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A Chicago man who has spent 20 years in jail for murder has been released after his twin brother admitted to committing the act. Kevin Dugar was freed from Cook County Jail on Tuesday night, ABC 7 reports. His brother, Karl Smith confessed to fatally shooting a rival gang member in 2003 and wounding a second […]
A Missouri man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, six years after he pleaded guilty to storing his wife’s dead body in a freezer. Local news station KYTV reports Larry Dinwiddie, 59, of Marshfield, MO, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Monday. Prosecutors have dropped a count of abandoning a corpse as a result of […]
Former professional skateboarder Evan Jaime Hernandez was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for selling meth and laundering Bitcoin, the Department of Justice announced in a statement. Hernandez was busted in March 2018 after he sold nearly two pounds of meth to a federal agent whom he thought was a money launderer. The two were also […]
Bobby Shmurda revealed on the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast that he once got sprayed in the face with mace and locked up afterwards because he desperately wanted to get a haircut as soon as possible. Shmurda said he was especially motivated to get a haircut because he had a woman visiting him in prison the […]
Joyce Watkins had been on parole since 2015, but it wasn’t until Wednesday when she was exonerated, that she was truly free. She spent 27 years in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated rape. Watkins is the first Black woman to be exonerated in Tennessee and the third woman in the state’s […]
José Antonio Yépez Ortiz—a gang leader in Mexico known as “El Marro” or “The Sledgehammer”—has been sentenced to 60 years in prison over kidnapping, according to authorities in Guanajuato. Yépez Ortiz was arrested on Aug. 2, 2020 following a police shootout. His gang—Santa Rosa de Lima—was known for stealing gasoline from government fuel ducts, per ABC News, and was […]
In September Jay-Z petitioned a judge to release a man who’s serving a 20-year prison sentence for cannabis. Now it’s been revealed that Valon Vailes, 56, won’t walk free due to minor prison offenses. Valon Vailes has served 14 years since being sentenced in 2007 for intent to distribute over one ton of marijuana. TMZ reports that new court […]
A former member of the Sicilian mafia group known as Stidda was arrested last month after he was found living in Spain on Google Maps, nearly two decades after escaping prison, Reuters reports. Gioacchino Gammino, 61, had been living in the town of Galapagar where he owned a fruit and vegetable shop called El Huerto de Manu, or Manu’s Garden, a possible […]
A Colorado prosecutor is moving to reduce the controversial sentencing of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos—a 26-year-old truck driver was found guilty in a deadly vehicle crash. As pointed out by CNN, First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King filed a motion last Friday, requesting the courts to reconsider Aguilera-Mederos’ 110-year prison sentence. King filed another motion on Tuesday, asking for […]
A Michigan man has been sentenced to life in prison after putting a fatal dose of heroin in his wife’s cereal. Jason Harris was convicted of first-degree murder, solicitation of murder, and delivery of a controlled substance causing death in November, for the death of his wife, Christina in September 2014, Fox 2 Detroit reports. […]
