A 16-year-old driver was taken to the hospital Thursday after a rollover accident in Douglas County. Around 3 p.m., a driver noticed that a truck had flipped over into a field in the 1000 block of East 251 Diagonal Road, on the west side of Clinton Lake, said George Diepenbrock, a spokesman for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The driver who saw the truck contacted emergency services, and ...
A Lawrence man has been charged with three counts of rape in Douglas County. Andreios Samuel Alexander, 26, is accused of raping a 33-year-old when he knew the person was unable to consent, according to charging documents in the case. The felony charges relate to three incidents between November of 2021 and March of 2022. Alexander was booked into the Douglas County Jail on April 29 and is being held on a ...
A man accused of sex crimes against two teen girls in his care testified Wednesday that he cuddled with one of the girls while she was naked and kissed her breasts, but didn't go any further than that. But the girl, who also testified, said that the man, Timothy Glenn Martins, also put his hand down her underpants and made an inappropriate remark. Martins, 47, of Lawrence, is a former Douglas County employee ...
At a trial Tuesday for a former Douglas County employee accused of child sex crimes, one alleged victim said the man repeatedly entered her room while she was sleeping in the nude and cuddled with her. The alleged victim, who is now an adult, testified in Douglas County District Court at the trial of Timothy Glen Martins, 47, of Lawrence. Martins worked for four years as an IT specialist at Douglas County's ...
Updated at 4 p.m. Friday A Lawrence man was sentenced Friday in Douglas County District Court to 24 months in a child pornography case; however, a judge suspended his sentence to probation. The man, Benjamin L. Pelofsky, 22, pleaded no contest to two counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a child in January for possessing lewd pictures of minors on his computer. The charge is a level-seven person ...
A Lawrence man has been charged in Douglas County with soliciting a teenager to perform sexual acts. The man, Jalil Lynn Brown, 29, is facing five counts of exploitation of a child by promoting a sexually explicit performance, one count of aggravated indecent liberties and one count of electronic solicitation. All of the charges are high-level felonies. The alleged events occurred sometime between March 2021 ...