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Dawn "Mama D" Carden, 44, pleaded guilty last year to assisting a criminal and dangerous control of a firearm, both level 5 felonies.

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Alvino S. "Vino" Amaya, 38, was convicted in March of two counts of murder, plus a firearm enhancement, and sentenced to 130 years in prison.

A Gary woman has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for providing two teenagers with guns and later hiding a gun her boyfriend used to kill them in 2020.

Dawn Carden encouraged her sons friends to call her "Mama D," gave them drugs and guns, and took advantage of the trust they placed in her, a deputy prosecutor said.

"In a case like this, my conscience tells me you deserve all of this," the judge said. "You really do."

“All of this was over a gun,” Elijah Robinson’s father, Jonathan Robinson said. “Something that cost a few hundred dollars. Now, my son is gone forever.”

A Gary man was sentenced to 130 years in prison Friday after being convicted in the 2020 killings of two teenage boys found shot to death in a northwest Indiana

CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A Gary man was sentenced to 130 years in prison Friday after being convicted in the 2020 killings of two teenage boys found shot to death in a northwest Indiana home. A Lake County jury found Alvino S.

A Gary woman has admitted helping hide a gun her boyfriend used to kill two teenagers at a Gary-area home, court records show.