Story updated at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday: A man was injured in a reported shooting Monday afternoon, according to Lawrence police. First responders were dispatched around 3:51 p.m. Monday to an apartment in the 2300 block of Wakarusa Drive regarding a possible shooting, according to the Lawrence Police Department. Upon arrival, they found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The man was taken to an ...
A Bonner Springs ballroom dance instructor has been charged in connection with a third reported burglary at the same Lawrence cigar shop. Phillip Michael Carney, 37, was charged formally Monday in Douglas County District Court with burglary, theft of cigars valued between $1,500 and $25,000, criminal damage to property to an extent less than $1,000 and battery on a law enforcement officer. As the ...
A Bonner Springs ballroom dance instructor was arrested in the early hours of Saturday on suspicion of burglary — the third such incident reported at the same Lawrence business. He’s also accused of threatening and striking Lawrence police officers. Phillip Michael Carney, 37, was initially arrested around 3 a.m. Thursday at 106 W. North Park St., according to the Douglas County Jail booking log. The ...
Updated at 4:46 p.m. Friday; booking photo added at 4:41 p.m. Monday: A Lawrence man was arrested Thursday and charged with rape Friday, according to jail and court records. Dominic Christopher Bartholomew, 25, was arrested on a probable cause warrant at the eastern Lawrence address listed as his home at 8:07 p.m. Thursday, the Douglas County Jail booking log indicates. The charges against him allege that ...
A Tennessee man was sentenced to probation Monday for leading law enforcement on a chase through Douglas County while he had a baby and guns in his truck. Kenneth Jeremy Leedom, 33, of Woodbury, Tenn., was arrested Aug. 11 after leading two Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputies and a sergeant on a chase down East 251 Diagonal Road, onto a private drive, through a ravine and eventually back to East 251 ...
Story updated at 4:25 p.m. Tuesday; booking photo added at 1:30 p.m. Thursday: Lawrence police arrested a man Sunday in connection with a series of recent burglaries, and he was charged Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. Dandre M. Cordray, 19, of Lawrence, faces 14 felonies: five counts of aggravated burglary, five counts of theft and four counts of burglary of a motor vehicle. He is also charged with ...