Updated at 6:25 p.m. Thursday, May 25
Before she reported her allegations to police, a woman who said she was sexually assaulted by a Lawrence police officer in 2017 was scared, conflicted and struggling with whether what happened to her that night was her fault.
That's what she told a jury in Douglas County District Court on Thursday at the trial of the former officer, 42-year-old Jonathan Mark Gardner, of ...
Story updated at 6:52 p.m. Wednesday, May 24:
A witness on Wednesday testified that her friend didn’t tell the police about being raped because the alleged rapist was a Lawrence police officer.
The officer, Jonathan Mark Gardner, 42, of Tonganoxie, who is no longer employed by the Lawrence Police Department, is standing trial in Douglas County District Court on one count of rape, 17 felony counts of ...
A man was taken to an area hospital on Wednesday after he suffered a medical problem while driving in North Lawrence, veered off the road and crashed, according to police.
Emergency crews responded to the crash at around 4:40 p.m. in the 1000 block of North Third Street. At the scene, an SUV that appeared to have struck a tree could be seen lying on its side.
Sgt. Drew Fennelly with the Lawrence Police ...
A former Douglas County sheriff’s deputy has been charged in connection with a years-old domestic battery incident involving a now-retired sheriff’s lieutenant.
Breanna S. Pence, 32, of Lawrence, is facing one count of domestic battery, a low-level misdemeanor charge, according to charging documents. The incident is alleged to have occurred on Oct. 31, 2020.
Pence started her career with the Douglas ...
Story updated at 6:24 p.m. Tuesday, May 23:
A trial got underway Tuesday for a former Lawrence police officer accused of raping a woman when he gave her a ride home after she'd been drinking at a downtown bar — with jurors hearing differing accounts of what transpired that winter night six years ago.
The ex-officer, Jonathan Mark Gardner, 42, of Tonganoxie, is charged in Douglas County District Court with ...
Updated at 5 p.m. Monday, May 22
A Lawrence man known for filming and confronting police during arrests and offering angry criticism at local government meetings was arrested early Saturday morning at the scene of a standoff between police and a shooting suspect.
Phillip Michael Eravi, 53, was arrested on suspicion of felony interference with law enforcement around 2 a.m. in the 1900 block of Heatherwood ...
