WRITER: Sara Shepherd

Lawrence police blotter for Oct. 21

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. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 239 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 ...

Lawrence police blotter for Oct. 20

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. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday and includes 246 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 ...

Affidavit: Calling self ‘a monster,’ Lawrence man admits to long-running sexual abuse of girl

When police confronted him with a girl’s allegations that he raped and otherwise molested her for years, Dustyn D. Polk responded that he was “a monster,” according to investigators. Polk, 43, of Lawrence, told police that while he didn’t have a clear memory of the abuse, “he was sure” he had molested the girl, according to an affidavit police prepared in support of his arrest. Investigators ...

KU law instructor, KCMO councilman and mayoral candidate arrested in Lawrence on suspicion of DUI

Updated story - April 11, 2019 — Lawrence judge drops DUI charge against KU law instructor, KCMO mayoral candidate Updated at 12:41 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. A University of Kansas law lecturer and Kansas City, Mo., city councilman who’s running for mayor of that city was arrested overnight in downtown Lawrence. Quinton D. Lucas, 34, of Kansas City, was booked into jail on suspicion of DUI early ...

Lawrence police blotter for Oct. 19

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. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 250 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 ...

Previously deported lawn worker paid girl $9 for sex act on Lawrence school grounds

A man who’d previously been deported from the United States was mowing the lawn at a Lawrence public school the day he received oral sex from a 16-year-old student on school grounds, the Journal-World has learned. The man paid the girl $9 cash, even though she’d asked for $15, because that was all he had in his pocket, he told police investigators afterward. The crime occurred a year ago, and Jesus ...