Story updated at 12:40 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14; booking photo added 10:25 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16: A Lawrence man was arrested late Friday in connection with a collision that killed a 24-year-old mother of two, law enforcement records indicate. Eric Lee Spaeth, 43, faces pending charges of attempted second-degree murder for allegedly killing unintentionally but recklessly, driving under the influence and driving ...
A man who was convicted of aggravated assault for aiming a gun at another driver on Sixth Street and then holing up in an apartment was sentenced to probation Friday. Chandler A. Grey, 27, must serve 24 months of probation, according to Dorothy Kliem, trial assistant for the Douglas County district attorney’s office. Grey pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated assault, a felony. As part of the plea ...
Jurors may have learned a thing or two from the series of forensic experts who testified during a trial for Tommy May on Friday. May, 60, of Lawrence, is charged with a slew of felonies stemming from incidents prosecutors allege happened within a span of about an hour on July 2, 2018. Prosecutors Alice Walker and David Melton have presented evidence this week to support allegations that May shot and injured ...
A Lawrence man who reportedly told police he viewed child pornography not for arousal but “as a form of art” was sentenced Friday to 32 months — two years and eight months — in prison. Charles R. Tingler Jr., 46, was initially charged Sept. 17 with two counts of sexual exploitation of a child. He also faced a charge in a separate case for alleged interference with law enforcement at the time his arrest ...
Lawrence Police Sgt. Robert Neff testified Thursday that he still sometimes sees a giant green block heading straight for him. The source of that imagery is the 1996 GMC Jimmy of Tommy J. May. Neff believed it was going to kill him, he said. May, 60, of Lawrence, is on trial this week in Douglas County District Court for allegations of crimes spanning a short window of time but multiple crime scenes. ...
After two full days of evidence for the state, jurors have barely skimmed the surface of the second scene involved in the Lawrence shooting case they’re hearing. They did, however, get a photo walkthrough of the first crime scene from the Lawrence detective who led that investigation. Tommy J. May, 60, of Lawrence, faces 10 felony charges in connection with an alleged two-part incident from July 2, 2018. ...