Woman reports home-invasion rape

¢ A 20-year-old woman told Lawrence Police she was raped Saturday night by a burglar who was inside her home when she came home from work. The woman said she came home about 8:15 p.m. to her home in south-central Lawrence and noticed the light in her bedroom had been turned on. She said she went into the kitchen, turned around and saw the man, who struck her, threatened her, forced her into the bedroom and raped her, according to a report.She came to the Judicial & Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St., to report the assault because the man had broken her cell phone, she told police. The woman had “obvious injuries” when she came to the police department, and officers called for paramedics, who took her to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, LPD spokeswoman Kim Murphree said. Officers began a neighborhood canvass, but as of this morning the suspect hadn’t been identified. There were no immediate signs of forced entry at the home, but a sliding glass door appeared to be ajar. Police would not release a more specific location of the home.The woman described her attacker as a black male in his 30s, about 6 feet tall with a thin build, dark jeans and a long-sleeved shirt. The description doesn’t match that of a series of other home-invasion rapes reported around Lawrence since late 2004.Other crimes this weekend¢ Lawrence Police arrested two men early Sunday morning after a gun incident linked to Last Call, 729 N.H.Police said a 23-year-old man is suspected of threatening a group of between 10 and 12 people with a handgun in a parking lot near the club shortly after the bar’s 3 a.m. closing time. The incident may have been linked to a fight inside the bar earlier, according to a report. As officers on patrol in the area saw the disturbance and approached the area, the 23-year-old, identified as Joseph I. Monegro of Lawrence, and another man, identified as 19-year-old Jair James of Leavenworth, ran away.Officers caught both men in the area and arrested them. Police recovered a gun from the porch of a home in the 700 block of Rhode Island Street that Monegro apparently threw as he was trying to run from officers. ¢ Shots fired: an unidentified man fired two gunshots into the air around 8 p.m. Saturday after a fight between two men in the 1900 block of West 26th Street, according to a report. Witnesses told police they didn’t know the man who had fired the shots and that he got into a car and drove away.¢ Pool trashed: Someone caused between $15,000 and $20,000 damage to the pool and equipment at Haskell Indian Nations University in two separate incidents during the weekend. First, someone sneaked into the pool between 7 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m Saturday and discharged a fire extinguisher into the pool. Then, around 11 a.m. Sunday an employee discovered more extensive damage: items including a shed, weight equipment, fans, floor buffers and lifeguard chairs had been thrown into the pool. Also damaged were a set of hanging lights and ceiling tiles. The doors to the pool had been locked, Haskell employees told police. ¢ A 24-year-old Lawrence man reported the rear door of his home damaged and a $1,300 laptop computer stolen. It happened between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday in the 330 Perry Street, according to a report.¢ A laser gun and case valued at $10,000 was stolen around 10:30 a.m. Friday from Landplan Engineering, 1310 Wakarusa Drive.¢ Five guns, a TV and a DVD player were among the items stolen between July 9 and July 19 in a forced-entry burglary at a home in the 1900 section of north 1275 Road, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. -Contributed by [ Eric Weslander.][1] [1]: www2.ljworld.com/staff/eric_weslander/