An Ozawkie man was arrested in Lawrence by deputies after he evaded Kansas Highway Patrol troopers in a chase on Kansas Highway 10. The man, Benz Ray Keyshawn Murray-Crawford, 20, is alleged to have led troopers on a chase while driving a black Kia Optima on the South Lawrence Trafficway around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, according to a release from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The chase ended when ...
The mother of a slain Lawrence teen was arrested on Friday after she was charged with firing a gun at a residence with children inside. Natasha Renae Neal, 45, of Lawrence, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of discharge of a firearm at an occupied dwelling. The charge is in connection with an incident on March 19 in the 1600 block of Haskell Avenue. But Neal is proactively ...
Douglas County Sheriff Jay Armbrister has launched a new podcast focused on connecting with constituents and giving them a look behind the badge. The podcast is called “A View from 100,” which is a reference to the sheriff’s radio dispatch number. The podcast is set to air about once a month on various online listening platforms and in its video form on YouTube. “I want the listener to hear the ...
In isolation, children can suffer at the hands of abusers. But in the process of bringing those abusers to justice, isolation can play a key role too. Children who have been the victim of sexual abuse or other trauma need a place to tell their stories in a protected environment, removed from the eyes and ears of anyone who might hurt them while advocates and law enforcement watch from afar. Locally, the ...
A Lawrence woman's routine drive home from an appointment turned horrifying last winter, she told police, when her ex suddenly came out from hiding in the back of her car and began threatening to kill her and her family. The man, Chad Everett Cline, 49, of Topeka, is then alleged to have stalked the woman, threatened her and destroyed property over the next month, according to a series of affidavits filed in ...
Two people testified on Wednesday about the fear and injury they suffered at the hands of a Eudora man; one of them was a Lawrence police officer who required reconstructive surgery after her nose was broken in the attack. The defendant, Jeffrey Montgomery Smith, 61, is charged with one count of aggravated battery against a law enforcement officer and one count of criminal threat against another individual, ...