A Princeton woman, 29-year-old Valerie Robinson, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for her involvement in a traffic accident last year in Mercer County that claimed the life of another Princeton woman and injured two family members. Sentencing was yesterday in Division One of the Grundy County Circuit Court before special judge Steve Hudson. In […]
A Cameron man has been sentenced to prison after being convicted on charges of murdering his wife. 28-year-old Adam Baker was sentenced Thursday in Clay County Circuit Court to serve a total of 16 years with the department of corrections. The sentence breaks down to 13 years for second-degree murder and three years for armed […]
Sentencing was yesterday afternoon at the Courthouse in Bethany for a man accused of poisoning his wife nearly ten years ago when they lived in Harrison County. Samuel Borntreger was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of second-degree murder. He had pleaded guilty June 21st in Division One of the Harrison County Circuit […]
A St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Michael Robinson, 35, of St. Joseph, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to nine years in federal prison without parole. On May 22, 2014, Robinson pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute […]
A former owner of a solar energy installation company in St. Joseph, Mo., was sentenced in federal court for his role in a fraud scheme that totaled nearly $1.4 million in rebates through state and federal programs. Trevor Dryden, 36, of Texas but formerly of St. Joseph, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips to […]
The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Adam Baker Thursday in the shooting death of his 26-year-old wife Holly Baker in a trial that began Monday, July 11. The Cameron man was convicted of Second Degree Murder and armed criminal action in a trial that lasted just four days in the death of his […]
A Maryville, Mo., man who is a registered sex offender pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to child pornography. Edward Grimes, 58, of Maryville, pleaded guilty before U.S. Chief District Judge Greg Kays to the charges contained in a Sept. 19, 2014, federal indictment. Grimes, a registered sex offender, has prior felony convictions for […]
A Trenton man, David Wayne Manus Jr. received a seven-year sentence to the Department of Corrections in connection with the abduction of a 9-year-old Trenton girl in October of 2015. Manus pleaded guilty in court on Thursday, June 23 to charges of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child as well as sexual misconduct by […]
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office was charged with having 19 detainees in court, on June 14. With the help of Daviess-Dekalb County Regional Jail, there were 3 transport vans of detainees as well as a handful of jail staff to assist the deputies and sheriff with court and detainee security. Jefferson O. Patton, 34, who […]
Officials are reporting the death of a 61-year-old woman Saturday, June 4, in the women’s prison in Chillicothe. Prison officials and medical personnel pronounced Loretta Young dead at 7:49 a.m. June 4 in the Chillicothe Correctional Center. She died of apparent natural causes. Young was serving a 50-year sentence without parole for capital murder from […]
The death of a 49-year-old inmate at Crossroads, the state’s maximum-security prison in Cameron on Friday, May 6, is under investigation. Timothy Adams was pronounced dead at 12:13 p.m. Friday in the Crossroads Correctional Center. Adams was serving a life sentence for being an accessory to first-degree murder and an accessory to armed criminal action. […]
(KRCG-TV) – A Macon man accused of murdering a 92-year-old Moberly woman with a machete 3 years ago on Easter Sunday will not face the death penalty. Christopher Lewis, 21, cut a deal with prosecutors by offering guilty pleas to 19 charges in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of […]
(St. Joseph News-Press) – One of the two men accused and convicted in the stabbing death of Richard Berry last April now faces a charge of attempted escape from prison. Sean Liechti, 25, who was convicted in Berry’s death on a county bridge over the Third Fork of the Platte River, was allegedly joined in […]
