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 ...
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 ...
