#sentencing

#sentencing

A man who prosecutors say was acting as a bounty hunter when he and others allegedly kidnapped a fugitive's girlfriend and burglarized the couple's National City home was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison. The sentencing of Jesse A. Wagner, 50, in Chula Vista Superior Court ends an unusual case that grew to include three incidents in other local cities, including one in which a bystander was boxed in by alleged bounty hunters in darkened SUVs on an Oceanside street.

He was handed a sentence of nine months in prison suspended for two years at a hearing at Nottingham Crown Court, as a judge told him he had suffered a spectacular fall from grace. Forensic analysis of Coote's computer showed a two-minute and 11-second-long video had been viewed that showed a 15-year-old boy in a school uniform undressing until he was completely naked, before performing sexual acts on himself, prosecutors said on Thursday.

In a 25-page sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday, Corado's lawyer, Pleasant S. Brodnax III, asked U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden to impose a time-served sentence rather than incarceration, citing her lack of prior criminal history, decades of LGBTQ+ advocacy, and what the filing describes as the uniquely severe and dangerous conditions transgender women now face in federal custody, under the Trump administration.

Our officers are determined to ensure women and girls live free from violence and abuse. We are relentless in our focus on tackling domestic abuse. It will not be tolerated, and perpetrators will be held accountable. We tackle violence against women and girls every day of the year, preventing harm and bringing offenders to justice. We don't do this alone but work with partners to identify and address the societal issues at the root of gender-based violence, so that we can stop abusive behaviour before it begins.

I have taken note of the psychological trauma as well as the inconvenience caused to the victims, and the distress that all of them have expressed at allowing you into their homes into their private space only to be violated.

A 31-year-old man was sentenced to five years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl throughout the Bay Area, in a case where authorities say he was arrested inside a home that contained 54 pounds of the deadly drug. Darwin Licona, of Oakland, pleaded guilty to a federal fentanyl trafficking charge, stemming from a traffic stop in 2023, in Oakland, where more than two pounds were recovered, according to court records.

Mr. Baylon Asuncion has acknowledged his wrongdoing and accepted responsibility for his conduct. He has expressed sincere remorse, both for his actions and for the impact they have had on the victim, the victim's family, and the broader community,

A Bay Area man was sentenced to 17 months in prison for plotting with other gang members to rip off a Union City drug house in 2018, court records show. Caleb Eller allegedly scoped out the target house, theorizing they would get at least a brick of cocaine from the home and that the brothers who ran it, who'd been robbed before, wouldn't put up a fight. He suggested his cohorts boot the door down and get it from them, prosecutors said in court filings.

Mark Chavez, a former doctor, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine last October. In his plea agreement, Chavez acknowledged that he and Salvador Plasencia - an ex-doctor sentenced to nearly three years in prison earlier this month - colluded to deceive medical ketamine suppliers and illegally distribute the drug to Perry for profit. Chavez, 54, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release following his house arrest and must perform 300 hours of community service.

Dan Barr, a former soldier who brought Liverpool parade attacker Paul Doyle's rampage to an end by climbing into the back seat of his car and moving the gear stick to park, has spoken out for the first time. The former soldier, 41, from Birkenhead, Wirral, said he doesn't think his actions were "anything special" and would "do it again." Mr Barr has been described as a hero" for his intervention.

A woman who set fire to a bus during the 2023 Dublin riots, causing nearly half a million euro worth of damage, has been jailed for six years.

Victims of Paul Doyle were left in tears as harrowing details of his dangerous driving were read out in court, after he crashed into and injured 134 people at a Liverpool FC victory parade. On Monday, prosecutors said the former Royal Marine had used his Ford Galaxy as a weapon and that his anger had completely taken hold of him, causing injuries to children as young as six months old.

Kwon, known by some as "the cryptocurrency king," pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court in August to fraud charges stemming from Terraform Labs' $40 billion crash. The company had touted its TerraUSD as a reliable "stablecoin"—a kind of currency typically pegged to stable assets to prevent drastic fluctuations in prices. But prosecutors say it was all an illusion that came crumbling down, devastating investors and triggering "a cascade of crises that swept through cryptocurrency markets."

"It was a terrible allegation to make. I hope she is sorry for what she did," the judge said.