A Lansing woman has been sentenced for attempting to escape from custody and unlawfully possessing drugs. A Leavenworth County Judge sentenced Sarah Cape, 33, on July 14 to serve 50 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections. Cape was arrested on March 29, 2022, after deputies located ...
A Leavenworth County Judge sentenced a Linwood man on charges related to threatening a deputy with a gun, fleeing from police and driving with a suspended license. The sentencing took place Wednesday, July 12, in Leavenworth County District Court. Cody D. Cramer, 36, was sentenced to serve 18 ...
A Leavenworth man who used Snapchat in an attempt to lure at least one teen into sending him nude pictures has been sentenced to prison. During a sentencing hearing Wednesday, July 12, a Leavenworth County Judge sentenced Enrique Antonio Baker to serve 94 months in the Kansas Department of ...
Abortion providers in three states filed a lawsuit Monday aimed at preserving access to the abortion pill mifepristone, even as the drug is threatened by a separate Texas lawsuit winding its way through U.S. court system. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Virginia on behalf of ...
Jack Thomas, 22, Leavenworth, was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison on Wednesday, March 1, in Leavenworth County District Court for conspiracy to distribute Alprazolam and possession of drug paraphernalia. Thomas was sentenced to 150 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections, according ...
Byron Brooks, 38-year-old inmate at Lansing Correctional Facility, was sentenced to an additional 14 months for attempted aggravated battery. While in custody, Brooks was needed to be fingerprinted and began to attack a sheriff’s deputy, according to a release from Leavenworth County ...
Lansing Correctional Facility resident Gary Raburn died Friday night at the facility. The cause of death is pending further investigation as well as results of an independent autopsy. Per protocol, when a resident dies in the custody of the Kansas Department of Corrections, the death is under ...
Eric Lee Karpierz, 20, Lansing, was sentenced Friday in Leavenworth County District Court to 52 months for the involuntary manslaughter of Eric Chappell and driving under the influence that occurred June 19, 2022. Karpierz previously pled to these crimes, according to a release from ...
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 ...
