A man who got kicked out of a downtown Lawrence bar reportedly displayed a gun when he wasn’t allowed back in early Wednesday morning. Lawrence police were dispatched to the Jazzhaus, 926 Massachusetts St., just after midnight for a reported disturbance with weapons, Sgt. Amy Rhoads said in an email. The suspect had been removed from the business for a disturbance on the patio but then returned and tried to ...
University of Kansas police are looking for a peeping Tom who’s reportedly been going into women’s restrooms on campus. Three times this month, a man has gone into women’s restrooms in Strong Hall and the Dole Center and has looked under an occupied bathroom stall, KU police said in a campus crime alert put out Wednesday along with a surveillance photo of the suspect. Police said the victims in all three ...
A woman who operated a prostitution business out of massage parlors in Lawrence and Topeka was sentenced to probation on Wednesday in federal court in Topeka. In addition to serving three years on probation, Weiling Nielsen, 54, agreed to pay a $650,000 judgment representing proceeds from her crimes, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a news release after her sentencing. Nielsen owned and operated Naima ...
Story updated at 1:50 p.m. Tuesday A Douglas County jury on Tuesday convicted Anthony L. Roberts Jr. of three murders and one attempted murder in the 2017 mass shooting in downtown Lawrence. Following a two-week trial and about five hours of deliberations, jurors returned their verdict just before 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. They found Roberts, 22, of Topeka, guilty as charged on all ...
One person was flown to an area hospital with serious injuries following a rollover accident in northern Lawrence early Monday morning. Lawrence police responded to the crash shortly before 4:30 a.m. in the 100 block of North Kasold Drive, Officer Shawn Gross said in an email to media. Arriving officers found a rollover crash with one person ejected from the vehicle and one person trapped inside, Gross said. ...
Updated story - June 25 — Jury finds Topeka man guilty of 3 downtown Lawrence murders Story updated at 5:48 p.m. Monday, June 24: Jurors on Monday began weighing whether a young Topeka man committed murder when he opened fire on Massachusetts Street. Following two weeks of jury selection and testimony in the trial of Anthony L. Roberts Jr., 22, in Douglas County District Court, attorneys delivered ...