The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man with outstanding warrants and has asked for the public’s help to find him. The sheriff’s office is trying to locate Michael “Mike” Oleson, who has Douglas County warrants for failing to comply with court orders in battery, child endangerment, violation of a stalking protective order and criminal trespassing cases, according to information the ...
Gun-wielding suspects reportedly invaded a home and robbed two people inside Wednesday night in Lawrence’s Oread Neighborhood. Police were dispatched about 9:40 p.m. to a robbery in the 1500 block of Kentucky Street, Officer Shawn Gross of the Lawrence Police Department said in an email to media Thursday morning. A witness initially reported that suspects armed with guns robbed someone outside a residence ...
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 170 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 ...
UPDATED STORY: 10:52 a.m. Friday - Each defendant in downtown triple murder case will now have his own trial Story updated 8:26 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018: In the middle of the voir dire process while the lead defendant’s attorney was questioning potential jurors, a judge declared a mistrial and called off the downtown Lawrence triple murder trial on Thursday. The high-profile trial started Monday ...
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 198 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 ...
In a case particularly “fraught with emotion,” his attorney said, a Lawrence man was sentenced Wednesday in connection with his own young daughter’s shooting death. Douglas County District Court Judge Paula Martin granted a one-year probation for Chance M. Smith, 33. Noting Smith had little to no criminal history, prosecutors and Smith’s attorney had recommended the probation in a plea agreement. ...