A Topeka man pleaded no contest Tuesday to theft and burglary charges in Douglas County District Court.
Joshua Scott Carpenter, 33, was originally charged with nine counts of theft, four counts of burglary and one count of fleeing from a law enforcement officer. Seven of the charges were felonies, and seven were misdemeanors relating to incidents on July 10 to July 14, 2021.
Over the course of a few days ...
A woman accused of helping a homicide suspect evade law enforcement was convicted Tuesday in a plea agreement in Douglas County District Court.
Ansley Katherine Fogle, 25, of Topeka, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of a low-level felony: obstructing apprehension by harboring or concealing a person who has been charged with a felony. According to charging documents, she was originally charged with making a ...
A man's prison sentence was suspended to probation on Friday in Douglas County District Court after police found nearly a kilogram of cocaine sewn into a coat in the car he was driving in 2020.
The man, Alejandro Marin Alfaro, 26, of McFarland, California, was originally charged with a level-two felony drug distribution charge. He pleaded no contest to a less severe level-four felony distribution charge in ...
The Douglas County Commission has settled a lawsuit by a former sheriff’s deputy who claimed he was fired for his post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
The lawsuit was filed in September 2021 by former sheriff’s deputy Brad Clover and was resolved on May 12, after more than six hours of mediation between Clover and the County Commission, conducted by Eischens Mediation Services of Parkville, Missouri, ...
A number of parents of students attending Lawrence's Raintree Montessori School expressed concern, fear and anger on Friday at what they called a lack of information from law enforcement and school officials regarding an employee who has been accused of committing child sex crimes at the school.
The 19-year-old employee of Raintree Montessori, Mateo Emilio Clavel Wills, was formally charged on Thursday in ...
Updated at 4:16 p.m. Thursday
A man who worked at a Lawrence child-care facility has been charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child in connection with incidents involving two children at the facility.
The man, Mateo Emilio Clavel Wills, 19, of Lawrence, was taken into custody by Lawrence police around 8 p.m. Wednesday at police headquarters, 5100 Overland Drive, according to the jail booking ...
