A man who was acquitted of two sex crimes in September but convicted of furnishing alcohol to a teen girl and unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcohol was sentenced on Wednesday to six months in jail, which was suspended to probation. The defendant, Wyatt Farrow, who was 19 at the time of ...
A Douglas County judge has dismissed two sex-crime charges against a Kansas City, Missouri, man at the request of the district attorney. DA Dakota Loomis on Oct. 31 moved to dismiss the case of Daunte Alaiwat without prejudice, meaning it still can be refiled. Loomis said in his motion that he ...
A string of 911 calls about suspected gunfire across Lawrence on Wednesday night turned out to be a backfiring truck, police said. The calls came from southeast to the northwest of Lawrence and started just before 9 p.m. They didn’t stop until 10:30 p.m. Officers and detectives went in ...
Updated at 5:35 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5 Douglas County jurors on Wednesday found a 33-year-old Lawrence man guilty of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy — in a case where they had to determine whether the woman’s silent conduct amounted to consent and whether she had been overcome by ...
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office is asking a jury to convict a man of rape and criminal sodomy in a case where the alleged victim says she never said no, never told the man to stop, never was threatened, never called out to a person in the next room, never said anything at all and ...
A Douglas County judge has entirely sealed the arrest affidavit of a repeat felon who took a plea deal last month and was convicted in a liquor store assault. The plea deal itself was sealed on Oct. 15, and two weeks later Judge Stacey Donovan also agreed, at the request of the parties, to ...