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. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 207 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 only ...
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 197 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 ...
Story updated at 3 p.m., Jan. 3 Incriminating text messages that she swapped with her alleged co-conspirator may be shown to the jury during the upcoming trial of a Lawrence woman charged with murdering her ex and setting a fire to cover up the crime. A judge also ruled Thursday that friends of defendant Tria L. Evans and the man she’s accused of killing could testify about hearing Evans threaten to kill ...
Updated at 5:05 p.m. Thursday A Lawrence man who pointed a loaded shotgun at a police officer in 2014, prompting the officer to shoot him, is now out of prison but in trouble again. Zachary J. Ortiz, 28, was arrested after allegedly leading Lawrence police on a chase early Thursday morning. Ortiz was booked on suspicion of his third DUI, tampering with an ignition lock device, fleeing police and ...
A truck carrying an oversized load tried but didn’t clear an overpass south of Lawrence Wednesday night. The truck’s cargo — a large metal grain bin — hit the road above it, knocking the bin off the truck’s trailer, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post about 7:20 p.m. Wednesday. The accident happened on U.S. Highway 59 at the intersection of County Road 460/North 650 ...
Story updated 3:05 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019: The driver of a Jeep traveling the wrong way on U.S. Highway 59 south of Lawrence was allegedly driving under the influence when he caused a crash on New Year’s Day. Neither that man nor the grandmother and grandson in the car he hit were seriously hurt. Mitchell A. Johnson, 54, of Eudora, was arrested Tuesday at the scene of the crash on suspicion of DUI and ...