The Supreme Court confirmed the appeal court’s conviction of Moreno B. (35) and Giërmo B. (40) for the murder of Derk Wiersum. Their sentences of 30 years in prison for planning and executing the defense attorney’s murder is thereby final - no appeal is possible against the Supreme Court ruling.
Jake Hill, Tia Taylor and Chelsea Powell have all been sentenced to prison for their involvement in the fatal knife rampage
Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced Thursday that Erick Estrada was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 126 years to life for the 2013 murder of Gabriel Gutierrez and the attempted murder of two other men.
In light of recent plea bargains for major violent defendants, Wichita County's lead prosecutor addressed resident's concerns and explained the purpose behind plea bargains in felony cases.
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 []
EDINBURG — A 51-year-old Edinburg woman has been sentenced to prison after she was convicted for the murder of her husband on Dec. 8, 2019 following an argument regarding adultery.
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 []
TOPEKA (KSNT) - A man involved in a robbery case from 2022 has received his sentence Thursday. The Shawnee County District Attorney's Office announced in a press release that London D. Pike, 21, is sentenced to 100 months, or a little more than eight years, in prison. This is due to the following charges: Shawnee []
The investigation continues into two other defendants in the 2018 case, prosecutors said.
Le Tung Van, the 92-year-old head of an independent Buddhist community, has been under house arrest since 2022.
Two men will be serving life sentences in connection with the murder of 6-year-old Winston Hunter in May 2022, says the solicitor's office.
He’d been trying for almost a year to talk to the former police chief. Sgt. Mike Slaughter, a police detective in suburban Philadelphia, wanted to interview the retired chief, Thomas Mills, about a decades-old unsolved homicide. The detective said he had repeatedly gone to Mills’ home and asked intermediaries to help broker a meeting. But Mills refused, he said. Finally, in December 2015, the former chief agreed to a recorded interview and, after roughly an hour, Slaughter said he came away...