A Lenexa man was convicted Monday in Douglas County District Court of one count of aggravated sexual battery for an incident that occurred three years ago in southeastern Lawrence. Jose Garcia Melgarejo, 41, pleaded guilty to the felony in a deal with the state, which had originally charged him with the more serious crime of aggravated criminal sodomy. The plea deal was reached with input and support from the ...
Updated at 6:37 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 A Douglas County judge on Friday ordered a man to stand trial for second-degree murder in the death of a Lawrence resident who was shot earlier this year in front of the Lawrence Public Library. Nicholas Beaver, a Topeka man who had stayed at the Lawrence Community Shelter, is accused of killing Vincent Lee Walker, 39, shortly after 5 p.m. on March 6 in the 700 block of ...
Updated at 11:27 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25 A woman was arrested Thursday evening in East Lawrence on suspicion of beating another woman with a baseball bat. Lawrence police were called shortly after 7 p.m. to the 800 block of Delaware Street, where three unhoused women had apparently set up a camp in the nearby woods, according to LPD spokeswoman Laura McCabe. "From what we gathered initially, all were together ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced Friday to a year of probation for threatening to harm a woman if she reported him for alleged abuse. The sentence for Servando Martinez-Vazquez, 24, capped a yearslong case that included a jury trial in September at which he was acquitted of aggravated domestic battery by choking and misdemeanor domestic battery but convicted of felony criminal threat. Judge Stacey Donovan ...
A woman who formerly lived in Lawrence is accusing a man she met through a dating app of secretly filming their sexual activity and later sending the footage anonymously to her boyfriend. The man, Garrett Christopher Lynch, of Kansas City, Missouri, is now facing a felony count of breach of privacy in Douglas County District Court. According to the affidavit in support of Lynch’s arrest, the woman, who now ...
A Lawrence teen accused of shooting another teen to death in June pleaded not guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder, and the court scheduled his trial to begin on Jan. 27. The defendant, Cir Allen Keith Glover, 19, is accused of killing Isaiah Neal, 17, on June 13 outside of Neal's home, as the Journal-World reported. The prosecution has argued that Neal was shot in the back seven times with his own handgun ...