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A man accused of illegally selling bottles of booze from his Erie residence at a time when the states liquor stores were closed because of COVID-19 was ordered on Wednesday to pay a fine. Erie County Judge Daniel Brabender fined 25-year-old Tayvon M. Lindsey $500 and imposed no other penalties after Lindsey pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of unlawful sales of liquor. The sentence followed an agreement reached between prosecutors and Lindseys lawyer, Eric Hackwelder, at Lindseys preliminar...

After hearing four days of testimony, an Erie County jury needed little time to convict two 24-year-olds of second-degree murder in a fatal shooting that occurred during a robbery of marijuana in Erie in January 2020. Defendants Jakwaris Robison and Marshawn Williams were found guilty on Monday after the jury deliberated for about one hour and 15 minutes. Judge Daniel Brabender set sentencing for April 23. Robison and Williams face life sentences with no parole in the death of 26-year-ol...

A young Erie woman admitted in Erie County Court on Wednesday to participating in the fatal shooting of a city man as she and others executed a plan to rob the man of marijuana on a snowy Sunday afternoon in January 2020. Melissa Seaman, 20, was well into her testimony late Wednesday morning when Assistant District Attorney Jeremy Lightner asked her if she was guilty of second-degree murder in the death of 26-year-old Devin Way. "Yeah," she said from the witness stand. Second-degree murder, a...

Erie Times-News A magisterial district judge has reinstated a criminal homicide charge that Erie police filed against a city man in a fatal shooting in late September and held the charge for court. Erie 3rd Ward District Judge Tom Carney recently reinstated the homicide charge against 22-year-old Tajh D. Easter that Carney had dismissed following Easters preliminary hearing in mid-January after the Erie County District Attorneys Office filed a motion asking Carney to reconsider the decision. ...

A shooting at a west Erie house party in late September resulted in the death of one man and the wounding of another as at least four people fired gunshots inside and outside of a Walnut Street apartment house, according to testimony presented at a preliminary hearing on Thursday. Erie police initially charged two suspects with homicide in the case, but a magistrate at the hearing dismissed the homicide count against one of the two. Erie 3rd Ward District Judge Tom Carney agreed with a de...