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 ...
A retired Lawrence police officer who was accused of hitting a man while off duty at a kids’ basketball game last winter in Topeka has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and will be on supervised probation for a year.
According to a recently filed journal entry in the Shawnee County case, former Lt. Myrone Grady has been found guilty of the Class C misdemeanor of disorderly conduct after having originally ...
A store employee was rude to her, so she pulled a knife on him. That's the state's version of what happened in the early-morning hours last November at a Lawrence convenience store. The defendant's version is that she was innocently acting in self-defense.
A Douglas County judge on Monday will decide whether the woman, Jazmine Porchia, should be immune from prosecution based on her claim of self-defense or ...
A trial for a Lawrence activist accused of interfering in 2023 with law enforcement is now set to take place in August after a judge reluctantly allowed another in a long line of continuances; however, there's a chance the case could be dismissed altogether in the meantime.
That's because the attorney for defendant Phillip Michael Eravi filed a motion to dismiss the case as a sanction on the state for providing ...
