Three people were injured in an apparent head-on collision Tuesday in southern Lawrence, according to police. The wreck may have been intentional, Patrick Compton, a spokesman for the department, said via email Wednesday. He said officers were dispatched around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday to the 2500 block of West 31st Street, where they found two vehicles. “After obtaining initial statements, officers determined ...
After his arrest Sunday in Johnson County, it’s not clear how or why Amadou Oury Bah, 32, of Phoenix, ended up in Omaha, Neb. But that’s where police picked him up as an alleged fugitive of justice, according to the Lawrence Police Department. Bah is the suspect in an Aug. 13 burglary at the Islamic Center of Lawrence. He was taken into custody in Omaha at 11:46 p.m. Tuesday, according to online booking ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will never ask you for money to deal with legal issues or to avoid being arrested. That’s a message that Jenn Hethcoat, a department spokeswoman, wants to ensure Lawrence and Douglas County residents know. In a phone scam that has made the rounds in the past few years, both locally and nationally, someone who sounds rather official will call and inform you that ...
Story updated at 6:25 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26: Overland Park police have arrested a man who Lawrence police believe is connected with a burglary at the Islamic Center of Lawrence, LPD spokesman Patrick Compton said Monday. Compton said via email that Lawrence police have identified the suspect as Amadou Oury Bah, 32. Bah was arrested and released by Overland Park police on unrelated charges, Compton said, and ...
One of three teens involved in a burglary of a gun shop in Eudora has entered a plea deal that will resolve four cases in which he’s charged. The boy was 15 at the time that he, another 15-year-old and Stevan Rios, then 18, were arrested on suspicion of breaking into Free State Guns and Tactical Weapons, 218 E. 20th St. in Eudora. Multiple assault-style rifles, pistols and revolvers were stolen, the ...
A jury on Monday convicted a Lawrence man of criminal discharge of a gun at an occupied dwelling, according to a news release from the Douglas County district attorney. Michael A. Hormell, 20, fired gunshots into a home in the 400 block of North Street on Jan. 24, 2018. Five adults and two children were inside, according to the release, but none was injured. The same man has a case pending in which he’s ...