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Mentally Ill PA Man Gets Prison Sentence For Attacks On Officials Mentally Ill PA Man Gets Prison Sentence For Attacks On Officials
Mentally Ill PA 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…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Video Evidence Exonerates 16-Year-Old For Deadly SEPTA Shooting, DA Says Video Evidence Exonerates 16-Year-Old For Deadly SEPTA Shooting, DA Says
Video Evidence Exonerates 16-Year-Old For Deadly SEPTA Shooting, DA Says A Philadelphia teen who was previously charged in the murder of Tyshaun Welles has been cleared of any wrongdoing, the District Attorney's Office says.  Zaire Wilson, 16, was arrested shortly after Welles was shot at the 15th Street SEPTA Station in Center City on Jan. 11, police have said.  Eighteen-year-old Quadir Humphrey was also taken into custody for the shooting in a separate arrest, authorities said at the time.  Now, the District Attorney's Office says SEPTA surveillance video shows Wilson "was clearly not involved in the shooting and murder of Welles." The vid…

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by Mac Bullock
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Convicted PA Murderer Who Was Supposed To Get Death Sentence Ran Drug Ring In Jail: DA Convicted PA Murderer Who Was Supposed To Get Death Sentence Ran Drug Ring In Jail: DA
Convicted PA Murderer Who Was Supposed To Get Death Sentence Ran Drug Ring In Jail: DA A convicted murderer in Pennsylvania who was supposed to get the death sentence was sentenced to nearly 10 to 40 years in state prison for running a drug ring inside a Bucks County jail, authorities announced Friday, April 22. Alfonso Sanchez, 40, was in the county correctional facility awaiting a retrial in a 2007 double homicide when he conspired with at least 10 others to smuggle suboxone from May 2020 to December 2020, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said. An investigation by BCCF investigators and the Bucks County Detectives Drug Strike Force discovered that Sanchez was buy…

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by Nicole Acosta