Story updated at 4:09 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024:
A Lawrence man was arrested on Saturday in connection with sex crimes involving a teenager for an alleged incident in 2020.
Trystan James Williams, 22, is facing charges in Douglas County District Court of one felony count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child between the ages of 14 and 16, and one felony count of criminal sodomy with a child between ...
When Rontarus Washington Jr. pleaded guilty to felony battery and attempted robbery charges in Shawnee County in October, he says his mind was on what happened to him in the Douglas County court system years ago — how he spent more than five years in jail accused of murder in a case that was ultimately dropped.
He told the Journal-World that he thought Douglas County's court system "failed me," and that part ...
Before dying of an overdose from a fentanyl-laced pill, a Lawrence man told a friend the pills he purchased made him sick but that he couldn’t find other drugs to satisfy his addiction, according to a recently released affidavit in support of the arrest of a woman accused of selling the pills.
The woman, Terriana Audry Atkinson, 26, of Lawrence, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of ...
A Lawrence-based Navy captain and federal public defender has been selected to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
Capt. Rich Federico was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Dec. 11 after a 61-29 vote that included support from Kansas’ two Republican U.S. senators, Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall. Federico was nominated by President Joe Biden in July after the retirement of another ...
A Lawrence man has been charged in Douglas County District Court with a sex crime against a teenage girl for an incident that allegedly occurred just months after he was granted probation in connection with other child sex crimes.
The man, Quortez Eugene Longfellow-Coleman, 21, faces one felony count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child for intercourse with a girl between the ages of 14 and 16, ...
A man returned to Douglas County in the midst of serving a 10-year sentence for multiple child sex crimes to face charges for additional sex crimes.
The man, Johnie Lomas Saluto, 35, was sentenced in Douglas County District Court in August of 2020 to 122 months in prison, over 10 years, for two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. He had pleaded guilty as part of an agreement that dismissed ...
