This article was originally published on Goerie.com September 7, 2017 by Madeleine O’Neill. While jurors waited to enter an Erie County courtroom for a trial Thursday, the defendant in a December 2014 fatal shooting instead went before a judge to plead guilty. Julian R. Mickel, 27, pleaded guilty to a count of third-degree murder and agreed to […]

This article was originally published on Goerie.com September 5, 2017 by Madeleine O’Neill. A homicide defendant accused in his wife’s death on Lake Erie instructed his father to make a .38-caliber handgun “vanish,” a state police trooper testified Tuesday. The father, 75-year-old Ernest C. Leclair, of Florida, was held for court on a second-degree misdemeanor count tampering

This article was originally published on GoErie.com September 5, 2017. A North East man faces two felony charges of aggravated assault after he allegedly fled state troopers during a traffic stop and later assaulted them as he was being taken into custody. According to an affidavit, state troopers observed Scott J. Lauderbaugh, 34, of 83 S. Pearl

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tin Hahn on Aug. 23, 2017 Four Tennessee residents face felony forgery and misdemeanor theft charges after the Pennsylvania State Police accused them of passing a counterfeit $100 bill and pulling a quick-change scam at a Summit Township store on Tuesday afternoon. Pamela J. Twilley, 53, Cedric D. Davis,

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on Aug. 22, 2017 MAYVILLE, N.Y. — A Jamestown, New York, man charged in the December 2015 deaths of his wife and stepson was sentenced in Chautauqua County Court on Tuesday to serve 20 years in prison. Allen P. Witruke, 53, was sentenced by Acting County Court Judge James Bargnesi

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on Aug. 23, 2017 An Erie man charged with fleeing from a traffic stop in a stolen car that he crashed early Saturday morning is now accused of stealing the car at gunpoint in the city on Friday afternoon. Depree D. Moss, 18, was arraigned Wednesday morning

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on August 12, 2017 Erie County drug investigators have charged an Erie man with causing the death of a man by supplying the drugs the victim overdosed on in June. Damon D. Henderson, 27, was arraigned by Erie 2nd Ward District Judge Paul Urbaniak Friday morning on

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on August 11, 2017 Investigators have shut down four crystal methamphetamine manufacturing operations that produced thousands of dollars worth of the drug in Erie County, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in Erie on Thursday. Fifteen people have been charged with manufacturing a controlled substance and other drug-related charges in

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on August 17, 2017 The prosecution rested its case Thursday after jurors in Montrice M. Bolden’s trial heard testimony from hospital staff who said Bolden told them he’d “swung at an officer” and wanted to be shot. Three employees of UPMC Hamot and an Erie police officer testified Thursday morning

This article was published on GoErie.com on August 25, 2017 An Erie man accused of stabbing another man with a meat cleaver in March faces up to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty Friday in Erie County Court. Nassir Al-Zamly, 45, pleaded guilty to a single second-degree felony count of aggravated assault before Judge Daniel