A couple of weeks after finding the body of 19-year-old Justina Altamirano Mosso, stabbed and bludgeoned in an apartment bathroom, police found her phone. It was up on the roof of the same apartment building, wrapped in a white ankle sock, then stuffed inside a brown sock, detectives reported. Yet they couldn’t search the device for electronic clues about Mosso’s death; the phone was locked, and it’s ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 132 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature. It's important to remember that each incident ...
A Lawrence police officer facing criminal charges for shooting a man after a traffic stop now has a key hearing scheduled for next month. This week, Douglas County District Court Judge Peggy Kittel set the officer's preliminary hearing for March 20, according to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office. Attorneys for 36-year-old Brindley D. Blood, of Lawrence, have asked that her charges be dismissed. ...
The sentencing date has been pushed back for a man recently convicted of raping a teenager he met at a college bar. Albert N. Wilson, 23, of Wichita, appeared in Douglas County District Court Wednesday, but his sentencing was rescheduled for April 3. A pre-sentencing investigation, which details a defendant’s criminal history if any, was not yet completed, attorneys said. Wilson’s appointed attorney, ...
Skyler N. Yee not only stole dozens of pairs of underwear from volleyball players he coached, he organized them, court documents allege. After linking Yee to break-ins at the homes of multiple University of Kansas women’s volleyball team members, Lawrence police searched his home earlier this month. According to a police affidavit released to the Journal-World Wednesday, here’s what detectives found in ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 163 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature. It's important to remember that each incident ...