A Kansas City, Kansas, man has been found guilty of robbing a bank in Lawrence. A federal jury found Davonte Chaney, 30, guilty of using a gun to rob the Truity Credit Union, 2221 W. 31st St., last summer, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Chaney has been convicted of using a semi-automatic pistol to threaten employees to get on the ground before taking an undetermined amount of ...
A Lawrence woman has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection with a crash that killed a pedestrian last August. The woman, Kodi Rae Crane, 39, was booked into the Douglas County Jail around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, according to the jail booking log. Lawrence Police Department Lt. David Ernst told the Journal-World in an email that the arrest was in connection with a fatal collision that ...
A Kansas City, Kansas, man was sentenced in a Douglas County District Court to 15 months in prison for leading police on a chase in a stolen car in January. Mason Kevin Needs, 32, was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Sally Pokorny to 10 months for theft of a Honda Del Sol and five months for fleeing from law enforcement. He was originally charged with theft, possession of methamphetamine and two counts of ...
A Lawrence man has been granted probation in Douglas County District Court in a case where he was accused of threatening to hit three people with his vehicle. Mesfen Abraham Oliver, 25, of Lawrence, was originally charged with three counts of aggravated assault in the case, but the charges were amended to a single aggravated assault count and a second-offense DUI count as part of a plea agreement. He pleaded no ...
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies have apprehended a suspect who is accused of stealing a large number of tools from an area barn. The suspect, Peter James Rutherford, 55, of Lawrence, is facing a felony burglary charge after the alleged theft in rural Douglas County, according to court documents. A burglary report was made Friday night for a large number of tools that were stolen in the 1100 block of ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has identified the driver who died in a wreck on the Farmers Turnpike Friday night as John C. Gilroy, a 64-year-old Lawrence attorney. Gilroy, known as J.C. in the community, was driving westbound on North 1800 Road, aka the Farmers Turnpike, around 6 p.m. on Friday when his vehicle crossed the center line and struck another vehicle. Gilroy was taken to an area hospital ...