A 23-year-old Lawrence man was found guilty Wednesday in Douglas County District Court of felony flee and elude after a police chase in March ended in a crash in a motel parking lot. The defendant, Malachi Starr, entered a no contest plea to the charge, which is related to an incident around midnight on March 15 when a Lawrence police officer clocked Starr driving over 80 mph in a 35 mph zone along Iowa Street. ...
A Lawrence man facing two counts of burglarizing two local businesses made his first appearance Wednesday in Douglas County District Court, where prosecutors informed the court that the man is also facing an imminent federal indictment for bank robbery. The defendant, Alfonzo Cole, 41, was arrested on outstanding warrants last week and appeared in Judge Amy Hanley’s courtroom via Zoom from the Douglas County ...
As bars were closing one night last November, two strangers collided on a downtown Lawrence sidewalk. The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office says that what came next was a string of crimes, but on Tuesday a jury quickly disagreed — after deliberating for less than two hours. The DA’s Office, represented by prosecutors Madeline Bjorklun and Jenna Phelps, had charged the defendant in the case, Abd ...
A 20-year-old Lawrence man was charged Monday with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly threatened a woman at a homeless campsite with a handgun. The charge against Preston Scott Foster stems from a disturbance at a campsite in Sandra J. Shaw Park, but police provided few details beyond saying a man "threatened a woman with a firearm" and the incident is "tangentially related to a domestic ...
A 22-year-old Lawrence man was injured and then cited for DUI after he allegedly drove into another car, which in turn hit another car Saturday in central Lawrence. Police said the man was southbound on Iowa Street just after 11 p.m. in a gray 1998 Honda Odyssey. Just as he approached 23rd Street he collided with a stopped red 2019 Honda Accord driven by a 36-year-old Lawrence woman. That woman's car was then ...
A Lawrence man awaiting trial for sexually targeting numerous pre-teen girls at a Lawrence middle school has now been charged with multiple additional sex crimes going back 16 years. The defendant, Kenneth W. Soap, 44, was charged Thursday with three counts of aggravated sexual battery related to two incidents in May of 2008 and one in February 2012, and one count of aggravated criminal sodomy for an incident ...