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...
Courtney Pandolfi, now 44, pleaded guilty back on February 6 to second-degree murder in addition to a felony count of driving under the influence. Pandolfi was sentenced to 15 to life Friday, four years after the Jeep she was driving plowed into the 35 weeks pregnant Yesenia Lisette Aguilar. Aguilar's baby was delivered via emergency C-section and the little girl, named Adalyn, is being raised by her father and Aguilar's husband, James Alvarez
Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán penned a letter to federal judge Brian Cogan in New York asking him to reinstate his phone calls and visitation rights. In the letter, dated the letter March 20 and filed in court Tuesday, the 67-year-old drug lord requested that his wife, Emma Coronel, be allowed to visit him. He also asked that the court authorize the twice a month, 15-minute phone calls with the couple's 12-year-old daughters, who are living in Mexico
It is also the first time the WNBA Draft has drawn more than 1 million viewers, and it also flew past the TV figures of the MLB and NHL drafts in 2023, according to various reports.
Immigration officials launched dawn raids in a coordinated blitz as part of a nationwide crackdown on a gang suspected of ferrying migrants into Britain by air, land and sea.
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Japanese dating scammer Mai Watanabe was sentenced to nine years in jail on Monday after being found to have defrauded 155.8 million yen ($1 million) out of men on dating apps.The 25-year-old, known to many as "sugar baby Riri", was also found guilty of creating a manual to guide others in carrying out her scamming activities, and the Japanese Times reported that in addition to her sentencing, the Nagoya District Court also handed Watanabe a fine worth eight million yen ($51,700).Additionally,...
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) recommended 22 years in prison and mandatory treatment in a TBS psychiatric institution for Kenzo K. The 31-year-old from Almelo is on trial for fatally stabbing two women and two counts of attempted murder with a crossbow. K. was previously convicted, and prosecutors recommended the same sentence as they did during the initial case. “The victims didn’t have a chance,” the prosecutor said Tuesday at the Arnhem Court of Appeals.