A Nebraska resident convicted of sexually abusing a woman in Douglas County was granted probation on Thursday, just after the woman spoke about how she gave up on creating art after the abuse and still suffers from trauma to this day. Axel R. Bordelon, 30, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced by Judge Sally Pokorny to 64 months in prison for two counts of felony aggravated sexual battery, and Pokorny then ...
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to hand over video interviews by police to the defendant’s attorney in the case of a 17-year-old who has been charged with the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old. The defendant, Derrick Del Reed, faces one count of first-degree murder in Douglas County District Court. He is alleged to have shot Kamarjay Shaw in the 1300 block of Maple Lane sometime before 5 ...
A Baldwin City man was ordered to stand trial on Tuesday after a witness testified that he choke-slammed, punched and sexually violated her, leaving her with vision loss and migraines. The man, Matthew Thaine Lee, 58, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of aggravated sodomy of a 37-year-old woman, one felony count of aggravated domestic battery and one misdemeanor count of ...
A Lawrence woman has been charged with arson in connection with a fire that did an estimated $40,000 in damage to a city park shelter. The woman, Deanna Lee Harris, 52, is charged with one felony count of arson of a non dwelling, according to charging documents. The charges relate to a fire around 5:50 a.m. on March 30 at the Chief Jim McSwain Park at the corner of East 19th Street and Haskell Avenue. As ...
A Topeka man entered a no contest plea on Thursday in connection with an incident on Thanksgiving Day in 2022 where he was alleged to have taken a cellphone from a woman and injured a 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 documents. Harris ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Friday for an incident where he confronted police with an assault rifle after ramming into a woman’s car and threatening to harm her, but that sentence was suspended to probation despite the woman’s objections. The man, Jesse Lamont McDonald, 33, pleaded no contest in Douglas County District Court in January to felony counts of aggravated assault on a ...