A Lawrence teen was charged Tuesday with a sex crime against a child. Cristopher Z. Moland, 18, was charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child younger than 14, according to court documents. The document alleges that on June 4, Moland engaged in “lewd fondling or touching” of a child who was 10 years old at the time. The charge is an off-grid ...
Iliatenco, Guerrero, is a small town in Mexico with strong Catholic values, Felipe Cantu Ruiz testified of his hometown Monday in Douglas County District Court. Many people from that town now live in Lawrence, and in the months prior to his wife’s murder, he was afraid that they would find out about the affairs she was having, he said. Justina Altamirano Mosso, 19, was found dead Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014, on ...
A 46-year-old man and an 18-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of child sex crimes Monday in Lawrence, according to the Douglas County Jail booking log. The 46-year-old man was arrested at 4:20 p.m. Monday in the 2100 block of Haskell Avenue, but his address is in the Jayhawk Mobile Home Court in the 1400 block of East 15th Street, near the East Lawrence Recreation Center, the booking log shows. The man ...
Story updated at 5:44 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, 2019: At the time of Justina Altamirano Mosso’s death, her husband believed she was pregnant with a “bastard child,” he testified Friday. Mosso was 19 when she was found murdered in the bathroom of the apartment she had shared with her husband at 1727 W. 24th St., Lawrence’s Cedarwood Apartments. Officers testified Thursday that they had found her slumped ...
Story updated at 9:18 a.m. Wednesday A Wichita man was killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash late Wednesday, Lawrence police said. Lawrence police were called to the area of Iowa Street and Stratford Road around 9:55 p.m., police said in a news release Thursday morning. Officers found that 52-year-old Silvestre Guebara had died when his pickup truck left northbound Iowa Street, struck a tree and rolled ...
Story updated at 8:18 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12: Though Olivia Flores’ memory has faded in the nearly five years since her cousin was found murdered, she recalled telling her not to leave — to come back and have supper. But Justina Altamirano Mosso, 19, never returned, and it wasn’t until two days later that police found her body on the floor of her bathroom, slumped against the wall and bathtub, her face ...