A Eudora man was formally charged with rape Wednesday in Douglas County District Court. The man, Derek Sean Conner, 33, was charged with one count of rape, a level one felony, in connection with an incident on Jan. 23, when Conner is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 26-year-old who was incapable of giving consent, according to charging documents. Conner was arrested by Douglas County sheriff's deputies on ...
Updated at 4:45 p.m. Monday The suspect in a hit-and run that killed a Eudora 10-year-old has been transferred to the Douglas County Jail from Indiana, where he was arrested, and on Monday he appeared in Douglas County District Court to face three felony charges: second-degree murder, aggravated battery and leaving the scene of an accident. Jose Alfredo Galiano Meza, 28, of Overland Park, arrived at the jail ...
A Douglas County judge has ruled that a 16-year-old will be tried as an adult for the part he allegedly played in a shooting in North Lawrence. The 16-year-old, Eduardo Martinez-Diaz, of Lawrence, has been charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery in connection with the shooting of Caylee M. Nehrbass, who was in a car with Javier I. Romero, 19, on May 27, 2021. ...
Jurors in Douglas County District Court have acquitted a Topeka man who was accused of raping a former University of Kansas student. On Friday afternoon, the jury found 22-year-old Thomas John Zarse not guilty of one count of rape. The verdict came after jurors heard conflicting accounts from Zarse and the woman — she testified that Zarse had assaulted her in her apartment between Jan. 11 and Jan. 12, 2020, ...
At a trial for a man accused of raping her, a former University of Kansas student testified that the man pushed her against the floor and assaulted her, and that she was so scared that she "just couldn't move." "I was terrified," the woman said in Douglas County District Court at the trial for Thomas John Zarse, which began on Thursday. "If I could have run, I would have. I wanted to.” Zarse, 22, of Topeka, ...
A woman has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly pulling a gun on a man in the parking lot of a medical clinic in Baldwin City. The woman, Starr Wayne Hart, 46, of Overbrook, was formally charged Wednesday in Douglas County District Court with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The arrest came after an alleged road-rage incident, according to a news release from the Baldwin City Police ...