A Kentucky man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while carrying a Confederate battle flag has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for pepper spraying two police officers in the face, temporarily blinding both of them
A Kentucky man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while carrying a Confederate battle flag was sentenced on Monday to more than two years in prison for pepper spraying two police officers in the face, partially blinding them for hours during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — An Edinburg resident was sentenced to prison for brutally attacking a 78-year-old man while evading police. A jury found Luis Gerardo Lugo Pena, 28, guilty of aggravated robbery, Hidalgo County District Attorney Terry Palacios announced. The aggravated robbery happened at approximately 10 a.m., September 29, 2023. Pena and his brother-in-law were []
The man who fatally shot retired Saints star Will Smith after a 2016 car crash has received a 25-year prison sentence following his conviction on a manslaughter charge.
A North Carolina man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot has been sentenced to six years in prison.
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison. David Joseph Gietzen, 31, of Sanford, North Carolina, struck a police officer with a pole during a […]
A Ringgold man has been convicted for cruelty to children and sentenced to 30 years in prison - with the first 15 years to serve.
A Woodstock man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a jury convicted him of sexually abusing and assaulting two children in Kane County over the span of nearly two years. Steven T. Grimmitt, 59, of Woodstock, was charged in February 2021 with six counts of predatory criminal sexual assault and 19 counts of […]
NEW ORLEANS — The man who fatally shot retired NFL star Will Smith during a confrontation following a car crash in 2016 received a 25-year prison sentence Thursday in a New Orleans courtroom. It was the second time Cardell Hayes, 36, had faced sentencing in Smith’s death. He was convicted of manslaughter in December 2016 and later sentenced to 25 years. But the jury vote had been 10-2 and the conviction was later tossed after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed such non-unanimous verdicts. After a...
15-year-old Aryiah Lynch is recovering after video footage captured Johnny Ricks allegedly punching, dragging, and stompingher in the McDonald’s parking lot.
SANTA ANA, Calif. >> A California man was sentenced today to 40 years to life for the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back of his mother’s car on the freeway, prosecutors said.
Marcus Eriz, the Costa Mesa man who claimed not to understand why he fired the bullet from his car that killed a 6-year-old boy in 2021, received a sentence of 40 years to life in prison on Friday. Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard King rejected a defense attorney's plea for leniency on the basis of Eriz's age — he was 24 at the time of the shooting — as well as the argument that Eriz had suffered childhood trauma. King said he could find no connection between the defendant's alleged...