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Prison System
Harrisburg, PA
News
Notorious ‘Craigslist Killer’ Inmate Suffered ‘Near-Daily’ Sexual Abuse By PA Parole Agent
A former Institutional Parole Agent assigned to the State Correctional Institution at Muncy carried on a months-long sexual relationship — described in a lawsuit as near-daily sexual abuse — with “Craigslist killer” Miranda Barbour, prosecutors announced on Tuesday, Aug. 5. He was sentenced to 11½ months to two years minus a day in prison. Kenneth E. Jones, 30, of Lewisburg, pleaded guilty in May to 18 felony counts of institutional sexual assault. Judge Ryan M. Tira also ordered Jones to serve three years of probation, register as a sex offender under SORNA for 15 years, have no contact w…
Harrisburg, PA
News
Harrisburg BF Who Beat 8-Month-Old Baby To Death In Hotel Room Rage Learns His Fate: Court Doc
An 8-month-old baby was beaten to death in a Swatara Township hotel by his mother’s boyfriend — who has just been sentenced to up to 47 years in state prison, prosecutors said. Luis Francisco Quinones, 35, of Harrisburg, was convicted of third-degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child in January and sentenced by Dauphin County Judge Edward Marsico on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, to a term of 23 to 47 years behind bars. Quinones was babysitting his girlfriend’s infant son, James Pitts, at the Marriott TownePlace Suites on Friendship Road when he exploded in anger and inflicted deadly in…
Chesterfield-North Hanover, NJ
Police & Fire
Six Burlco Corrections Officers Indicted For Covering Up Pepper Spray Attack On Inmate, AG Says
Six corrections officers were indicted after an inmate was pepper-sprayed and forcefully removed from his cell at a Burlington County detention center, authorities said. A grand jury indicted a sergeant and five senior corrections officers for the attack and subsequent coverup, Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in a news release on Wednesday, Oct. 30. The incident happened at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a center for adults 18-30 years old in Chesterfield Township. These were the officers charged in the case: Sgt. Michael Emmert, 40, Toms River Ch…
Lancaster, PA
News
Mentally Ill Lancaster Man Gets Prison Sentence For Attacks On Officials
A former high school quarterback has struggled with his mental health since he was 19-years-old; he has been in and out of the prison system ever since. Now, he has pleaded guilty to multiple assaults while in a "psychotic state," public records show and the Lancaster District Attorney's Office announced on June 27. Jamail Robertson, 27 of Lancaster, was once a QB and DB on J.P. McCaskey's Varsity football team, according to his 2014 MaxPreps profile. On Thursday morning, Judge Margaret Miller sentenced him to return to prison after being sentenced to 2 ¼ to 5 years for assaulting…
North Hunterdon, NJ
Business
NJ COVID Scammer Who Pocketed $1.8M In Taxpayer-Funded Rescue Loans Gets Three Years In Fed Pen
UPDATE: A North Jersey businessman who collected $1.8 million in COVID-19 pandemic loans that he wasn't entitled to, then diverted the money into accounts held by family members -- including his young children -- was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Wednesday. Rocco A. Malanga, 39, formerly of Hackettstown, must serve out the entire plea-bargained sentence approved by a U.S. District Court judge in Newark on March 22 because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Malanga lied on documents to three different lenders to secure federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) mo…
Stony Point, NY
Police & Fire
Former Officer Charged With Using Excessive Force At Correctional Facility In Hudson Valley
A former corrections officer at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in the Hudson Valley is facing time behind the other side of the bars after being charged with using excessive force against an inmate. In federal court, Dutchess County resident Aaron Finn, age 35, of Hyde Park was charged with using excessive force that amounted to “cruel and unusual punishment” against a restrained inmate in March last year. US Attorney Damian Williams said that Finn allegedly struck and thrashed the inmate, causing bodily injury to him in violation of his Constitutional rights. “Correction officer Aa…
Mount Pleasant, NY
News
Ex
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Lieutenant From Hudson Valley Sentenced For Raping Teen Girls
A former NYPD lieutenant from the Hudson Valley who admitted to raping two underage girls he knew was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison. Nicholas McAteer of Greenwood Lake in Orange County pleaded guilty on April 11 to two counts of first-degree rape. The 46-year-old McAteer was arrested in August 2017 and indicted in October 2017 for raping one victim in 2003 and 2007 and then groping her in 2016. He was also charged with sexually assaulting another victim several times between 2008 and 2013. McAteer must also register as a sex offender. As part of his sentence, he will also be subje…
