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CT Man Gets 55 Years In Jail For Fatal Shooting After Girlfriend Testifies: State CT Man Gets 55 Years In Jail For Fatal Shooting After Girlfriend Testifies: State
CT Man Gets 55 Years In Jail For Fatal Shooting After Girlfriend Testifies: State A 27-year-old Connecticut man will be 82 when he is released from prison after being sentenced to more than five decades behind bars for a fatal drive-by shooting, state authorities said.  Jermaine Scott, of Stamford, who was found guilty of murder during the summer, was sentenced to 55 years in prison on Tuesday, Nov. 12, said Stamford/Norwalk State’s Attorney Paul J. Ferencek.  Scott was accused of shooting Johnny Lezeau on July 20, 2017, outside the Sono Mini Market on Ely Avenue in Norwalk in Fairfield County. Scott and his girlfriend Alysia Dantzler were driving to a we…
Woman Takes Home Over $100K On Mohegan Sun's Wheel Of Fortune Slot Machine Woman Takes Home Over $100K On Mohegan Sun's Wheel Of Fortune Slot Machine
Woman Takes Home Over $100K On Mohegan Sun's Wheel Of Fortune Slot Machine A New York woman hit quite a massive jackpot while playing on a Wheel of Fortune slot machine at a Connecticut casino. While testing her luck at New London County's Mohegan Sun in the village of Uncasville on Sunday, Oct. 13, a resident of New Rochelle in Westchester County won a whopping $100,929.93, the casino announced on Friday, Oct. 18.  The lucky winner, identified as "Donna Z.," won the jackpot while playing on the Wheel of Fortune Triple Double Diamond slot machine at Mohegan Sun's Casino of the Earth.  Donna's plans for her winnings were not detailed.  Accordi…
Drunk Driver From CT Caught At Train Station After Head-On Hit-Run Crash In NY: Police Drunk Driver From CT Caught At Train Station After Head-On Hit-Run Crash In NY: Police
Drunk Driver From CT Caught At Train Station After Head-On Hit-Run Crash In NY: Police A 35-year-old alleged drunk driver from Connecticut was apprehended while waiting for a train following a head-on crash in Westchester County from which he fled the scene, police said.  Fairfield County resident Rogelio Salamanca-Lopez of Stamford was arrested on Wednesday, Sept. 4 in connection with a crash that happened just before 8 p.m. on the same day in New Rochelle, according to New Rochelle Police Captain J. Collins Coyne.  At the time of the crash, a pickup truck allegedly driven by Salamanca-Lopez left Interstate 95 North at Exit 16 and collided head-on with a four-…