A Lawrence man who was originally charged in connection with a 23-year-old woman's fentanyl overdose death was sentenced to 23 months in prison on Thursday in Douglas County District Court — 19 months of which he's already served waiting for his case to proceed.
The man, William Martin Byrd, 38, pleaded no contest in October 2022 to one count of distribution of fentanyl under 3.5 grams, a nonperson drug ...
Lawrence police asked for the public's help on Thursday night locating a man suspected of obstruction in connection with the 2023 shooting death of a 14-year-old boy.
According to a social media post on Thursday from the Lawrence Police Department, Owen Gage Walker, 19, is suspected of felony obstruction in connection with the death of Kamarjay Shaw, who was shot on March 18, 2023, in the 1300 block of Maple ...
A South Dakota man was arrested early Thursday morning after a car chase through Lawrence in which a deputy had to nudge the fleeing car with a patrol vehicle to stop it.
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies were called to assist Lawrence police officers around 1:45 a.m. after a pursuit began in North Lawrence, said George Diepenbrock, a spokesman with the sheriff’s office. The fleeing vehicle, a white Nissan ...
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 ...
