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South Jersey Man Sentenced In Child Porn Case
CAMDEN, NJ (AP) — A southern New Jersey man who offered and advertised thousands of child pornography images online has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Thirty-five-year-old Evan Corbett...
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Suspect In Trenton Gang Rape Of 7 Year Old Sentenced To Probation
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man initially accused of participating in the alleged gang-rape of a 7-year-old girl after her 15-year-old stepsister sold her for sex has been sentenced to probation....
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US Court Grants New Sentencing For Mumia Abu-Jamal
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A federal appeals court in Philadelphia today reaffirmed its earlier ruling that convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal should get a new sentencing hearing. The ruling does not...
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Ex-Pa. State Senator Re-Sentenced To 61 Months
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A long-powerful Pennsylvania senator has been re-sentenced to 61 months in prison in a sprawling corruption case, up from 55 months. Vincent Fumo was convicted of defrauding the...
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NJ Man Who Smothered Infant Son Sentenced To 12 Years
MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — A southern New Jersey man who smothered his infant son in their home because the child would not stop crying has been sentenced to 12 years in state prison. Eric Griffin...
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Social Media Predator Sentenced For Sexually Assaulting Underage Girls
By Dan Wing PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A former volunteer youth girl’s soccer coach from Philadelphia was sentenced to 12.5 to 25-years in jail on Monday, after pleading guilty last year to using social...
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NJ Dentist Sentenced To 15 Years On Child Porn Charges
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former New Jersey dentist has been sentenced to serve 15 years in federal prison on child pornography and related charges. Jon Lackner of Cherry Hill was sentenced Tuesday in...
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Archdiocese: Monsignor Lynn’s Sentence ‘Heavy’
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has released a statement just hours after Monsignor William Lynn was sentenced to 3-6 years in prison, calling his sentence “heavy.” The statement...
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Cherry Hill Man Sentenced To 17 Years In Prison For 2011 Death At Party
CHERRY HILL, NJ (CBS) – A Cherry Hill man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for the death of a man at a party back in 2011. Naqueebullah Habibi, 20, pleaded guilty in July to Aggravated...
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4 Sentenced In Multi-Million Dollar Mortgage Scheme
By Michelle Durham PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A federal judge decided the fates of four men who previously pleaded guilty in connection with a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme. Instead of the...
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Sandusky To Speak At Tuesday’s Sentencing
By Ben Simmoneau BELLEFONTE, Pa. (CBS) — Jerry Sandusky’s attorney says the convicted sex offender will speak out at his sentencing hearing, scheduled for Tuesday in Bellefonte, Pa. On his way to a...
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Allentown Man Sentenced To Life For 2011 Murder And Dismemberment Of Girlfriend
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — An eastern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole after pleading guilty but mentally ill in the slaying and dismemberment of his...
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Sandusky’s Victims React To Sentencing
By Oren Liebermann BELLEFONTE, Pa. (CBS) — The victims of Jerry Sandusky didn’t come to court looking for an apology; they know that will likely never happen. They came to make sure no child would...
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Sandusky And Wife ‘Defiant’ In Letters To Judge
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jerry and Dottie Sandusky wrote defiant letters to his judge before sentencing, attacking the motives of his victims, expressing a loss of faith in the judicial system and...
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Leader Of South Jersey Drug Ring Gets 20 Years In Jail
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a leader of a large-scale drug trafficking organization in southern New Jersey has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Jeffrey “Jazzy” Jones of Camden will...
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Self-Described ‘Worst Guy Ever’ Sentenced To 30 Years For Break-in, Rape Of...
PAULSBORO, NJ (CBS) – A Paulsboro man whose ex-girlfriend called him a “monster” has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term. David A. Richardson, 39, of Paulsboro, was sentenced to 30 years in New...
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Sentencing Postponed For Gosnell Abortion Clinic Employees
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sentencing was postponed Wednesday for two women who pleaded guilty for their work at a corrupt, grimy Philadelphia abortion clinic whose owner was convicted of killing babies born...
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NJ Man Gets Nearly 12 Years For Possessing Porn Involving Infants, Toddlers
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A northern New Jersey man who had more than 46,000 images of child pornography on his home computer and other electronic devices has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in federal...
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Sentenced To Public Shaming
By Amy E. Feldman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A man who had been sentenced by an Ohio Judge to carry a sign apologizing for being an idiot after he called 911 and threatened to kill police officers was...
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Philadelphia Mobster Sentenced To 11 Years For Racketeering
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Reputed mob soldier Damion Canalichio has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for racketeering, a break from the 20 years sought by federal prosecutors. They describe the...
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Presentencing Investigation
By Amy E. Feldman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – What’s a presentencing investigation? A Georgia man who was awaiting sentencing on several theft charges – including the theft of a boat – was rearrested when...
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Woman Sentenced To 80 Years For AC Tourist Stabbing Case
MAYS LANDING, N.J. (CBS/AP) — A homeless woman who admitted fatally stabbing two Canadian tourists in Atlantic City, N.J., during an attempted street robbery last year was sentenced to 80 years in...
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Philadelphia Man Sentenced To 24 Years In Jail For Trafficking Minors
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A Philadelphia man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for sex trafficking minors. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia says Craig Johnson, a/k/a “Geez,” a 42-year-old...
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Pa. Man Gets Jail Time For Money Laundering, Wire Fraud
RICHBORO, Pa. (CBS) – A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for wire fraud and money laundering. Fifty-year-old David Rothman, of Richboro, was the Vice President of Rothman...
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Last Defendant Sentenced In Murder Of Bucks County Musician
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The last of five defendants in the slaying of a popular suburban Philadelphia musician has been sentenced to 52 to 104 years in prison. Nineteen-year-old Kazair Gist of Trenton,...
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York Man Gets Long Sentence For Crack House Slaying
YORK, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 20 to 46 years in prison in the death of a man who authorities said complained about the quality of drugs he was sold at a York crack...
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Guidelines For A Sentence Of ‘House Arrest’
By Amy E. Feldman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Take my wife, please. A drug dealer in Tuscany begged for resentencing last month because he couldn’t stand his cell mate. He had been sentenced to house arrest...
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Former Philly Health Dept. Employee Who Turned To Crime Gets Cut A Break At...
By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — It is a tragedy that plays out every day, lives disintegrating in drug addiction. But a former Philadelphia Health Department worker who turned to crime and used her...
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Man Sentenced In Pizza Shop Attack
http://media.philadelphia.cbslocal.com/CBSPHL_20140408182317993AA.mp4 By Walt Hunter PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A suspect who viciously attacked a father, for no apparent reason, as he dined in a West...
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West Philadelphia Man Sentenced in Hot Coffee Attack Case
http://media.philadelphia.cbslocal.com/CBSPHL_20140415234909773AA.mp4 By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A West Philadelphia man has been sentenced to prison for a devastating attack on a donut shop...
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Public Shaming May Be Legal Punishment
By Amy E. Feldman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Is public shaming as a punishment for breaking the law legal? A Cleveland man was sentenced to carry a sign that said: I am a bully after being convicted of...
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Harrisburg Man Gets Prison Time For Pipe Bomb Manufacture
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to making a bomb that authorities said was intended for his wife’s paramour has been sentenced to 11½ to 23½ months in prison....
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Atlantic City Man Sentenced In Heroin Distribution Plot
CAMDEN, NJ (CBS) – At Atlantic City man has been sentenced to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin along with a gang leader. Twenty-six-year-old Aree Toulson, a/k/a...
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Former Sportscaster Don Tollefson Sentenced To 2-4 Years In State Prison
http://media.philadelphia.cbslocal.com/CBSPHL_20150325171940583AA.mp4 DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (CBS) — Former sportscaster Don Tollefson will spend two to four years behind bars in state prison. A judge handed...
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Man Sentenced In Chester County DUI Crash That Killed Two Teenage Siblings
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (CBS) — He was driving so fast his pickup truck was described as a “two-and-a-half ton missile” before it smashed into a minivan in Exton earlier this year and killed two Chester...
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Former Attorney General Kathleen Kane Faces Sentencing
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Pennsylvania’s former top prosecutor finds herself on the receiving end of a judge’s sentence today. Kathleen Kane will return to court after being convicted of leaking grand jury...
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Former Pa. Congressman Chaka Fattah Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison
PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) — Former Pennsylvania Congressman Chaka Fattah will be spending the next 10 years behind bars after a federal judge sentenced him on Monday on charges of racketeering, fraud and...
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Charleston Church Shooter Dylann Roof Won’t Submit Evidence To Spare Life
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) —Dylann Roof has told a judge he plans on calling no witnesses and presenting no evidence to try to convince a jury to spare his life for killing nine black Charleston church...
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Sentencing Begins With Dylann Roof Acting As His Own Lawyer
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The same jury that last month unanimously found Dylann Roof guilty in the slayings of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church is returning to court to begin...
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3 Sentenced For Robbery, Throat-Slashing Of Bucks County Man
BUCKS COUNTY, PA (CBS) — Long prison sentences for three people who robbed a Bucks County man and left him for dead after slashing his throat. Back in November, Thomas Grimes woke up to two men with...
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