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A Lawrence Police Department vehicle is seen in this file photo from September 2018. Story updated at 5:34 p.m. Monday: Lawrence police called in assistance for possible explosives that officers found during a search of a home Monday, according to a department spokesperson. Officers were executing a search warrant at a home near the intersection of Kasold Drive and Harvard Road when they found what they believed could be “unexploded military ordnance,” said Patrick Compton, spokesperson for the Lawrence Police Department. Officers called for assistance from Fort Riley, Compton said. Dep...

Dayson Gage Kelley, pictured in February 2020 A man who officers believed was readying a semi-automatic assault rifle around closing time in a popular Lawrence bar district was sentenced Thursday to 16 months in prison. The judge told him that he or police officers could have lost their lives, and “that is something that none of us can stomach thinking about.” Dayson G. Kelley, 19, of Topeka, was arrested in the early hours of Friday, Feb. 28, after Lawrence police officers Joshua Doncouse and Ian McCann saw him take a rifle out of the trunk of a vehicle in a parking lot near 14th and Oh...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — An Lawrence police officer who has been accused of fracturing a skateboarder’s elbow during an arrest has resigned. The Lawrence Journal World reports that Brad Williams’ resignation took effect Jan. 6. Police spokesperson Patrick Compton did not indicate a reason for the resignation. Williams arrested 45-year-old Duc Tran, of Lawrence, after encountering him skateboarding in the street in June 2019. The case against Tran’ later was thrown out, and his attorney alleges excessive force. A notice of claim sent to the city in September alleges that Tran suffered a fractu...

Kansas officer accused of injuring skateboarder resigns Follow Us Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Saturday, January 16, 2021 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - An Lawrence police officer who has been accused of fracturing a skateboarder’s elbow during an arrest has resigned. The Lawrence Journal World reports that Brad Williams’ resignation took effect Jan. 6. Police spokesperson Patrick Compton did not indicate a reason for the resignation. Williams arrested 45-year-old Duc Tran, of Lawrence, after encoun...

photo by: Contributed Photos 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 ...