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 ...
A Lawrence man has been arrested on rape charges in connection with an incident that occurred last year. Erick W. Ogwangi, 33, was booked into the Douglas County Jail and released after posting $30,000 bond on Wednesday, jail records indicate. He is charged with one count of rape, a felony, according to a complaint provided Wednesday by the Douglas County district attorney’s office. In the complaint, filed ...
Law enforcement arrested three Kansas City, Mo., men on Interstate 35 Tuesday night after they allegedly committed a violent crime in Baldwin City. An armed home-invasion robbery was reported about 7:20 p.m. in the 100 block of Santa Fe Drive, Baldwin City interim police chief Mike Pattrick said. One person, a woman, was home at the time and reported that two males she didn’t know entered her home armed ...