A Missouri man has been charged with rape in connection with a 2019 incident in Douglas County. The man, Zane J. Baugh, 25, of Kansas City, Missouri, was charged Friday with one count of raping a 21-year-old in September of 2019. Baugh was arrested around noon Friday by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, according to the jail booking log. He was released later that day after posting a $25,000 bond. A ...
A Topeka man on Monday waived his right to a preliminary hearing in a Douglas County murder case. The man, Mehki McDaniel, 20, faces one count of second-degree murder in the November 2021 shooting death of Peyton Whitaker, 18, of Topeka. In addition, McDaniel is charged with six felony counts of theft of a firearm. McDaniel appeared in court Monday with defense attorney Branden Smith. Smith told the court ...
A Kansas City, Kansas, man has been charged with rape in a 2021 Douglas County case. The man, Marlon G. Clark Jr., 19, has been charged with one count of rape of an 18-year-old in connection with an incident on June 11, 2021, according to charging documents in the case. The alleged victim was intoxicated or unconscious during the incident, according to the document. Clark was arrested on Saturday around 12:15 ...
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office put its new muscle car on parade recently as Lawrence celebrated St. Patrick's Day. The new car, which made its debut — with an assortment of bells and whistles — in the March 17 parade, is a 2021 Dodge Challenger Scat Pack Edition, “Super Bee," and it was purchased to serve as a recruiting tool for the office, said Sheriff Jay Armbrister. The car cost $48,000 and was ...
A Lawrence man has been charged with multiple counts of possessing and sharing child pornography. The man, James D. Kaberline II, 40, was charged Wednesday with four counts of internet trading in child pornography, a level 5 person felony, and four counts of sexual exploitation of a child by possessing media of a child under the age of 18, also a level 5 person felony, according to charging documents. Each ...
A Lawrence man has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for attempting to solicit sex from a 15-year-old girl, but a Douglas County District Court judge suspended the man's sentence to probation. Michael Ken Aller, 32, was sentenced to 59 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections for one count of electronic solicitation of a person between the ages of 14 and 16, a level 3 person felony, and 32 ...