A Lawrence man was charged on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court with armed robbery and kidnapping for an incident in April at a T-Mobile phone store. Darien Khalil Chambers, 29, is charged with two felony counts of aggravated robbery with a handgun and two felony counts of kidnapping, according to charging documents. The documents say that on April 2 Chambers robbed two people of cellphone store ...
A 35-year-old Lawrence man was charged Wednesday in Douglas County District Court with sexual battery of a 16-year-old girl. The man, Isaiah Jamin Duckworth, faces one felony count of aggravated sexual battery of a person who is overcome by force or by fear. The incident is alleged to have occurred Tuesday. Duckworth was arrested around 4:15 p.m. that day in the 300 block of Maine Street. Duckworth appeared ...
A Douglas County District Court judge on Tuesday refused to delay a December trial for a man who is defending himself in a child sex crime case. Dustyn Dwayne Polk, 47, of Lawrence, is set to stand trial on Dec. 12. He faces two counts of rape, three counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a girl under the age of 14 — all of which are off-grid felonies that ...
Updated at 12:24 p.m. Friday A KU football player who was accused of brandishing a gun in traffic will not face trial for the incident. A judge on Friday in Douglas County District Court found no probable cause that he committed a crime, and the case will be dismissed. Trevor L. Wilson, 21, of Tallahassee, Florida, was charged with one count of aggravated assault with a handgun, according to charging ...
When Monique Jaimez and her wife, Jenna Bloom, were driving at Lone Star Lake in February of 2021, they stumbled upon a bizarre scene: a sedan nose-deep in the partially frozen lake and a woman in the water screaming for help. Jaimez testified on Friday in Douglas County District Court about how she waded into the frigid water to pull the 54-year-old woman and a dog out of the lake. And she also recalled a man ...
A Lawrence man was charged Monday in Douglas County District Court with distributing drugs that led to the death of another person by fentanyl overdose. Randell Mark Smith, 30, faces one count of distribution of a controlled substance causing death, which is the highest level felony, according to charging documents. The charge is in connection with an incident that occurred on Oct. 8, 2021, when emergency ...