Story updated at 7:05 p.m. June 27:
A woman on Tuesday told a Douglas County jury that she was repeatedly sexually violated in a Lawrence apartment by a man who is now standing trial for rape and who claims the encounter was consensual.
The man, Thomas J. Cormier, 22, of Maple Grove, Minnesota, has been charged with one count of rape based on an incident that allegedly occurred in October 2021 at Cormier’s ...
A Lawrence man who is charged with aiding a defendant in a teen homicide case was taken into custody on Saturday in an unrelated case.
The man, Camdon Joe Collins, 20, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of obstructing apprehension or prosecution by knowingly helping a person charged with a felony escape or avoid conviction or punishment. The charging document alleges that Collins ...
A Lawrence man who is charged in a fentanyl death case was arrested on suspicion of theft and interference with law enforcement on Saturday only days before he is scheduled to possibly enter a plea in the fentanyl case.
Mason Duane Robinson, 27, of Lawrence, is charged with one count of distribution of a controlled substance leading to death, a level-one felony. The charge is in connection with the death of ...
A Lawrence man currently serving a prison sentence for identity theft was ordered to stand trial on Monday for 13 alleged sex crimes involving a 7-year-old girl, including two rapes.
George Joseph Burgess Jr., 44, is now charged in Douglas County District Court with two counts of rape and 11 counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. The charges are in connection with a series of events that ...
A Lawrence man who was originally charged with rape and kidnapping pleaded no contest on Friday to a low-level felony as part of a plea agreement in which the state will support a departure to probation.
Robert Keith Wright, 57, was charged with one count of rape and one count of aggravated kidnapping, both of which are level-one felonies, the highest level of felony on the Kansas sentencing grid, and come ...
A second man has been arrested and charged in connection with an alleged kidnapping and armed robbery of a 65-year-old man.
Mustafa Darrell Muhammad-Springs, 19, of Kansas City, Kansas, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count each of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery with a firearm and aggravated burglary, according to charging documents.
The charges relate to an incident on ...
