Teen Sentenced In Fatal Stabbing Of 15-Year-Old Outside East Haven Elementary School: State
A 17-year-old Connecticut boy will spend three years behind bars for fatally stabbing another teen during a fight outside an East Haven elementary school, state officials announced.
Jeter Simmons, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree, was sentenced to eight years in prison, suspended after three years, on Monday, Jan. 15, the New Haven Judicial District State’s Attorney’s Office said. He will also serve three years of probation after his release.
Simmons, then 15, stabbed Dustin Cecarelli, 15, of Northford, in May 2023 during a fight outside Tuttle Elementary School, using…
Ansonia Getaway Driver Pleads Guilty In 2017 Derby Murder Conspiracy: DA
A Connecticut man has admitted his role in a deadly 2017 shooting, State’s Attorney Margaret E. Kelley announced.
Rhameir Bush, 29, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in Milford Superior Court. The plea comes nearly eight years after 21-year-old Jajuan Benavides was gunned down in the early hours of August 11, 2017, prosecutors said.
Surveillance footage and phone records revealed Bush and Jacob “Jewla” Freeman, the gunman, met with Benavides late on August 10, 2017. Just hours later, Freeman, masked and dressed in black, chased Benavides down Anson Street and shot him three time…
Former Rockland County Corrections Officer Sentenced For Tampering With Records, Harassment
A former Rockland County corrections officer has been sentenced to probation after admitting to falsifying records and exposing himself to a female inmate while on duty, prosecutors announced.
John Kezek, 39, of Knoxville, Tennessee, formerly of Florida, New York, was sentenced following his guilty plea to tampering with public records and official misconduct, said Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh.
The sentencing occurred on Thursday, Dec. 19.
As part of his guilty plea, Kezek admitted to falsifying records at the Rockland County Correctional Facility and exposing himself to …
