This article was published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on January 14, 2018 OIL CITY — City police charge that a Medina, Ohio, woman was bringing quantities of crystal methamphetamine from Ohio and distributing the drug in the area in December and January. Deidra R. Cunningham, no age available, was in the Venango County prison on $50,000 […]

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on Jan 11, 2018 Erie police have charged a teenage boy with robbing a Parade Street store at gunpoint on Sunday night as detectives continue to investigate another Parade Street store robbery earlier that evening. Domonie K. Dixon, 16, was arraigned Thursday morning by Erie 2nd Ward

This article was published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan. 10, 2018 An Edinboro man received electronic monitoring Wednesday at his sentencing for striking the car of an off-duty Erie police officer moments after the officer was involved in a fatal DUI crash in McKean Township in February. Danny C. Hamilton, 36, will spend 30 days

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on Jan 9, 2018 An Erie man faces attempted homicide and other charges in an early morning stabbing at an eastside residence on Tuesday. The 36-year-old man is accused of stabbing his stepfather several times around the face and neck areas during a reported domestic incident at

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 8, 2018 The homicide case before Erie County jurors this week is not a “whodunit.” That’s according to the lawyer for 27-year-old Merle A. Page Jr., the defendant on trial in the Jan. 15, 2017, fatal shooting of Marcell Flemings. Page’s lawyer, Eric Hackwelder, told

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 5, 2018 A fatal shooting that was largely caught on surveillance video will be the focus of a homicide trial in which testimony is set to begin next week in Erie County Court. Jury selection is scheduled to start Friday in the trial of 27-year-old

This article as originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan. 4, 2018 The former chief executive of a local nonprofit pleaded guilty in August to embezzling more than $65,000 from the organization, which provides housing services for people with disabilities. He now claims he can’t be housed in a work-release facility while he serves his

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan. 3, 2018 A 23-year-old Erie homicide case will make its way back into an Erie County courtroom in the coming months. The Erie County District Attorney’s Office is proceeding with a new trial against 48-year-old Vance L. Haskell, in accordance with a 3rd U.S. Circuit

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan. 1, 2018 A new ruling in a complex health care fraud case could split the charges against an Erie oral surgeon accused of overbilling insurance companies. The charges filed in an indictment against the surgeon, David E. Palo, are logically inconsistent, Senior U.S. District Judge

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on December 28, 2017 The case against a 17-year-old girl accused of delivering a fatal dose of drugs will be considered for transfer into adult court in January. The girl was charged as a juvenile in November on counts including drug delivery resulting in death in the