CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – After 30 years, Hernandez Warren was sentenced Friday morning for the 1984 rape and murder of Gloria Pointer. Warren was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison. The 14-year-old girl was killed while walking to school on Cleveland’s east side. She was found dead in the stairwell of an […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Two corrupt former officials of the Richmond Heights Local School District were sentenced to prison Thursday. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold sentenced Dr. Robert J. Moore, 52, the former district’s former Superintendent of Schools, to 12 months in prison. On April 30, Moore entered a plea […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A former Thistledown Racino employee was sentenced to nine months in prison for stealing $50,000. Claudia Chaney worked as a count room specialist. Chaney must also pay $30,000 restitution to the Racino.   READ MORE: 19ActionNews.com Article Courtesy of WOIO 19 Action News Picture Coutesy of Cuyahoga County Sheriff and […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A Cleveland mother avoided jail after she crashed her car while driving her three kids – ages 12, 9, and 2 – and pregnant niece while drunk. Ericka Davis was sentenced to two years probation and treatment for the drunk driving accident that happened in April on I-90 westbound. Davis was drunk when she drove onto the […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A Cleveland mother was sentenced to a minimum 30-years to life in prison for the murder of her little boy. Camilia Terry was found guilty last month of killing three-year-old Emilliano Terry. Terry did speak at her sentencing, and said she loves her children. She also told the court that she is not an evil person. “I’m not a […]

  (WOIO) – The State Prison System has released a 26-page report on prison suicides, including the suicide of convicted kidnapper Ariel Castro. [Read the entire report HERE] Castro was sentenced to life, plus 1,000 years, for kidnapping and sexually assaulting Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus while holding them captive in his Seymour Avenue […]

  CLEVELAND – A Browns streaker will never have a chance to set foot on – or even see – the field from inside FirstEnergy stadium again. Anthony Saveriano was banned from the stadium for life Wednesday. A Cleveland Municipal Court judge also sentenced him to clean up the Muni Lot following the next four […]

ROCKY RIVER, OH (WOIO) – Indians player Chris Perez and his wife, Melanie, were back in Rocky River Municipal Court to answer to drug charges on Tuesday. Chris Perez pleaded no contest to the drug abuse charge, and the judge found him guilty. “You made a big mistake,” the judge told Perez. “Kids look up to you.” […]

  *Earlier we reported that former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to prison. His wife, former Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson was also sentenced Wednesday. She received a one year term for filing false joint federal income tax returns that understated the income the couple received. Sandra Jackson admitted in a guilty plea earlier […]

  *It’s now official. Jesse Jackson Jr. is on his way to prison. Wednesday morning in Washington, Jackson was sentenced to 30 months behind bars using $750,000 in campaign money for living expenses, clothes and luxury items. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson scolded the convicted congressman, saying that he and his wife, Sandi Jackson, […]

  CLEVELAND — Cuyahoga County Sheriff Frank Bova says Ariel Castro will be transferred from Cleveland to the Lorain Correctional Institution Friday afternoon. The transfer comes one day after Castro was sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years in prison for abducting three women and holding them captive in his Seymour Avenue home for a […]

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) – Former RTA bus driver Artis Hughes was sentenced on Tuesday to three days in jail and fined $1,000. Hughes was convicted of punching passenger Shi’dea Lane last September. A verbal altercation turned physical on the bus in Beachwood when Hughes stood up and punched Lane. The upper cut came after a long string […]