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These still frame images from surveillance video at the Jayhawk Cafe around midnight Feb. 4, 2018, show an interaction between Jameson O Connor and former Lawrence police officers Brian Wonderly and Brad Williams. Both officers were accused of untruthfulness in their reports and testimony in the 2018 Lawrence Municipal Court case in which the judge found O Connor not guilty of interference with law enforcement, and a Douglas County District Court case was dismissed in 2020 after a defense attorney questioned Williams veracity.
An officer who has been accused of fracturing a skateboarder’s elbow during an arrest and of lying under oath in a separate case has resigned from the Lawrence Police Department.
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Chairs are spaced apart at the Flory Meeting Hall of the Douglas County Fairgrounds on Dec. 18, 2020. Douglas County District Court made plans to hold jury trials at the building beginning in 2021.
Jury trials that were set to begin this month in Douglas County District Court are going to be postponed, the chief judge said Thursday.
The court has a plan approved by the state Office of Judicial Administration and by Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health to resume holding jury trials safely amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Trials were set to begin Monday, Jan. 11, using the Flory Meeting Hall at the Douglas County Fairgrounds to provide adequate space for social distancing, among other precautions.
The Douglas County Department of Youth Services is pictured in this Journal-World file photo from February 2016.
A teenager has been charged in connection with an alleged exchange of gunfire between people in vehicles in Lawrence.
Officers were dispatched to the 2400 block of Louisiana Street just before 1 a.m. Monday for a reported disturbance with weapons, Lawrence Police Department spokesperson Patrick Compton told the Journal-World via email Monday.
Officers spoke to witnesses at the scene who heard gunfire, but it did not appear as though anyone at the scene was injured, Compton said.
A Lawrence boy, 17, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the incident. He was charged Wednesday in Douglas County District Court with criminal discharge of a firearm, a low-level felony, for allegedly shooting at an occupied vehicle, according to the charging document in his case.
Colorado Springs man sentenced to 48 years for kidnapping, sexual assault
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) Two years after a convicted sex offender from Colorado Springs was arrested for kidnapping and beating a woman in Douglas County, a judge sentenced him to nearly five decades in prison.
Paul Nader, 32, was arrested and charged with kidnapping and sexual assault after he forced a woman into her own vehicle and drove off with her, according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney s Office.
Witnesses called police to a Lone Tree coffee shop on Aug. 14, 2018, and said they saw Nader force the woman into her own vehicle. Later on, witnesses at a gas station in Douglas County reported seeing the pair get out of a vehicle and when Nader wasn t looking, the victim mouthed Call 911, according to the 18th DA s office. The Douglas County Sheriff s Office arrived and Nader was taken into custody.
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