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A Baltimore man faces a mandatory life prison sentence after being convicted Wednesday for taking part in the robbery and slaying of a Blairsville man three years ago. A jury convicted Deandre Jones Jr ., 32, of second-degree murder, robbery and conspiracy to robbery following two days of testimony in Indiana County Common Pleas Court . Jones was one of four suspects accused of planning to rob and kill Tyron Howard , 37, in his apartment at 122 S. Stewart St. Two of Jones’ co- defendants reached plea agreements with the district attorney ’s office and a third was convicted following a trial in June. State police charged that the group traveled from Altoona to Blairsville on the night of Sept. 29, 2014, and the purported leader of the plot, Michael Eades, told the others he intended to collect money Howard owed him from drug trafficking. Witnesses portrayed Howard and Eades as best friends for years. Howard was the best man at Eades’ wedding, and Eades named one of his children ...

Take a walk east from the gold-plated cupola of San Francisco City Hall and the landscape transforms into the Tenderloin, a patchwork of residential hotels, small delis and social service clinics that cater to the poor. It winds into the city’s main tourist corridor , and, farther along, a glossy cluster of condominium towers where upper- story penthouses cost millions . These symbols of extreme poverty and prosperity are wedged together in District Six, which serves both as a portal for visitors and a cauldron where San Francisco ’s most pressing political issues simmer . For 20 years, District Six voters have reliably concluded that the solutions to those issues come from the progressive viewpoint. And while it’s more than a year until the next election for supervisor, the contest is already shaping up as a test of whether that is still true. From the Tenderloin to the Mission Bay waterfront , District Six has seen a rush of development over the past two decades, and residents are ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A Detroit man was sentenced  to 17 and a half years in federal prison for his role in a heroin conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto . Mark Steven Bush , Jr., 30, of Detroit, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.  Between November 2014 and June 8, 2016, Bush led a conspiracy with other individuals who either sold heroin for him, rented and purchased cars in their name for him, stored heroin and guns for him, or transferred proceeds of drug trafficking for him. During the conspiracy, those selling drugs for Bush would receive heroin on consignment or “front.” Bush would later receive proceeds from the sales. Bush enlisted the aid of others who permitted Bush to title cars in their names in exchange for payments of heroin. These individuals also provided transportation for Bush and those selling heroin on Bush’s behalf. Bush utilized another individual who made trips to Detroit to deliver money and tran...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. - An armed security guard who shot and killed a man after a confrontation at an apartment complex in Westminster earlier this month will not face criminal charges . Seventeenth Judicial District Attorney Dave Young has determined that the guard fired in self defense. The shooting happened at about 1:25 a.m. on Aug. 2 at the Sunset Ridge Apartments on Sheridan Boulevard. Johnny Secrest told 7NEWS his cousin, 24-year-old David Ludewig, was confronted by the security guard while peeing next to a dumpster in the complex's parking lot. Secrest said the guard threatened to detain them and spray them with mace as he followed them back to their apartment. When they got to their unit, Secrest said Ludewig, walked in and came back out with an airsoft gun. That's when the guard shot Ludewig . Police found the man wounded in the parking lot. He was transported to a local area hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Secrest said they didn't know the securit...

MARIETTA, GA -- A Mableton man associated with the Gangster Disciples street gang has been convicted of murder in a 2015 armed robbery at an apartment complex, Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds announced Thursday . Darius Jarrell Dunn , 25, was convicted by a Cobb jury this week, the DA said. Dunn was one of two gunmen involved in the death of Anthony Tavarez at an apartment on Shenandoah Trail. (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts . Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app .) In a robbery that turned deadly, Tavarez, 23, was shot in the back just after midnight on Sept. 16, 2015. Two co-defendants -- Melvin William Evans , 32, of Newton and Joshua Raphal Gore , 32, of Austell -- already pleaded guilty to the shooting as the trial neared, the DA said. All three are associated with the Gangster Disciples street gang , the DA said. “Street gangs such as the Gangster Disciples have been perpetrating these senseless acts of violenc...

A repeat felon from Oklahoma is set to spend the rest of his life in prison over three Marietta robberies in 2016, Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds announced Monday . On Friday, a Cobb jury convicted 40 -year-old Rodney Kinchelle Howell of stealing purses from three women outside three Marietta stores in April of last year. All three robberies occurred in the daytime, and in one instance, a stolen purse yielded a handgun used in a later attack, said Kim Isaza, spokesperson for the DA’s office. Howell’s codefendant, Cheyenne Nicole Rogers , 23, also of Oklahoma, pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges related to the robberies. The first robbery occurred at 11 a.m. on April 5, 2016, when Howell and Rogers went to the Walmart on Cobb Parkway near the Big Chicken. As the two followed an 86-year-old woman and her 64-year-old daughter out of the store, Howell grabbed the mother’s purse and ran. Rogers got into a 2007 Cadillac Escalade with Oklahoma tags, and both fled th...

In 2013, Randy Dillard was living with his four sons and a daughter in an apartment at 198th Street and Bainbridge in the Bronx. The windows were broken; mold and mildew streaked the walls. In the winter, Dillard’s family had to boil water on the stove to bathe; there was no heat or hot water. When the New York City Housing Authority conducted an inspection of the apartment on behalf of Section 8, the federal rent assistance program that financed Dillard ’s rental, the unit failed the test, and Section 8 stopped paying Dillard ’s landlord, demanding that he make repairs. That winter, Dillard was hospitalized for two months with a bout of emphysema; when he came out, he was served with eviction papers for nonpayment of rent. advertisement “I stood in the middle of my hallway looking around my apartment thinking: What am I going to do with my stuff?” Dillard tells Fast Company . “I told myself: I’m going to end up homeless. I’m going to wind up in a shelter.” Dillard got word of a Bron...

MERCER – The prosecution rested its case Thursday in the Michael D. Bagnall murder case after a day of putting out fires and trying to convince the jury a former fellow inmate of the defendant should be taken seriously. Bagnall is charged with first- and third-degree murder and aggravated assault in the Feb. 28, 2015, shooting death of Jaylen “Bubby” West on Quinby Street in Sharon. The men attended a birthday party for Bagnall at the home of Bagnall’s sister, Anna Johnson, on Quinby Street. West was found dead next door. In the fourth day of testimony, Deputy Attorneys General Patrick J. Schulte and Bobbi Jo C. Wagner presented the many stories of Jawuan Hawkins, who was at the party. Sharon police Capt . Travis Martwinski testified that he interviewed Hawkins about the events that night, and Hawkins said he had passed out from drinking. “He did not hear anything that happened at the apartment,” Martwinski said. However, when Martwinski told him police were prepari...

Yesterday, August 22, a U.S. District Court judge sentenced Highlands Ranch resident Caroline Zarate Boyle after she pleaded guilty to ripping off her former employer, the U.S. Postal Service , by pretending to have cancer. This admission and the punishment she'll receive as a result, outlined below, have earned her a place in the Colorado Cancer Faker Hall of Fame, which has inducted seven members in the past eight years. Continue to meet the six other inductees via excerpts and links from our previous coverage, followed by new details about Boyle's case. Tausha Marsh, left. File photo If Tausha Marsh Did Fake Cancer, Here's Hoping She Invested Her Profits With the Mormon Madoff THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2009, AT 11 A.M. Attention, Denver! Please keep your wallet in your front pocket at all times, shred all documents, and ask your girlfriend for two forms of ID before you let her in your apartment. Because apparently it's Really Brazen But Not All That Clever Scam Week . ...