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...
In the late 15th century, when the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci completed “Vitruvian Man” — one of his most famous drawings, which depicts the proportions of the human body — he could not have predicted it would be reproduced onto cheap notebooks, coffee mugs, T-shirts, aprons, and even puzzles. Centuries later, the Italian government and the German puzzle maker Ravensburger are battling over who has the right to reproduce “Vitruvian Man” and profit from it. At the center of the...
An illegal alien from Romania has been convicted of using electronic devices to break into ATM machines to steal money from public assistance benefits accounts meant to help low-income families in California.
A Chicago man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for illegally selling guns and "switch" devices that can turn semi-automatic firearms into machine guns.
James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the Oxford High School shooter, have been sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
A court in Germany on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to 13 years in prison for attempted murder for injecting mercury into his 1-year-old daughter’s foot. The man’s girlfriend was sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking part in the crime.
It was an emotional day in court Friday as a judge sentenced Coban Porter to six years in prison for last year's deadly DUI crash that killed one person and seriously injured another. The two-vehicle crash on Jan. 22, 2023, happened at the intersection of South University and Buchtel Boulevard. Katharina Rothman, 42, was killed and a male passenger in her car suffered serious injuries. At the time of the crash, Porter was an active player on the University of Denver men's basketball team....
Marcus Eriz, 27, was sentenced 40 years to life for murder of Aiden Leos, 6. The 2021 murder occurred on a California freeway and was fueled by road rage. Aiden's mother had given him the middle finger, and he responded by shooting
Rapper Gmac Cash really hates Detroit’s new sign.
A city man was sentenced Wednesday to three years probation with the first six months to be spent in the Mahoning County jail for breaking a bone in a man’s face at a city bar.
For centuries, the West has been captivated by the brutality of Russia’s frozen detention centres, and prison literature from Dostoyevsky to Solzhenitsyn has nursed the fascination. The system’s global significance, whether in the mass release of dangerous prisoners to serve on Ukraine’s battlefields, the increased imprisonment of dissenters and journalists, or the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny in a remote Arctic prison colony last month, has only spurred interest further.