Updated at 4:50 p.m. Friday Two men were charged Friday in Douglas County District Court in connection with an alleged armed robbery Thursday at a home in Lawrence. Chester Wendell Brockman, 50, of Lawrence, and Markcus Trey Sanders, 28, of Kansas City, Kansas, were arrested Thursday in the 700 block of Walnut Street in Lawrence, according to the Douglas County Jail booking log. On Friday, they made their ...
Updated at 11:39 a.m. Thursday A Lawrence man charged with killing his significant other was deemed incompetent to stand trial on Thursday in Douglas County District Court. The man, Chad Joseph Marek, 27, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Regan Gibbs, 25, on May 16 in the 2500 block of West Sixth Street. Police said at the time that Marek told a dispatcher that God told him to do ...
A teenager was brought into Lawrence Memorial Hospital early Tuesday morning with a gunshot wound to the foot, according to police. The 17-year-old was reported to be at the hospital with the wound, which was not life-threatening, around 12:30 a.m., and at the same time, police were responding to a call of gunshots heard in the 2400 block of Louisiana Street, said police spokesperson Laura McCabe. Officers ...
Story updated at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday: A Lawrence man was sentenced on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court to 10.5 years in prison for a sex crime against a child, but his sentence was suspended to five years of probation. The man, Trey L. Gibson, 20, of Lawrence, had been convicted of one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of felony criminal threat after he pleaded no contest ...
Updated at 4:15 p.m. Monday Amid an outpouring of tears from friends and family, a Lawrence man was sentenced Monday in Douglas County District Court to more than three years in prison in the shooting death of a toddler in Douglas County. The man, Bishop I. Mendoza, 21, pleaded no contest in April to one count of involuntary manslaughter and one count of endangering a child. The charges came after Mendoza’s ...
A second man involved in an armed robbery in Lawrence pleaded guilty to the charges on Thursday while the third man connected to the case remains at large. Wesley James Tolbert, 25, Lawrence, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated robbery and one count of aggravated burglary. He was apprehended by U.S. Marshals in April. The charges stem from an incident where Tolbert along with two other men allegedly ...