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 habitual drunk driver was convicted Wednesday of at least his fifth DUI, including for an incident in which he nearly drove into sheriff’s deputies who were conducting a field sobriety test on a different driver. David Dearborn, 57, entered guilty pleas to two DUIs, bringing to at least five the number of times he has been convicted of the offense. In addition to the two recent DUIs in Douglas County, he ...
Updated at 11:08 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 24 A man who drunkenly drove his truck through the front of a Eudora pizza restaurant, severely injuring two teenagers and causing extensive damage to the building, was sentenced to probation Wednesday in Douglas County District Court — but not before Judge Stacey Donovan heard from supporters of the victims and supporters of the defendant on how the crash had turned ...