The Erie County District Attorney’s Office will seek to withdraw the homicide charge against a Lake City father accused of inflicting fatal injuries on his infant son in February 2016. The decision was based on “additional medical evidence and interviews with essential witnesses regarding the medical evidence,” District Attorney Jack Daneri said Monday. The defendant, […]

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 13, 2018 Pennsylvania State Police have charged a Fairview Township man with fatally stabbing his stepdaughter and bludgeoning his wife to death in their West Ridge Road residence on Friday. Their bodies were not found until Monday afternoon. Regis A. Brown, 58, the defendant, is also accused of

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 9, 2018 Even before police arrested a Millcreek Township man in an investigation into the shooting death of his wife, the man confessed to the killing — to a Roman Catholic priest he sought out in the rectory of St. Peter Cathedral in downtown Erie. The odd turn

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 8, 2018 An Erie woman was jailed Thursday after city police accused her of slashing her boyfriend in the head with a kitchen knife at an eastside residence on Wednesday evening. Angelic A. Parks, 24, is accused of using a kitchen knife to cut the male victim, causing

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on March 6, 2018 The defense in an Edinboro homicide case will not dispute this week that the defendant, 23-year-old Devin L. Stevenson, went to a Meadville Street apartment to sell marijuana and ended up shooting two men there. The only dispute, Stevenson’s lawyer, David Ridge, said

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 2, 2018 A 16-year-old boy was placed in detention and faces aggravated assault and strangulation charges after Erie police said he choked a teacher at Erie High School on Thursday morning. The incident happened at Erie High School, 3325 Cherry St., on Thursday at about 9 a.m. The

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Feb 28, 2018 A delayed mental health evaluation is likely to force a postponement of a Millcreek Township man’s homicide trial in a December 2016 stabbing death. The lawyer for Joseph A. Oberlander, 41, said Wednesday that he has not been able to get in touch

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Feb 28, 2018   The defendant is accused of starving two dogs and keeping them in an unheated house. One dog died. An Erie man accused of starving two dogs waived his charges to court Wednesday and plans to apply for the county’s Veterans Court program,

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Feb 27, 2018 A leader of a Mexican drug-trafficking organization received 15 years in federal prison Monday for his involvement in a major conspiracy that brought cocaine and methamphetamine to Erie. Ignacio Montes Leon, a Mexican citizen, will serve his time in prison in the United

This article was published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Feb 22, 2018 A U.S. Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty Thursday to involvement in a pair of off-duty crashes that left an 83-year-old man injured in January 2017. The defendant, 45-year-old Norman A. Antuzzi, entered Erie County’s treatment court program, which diverts qualified defendants into intensive treatment