This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on January 25, 2019 A homicide defendant accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend in August thinks that contaminated marijuana might have caused him to have a psychotic episode in the hours before the killing, according to a new court filing. The defendant, James M. Gilbert, 24, wants […]

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on January 24, 2018 Two men face disorderly conduct and summary traffic charges following a two-vehicle crash that led to a reported road-rage incident on Wednesday morning. The crash that started the incident happened at East 24th and Wallace streets and was reported on Wednesday at 10:20 a.m., according to

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tin Hahn on January 17, 2019 Federal authorities charge that an Erie man disguised himself with a light blue hard hat and what appeared to be dreadlocks when he robbed a westside bank branch of cash twice within five weeks. Ronald Lomax Jr., 30, of Erie, was charged in

This article was originally published on www.huffingtonpost.com on December 27, 2018 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Police have arrested a 42-year-old Anchorage man suspected of stealing a front-end loader and using it as his get-away vehicle after a burglary. Police say Brian Petross was held Wednesday on suspicion of vehicle theft, burglary, theft, reckless driving and criminal mischief. Online court documents do not

This article was originally published on www.huffingtonpost.com by Carla Herreria A blindfolded teenage driver in Utah crashed into another car for obvious reasons on Monday, according to the Layton Police Department. “Bird Box Challenge while driving…predictable result,” the police tweeted on Friday, along with a photo of two mangled cars on Layton Parkway surrounded by snow-covered sidewalks.

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on January 8, 2019 The death of an Erie man who was shot inside his westside apartment on Monday night has been ruled a homicide, Erie County’s first in 2019. The man, who is in his 50s, died of a gunshot wound to the chest, Erie County

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeline O’Neill on January 7, 2019 Christopher S. Leclair is serving life in prison for murdering his wife on Lake Erie. He’s fighting a different aspect of his sentence in court: the $700,000 restitution he was ordered to pay to the U.S. Coast Guard for the massive search that began

This article was originally published on www.huffingtonpost.com by David Moye on December 26, 2018 A homeowner in Maine received a surprise visitor at his Waterboro home on Sunday afternoon, but it definitely wasn’t Santa. Police in York County said the man opened the door of his house only to find an intruder watching television and wearing some of

This article was published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on December 28, 2018 A man wearing a knit cap and thick eyeglasses and armed with a handgun ran off with cash on Friday morning in the third robbery of a west Erie Northwest Bank branch in 37 days. Erie police were reviewing surveillance video and scouring parts

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on December 26, 2018 Three motorists face charges of driving under the influence and three others face drug charges following a sobriety checkpoint that Pennsylvania State Police troopers based at Troop E headquarters in Lawrence Park Township conducted over the weekend. Troopers who worked the detail made contact with more than