A Lawrence man has been charged in Douglas County District Court with raping a 21-year-old woman. The man, Calistus Chukwuma Ezenwa, 21, faces one felony count of rape and one felony count of aggravated sodomy. The incident is alleged to have happened on Nov. 21, 2024. A report was made to police the same night of the incident around 10:30 p.m., according to the Lawrence Police Department’s call log. Ezenwa ...
Updated at 5:12 p.m. Monday, Dec. 30 A defense attorney in a DUI case has asked a Douglas County judge to sanction the District Attorney's Office for failing to inform the defendant that a law enforcement witness in the case was fired for conduct involving dishonesty. The witness in question is a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy who was fired from the office in February for stealing chips and soda from a ...
Prosecutors dismissed charges this month against a man accused of shooting multiple houses and a car while firing a gun out of a car window near the funeral of a 14-year-old boy who was shot and killed in 2023. The multiple felony gun charges against Dominic Sanders, 25, of Lawrence were dismissed with prejudice on Dec. 10, meaning they cannot be refiled, about a month after he was set to go to trial. However, ...
Multiple Douglas County judges have expressed concerns this month during various hearings about how crowded the January court calendar is, just as the District Attorney's Office is set to transition to new leadership. Dakota Loomis will become Douglas County's new district attorney on Jan. 13, replacing fellow Democrat Suzanne Valdez, who served one term in office before losing her August primary. Both have ...
A man convicted 31 years ago for fatally shooting a Lawrence businessman and wounding a woman will be up for parole in January. The man, James Patrick Ludlow III, 56, was convicted of second-degree murder in March 1993 in connection with the shooting death of Tracy Robbins, 32, a Lawrence contractor, on Nov. 22, 1992. He was also convicted of attempted first-degree murder for shooting Valerie Hartley as she ...
A Lawrence Community Shelter resident who killed another shelter resident by violently strangling him pleaded no contest on Monday to involuntary manslaughter. The defendant, George Miller, 34, pleaded no contest to one felony count of involuntary manslaughter in a reckless manner. The charge is in connection with the strangulation death of Christopher Allen Lickteig, 43, the night of June 11 at the ...