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• Throw out my conviction, says mom of Gabriel Fernandez who pleaded guilty to Palmdale 8-year-old’s torture-murder By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITH | City News Service LOS ANGELES — A Palmdale woman who pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of her 8-year-old son — who was routinely beaten, starved, forced to sleep in a closet and tortured until his 2013 death — has filed court papers seeking a new hearing in her case. Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, who was convicted along with her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, in the May 2013 killing of Gabriel Fernandez, alleges in the petition for…
• YouTubers Alex and Alan Stokes plead guilty to two misdemeanours over bank robbery prank videos The Stokes twins pleaded guilty to two misdemeanours (Picture: CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)YouTubers Alex and Alan Stokes have pleaded guilty to two misdemeanours after they pretended to be bank robbers for stunt videos in 2019. The 23-year-old twins each faced a felony count of false imprisonment effected by violence, menace, fraud, or deceit and one misdemeanour count of falsely reporting an emergency, after their prank video resulted in an Uber driver being held at gunpoint by police. They each…
• Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard’s new sneakers show his ‘Moreno Valley swag’ “Moreno Valley swag.” When Moreno Valley Mayor Yxstian Gutierrez says Kawhi Leonard is helping change the perception of their city, a tweet from the official Clippers account using the term “swag” to describe the star’s new hometown-themed New Balance sneakers is a good indicator of what he means. Gutierrez would like for people to think of their municipality, a suburb of about 200,000 residents located some 65 miles from downtown L.A., as a destination, a forward-thinking place that can nurture…
• Galesburg man pleads guilty to arson during Minneapolis unrest following George Floyd’s death Matthew Rupert 2018 booking mug for possession of stolen firearms. | Galesburg policeMatthew Lee Rupert, 28, faces 5 to 20 years in prison. A Galesburg man pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge Wednesday for setting fire to a Sprint store in Minneapolis during the unrest that followed the police killing of George Floyd. Rupert agreed to plead guilty in exchange for prosecutors dropping charges of civil disorder and rioting. “I plead guilty,” Rupert, 28, said during the brief hearing…
• Contra Costa men lose appeal in large-scale meth trafficking case; one defendant argued he needed money for son’s pending murder case SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court has rejected two Concord-area convicted meth traffickers’ bid for either a new trial or more lenient sentences, court records show. Concord resident Donnie Phillips, 67, and Clayton resident Gordon Miller, 63, were sentenced to 25 and 20 years, respectively, for methamphetamine distribution in 2018, in a case where prosecutors described Phillips as a middleman and Miller as a higher-up in a large-scale meth trafficking ring. The charges stemmed from a 2015 undercover investigation…
• Concord man found guilty of murdering pregnant ex-girlfriend MARTINEZ — A Contra Costa jury found a Concord man guilty of first degree murder in the brutal beating death of his ex-girlfriend, whose body was discovered floating in a duck pond in May 2016. Erick Lamar Nelson, 31, was convicted of murdering Poinsetta Love Gant-Parks, 25, an attack that prosecutors say was motivated by the fallout from their failed relationship. Authorities believe Nelson became obsessed with Gant-Parks and flew into a rage, beating her with an unknown blunt object…
• Jacksonville woman accused of kicking officer seeks to have case tossed An attorney for a Jacksonville woman accused of kicking a police officer during a confrontation at her home is seeking to have the case against his client thrown out. The defense for Brittany Chrishawn Williams filed a motion March 1 to dismiss two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer stemming from a dispute that began outside Williams’ home last May. Williams was arrested May 13, 2020, on those third-degree felony charges after she was accused of throwing a…
• Toni Morrison’s harrowing first novel is now a Berkeley radio play Toni Morrison’s heartbreaking first novel, 1970’s “The Bluest Eye,” tells the story of a young Black girl who adores Shirley Temple and ardently wishes she could possess blue eyes like her hero. Related through the eyes of a childhood friend, the story is an unflinching look at the effects of racism, physical and emotional abuse and shame on a young girl. Now Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre is presenting acclaimed playwright Lydia R. Diamond’s 2005 adaptation of the Morrison novel as an…
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• Prison guard charged in drug smuggling scheme A federal prison guard in Florida has been accused of participating in a scheme to smuggle drugs into a facility, officials said. A federal grand jury in Ocala returned an indictment last week against Wayne Grant Jr., who's charged with receipt of a bribe by a public official, according to court records. He faces up to 15 years in federal prison. According to the indictment, Grant, 27, worked as a correctional officer at Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Sumter County,…