The FBI has released surveillance photos and is offering a reward for information in a robbery at a Lawrence payday loan store, thought to be related to a more recent robbery in Topeka. On Tuesday, the agency announced in a news release that a reward up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the robber or robbers. Anyone with information is asked to ...
Two people have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated robbery after reportedly stealing someone’s car, jumping in and crashing it a couple of blocks away. Just before midnight Saturday night, Lawrence police were dispatched to a disturbance in the 2500 block of Redbud Lane, Officer Shawn Gross said in an email to media Monday morning. When they arrived, police determined that someone had been battered ...
Federal authorities continue to investigate a landfill accident that killed a Lawrence man three months ago. The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, investigation into the January incident that killed 59-year-old Mark J. Wilson is ongoing, OSHA officials confirmed last week. The agency opened its inspection of landfill operator Hamm Inc. the day the accident ...
Story updated at 4:56 p.m. Friday, April 5, 2019: Lawrence police arrested a man — whom they’ve dealt with before under similar circumstances — after he reportedly exposed himself, then punched and wrestled with an officer at Walmart, 3300 Iowa St. The suspect, who suffers from mental illness, has been arrested multiple times in recent years for disorderly conduct and battery on police officers. He’s ...
Story last updated at 1:43 p.m. Friday A middle school student was arrested overnight in Lawrence after reportedly threatening a school shooting. Just before midnight Thursday, Lawrence police received a report that a Billy Mills Middle School student received multiple messages from another student threatening a school shooting, Officer Derrick Smith said Friday morning in an email to media. Police ...
Story updated at 3:17 p.m. Wednesday The second of three co-defendants in the Massachusetts Street triple murder case has been convicted, after entering a plea Wednesday in Douglas County District Court. Ahmad M. Rayton, 23, of Topeka, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted voluntary manslaughter, a felony, for shooting at a man during the deadly fracas in downtown Lawrence. In exchange for his plea, other ...