12 Feb, 2025

Pennsylvania murderer escaped by scaling a wall topped with razor wire, prison official says

Crime Danelo Cavalcante received a life sentence last month for killing his ex-girlfriend, Deborah Brandao, in front of her children in 2021, and escaped while awaiting transfer to state prison. Escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante. Chester County District Attorney’s Office via AP By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI, Associated Press September 7, 2023 | 8:41 AM […]

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Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

Politics “I ask you that you not take my 40s from me.” Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. AP By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press September 5, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot […]

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Man sentenced to 42 years in prison for 2019 death of N.H.e pastor

Crime By Associated Press August 25, 2023 | 5:45 PM BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A man was sentenced to 42 years in prison Friday for fatally shooting a New Hampshire pastor whose church he attended. Brandon Castiglione, 28, who was convicted of second-degree murder, did not testify at his trial in May. Prosecutors said there […]

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Connecticut woman sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering victim whose headless body was found in a park

Crime Casandra Nazario, 26, had entered a plea deal with prosecutors and testified against her codefendant, who was sentenced Aug. 2 to 55 years in prison. By Associated Press August 18, 2023 | 9:09 AM WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of a woman […]

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Man who attacked Capitol with tomahawk on Jan. 6 gets 7 years in prison

National News Shane Jenkins, 46, of Texas, also repeatedly threw makeshift weapons at police officers during the riot. In this image from the body-worn camera of a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer, released by the Justice Department in the Statement of Facts supporting an arrest warrant, Shane Jenkins confronts officers as they enforce a curfew […]

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‘Zip Tie Guy’ and his mother get prison terms in Jan. 6 riot

National News Eric Munchel, 32, of Tennessee, was sentenced to nearly five years in prison in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, while his mother, Lisa Eisenhart, 59, received a two-and-a-half-year term. Eric Munchel, left, in the Senate Chamber after he stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. By Eduardo Medina, New […]

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