An Emporia man will now spend better than three years in prison following an incident on the Kansas Turnpike this past fall.
Philip Lieurance was sentenced to 34 months in prison on a single count of aggravated battery and 9 months each for counts of aggravated battery DUI Friday morning in Lyon County District Court. The charges follow a situation on the Kansas Turnpike near Emporia in mid-September where Liuerance rammed his SUV into a least one other vehicle.
Lieurance also stands accused — but not yet formally charged — in Colorado for the deaths of Linda Estrada and Amy Ford, who were found near Eads, Colorado, on Sept. 20 after both women had been reported as missing for over a week. Extradition paperwork in Lyon County accuses Lieurance of Class 2 murder, tampering with a deceased body and unlawfully leaving Colorado after the deaths of Estrada and Ford, but Colorado state law says defendants must appear before a judge for them to be officially charged with criminal activity.
The case has an extradition review hearing at 2:30 pm Jan. 25.
