May 15—A Wilson County man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for sex crimes against children. After 50-year-old Pedro Barrera was found guilty on 10 charges in February, Judge Brody Kane handed down the 60-year sentence, with no eligibility for an early release. Barrera was also sentenced to community supervision for life and […]
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (WAVY) — An Elizabeth City man will spend more than five years in jail after being sentenced Wednesday in a 2019 shooting. Previously: 26-year-old arrested in connection with Elizabeth City shooting in December 2019 Thomas Stokley Jr. Thomas Stokley Jr., 31, will serve a sentence of six years, 11 months to nine […]
Troy Armstrong, of Palatka, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of multiple sex crimes against a child. Armstrong was found guilty of three counts of sexual battery against a person younger than 12 and three counts of child molestation against a person younger than 12, the State Attorney’s Office announced […]
HOBBS, N.M. (KRQE) – A Hobbs man who killed his pregnant girlfriend and shot her two-year-old daughter will spend more than 50 years behind bars. In September 2021, Steven Samreth shot and killed his girlfriend with two small children at the Avalon Cove Apartments. Police say one of the children, who survived, was also found with […]
A Kentucky dentist convicted of illegally prescribing morphine to a patient who died of a drug overdose has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, according to federal authorities. A Covington jury acquitted Jay M. Sadrinia, 61, on three charges of illegally prescribing opioid painkillers, but convicted him on one charge of illegally prescribing […]
May 14—Lynette Kim Countryman-Dunivan and Chad Damon Dunivan pled to three counts of felony animal abuse and were sentenced in a Sutter County court after the seizure of more than 60 animals in 2022 in Pleasant Grove, according to officials. On May 24, 2022, the animals were seized in the “vicinity” of the 3400 block […]
May 14—A Waldoboro man who once ran for the Maine Senate was sentenced to a little more than a year in federal prison for pushing two police officers during the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Matthew Brackley, 40, was also ordered Tuesday to serve two years of probation and pay $3,000 in fines and […]
A drunk driver received the maximum sentence of 60 years after he pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter in a wrong-way crash that killed a North Texas family of three. Sione Nusi, 49, was convicted of three counts of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years on each count, according to the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive health clinic in the nation’s capital was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly five years in prison. Lauren Handy, 30, was among several people convicted of federal civil rights offenses for blockading access to the Washington Surgi-Clinic on Oct. […]
A Wilson County man convicted of sex crimes involving three children at two Mt. Juliet apartment complexes was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Friday, according to the office of the 15th Judicial District. Pedro Barrera, 50, was sentenced with no early release eligibility by Judge Brody Kane, according to the district attorney’s office. […]
A Doña Ana County teen convicted in the 2021 shooting death of Matthew Portillo, the 30-year-old man who was gunned down while walking home from the RAD Retrocade in Las Cruces, has been sentenced to prison. Third Judicial District Judge Douglas Driggers last Wednesday, May 8 sentenced Jamari Sanchez, 19, to 15 years for second-degree […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge sentenced a former army lawyer to almost six years in prison on Tuesday for leaking to the media classified information that exposed allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. David McBride, 60, was sentenced in a court in the capital, Canberra, to five years and eight months in […]