Just nine days after the thwarted raid on Ms Taylor-Joy, Holdrick struck again in a second home invasion. Alongside accomplice Ashley Fulton, he disguised himself as a police officer for a raid in Sandbanks, overlooking Poole harbour. During this incident, a woman and her daughter were held at gunpoint, tied up, and threatened with extreme violence, including being burned with an iron and shot dead, if they did not open the family safe.
On Friday, Gonzalez was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison for giving Dreith counterfeit fentanyl pills called "blue M-30s." She also got an extra four years and four months for other felony convictions related to selling drugs. "This sentencing reflects the seriousness of the defendant's actions and the devastating and deadly consequences of distributing fentanyl," Fresno County Dist. Atty. Lisa Smittcamp said in a statement.
He apologized during the sentencing, saying he wished he could bring Massey back and spare her family the pain he caused. "I made a lot of mistakes that night. There were points when I should've acted, and I didn't. I froze," he said. "I made terrible decisions that night. I'm sorry." But Massey's parents and two children - who lobbied for the maximum sentence - said their lives had changed dramatically since the killing.
Judge Randolph Moss just sentenced Paul Hodgkins to eight months in prison for his role in the January 6 riot. Hodgkins will face two years of probation and pay the $2,000 restitution agreed on in his plea agreement (though will not be fined). The sentence was about what I expected, and a fair sentence for someone who pled guilty first and engaged in no violence (and even tried to calm other rioters).
Blaine Parker can now be named after his ex-girlfriend indicated she wanted him identified at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court, where the judge described it as the worst domestic violence case he had seen
OAKLAND - The defendant in a years-old murder case was sentenced to 13 years, more than double the amount of time that prosecutors had initially sought to impose in a plea deal that a judge rejected. Bryon Revels, 32, was formally sentenced on Christmas Eve and transferred to North Kern State Prison on Jan. 7, court records show.
An extortionist who demanded €20,000 from two innocent victims - threatening one that their children's throats would be slit and warning another he would be killed - has argued that his five-year sentence was twice as severe as that handed to his co-accused.
You were found in the garden at Kensington Palace having climbed over the fence. The police bailed you, granted you bail but you went back. You did it again. Derek Egan sentenced for getting into the grounds of Kensington Palace You were arrested and brought before this court. You gave no explanation as to why you did it but climbed over a fence.
Prosecutors said Guy drove the wrong way on Interstate 195 East around 7:30 p.m. on May 24, 2022, colliding head-on with multiple vehicles and sending six people to the hospital. Four of the victims suffered serious injuries. First responders transported Guy to Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries.
An NHS manager who siphoned off more than 120,000 from his trust, primarily to fuel a gambling addiction, has been handed a prison sentence. Alec Gandy, a senior operational manager at Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust, orchestrated a scheme involving fake temporary worker accounts, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) revealed. Gandy created fictitious roles for his friend, Matthew Lane, as a physician's assistant, and his ex-wife, Kaylee Wright, as a paramedic. He then authorised invoices totalling over 123,000 to be paid into these accounts.
A burglar filmed himself before and after raids, with the footage used by police as key evidence to convict him. Hamza Ghafoor, 22, of Sunderland Road, Bradford, was part of a gang that travelled into Lancashire from Bradford to commit a total of nine burglaries of high-value vehicles. In one September 2023 incident, a 35,000 Volkswagen Tiguan was stolen, while in October that same year, a 79,000 BMW X3 was taken.
He describes turning to steroids after several spine injuries in the line of duty, the nightmares that haunt him from the day a tried to save a 2-year-old girl who drowned in a backyard pool, and the fateful morning where FBI armored cars drove onto his lawn and burst into his home with flashbang grenades while he poured milk into his kids' cereal bowls.
Your behaviour was of itself obviously offensive to all right-thinking people. 'There is, rightly, grave public concern at present concerning conduct of officers of the Metropolitan Police. 'The public is entitled to expect much better. 'Your actions not only shame yourselves directly, but cause embarrassment and frustration for the vast majority of those serving who do uphold the high standards of behaviour that the public expect from the police.
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.