Danbury Man Sentenced to 16 Years in Federal Prison for Armed Home Invasions

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARLON PATTERSON, also known as “Head,” 32, of Danbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 192 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for orchestratin... More...   $0 (03-10-2016 - CT)

Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Man Sentenced to Seven Years for Stealing Prescription Painkillers and Brandishing Firearm During Robbery of Retail Pharmacy

Defendant Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Eddie Gallegos, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced in federal court for his conviction on theft of medical products and f... More...   $0 (03-10-2016 - NM)

Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Man Sentenced to Seven Years for Stealing Prescription Painkillers and Brandishing Firearm During Robbery of Retail Pharmacy

Defendant Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Eddie Gallegos, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court for his conviction on theft of medical products... More...   $0 (03-10-2016 - NM)

On September 25, 2012, Sergio Saldana, the complainant, visited his drug
dealer’s house in Baytown to pick up some heroin. Michael Hourshad, who owned
the house, but was not Saldana’s dealer, let Saldana into the home. Before
Saldana’s arrival, Hourshad had heard that Saldana wanted to rob him. He called
Bailey’s girlfriend, Tara Brown, to ask whether he should be worried. ... More...   $0 (03-10-2016 - TX)

Odell “Joe” Jackson shared a home in Houston with his nephews,
Christopher Wetzel and appellant, appellant’s girlfriend, Susan Allen, and their
two-year old son. On October 15, 2013, Jackson and Wetzel were sitting in their
backyard and talking when they heard what sounded like a firecracker go off in the
house. The sound occurred because appellant had picked up a shotgun and... More...   $0 (03-10-2016 - TX)

Savannah Drug Dealer Convicted Of Trafficking Heroin and Possessing Firearms

SAVANNAH, GA: Darius Andre “Arnie” Holmes, 41, of Savannah, Georgia, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury after a two-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. for distributing heroin and possessing firearms as a felon on August 18, 2015.

According to the evidence presented du... More...   $0 (03-09-2016 - GA)

Savannah, GA - Savannah Drug Dealer Convicted Of Trafficking Heroin and Possessing Firearms

Darius Andre “Arnie” Holmes, 41, of Savannah, Georgia, was convicted by a federal jury after a two-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. for distributing heroin and possessing firearms as a felon on August 18, 2015.

According to the evidence presented during at t... More...   $0 (03-09-2016 - GA)

Defendant appeals from his convictions for aggravated assault with a deadly
4 weapon and tampering with evidence. Defendant raises several challenges on appeal
5 related to his criminal charges: the district court’s refusal to instruct the jury on the
6 lesser included offense of simple assault; the district court’s decision to direct a
7 verdict on the charged offense of assault w... More...   $0 (03-09-2016 - NM)

In the early morning hours of December 20, 2006, Jessica Shabazz was shot and killed, and James Sinclair was wounded, at a motel in Neptune Township. Defendant David Bass was arrested shortly thereafter. He admitted to police that, prior to the shooting, he had smoked crack cocaine with Shabazz and Sinclair in his motel room, that he and Shabazz had argued over money, and that he shot Shabazz an... More...   $0 (03-09-2016 - NJ)

The defendant, Kristin LaBrie, was charged
with the attempted murder of her young son and related assault
and battery and child endangerment crimes. The Commonwealth
contends that the defendant, with the intent to kill her son,
did not give him prescribed chemotherapy and other medications
designed to treat the cancer from which he suffered and
ultimately died. At a... More...   $0 (03-09-2016 - m)

This case arises from the theft of a comic book collection from a residence in La Vergne, Tennessee in April 2010. The Defendant was identified as a suspect in the theft when he sold or attempted to sell some of the comic books at area stores. During the investigation, law enforcement officers went to the Defendant‟s apartment and, upon seeing the stolen comic books in the backseat of a ve... More...   $0 (03-08-2016 - TN)

This case arises from the robbery of an Iraqi immigrant who came to the United States in 2012, following three years of working with the United States Army in Iraq. The victim testified that he shared an apartment in Nashville with four roommates. He stated that on May 16, 2012, he met Sarah Syres at the apartment complex laundromat. He said she asked to use his cell phone, he borrowed his room... More...   $0 (03-08-2016 - IN)

The State charged Movant with one count of second-degree statutory rape. Movant was
found to be a prior felony offender and also a felony persistent offender. The trial court
conducted a jury trial. The evidence presented at trial showed that the victim, R.M., who was then sixteen, had
planned to spend the night with a family friend, Tashia Roberts. Ms. Roberts took victim with More...   $0 (03-08-2016 - MO)

In 1997, appellant Larry Flores was convicted of capital murder2 in the deaths of complainants Tonya Hyatt and Joe Joseph. The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal in 2000. Flores v. State, No. 14-97-1350-CR, 2000 WL 177690 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Feb. 17, 2000, pet. ref’d) (mem. op., not designated for publication). In 2011, appellant filed a motion for post-conviction DNA testing ... More...   $0 (03-08-2016 - TX)

Appellant spent the evening and early morning of March 30 and 31, 2012, smoking crack cocaine at the apartment of his friend, Lawrence “Peanut” Routte. Routte testified that appellant went downstairs to the apartment of the complainant, Ercile Johnson, to buy the crack. Johnson lived in the Fox Apartments in Baytown, Texas and was known in the area as a small-time crack dealer who sold to friend... More...   $0 (03-08-2016 - TX)

Ahmad Issaoui died from multiple gunshot wounds suffered in the course of
the robbery of an illegal gaming room where he was employed as a security guard.
A grand jury indicted Broussard for the capital murder of Issaoui.
Most of the facts of Issaoui’s murder and the robbery were undisputed at the
jury trial. Issaoui was shot four times at close range and died from these injuri... More...   $0 (03-08-2016 - TX)

Defendant pled guilty, pre-indictment, to an accusation charging him with murder, N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3(a)(1) or (2). The
March 8, 2016 charge arose from defendant fatally stabbing his elderly neighbor during the course of a robbery. In accordance with his plea agreement, the court sentenced defendant to life in prison subject to an eighty-five percent period of parole ineligibility pursuant to ... More...   $0 (03-08-2016 - NJ)

The State, after the Court of Special Appeals reversed the conviction of Jacob
Bircher, Respondent, asks us to explore the realm of supplemental jury instructions in its
Petition for Certiorari, which we granted, in which the following question was posed:
Did the Court of Special Appeals err in finding an abuse of discretion in the trial court’s decision to provide a supplemental i... More...   $0 (03-08-2016 - MD)

Decatur Man Enters Guilty Pleas to Hobbs Act Robbery, Gun Crimes

Urbana, Ill. – A Decatur, Ill., man, Kelton Snyder, 23, appeared today in federal court in Urbana and entered open pleas of guilty to three of the four charges against him. Snyder admitted that he committed the April 3, 2015, armed robbery of the Circle K convenience store at 1685 South Baltimore in Decatur, that he brandish... More...   $0 (03-07-2016 - IL)

In the early morning hours of December 20, 2006, Jessica
Shabazz was shot and killed, and James Sinclair was wounded, at
a motel in Neptune Township. Defendant David Bass was arrested
shortly thereafter. He admitted to police that, prior to the
shooting, he had smoked crack cocaine with Shabazz and Sinclair
in his motel room, that he and Shabazz had argued over money, More...   $0 (03-07-2016 - NJ)

When a criminal defendant has been found to have violated the terms of his probation on the basis of allegations that he has committed a new crime while on probation, his appeal from the finding of violation of probation, contending that there was insufficient evidence for the trial court to conclude that he committed the new crime, is rendered moot if, subsequent to that finding, he either plead... More...   $0 (03-07-2016 - CT)

In 2000, a grand jury indicted Petitioner for armed robbery resulting from the robbery of a Bojangles restaurant in Columbia. At trial, Eugene Green testified that on the night of the robbery, he was helping his manager, Jim Lightner, close the restaurant when Petitioner ran through the door with a shotgun. Green stated Petitioner did not wear a mask. Petitioner ordered Lightner to open the safe,... More...   $0 (03-06-2016 - SC)

At gunpoint, two men beat and robbed twenty-one-year-old Spencer Sweeden as he was
walking home through their neighborhood at approximately 3:00 a.m. At trial, Sweeden described
the events involving the aggravated robbery in detail. He testified that a man wearing a “vest with
many pockets” rode past him on a bicycle and entered the garage of a home on Washington Street
in Co... More...   $0 (03-06-2016 - TX)

Defendant Jauwon A. Allen contends his criminal history was incorrectly calculated in two cases that were disposed of through a single plea agreement and combined hearings in the Sedgwick County District Court. The cases, however, were never consolidated. By our count, Allen has filed eight motions challenging his sentence in the district court, most of which were summarily denied. For whatever r... More...   $0 (03-05-2016 - KS)

On June 3, 2013, Roxanne Holecek reported to police that she and her husband returned home from vacation and discovered their house had been forcibly entered with numerous items missing. Four days later, Harold Massey reported that his residence had been forcefully entered and damage had been caused throughout the house by bullet holes. Massey also reported several items missing from his residence... More...   $0 (03-05-2016 - )