Lawrence restaurant defends employee after meat-smashing video surfaces
A video showing a man hammering raw pork outside Tryyaki in Lawrence spread online. The restaurant posted that the meat was for personal use by staff, not for customers, and that a health inspection confirmed compliance. The restaurant emphasized no pork is served to customers and the meat was handled separately.
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Witnesses recount bloody car attack with child aboard
In Lawrence a man, Elijah Joseph Garcia, 27, faces trial after witnesses testified he beat two adults with a pistol and fired inside a moving Chevy Equinox while a 5-year-old passenger sat in back. The group returned from an Oktoberfest event near Topeka when violence erupted as Garcia allegedly struck, fired, and threatened to harm them, endangering the child in the car. The drive grew chaotic on an unknown road with windshield shattered, guardrail impact, and gunfire near the head as the driver tried to pull over. Both adults feared for their lives.
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Lawrence man given probation for firing at residence with children
Miles Brian Smothers, 20, pleaded no contest to recklessly firing a gun into a residence on January 28 in the 1500 block of Wedgewood Drive where a mother and two young children were inside. Judge Stacey Donovan suspended 13 months in prison to 24 months probation, ordered a drug and alcohol evaluation and 100 hours of community service.
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