The suspect who was reportedly captured on surveillance footage burglarizing the Islamic Center of Lawrence has been booked into the Douglas County Jail, online records indicate. Amadou Oury Bah, 32, was arrested at the jail in Omaha, Neb., taken back to Kansas and then booked into the Douglas County Jail on Wednesday afternoon. Lawrence police identified Bah as the man in surveillance footage from the ...
A Gardner man threatened a man and two children on a highway in Douglas County before leading law enforcement on a pursuit through traffic, an affidavit alleges. Seth A. Kenney, now 20 but 19 at the time of the alleged incident, has been charged in Douglas County District Court with four felonies: three counts of aggravated assault and one count of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer. The ...
Police are investigating a death near the Lawrence Public Library, but no foul play is suspected. Police were called to the 700 block of Vermont Street at 6:35 a.m. Tuesday regarding a “possible deceased subject on the sidewalk,” Sgt. Amy Rhoads, public affairs officer, said via email Tuesday morning. The investigation was in its preliminary stages, Rhoads said Tuesday morning, but she later confirmed ...
Over a span of just more than 24 hours in August 2018, a Lawrence man drove around exposing himself to several women and two children, police affidavits allege. David Daniel Schumock, now 28, was arrested in November 2018 and charged with four counts — one felony and three misdemeanors — of lewd and lascivious behavior. The charges stem from four reported incidents in which Schumock was reportedly ...
A Lawrence man burned aerosol cans inside his apartment, starting a fire in a building where other tenants were sleeping, but he made no attempt to alert his neighbors, according to court documents. Benjamin Cody Roberts, 28, was arrested July 1 and charged the next day with felony aggravated arson in connection with an incident at his apartment near Michigan and Sixth streets. The Journal-World requested ...
A cyclist injured in an Aug. 16 collision with a Toyota Corolla didn't stop at the stop sign on 17th Street before attempting to cross Kentucky, witnesses told police. In addition, the driver of the Corolla was reportedly eating a meal from Kentucky Fried Chicken — an officer wrote that he found a half-eaten bowl of mashed potatoes on the front passenger seat. The cyclist, a 30-year-old woman with a ...