A man originally charged with attempted murder for shooting at a Lawrence nightclub after he was beaten up was sentenced to probation on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court. The man, Jermey Anthony Johnson, 25, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded no contest in March to one count of criminal discharge of a firearm and one count of criminal damage to property, both low-level felonies, as part of a plea ...
Updated at 4:44 p.m. Thursday, May 11 A disciplinary hearing has been scheduled with the Kansas Office of the Disciplinary Administrator for Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez, and a special prosecutor has been retained to oversee the proceedings. A disciplinary hearing is generally scheduled after a complaint has been filed against an attorney and the Review Committee of the Kansas Board for ...
A Topeka man was sentenced Thursday in Douglas County District Court to 32 months in prison in connection with an incident on Thanksgiving Day of 2022 when he used a tree branch to break a man’s nose. The man, Anthony Duane Harris, 57, originally faced felony counts of robbery and aggravated assault and misdemeanor counts of criminal damage and battery for an incident on Nov. 24, 2022, according to charging ...
A Lawrence man pleaded no contest Wednesday in Douglas County District Court to burglary of a rural home in February. Ulices Deaquino Altamirano, 20, was originally charged with felony aggravated burglary and misdemeanor theft but pleaded to one lesser count of felony residential burglary as part of a plea deal with the state. The charge relates to an incident around 4:30 a.m. on Feb. 5, when Altamirano ...
A man charged with attempted murder in a 2021 shooting in North Lawrence indicated on Tuesday that he is prepared to accept a plea deal. Alejandro Martinez-Diaz, 20, was charged in Douglas County District Court with two counts of attempted first-degree murder in connection with the shooting of a young woman on May 27, 2021. Martinez-Diaz is one of three men charged with shooting Caylee Nehrbass after allegedly ...
A preliminary hearing in Douglas County District Court for a man charged with attempted murder was continued on Monday after the alleged victim in the case said she lied to Lawrence police. Jayce Tyler Ingham, 36, of Iola, was charged with two felony counts of attempted murder and one misdemeanor count of criminal damage in connection with an incident on Dec. 2, 2022, near the intersection of Clinton Parkway ...