A 55-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months in prison for violently threatening a downtown Lawrence restaurant worker. Judge Amy Hanley pronounced the sentence after hearing a brief statement from the victim delivered by prosecutor Eve Kemple. The incident was "very scary and ...
A 40-year-old man who was welcomed into Douglas County's new Veterans Treatment Court less than two weeks ago was charged on Monday with three new offenses. Colin Jay Fowler was convicted on Feb. 11 of residential burglary and felony theft, but his sentence was held in abeyance pursuant to his ...
A 44-year-old man was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to four of the 18 crimes he had originally been charged with. Antonio Paul Jaimez entered a plea deal with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office that made most of his charges go away and ...
A Douglas County judge on Monday ordered a Lawrence man to stand trial on multiple felonies after a pregnant woman testified that he choked her and threatened to kill her and her baby. The defendant, Patrick Gage Foster, 26, was originally charged with one count of aggravated domestic battery ...
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is now accepting applications for this year's Citizen's Academy. The academy is designed to give participants a working knowledge of the duties and responsibilities of the Sheriff’s Office. Over the course of seven weeks, academy attendees will receive ...
A Douglas County judge on Friday ordered a 19-year-old man to stand trial for aggravated indecent liberties with a child and other offenses after he allegedly invaded a home naked in the middle of the night, terrifying a Lawrence family. Judge Sally Pokorny heard evidence in defendant Jacob ...