The Hollidaysburg area man who was sentenced more than two years ago to serve 15 months behind bars for making threatening phone calls to several area schools is now back in prison on theft charges. According to a petition filed by the attorney for Javier Alberto Cantos Jr., 26, he faces three sets of charges […]
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An appeal by an Altoona man in prison for drug offenses has been dismissed by the Pennsylvania Superior Court due to a procedural error.
Derrick Dewight Dawson, 35, was charged in September 2011 with making three cocaine sales to a police confidential informant.
The sales occurred on different dates, and each charge was docketed under a different number in the Blair County Prothonotary’s Office.
Dawson eventually was convicted of possession with intent to deliver and related offenses for each sale.
He was sentenced to 33 to 66 years in prison and is incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon.