A Lawrence man pleaded guilty on Thursday to posing as a minor to have sex with a 15-year-old girl. The man, Rylin Ellis Gipp, 25, was originally charged with one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of sexual exploitation of a child for possessing child pornography, both felonies. The incidents happened between April and August of 2024. Gipp pleaded guilty on Thursday as part of ...
A Douglas County attorney asked the court on Tuesday to delay a teen murder trial. The request, due to an unspecified medical issue of the attorney, comes just two weeks ahead of the trial's scheduled start date. The trial is for Cir Allen Keith Glover, 19, of Lawrence, who is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Isaiah Neal on June 13, 2024, at 2406 Alabama St., as the ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Tuesday after his charge was reduced from attempted murder to aggravated battery as part of a plea agreement in connection with a shooting at a Lawrence motel in 2023. The man, Evan Gauge Heffner, 20, was convicted on Sept. 4, 2024, in Douglas County District Court of one felony count of aggravated battery. Heffner was originally charged with attempted ...
A man was sentenced to just over three years in prison on Monday as part of a plea agreement that resolved charges for attempted murder and battery on a law enforcement officer. Dimas Alberto Bencomo-Bustamante, 36, was charged with one felony count of attempted murder for allegedly stabbing a coworker four times on Jan. 31, 2023, and one felony count of battery on a law enforcement officer for allegedly ...
A K-9 officer who spent more than two decades with the Lawrence Police Department and has worked with multiple patrol dogs retired this week. Cpl. Matt Weidl worked for the Lawrence Police Department for 26 years, most recently as a K-9 officer, according to a post on social media from the department. In a celebration at the Lawrence Police Department headquarters, 5100 Overland Drive, Weidl was greeted on ...
A Lawrence man has been charged in Douglas County District Court with raping a 21-year-old woman. The man, Calistus Chukwuma Ezenwa, 21, faces one felony count of rape and one felony count of aggravated sodomy. The incident is alleged to have happened on Nov. 21, 2024. A report was made to police the same night of the incident around 10:30 p.m., according to the Lawrence Police Department’s call log. Ezenwa ...