Leavenworth ? A Bonner Springs man has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing a preteen four years ago in Lansing.Stephen Michael Russell, 36, was sentenced Friday in Leavenworth County District Court.Judge Gunnar Sundby ordered the prison sentence after a jury in March convicted ...
A Linwood man sentenced to life in prison for child rape late last year, currently out of jail on a $400,000 appeal bond, has been placed under supervision and ordered to stay away from children and places frequented by children, as a condition of his bond.A Leavenworth County District Court ...
When the economy slowed down and construction jobs started drying up, Warren K. Parker had an idea for getting more business. Pretend to be a wounded war hero, create a company called Silver Star Construction and bid on jobs reserved for companies owned by true service-disabled veterans, ...
A 37-year-old Tonganoxie man pleaded guilty to child rape and three other counts Friday for molesting a girl when she was first 6 years old, Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said.Edward Everitt Peel Jr. entered the pleas in Leavenworth County District Court, and Thompson said Peel is ...
A federal grand jury has indicted a Lansing woman for allegedly taking bribes and providing tobacco to inmates in 2008 while she worked at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth.The indictment, handed up this week in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., charges Cheryl Gilbert, 44, Lansing, ...
Leavenworth County prosecutors have filed eight charges against a 64-year-old Tonganoxie man who is accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl during a two-year period ending earlier in February.Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said the defendant appeared in court ...
A onetime Officer of the Year in the Lansing Police Department was charged Thursday with attempting to entice a minor for illicit sex.William Brian Duncan, 40, of Leavenworth, a former Lansing police officer and school board member, was charged in federal court, said Beth Phillips, United ...
A 27-year-old Topeka man was sentenced to the maximum one year in jail following his seventh DUI offense.David B. Matthews was sentenced Friday in Leavenworth County District Court. The sentence will run consecutively with two convictions in Shawnee County for a total of two years, where he ...
A former teacher in Leavenworth County, who pleaded guilty to having sex with a high school student, has been sentenced to three years probation.A Leavenworth County District Court judge sentenced Shannon Young, 36, on Wednesday to three years probation and an 18-month suspended prison ...
In what the judge and prosecutor agreed was a cautionary tale for changing times, a Tonganoxie husband and wife were each fined $2,000 and received one-year suspended sentences for hosting a party at which alcohol was available to minors.Julie Whaler, 47, and Richard Whaler, 44, were each fined ...