A fifth man now faces charges in an incident where a group of people allegedly stole alcohol from the occupants of a Lawrence apartment at gunpoint. The man, 22-year-old Malachi Samuel Thomas, of Lawrence, is charged with three counts of aggravated robbery and one count of aggravated burglary, according to charging documents. All of the charges are high-level felonies. The charges are identical to those of ...
Two Leavenworth men have been charged with aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary in connection with an incident at a Lawrence apartment complex. Blake William Brown, 21, and Nasir Rahman Ali Penny, 20, were each charged on Friday with three counts of aggravated robbery and one count of aggravated burglary. The charges are high-level felonies. The charges are in connection with an incident on June 28, ...
A former Lawrence police officer who's accused of improperly accessing a woman's driving records in a law enforcement database will be pursuing a diversion agreement for the second time after a previous attempt couldn't reach a resolution. David Shane Williams, 35, of De Soto, is charged with one felony count of unlawful acts with a computer and one misdemeanor count of official misconduct of an officer, ...
A Lawrence man is facing charges of burglary and theft in connection with three incidents throughout the city, including one in which he allegedly entered Liberty Hall and stole sound equipment and another that reportedly took place at LMH Health's West Campus. In June and July, 34-year-old Dennis Martin Miller was formally charged in Douglas County District Court in three cases that span more than a year, ...
Details of allegations against a former worker at a Lawrence child-care facility are still unclear nearly three weeks after the man was charged with sex crimes — and will remain so, at least in the near term, after a judge on Monday ordered the arrest affidavit in the case to be sealed. The former worker, Mateo Emilio Clavel Wills, 19, faces four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the ...
A fire at the Stull United Methodist Church led to the closure of Stull Road for several hours on Monday afternoon. North 1600 Road, Stull Road, west of Lawrence was shut down near the 200 block around 2:30 p.m. while crews worked to extinguish the fire, said George Diepenbrock with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The fire was extinguished by 4 p.m., according to Chief Mike Baxter of Consolidated Fire ...