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 ...
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. ...
After a third full day of jury selection, no jury had been chosen to hear the downtown Lawrence triple murder trial. Attorneys were still questioning potential jurors, an unusually slow process due to the unprecedented number of potential jurors rounded up for the high-profile case. Everyone left with plans to continue the process Thursday morning. On Monday morning, roughly 170 potential jurors were summoned ...
One of four women who tried to steal thousands of dollars worth of blue jeans from a downtown Lawrence shop will do prison time for the crime. However — in part because the woman is the mother of three small children, including an infant — a judge granted her special request for a shorter sentence of 21 months, instead of the 49 she would have received under Kansas sentencing guidelines for her conviction ...