This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on April 24, 2018 Lawrence Park Township police said a 14-year-old junior high school student at Iroquois High School faces terroristic threats and disorderly conduct charges in a gun threat incident at the school on Friday afternoon. The student was placed in the Edmund L. Thomas Juvenile […]

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on April 19, 2018 An Erie man charged in a city police drug investigation that stemmed from complaints about suspected drug activity at the Liberty Plaza during the fall waived a felony charge to court under an agreement reached with prosecutors on Thursday. Jonathan W. James, 40,

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on April 16, 2018 An Erie auto salesman received prison time and must pay tens of thousands of dollars in restitution following his sentencing in federal court Monday for conspiring to arrange fraudulent vehicle sales. Brian A. Vergotz, 50, will spend six months in federal prison followed

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on April 10, 2018 A Wesleyville man is facing prison time after pleading guilty Tuesday to burglarizing an Erie store where police found him stuck in the ventilation ductwork. Michael Rodriguez-Santiago, 20, pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony count of burglary under an agreement with prosecutors that was

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on April 9, 2018 HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s highest court will decide whether a woman’s use of illegal drugs while pregnant qualifies as child abuse under state law. The Supreme Court recently took up the case of a woman who tested positive for suboxone and marijuana at the time she gave

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on April 3, 2018 A 34-year-old Erie man with a prior conviction for attempted homicide was sent back to state prison Tuesday for his involvement in an April gunfight that left one man injured. The defendant, Markcail Williams, received seven and a half to 20 years in state

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 28, 2018 The homicide trial for Christopher S. Leclair in his wife’s death on Lake Erie has been moved to October. Leclair, 48, had been set to face trial in early April on charges including homicide, abuse of a corpse, aggravated assault, tampering with evidence and possessing the

This article was originally published on GoEriie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on March 29, 2018  After months of delays leading up to her scheduled sentencing, a suspended Erie police officer extended her criminal case on Thursday by withdrawing her guilty plea to charges she caused an off-duty fatal crash while driving drunk in McKean Township in February 2017.

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 21, 2018 A Fairview Township man accused in a recent double homicide appeared in Erie County Court Wednesday to deal with less serious charges. Regis A. Brown, 58, who is in the Erie County Prison without bond in the homicide case, received six months in prison at his

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Ed Palattella on March 16, 2018 One of the three Erie County defendants accused in the hazing death of a now-closed Penn State fraternity is no longer facing the most serious charges that had been refiled against him, including felony aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s