy footprints on her floor and money missing from her purse downstairs, but she couldn’t identify the defendant in a photo lineup.

Murphy also found there wasn’t enough evidence to show the man tried to enter a different apartment in the same complex on the night of the police stakeout.

Trial is set for Jan. 14.

The Journal-World’s policy is not to report the name of people charged with sex crimes unless they are convicted of the crime.