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 ...
A Lawrence boy is scheduled to stand trial in late summer for alleged sex crimes against a 5-year-old girl. Douglas County Judge Stacey Donovan on Thursday set an Aug. 3 trial date for the boy, who was 14 at the time of the alleged offenses on Nov. 17, 2024. The boy faces one count of rape and ...
A 21-year-old Eudora man who is still on parole for a 2023 Lawrence shooting — one that, according to a legal fiction, didn't involve a gun — is back in the Douglas County Jail this week facing charges of additional violent crimes. Evan Gauge Heffner was charged Tuesday with three ...
Story updated at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17: A Lawrence organization called Sanctuary Alliance alerted the community on Tuesday that agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, were detaining individuals in Lawrence, and Douglas County's sheriff was sharply critical of ICE's ...
A felon who was facing 13 years in prison for aggravated burglary instead got probation Friday after a Douglas County judge found that he had made a "180-degree change" and that substantial and compelling reasons existed to depart from state sentencing guidelines. As Judge Stacey Donovan spoke ...