Updated at 4:40 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9 A 36-year-old man who was arrested Saturday in Lawrence on suspicion of burglary and aggravated arson was charged Monday with four felonies and two misdemeanors. Michael Lenoy Hodges, whose address is listed as “transient” in the Douglas County Jail ...
A man who had originally been charged with distributing a drug that caused a 39-year-old Lawrence man's death pleaded no contest on Friday to the lesser crime of simple distribution of fentanyl. Harlan Epps had been charged in the overdose death of Justin Jones, who died in his home on June 5, ...
The attorney for a man who was acquitted at trial Thursday in Douglas County District Court on Friday blasted news coverage of his case and said he would request a change of venue for the man's next trial, which was scheduled to begin on Feb. 18. Razmi Tahirkheli, the attorney for 28-year-old ...
A Lawrence man previously charged with distribution of heroin causing a death pleaded no contest on Thursday to three lower-level felony drug charges as part of a plea agreement. Timothy Edward Thompson, 44, had originally been charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of ...
No basis exists for a gunman to claim immunity from prosecution in the Jan. 17 shootings at The Hawk, a Douglas County prosecutor has written, citing video and witness accounts in the case. The 18-year-old shooter, Daitron Daniels Strickland, has claimed that he was acting in self-defense ...
Updated at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5 A man accused of beating and pistol-whipping people in a car and again on his front lawn was found not guilty Thursday of all six felony charges, including aggravated battery, in Douglas County District Court. The jury of five men and seven women returned ...