A 30-year-old Lawrence man was found guilty Wednesday in Douglas County District Court after he pleaded no contest to aggravated battery in connection with a stabbing incident two years ago outside a Lawrence restaurant. The defendant, Edgar Oropeza Diaz, was originally charged with aggravated battery as a level 4 person felony but pleaded down to a less serious level 7 person felony. He faces between 11 and 34 ...
One can hardly put on a Jazz Age British farce without a Victrola gramophone on set, but good luck finding one. Theatre Lawrence had no such luck, despite scenic designer Jim Peterson "looking everywhere" for one. But it did have a 3D printer — a 21st century machine that staff could fire up to crank out a machine from 100 years ago. The faux-Victrola is one of many pieces that — whether specially created ...
A Douglas County judge has opted for secrecy in the case of a driver accused of killing a local actor. Without providing any explanation for her ruling, Judge Stacey Donovan issued an order Monday saying that the arrest affidavit for Eliseo Munoz, accused of murder in the death of Louise ImMasche, "shall be sealed and not released." Donovan apparently signed the order on March 6, 13 business days after it was ...
A 74-year-old man accused of numerous sex crimes involving children is now facing charges of intimidating the victims in the case, who are now adults, and attempting to interfere with the judicial process. The new charges were filed Monday by the Douglas County District Attorney's Office in an amended complaint against Mark Duane Strand, a federal convict who is now in the Douglas County Jail on the local ...
Updated at 12:33 p.m. Thursday, March 5 A man accused of sexually attacking two children decades ago in a Lawrence park is out of custody on a $100,000 bond and has hired a private attorney to represent him, according to newly released information in the case. David James Zimbrick, 58, was arrested in December by U.S. Marshals in Raytown, Missouri, after detectives with the Lawrence Police Department received ...
A 31-year-old man who was accused last summer of damaging cars with a ukulele "used as a weapon" took a plea deal Thursday that resolved four criminal cases against him, and he was ordered to serve a year in the Douglas County Jail. The criminal damage charge against Randy Washee Ahtone Sr., which had already been reduced from two felonies to a misdemeanor, was dismissed altogether after he agreed to plead ...