Story updated at 10:17 a.m. Thursday One motorist was seriously injured in an early morning wreck at a stoplight on the South Lawrence Trafficway, at the southwest edge of town. The crash, which involved three vehicles, happened just before 6 a.m. Thursday on the portion of Kansas Highway 10 known as the South Lawrence Trafficway at the 27th Street intersection, Sgt. Kristen Channel of the Douglas County ...
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 189 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 murder defendant’s lawyer made fireworks in court recently by accusing the Douglas County District Attorney of misconduct and demanding him kicked off the case. The presiding judge put closure to the matter this week, filing a formal order rejecting the lawyer’s request and explaining why. DA Charles Branson and his team were “doing their due diligence on an important issue,” and there’s no basis ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison Wednesday for soliciting a 16-year-old girl to create and send him child pornography. Jamie Drake, 40, was sentenced to 151 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a news release. Drake previously pleaded guilty and was convicted of one count of coercion and enticement of a minor, McAllister said. Drake admitted that he ...
A Lawrence police officer who shot a man when an arrest attempt turned violent says her criminal charge should be dropped, because she was protecting a fellow officer. In a motion filed last week in Douglas County District Court, attorneys for Brindley D. Blood, 36, of Lawrence, cited Kansas law governing use of force in self-defense or defense of another. The law says deadly force is justified if the person ...
A Topeka man has been charged with a robbery at a Lawrence drive-in restaurant, along with seven other business robberies in Topeka this year. Joseph Bryant Toole, III, 35, was indicted Wednesday in federal court on charges of the eight robberies, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a news release. The spree of robberies occurred from March through this month, with the last three in a row occurring at ...