A Eudora police officer with help from Douglas County sheriff’s deputies located and arrested suspects on Friday who were allegedly involved in an armed kidnapping of a 3-year-old in Topeka. Officers were notified around 4:35 a.m. that the suspect’s vehicle was heading southbound on Kansas Highway 10 near the Lecompton exit of the Kansas Turnpike, said George Diepenbrock, a spokesperson with the Douglas ...
A Douglas County jury on Friday convicted a man of multiple crimes related to entering a woman's home in a case in which police used Google data, among other evidence, to identify him. Lee Andrew Mitchell Pennington, 34, was charged with felony aggravated burglary, felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor stalking. He was convicted of all three crimes. As previously reported by the Journal-World, the charges ...
A Lawrence man was charged on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court with injuring another man using a deadly weapon, and the weapon was a pit bull. Malachi Samuel Thomas, 22, is charged with one felony count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, using a pit bull, and two counts of misdemeanor battery, according to charging documents. The charges are in connection with an incident on June 26, when ...
Updated at 4:17 p.m. Thursday You can find nearly anything on Google, and Lawrence police are using the tech giant’s data to track and identify crime suspects. One such suspect is on trial this week in Douglas County District Court. The suspect, Lee Andrew Mitchell Pennington, 34, of Lawrence, is charged with aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and stalking after police used cellphone data from Google ...
A former paraeducator at Lawrence Free State High School pleaded no contest Wednesday in Douglas County District Court to lewd touching of one child and to sexually exploiting another. Jalil Lynn Brown, 29, of Lawrence, entered the plea agreement to one felony count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one felony count of sexual exploitation of a child. Both charges are midlevel felonies. The ...
Updated at 3:10 p.m. Tuesday The Lawrence police chief has alleged in court that the Douglas County district attorney was "weaponizing" her subpoena power in a retaliatory way as their two departments are embroiled in a dispute over the personnel files of police officers. Though the dispute between the top area law enforcement officials has since been resolved, according to both parties, it involved both ...