CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A jury finds a corrections officer guilty of raping an inmate. The jury deliberated only a few hours Thursday before deciding James Belle, 32, was guilty of making a male inmate, 24, perform a sex act on him in a cell. That attack happened in March at the Cleveland House of […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A former CMHA Building Inspector Supervisor who received cash in exchange for passing inspections for residences was sentenced to prison on Monday. Frank Isaac was sentenced to serve two years in prison. The Office of the Inspector General from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office conducted […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Judgment day for the woman who admitted killing a man and robbing several banks. Lateshia Scott – whom is a mother of nine children – was sentenced to serve 40-years in prison. Between August 31st, 2010 and September 1st, 2010, 33-year-old Scott and an unknown suspect bound 66-year-old Robert Moncrief with telephone cords […]
A new alternative sentencing program offering first-time, nonviolent offenders a choice of a year of church attendance or jail time and fines is drawing fire from the American Civil Liberties Union as well as national attention, officials said Friday. “This policy is blatantly unconstitutional,” said Olivia Turner, executive director for the ACLU of Alabama. “It violates […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Judgement day for the heartless losers who let a sick elderly woman die while she was in their care. Michael Debartolo and Steven Kerr lived next door to the 83-year-old victim’s Lakewood penthouse. Debartolo, presenting himself as her caregiver, failed to provide care for the victim from November 2007 to May 2008. […]
STRONGSVILLE, OH (WOIO) – A former Strongsville city councilman has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison, for his role in the Cuyahoga County Corruption scandal. Pat Coyne appeared in Cleveland Federal Court Monday. Coyne was convicted of bribery. Prosecutors say Coyne took money from a real estate developer and used it to buy a […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The woman who got behind the wheel while drunk and killed two people was sentenced to 31-years behind bars on Tuesday. Takara Kelley was also driving under suspension when she killed the Cleveland grandparents and injured their grandchildren. On February 6th, the 27-year-old was drunk – more than double the legal […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Judgement day for a Berea grandmother who assaulted her young grandson. On February 7th, Christine Bachmann duct-taped her seven-year-old grandson’s hands together behind his back and then to a bedpost. She struck him in the legs and grabbed and twisted the little boy’s genitals. This, after the little boy tried to kiss […]
Barring a last minute stay of execution by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles in a last-ditch hearing scheduled for September 19, accused Savannah, Ga. cop-killer Troy Anthony Davis will be executed. If the execution goes forth, two compelling questions can never be answered. One is: did Georgia execute an innocent man? The second […]
(WOIO) – For the first time in nearly two years, serial killer Anthony Sowell is out of the county jail. 19 Action News has learned the mass murderer was shipped to the Supermax Prison in Youngstown, which is where prisoners sentenced to death are housed. Sowell will be in complete isolation for 30 days. 51-year-old Sowell was sentenced to […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The home of Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell has been condemned. Cleveland inspectors had to go through legal red tape to be able to go in and inspect the Imperial Avenue property, and when they did, they found two dozen violations. Things like no running water, roaches and rodents and structural issues. […]
A 15-year-old Syracuse boy got the book thrown at him over a robbery that netted him all of seven cents. Judge William Walsh refused a defense request to sentence young Anthony Stewart, a Syracuse native, as a “youthful offender,” instead sentencing him as an adult to two to six years in juvenile detention and marking […]