A Lawrence man was sentenced to 24 months of probation for his involvement in a kidnapping and sex crime case. John Brown, 51, pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated battery and criminal threat, both felonies, on Nov. 7. At that hearing, he told Judge James McCabria he had threatened to harm the victim — a woman who was 38 at the time — with a bat if she did not comply with the demands of his former ...
Sentencing was delayed for a Topeka man facing more than a decade in prison as his attorney is requesting that he receive probation or a reduced sentence. Jordan K. Ross, 22, was scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Douglas County District Court. However, his defense attorney, Cooper Overstreet, said in a motion filed Dec. 13 that Ross is “an ideal candidate” for probation or a reduced sentence. A jury on ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced Friday to just short of five years in prison for molesting a girl from the time she was 12 until she was 15. Frank J. Martinez, 36, was initially charged with three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, which would carry a presumed life sentence, and two counts of indecent liberties with a child, both lower-level felonies. However, on Oct. 17, he pleaded no contest ...
One of three people who allegedly held a suspected “snitch” in a basement for hours while they questioned him and threatened him with weapons was sentenced to probation Friday. All three suspects reportedly smoked methamphetamine at the beginning of their interrogation of the alleged victim, during which they blamed him for pending drug charges against them, the Journal-World previously reported. They were ...
A man convicted of stealing between $1,000 and $2,000 cash from the Islamic Center of Lawrence was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation. Amadou O. Bah, 32, pleaded no contest on Oct. 17 and was found guilty of one count of burglary of a nondwelling, a felony. As part of the plea, the prosecutor dropped a felony theft charge and a misdemeanor charge of criminal damage to property. Bah was identified ...
Story updated 5:34 p.m. Thursday: After just short of four hours of deliberations Thursday, a jury convicted Tommy J. May of 10 felony charges. May, 60, of Lawrence, was accused of shooting and injuring a woman, shooting and paralyzing a man and then fleeing the scene and attempting to run over an officer with his vehicle, among other charges, all within the span of about an hour on July 2, 2018. As Judge ...