A Lawrence man was charged Monday in Douglas County District Court with aggravated assault and other crimes after allegedly threatening a woman with a hammer. Jacob Michael Goans, 29, is charged with one felony count of aggravated assault, one felony count of aggravated domestic battery by choking, one felony count of criminal threat and one misdemeanor count of domestic battery, according to charging ...
Story updated at 6:30 p.m. Friday: A Douglas County jury on Friday convicted a Lawrence man of raping a teen who said another man in the room refused to help as she was being attacked. Ray Charles Atkins Jr., 22, was convicted of one felony count of rape related to an incident on July 19, 2019, in the 2900 block of Belle Haven Drive. Charging documents alleged that Atkins assaulted the woman when he was 19 and ...
A Lawrence man was ordered to stand trial Friday in Douglas County District Court after a preliminary hearing at which a woman testified that the man had sexually assaulted her as a child. The man, Dustyn Dwayne Polk, 47, acting as his own attorney, questioned the woman who has accused him of “grooming, molesting, then raping” her when she was 15 years old. He is charged with one count of aggravated ...
A woman on Thursday told a Douglas County jury how she tried to fight off an alleged rapist and how another man who was in the room refused to help her. The man accused of sexually assaulting the woman is Ray Charles Atkins Jr., 22, of Lawrence. He is charged with one count of rape, which is a level-one felony. The charges relate to an incident on July 19, 2019, in the 2900 block of Belle Haven Drive, when ...
A Lawrence man charged with murder in an automobile crash on New Year's Day waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Tuesday and plans to enter criminal mediation. Adrian Joel Martinez, 38, is charged with one felony count of second-degree murder, or, in the alternative, felony involuntary manslaughter and two counts of felony aggravated battery. He is alleged to have been driving under the influence when ...
A man who is suspected of killing four people in Ohio and was arrested in Lawrence last weekend indicated on Wednesday that he will waive his extradition rights. Stephen Marlow, 39, of Dayton, Ohio, is currently being held at the Douglas County Jail without bond. On Wednesday he appeared via Zoom in Douglas County District Court, where defense attorney Dakota Loomis said that he had spoken with Marlow and that ...