A Lawrence man who committed an armed robbery with his brother in 2017 will join him in prison. Tavaras L. Hunter, 38, was sentenced Tuesday in Douglas County District Court to 10 years in prison followed by three years of post-release supervision, according to Dorothy Kliem, trial assistant for the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office. She said Hunter must also register as a violent offender for 15 ...
Story updated: 2:50 p.m. Monday, March 4, 2019. A man has been charged in a sexual assault case stemming from crimes that allegedly occurred in 2017 in Douglas County. Steven W. Seyfarth, 23, of Batavia, Ill., was arrested on the charges in downtown Lawrence, according to Douglas County Jail records. The charges were filed Feb. 7 in Douglas County District Court. Seyfarth is scheduled to appear before a ...
Updated at 3:30 p.m. Monday A man has been acquitted of all charges in a rape case stemming from a 2015 incident in rural Douglas County. A jury on Monday found Andrew J. Flood, 24, not guilty of rape, aggravated criminal sodomy and attempted aggravated criminal sodomy against an unconscious of physically powerless victim. The verdict, delivered at 12:30 p.m. after less than three hours of deliberations, ...
An incident that started with a man trying to steal money from a tip jar at a Lawrence bowling alley escalated Sunday night, police said. Though the man was gone from the bowling alley before officers arrived, he turned up later after wrecking his car on 23rd Street. Police were dispatched about 9:45 p.m. to Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa St., after a man tried to steal money from a tip jar, got kicked out of the ...
Updated story - March 4, 2019 — Jury finds man not guilty of raping KU student On a Saturday night in November 2015, a University of Kansas student texted a Lenexa man she’d met a couple of weeks earlier in Lawrence. The two agreed to meet up. A few hours later, the man drove to town, picked her up at her sorority house and headed for Clinton Lake. They looked at the stars, sipped from a bottle of vodka ...
A Lawrence woman was huffing and driving when she caused a head-on wreck that sent two other people to the hospital last fall, newly filed criminal charges allege. The same woman had been arrested on suspicion of huffing and driving less than two months earlier, after driving the wrong way on Tennessee Street and crashing into a parked car, according to police. In the Sept. 3 head-on wreck, Kathleen E. ...