The former wife of a convicted child molester was sentenced on Thursday to probation in Douglas County District Court for hiding her then husband's crimes from police.
Lorene Rose Martins, 48, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest to two felony counts of aggravated endangerment of a child on Sept. 9. The charges relate to a November 2017 incident in which she prevented one of her husband’s victims, a teenage girl, ...
A Lawrence man on Monday was sentenced in Douglas County District Court to prison for his part in a 2021 robbery.
The man, Victor G. Moreno, 19, was sentenced by Judge Stacey Donovan to 32 months on each of two counts of felony robbery. Donovan set the sentences to run concurrently. Moreno pleaded guilty in May to the charges as part of a plea agreement that reduced the charges from higher-level aggravated ...
A new trial was scheduled on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court for a Eudora woman whose murder conviction was overturned by the Kansas Court of Appeals, and her attorney has asked for a fresh determination of probable cause in the case.
The woman, Carrody Buchhorn, 47, will now face a second trial on March 13, 2023, and she will remain on house arrest for the time being.
Buchhornwas convicted in ...
The Douglas County sheriff in a recent court motion has suggested that the Douglas County district attorney has issued subpoenas only to “harass and intimidate" him. The motion follows a similar motion last week by the Lawrence police chief, who said the DA was "weaponizing" her subpoena powers in a retaliatory way.
Both disputes center on access to personnel records of law enforcement officers and how those ...
A Lawrence man known for leading police on high-speed car chases was charged Monday in Douglas County District Court with attempted first-degree murder with a handgun.
The man, Steven Carl Drake II, faces one count of attempted first-degree murder. The charge stems from an incident on Sept. 28, when Drake is alleged to have fired multiple rounds from a handgun at a man with the intent to kill him, according to ...
A former Lawrence police officer signed a diversion agreement on Monday to resolve charges he faced after using police computers to spy on a woman with whom he was in a child custody dispute.
David Shane Williams, 35, of De Soto, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of unlawful acts with a computer and one misdemeanor count of official misconduct of an officer. His diversion period ...
