All Blog Posts Tagged 'gets' (5)

Gulfport shoota gets 40

GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - According to Harrison County Assistant District Attorney Chris Schmidt, 25-year-old Michael Eugene Welch was convicted on three counts of aggrevated assault. It took only an hour for the jury to reach that verdict.

In March of 2007, a drive-by shooting in Gulfport occurred near Crossroads Mall. Three brothers were in a car and were shot at a stoplight at Community Road and Highway 49. One of the brothers had superficial… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on July 31, 2008 at 12:11am — 2 Comments

Memphis man gets county job after prison

(Memphis 07/23/2007) Michael Hooks, Jr. is now on the payroll at the Shelby County Corrections Center. Just weeks after his release from a month long prison sentence, he's working for mayor AC Wharton's reentry program for ex-cons.

Program director Stanley Lipford admits the job was not posted or advertised but says Hooks received no favors. He was among 10 others hired through a temporary program aimed at recruiting incarcerated men to participate in fatherhood… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on July 25, 2008 at 8:35am — 3 Comments

Man gets up to 26 years for attempted MPD murder

An Oakdale man was sentenced up to 26 years in prison Tuesday afternoon, for the attempted murder of a Minneapolis Police officer. In November, 34-year-old Israel Anderson shot Officer Daniel Grosland in the ankle. Grosland was trying to break up a fight in a downtown parking lot.

Prosecutors said a friend of Anderson’s was in the middle of a fight. Anderson left and came back with a gun. He fired four to six rounds, striking Grosland and… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on July 2, 2008 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Lying 13 year old whore gets 2nd man convicted of sex crimes

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A 13-year-old girl's sexual shenanigans have put a second man behind bars. Morris Williams, 22, told the judge he thought the girl was 18-years-old, but he found out Tuesday that ignorance is not a defense.

Morris Williams' mother wailed as he went off to jail. The judge asked for media not to show 13-year-old Alisha Dean's face in court, but her pictures are all over her MySpace page and they portray a… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on June 21, 2008 at 6:30pm — 31 Comments

Houston dad gets life sentence for baby's cocaine death

A Houston man who soothed his teething son with cocaine-tainted fingers was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the infant's death.

Dennis Ray Driver, 26, was convicted of felony murder for the overdose death of his 8-month-old son, Dennis Jr.

"He was a frequent possessor of cocaine," said prosecutor Murray Newman. The jury also fined Driver $10,000.

Newman said Driver told investigators that he had chopped up… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on June 21, 2008 at 5:17am — 10 Comments