Eva Olisha Banks, 41, Leavenworth, was sentenced to 10 years for her plea to voluntary manslaughter, or knowingly killing a human being, committed upon an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force in defense of a person. She also was convicted on two ...
Brooke Minshae Johnson., 21, of Kansas City, Mo., was convicted Wednesday, Oct. 26, of one count of Involuntary manslaughter, a severity level 5 person felony, in connection with a shooting that occurred on April 14, 2021, in the parking lot of KARE Pharmacy, 2500S. Fourth St., Leavenworth. A ...
A 47-year-old Leavenworth man was found guilty of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy after a bench trial this past week in Leavenworth County Dis- trict Court. The conviction stems from events that occurred in Leavenworth during the Thanksgiving holiday in 2019 with a victim he ...
Leavenworth County was awarded part of a $2 million competitive grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance for Veteran Treatment Courts in Kansas, county officials learned Friday. A competitive grant is one in which not all applicants are selected and must apply for. The $2 million grant ...
Terance Lee Dozier, 36, Leavenworth, Kansas was convicted of two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy, level 1 person felonies, on Wednesday, July 20, in Leavenworth County District Court.Dozier was arrested by the Leavenworth Police Department after an investigation in which it was reported ...
Robert Meyer, 37, Leavenworth, was sentenced to 27 months for three counts, aggravated battery, fleeing or attempting to elude police officers and an aggravated domestic battery on June 15. Meyer received 27 months for the aggravated domestic battery, and the two subsequent counts were each 6 ...
Alvaro Pertuz III, 22, Leavenworth, pled to aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer June 15.This plea stemmed from an attack on a Leavenworth police officer on Aug. 26, 2021. An officer saw Pertuz at Home Depot in the city of Leavenworth and knew him to be a suspect of interest.The ...
LEAVENWORTH — A Kansas City, Kan., teenager has been sentenced to life in prison in the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy during a botched gun deal.WDAF-TV reports that a jury convicted 18-year-old Jaylen LaRon Johnson of Kansas City, Kan., of first-degree murder last month.Sentencing was ...
Christopher Dean Nichols, Jr., 24, Basehor, was sentenced May 18 in Leavenworth County District Court to one count of Leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death to a person, a severity level 5-person felony.This crime means that a person knew or should have known a person was dead, yet ...
Jason Westrem, 39, Houston Lake, Mo., pled no contest May 11 to one count of attempted murder in first degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault using a deadly weapon.The crimes he pled to involved an incident that occurred on May 27, 2020. On that day, Jason Westrem drove his black ...
