THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011
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CRIME
Two students victims of armed robbery on campus Thursday
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
Douglas County prosecutors have charged two men, including a 23-year-old Fort Leavenworth soldier, with aggravated robbery following the reported mugging of two University of Kansas students early Thursday morning.
Capt. Schuyler Bailey, a KU Public Safety Office spokesman, said the students told police that two men, each armed with a handgun, robbed them at 1:40 a.m. Thursday on campus, just west of the campanile. University of Kansas Public Safety officers arrested Brandon Huggins, 23 and Michael Gerald, 21, 20 minutes later after they were detained by officers of the Lawrence Police Department.
Huggins and Gerald each face four felony charges, including two charges of aggravated robbery and charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and aggravated intimidation of a witness.
Bailey said the students were robbed of wallets, cash, phones and clothing. Police also siezed a plastic baggie containing marijuana, but no charges in connection with this have yet been filed. A third person present at the scene, who remained inside the suspects' vehicle during the incident, has not been arrested and
police believe he was not involved in the robbery. A spokesperson for Fort Leavenworth confirmed that this third person and Huggins were both soldiers posted at fort, but that there was no record to indicate Gerald was in the military.
According to jail records, Hug gins was released from the Douglas County Jail Saturday after posting a $60,000 bond. Gerald remains in custody at the jail, with bond set at $75,000.
The suspects are next due in court Thursday for a preliminary hearing. The Douglas County Sherriff's Office has declined to release photos of the suspects, citing the needs of an ongoing investigation.
Thursday's robbery is the first to occur on campus this year. Statistics provided by the Public Safety show that there have been 14 robberies on campus in the past ten years, including eight in 2009.
Alex Garrison contributed reporting to this story.
2000-2003: 0 2008: 1
ROBBERIES ON CAMPUS
2004:1 2009:8
2005-2006: 0 2010: 0
2007:3
KU Public Safety Office
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State Deputy Jury Commissioner John Cavanaugh said last week that the state will not proceed with serving a criminal complaint against Michael Wylie.
The late Georgetown resident was issued a notice to serve on jury duty five years ago but at the time he was in hospice care and had terminal cancer. He died a few months later but the commission continued to send letters about his failure to report.
ERIE, Pa. — A love-sick Pennsylvania couple ended up getting hitched in a hospital chapel after the groom tumbled down a set of stairs on their wedding day.
He's been dead for five years.
The Erie Times-News reports Derek and Cassy McBride were married Saturday at Saint Vincent Health Center because Derek took the wrong kind of plunge a few hours earlier.
The wedding appeared doomed when tests showed Derek McBride had three broken ribs and a punctured, collapsed lung.
stepped up, decorating the chapel with medical glove balloons and bows made of gauze. Guests were told the beach wedding was scrapped.
Cassy McBride, whose maiden name was Messenger, wore her gown. Derek had one too — a hospital one, under his tuxedo.
Derek McBride hopes to be released soon.
But family and Saint Vincent nurses
Man discovers one way to get out of jury duty
GEORGETOWN, Mass. — A Massachusetts man facing a criminal complaint for failing to appear for jury duty apparently had a good excuse.
Wylie's family says they tried to tell authorities that he had died but officials say the family never sent a death certificate.
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