CAMDEN — A city man who allegedly used the mail to supply his drug operation has been sentenced to more than 14 years in federal prison. Michael Venditti, 39, of Camden obtained more than 100 pounds of methamphetamine through U.S. Postal Service parcel deliveries from March through September 2021, according to the U.S. Department of […]
NEW BEDFORD —The man who stole 190 artifacts from the New Bedford Whaling Museum worth $150,000 while working as a maintenance man was sentenced to three to five years in state prison Friday. Robert M. Burchell, 44, pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court to one count of larceny over $1,200 and six counts of […]
A recently freed man who spent more than 12 years in prison for a fatal South Side shooting in which a legally blind witness identified him as the perpetrator is suing the city of Chicago and several police officers over their handling of the murder investigation. Darien Harris is seeking compensation in a federal civil […]
Two corrections officers at Stillwater prison were taken to the hospital after being assaulted Saturday morning by two inmates, officials said. At about 11:30 a.m. Saturday, a prisoner attacked a corrections officer at a housing unit security post, according to a news release issued Sunday by the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Another prisoner and another […]
Stillwater prison is on lockdown after two corrections officers were assaulted by two incarcerated people, sustaining injuries, the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) said. Around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, one corrections officer at a security post on a housing unit was attacked by an incarcerated person, according to a DOC news release. An incarcerated witness and […]
A licensed practical nurse in Erie is headed to state prison for up to 11 years for injecting a friend with a fatal dose of fentanyl. The defendant, Jennifer L. Wolf, was not acting in a professional capacity with the victim, 45-year-old Adam J. Esper, who died at his residence in Millcreek Township in September. […]
A Southwest Georgia man has been sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for supplying methamphetamine and fentanyl to his community, including to a woman who had recently given birth to his child. Brian Chadwick Jeffcoat, 40, of Leesburg, was sentenced on May 23. According to court documents, Jeffcoat was sentenced to serve 70 months […]
STILLWATER, Minn. (FOX 9) – Two correctional officers were injured after they were assaulted by inmates at the Stillwater prison Saturday morning, the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) said. According to the DOC, around 11:30 a.m. at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater, two correctional officers were assaulted by a group of inmates. The DOC said two incarcerated […]
Former President Trump on Saturday vowed to commute the prison sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug-selling site Silk Road. The GOP frontrunner made the pledge while addressing the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C., in a bid to win over skeptical party activists, many of whom held up signs that read: […]
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump plans to announce at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday that he intends to commute “Silk Road” website operator Ross Ulbricht’s life sentence, according to a source familiar with the matter. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in federal prison in 2015 for creating and operating a hidden website known […]
May 25—A Biddeford landlord who was serving a life sentence for killing two teenage tenants has died in prison. James Earl Pak, 86, died just before 5 a.m. Saturday in Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston, according to the Maine Department of Corrections. The department said Pak was attended by medical personnel when he died […]
MCHENRY COUNTY, Ill. — A northwest suburban man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of predatory sexual assault of a child. Matthew Lorr, 35, formerly of Woodstock, admitted to having sexual penetration with a child under 13 and sexual penetration with another child under 18. Prosecutors say several […]