A 27-year-old Covington man has pleaded guilty to a felony charge for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach.
A 27-year-old Covington man has pleaded guilty to a felony charge for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach.
WASHINGTON - A Louisiana man pleaded guilty Monday to felony charges for his involvement in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.Colby Purkel, 27, pleaded guilty to civil disorder. He and his father, Willard Purkel Jr., 51, were originally charged together on one count of civil disorder and several misdemeanors.Court documents indicate that on Jan. 6 around 3 p.m. Colby Purkel joined a crowd of rioters on the east side of the U.S. Capitol, where the group entered by force as law enforcement...
WASHINGTON — A member of a neo-Nazi group pleaded guilty to Capitol riot charges Thursday, admitting he threw a water bottle at police during the brutal battle at the lower west tunnel and stole a police helmet as a "war trophy" during the Jan. 6 attack. Richard Zachary Ackerman pleaded guilty to two charges: obstructing law enforcement officers during civil disorder and theft of government property. He had initially faced three additional charges: assault, resist, oppose, impede with a person...
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured two Black men for hours were sentenced in state court Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison.
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who abused two Black men for hours were sentenced in state court Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison. Their sentences will run concurrently with their federal sentences handed down last month, which range from 10 to 40 years in prison. The ex-officers had pleaded guilty after the torture of Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker at a home in January 2023. Five former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies – Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Christian Dedmon,...
PLAQUEMINE — Lee'Vonte Riley was 14 when he fatally shot another teenager who was sleeping on a sofa at the time of the attack. Riley, now 16, pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday.Tramone McGinnis, 17, died at a hospital after the January 2022 shooting, which authorities described as a "planned attack" stemming from a long-running, violent gang dispute.Riley was sentenced to 17 years in prison. Two of those have already been served while awaiting trial. Upon his release he will be...
State capitol evacuated again For the second time in two days, the Illinois State Capitol was evacuated Monday after a threat. The Secretary of State’s Office said a threatening 911 call caused the evacuation. No explosive devices were found and employees were let back into the building at 1:45 p.m. The capitol building was also on lockdown Sunday due to a bomb threat. Parolee pleaded not guilty The man charged in...
A former Marine who carried a tiki torch ahead of a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., pleaded guilty Friday in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tyler Bradley Dykes, of Bluffton, S.C., pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers who were protecting the Capitol. The crime carries a maximum penalty of eight years in prison, a $250,000 fine and up to three years supervised release, according to the plea agreement....
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan didn't flinch when guilty Jan. 6 participant Antony Vo claimed he was convicted in a "kangaroo court." She reportedly sentenced him to nine months."I've been called worse," she reportedly said, according to a lengthy thread posted by CBS News' Scott MacFarlane. Chutkan is also presiding over former President Donald Trump's federal election subversion criminal case which is on ice pending a Supreme Court determination on his absolute immunity claims. ALSO READ: A...
To the editor: Tyler Laube appears to embody the definition of a thug. He has a history of flouting the law, and yet he consistently receives a "slap on the wrist" instead of well deserved prison time. ("He admitted to punching a reporter. A judge wished him 'best of luck,'" column, April 5) U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney's decision not to incarcerate Laube for repeatedly punching a reporter in 2017 because of the supposed non-prosecution of antifa members does not benefit society. Rather,...
A Tucson man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of a 6-year-old boy from the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.