EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – A southern Illinois man has received a 45-year prison sentence for the production, distribution and receipt of child pornography. U.S. Attorney Donald S. Boyce said Wednesday 34-year-old Miguel Angel Vasquez Torres of Beckemeyer admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing a minor over the course of several years and photographing the…
EDWARDSVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A woman convicted of fatally stabbing another woman in Granite City in 2013 has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/28ZXpRu ) reports Circuit Judge Kyle Napp sentenced 21-year-old Breanna Maldonado after a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder in March. Authorities say Maldonado and…
( KTRS ) A bill moving through the Missouri Senate would change the state’s sentencing guidelines to eliminate the mandatory sentence of life in prison for minors convicted of first-degree murder. Lawmakers have endorsed changing the guidelines to bring them into line with a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found mandatory life sentences for minors…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A man accused of selling old prosthetic legs to customers as new legs has been sentenced to more than a year in prison. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1Xwozj ) reports that 53-year-old Theodore Deininger was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison and ordered to repay $150,000. He had pleaded guilty…
( KTRS ) A Belleville woman who pleaded guilty to fraud charges for lying about a terminal ovarian cancer diagnosis has been sentenced to three years in prison. Alissa Jackson, 32, was charged in June 2014 with bilking thousands of dollars in donations, free food and a donated minivan from hundreds of people on behalf…
( KTRS ) A former East St. Louis strip club bouncer who pleaded guilty to killing a man with his pickup truck is to return to court for sentencing. Thirty-three-year-old Reginald Allen of Dupo faces up to six years in prison Friday in St. Clair County. He was initially charged with reckless homicide in the…
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing his girlfriend and concealing her death by dumping her body in Madison County, Illinois. Madison County Circuit Judge Kyle Napp sentenced Raamon Reed on Wednesday. Reed pleaded guilty in November to shooting Tabatha Lynae Milton-Rush to death…
( KTRS ) A man suspected East St. Louis gang leader has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for multiple drug and weapons offenses. James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for Southern Illinois, reports that 40-year-old Ayiko Paulette of Cahokia, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute narcotics, running a…
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – A 30-year-old East St. Louis man has been sentenced to six decades in prison for killing another man who identified him as the shooter. Eric Hill was found guilty in October of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Marcus Harris. Prosecutors sought a 55-year sentence and Hill’s defense…