A woman testified on Monday in Douglas County District Court that she and her roommate had been in a shared apartment for just a few weeks before she was stabbed in the stomach and needed emergency surgery.
The roommate, Chloe Alison Roberts, 35, of Liberty, Missouri, faces one felony count of aggravated battery, according to charging documents. The charge relates to an incident on Dec. 3, 2022, at The ...
One of five people accused of attacking an off-duty Lawrence police officer in 2022 pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two felonies in the case.
As part of a plea agreement, Xaviar Dean Anderson, 20, of Pomona, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit aggravated battery and one count of aggravated intimidation of a victim, both felonies. At a hearing in February, he had been bound over for trial on both ...
A former Lawrence man who is currently suing the state for wrongful imprisonment in connection with a long-running murder case is alleged to have used a pellet gun to rob a Topeka convenience store and to strike a store clerk in the head, before attempting to bite an officer during his arrest, according to recently released affidavits.
The man, Rontarus Washington Jr., 27, of Topeka, has been charged in Shawnee ...
A Douglas County prosecutor announced Monday that he intends to retry a man in a rape case in which a jury deadlocked last week.
The man, Kalim Akeba Lloyd Dowdell, 26, of Lawrence, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of rape of a person who could not consent due to intoxication or because she was unconscious, according to charging documents. The charges relate to an incident on Aug. 25, ...
A Topeka man has been charged with raping a woman who was unconscious in connection with an incident in 2022.
The man, Daniel James Garcia-Hernandez, 22, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of rape of a person who was unconscious or powerless, according to charging documents. The incident is alleged to have occurred on Jan. 16, 2022.
Garcia-Hernandez was arrested in connection ...
A Lawrence man allegedly told police that he had downloaded “maybe a handful” of pornographic images of young girls to use for sexual gratification, according to a recently released police affidavit.
The man, Joseph Alexander Dibben, 22, has been charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of exploitation of a child by possessing a photograph of a child in the nude, according to charging ...
