A 25-year-old Lawrence man who reportedly sold 100 fentanyl pills in a single buy to a confidential informant was sentenced to more than eight years in prison Friday in Douglas County District Court.
“Every single pill is a potential death,” prosecutor David Greenwald told Judge Amy Hanley before she pronounced the sentence, emphasizing that the sale in question was just one of many that defendant Jadarrius ...
An employee of an elder care facility in Lawrence was ordered to stand trial Friday after a judge found probable cause to believe that she had mistreated and stolen thousands of dollars from a resident at the facility.
The defendant, Honesty Trussell, faces felony charges of mistreatment of a dependent adult or elder person and theft stemming from incidents in March and April, when she worked as the life ...
A man's preliminary hearing for attempted murder began dramatically Friday with the alleged victim, before the judge even took the bench, claiming loudly and profanely to the gallery that she was never going to testify and begging repeatedly to leave.
She nevertheless was called as the first witness against Dustin Ian Lane, 39, whom Judge Sally Pokorny, by hearing's end, would order to stand trial for attempted ...
A Lawrence man has been charged with bank robbery in relation to a July 2 theft from a local bank, and a federal complaint details the weekslong investigation by local police and FBI agents that led to his arrest.
The man, Alfonzo Cole, 41, appeared in Douglas County District Court on two burglary charges Wednesday, when local prosecutors alerted the court that the federal indictment was expected, as the ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced Thursday to more than four years in prison for his role in a 2022 case that was originally charged as attempted second-degree murder of a man in his 70s.
The defendant, Shane Jamarr White, 46, entered a deal in June with the state in which he pleaded no contest to reduced charges: attempted aggravated battery and aggravated assault, both felonies. As part of the deal, the attempted ...
A felony charge against a man accused of choking a woman was dismissed Thursday after the victim became uncooperative and failed to appear at the defendant’s preliminary hearing.
The defendant, Timothy Lamont Joseph Cable, 29, had faced a charge of aggravated domestic battery, but Judge Amy Hanley, at the state’s request, dismissed the case without prejudice, meaning it could be brought again. Assistant ...
