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. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 210 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 only ...
After a second full day of jury selection, a panel still hadn’t been picked to decide the downtown Lawrence triple murder case. Potential jurors were asked to return to the courthouse Wednesday morning to continue the process. The group of roughly 170 potential jurors summoned Monday morning had been whittled down to roughly 100 by the end of Tuesday. Most of the cut jurors were released because of ...
A shooting and a series of armed robberies — where suspects barged into homes wearing creepy masks — earlier this year in Lawrence all had a common denominator: The same man setting up sham marijuana buys from people he knew were selling. But instead of buying, the man’s cohorts burglarized, threatened at gunpoint, robbed and, in one case, shot the victims instead, according to police ...
Multiple people reported hearing yelling and gunshots Sunday night in the 2500 block of West Sixth Street. Police checked it out and found spent shell casings and rounds of ammunition in the parking lot of the Country Club on 6th apartments, but no one reported being injured or having property damaged by gunfire, Officer Derrick Smith of the Lawrence Police Department said in an email to media Monday morning. ...
Story updated at 5:45 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. Close to 170 potential jurors flowed into the Douglas County District Courthouse Monday morning, kicking off the court’s largest jury selection operation in recent history, if ever. The group will be carved down to a panel of 12 jurors to hear and decide the downtown Lawrence triple murder case, the city’s only triple murder in recent history, or at least 15 ...
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. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 157 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 only ...