LOWELL — A search warrant executed at a home on Lillian Terrace following Wednesday's three-and-a half-hour standoff between a man inside the residence and members of the Northeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council SWAT Team uncovered a loaded 9mm handgun, according to authorities.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque murder suspect who was released from custody before the state Supreme Court intervened has taken a plea deal in two separate cases. Adrian Avila pled guilty on Tuesday to first-degree murder and kidnapping for shooting and killing Donnie Brandon in 2020 and fatally shooting Elias Otero in 2021. The state []
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man accused of two double murders in Albuquerque will spend the rest of his life in prison. John Paul Ballejos, 31, was sentenced last Tuesday to two consecutive life sentences by Bernalillo District Court Judge Bruce Fox. Ballejos was the center of a KRQE investigation that revealed red flags in Ballejos' []
Prosecutors say they will not retry case after judge declared mistrial last week when jurors unable to reach unanimous verdictProsecutors said on Monday they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury.The jurors in the trial of George Alan Kelly were unable to reach a unanimous decision on a verdict after more than two days of deliberation. The Santa Cruz county superior court judge Thomas Fink...
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 25, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Convicted murder and kidnapper Alberto Carreto-Morales has been sentenced for the 2022 murder of Cesar Martinez and the kidnapping of a second victim. Carreto-Morales, 26, was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life for first-degree felony murder and 15 years to life for first-degree felony […] The post Man sentenced after convictions in 2022 murder, kidnapping cases first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
GENEVA COUNTY, Ala (WDHN) -- A grand jury has found enough evidence to formally bring charges against two people accused of trying to stab a man to death in rural Geneva County. Robert Hall and Shalyn Diaz were indicted on Tuesday, April 16. They are charged with one count of attempted murder and one count []
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A status hearing will be held Thursday for a man accused of murdering his common-law wife due to jealousy. Abel Giovani Nava is facing a charge of first-degree murder in the killing of 22-year-old Jocelyn Morales on Aug. 16, 2023. An indictment accuses Nava of suffocating Morales with a pillow and []
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Alijah Archuleta, facing charges of shooting at a woman while she was holding their baby, will be held behind bars. Archuleta's girlfriend told police the two were having an argument on March 29 and he wouldn't let her or their one-year-old child leave his car. After she got away, she says he []
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque man who pled guilty to a seemingly random murder will spend decades behind bars. Last February, the Albuquerque Police Department arrested 34-year-old Melvin Robinson and charged him with shooting a man in the back. Robinson was picked up with Casper Rickords police say the two admitted to the murder as well []
Wildlife advocates are leading a call for a boycott of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming over laws that give people wide leeway to kill gray wolves with little oversight.
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The New Mexico man convicted of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme will not get off probation early. In 2005, Doug Vaughan was convicted of bilking 600 real-estate investors out of $74 million over the span of five years. He pled guilty in 2011 and was sentenced to 12 years in an Arizona federal []
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man accused of legally buying guns and then turning around and selling the guns was in federal court in Albuquerque on Monday morning. The Albuquerque Police Department said the weapons he bought were connected to 17 different shootings. Federal documents show just how many stores investigators say he lied to. "The []