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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joshua Degroot, 41, Leavenworth, was sentenced May 16 in Leavenworth County District Court to 44 months for a bar fight in which he caused one woman an orbital fracture and another man a brain bleed. On Nov. 14, 2020, Degroot entered the Trails End lounge with several friends, according to a ...
Christopher Allen Kelly-Bush, 23, Lansing, pled guilty Wednesday, May 4, to one count of reckless aggravated battery. On June 19, 2020, Kelly-Bush, the victim and multiple friends were sitting on a porch., per a release from Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson. The defendant was playing ...
An Indianapolis man and former volleyball academy coach was sentenced Wednesday, April 27, in Leavenworth County District Court to more than 2 1/2 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a child.Levinson Gibson, 27, formerly of Smithville, Mo., and currently of Indianapolis, was sentenced to ...
A Leavenworth man was sentenced Wednesday in Leavenworth County District Court to second-degree murder for the killing of Floyd Ross Jr. on May 4, 2021. Cordell Marqueise Stewart, 22, Leavenworth, was sentenced to 117 months, or nearly 10 years. Judge Gerald Kuckelman determined that Stewart ...
An Indianapolis man and former volleyball academy coach was sentenced Wednesday in Leavenworth County District Court to more than 2 1/2 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a child.Levinson Gibson, 27, formerly of Smithville, Mo., and currently of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 32 months. ...
Basehor man sentenced to 275 months for indecent liberties with childrenA 19-year-old Basehor man was sentenced Friday in Leavenworth County District Court to nearly 23 years in prison for two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.Austin Jabob Wiles also must register as a sex ...
Former teacher sentenced in attempted electronic solicitation caseA former Leavenworth teacher was sentenced Friday in Leavenworth County District Court to more than 2.5 years in prison for attempted electronic solicitation with someone whom the offender believes to be a child under the age of ...
