Published March 04. 2021 7:08PM | Updated March 04. 2021 9:28PM Get the weekly rundown Email Submit
A man from Willimantic was sentenced this week to 15 years in prison, suspended after six years served, for the sexual assault of a then 15-year-old girl at a Groton hotel.
Levern Flowers, 46, was sentenced in New London Superior Court to two 15-year sentences to be served concurrently, suspended after six years, followed by 10 years probation for sexually assaulting the teen at the Roadway Inn in Groton in October 2018.
Flowers also was convicted of assaulting the girl in Tolland and in Old Saybrook, according to police and court records.
NORWICH – 2020 was a tragic year for the city with the highest number of homicides – three – tallied between January and July, though as of Wednesday, suspects in each of the murder cases had been presented in court.
After three years without a homicide in Norwich, the first murder came on Jan. 18., 2020 with the stabbing death of 33-year-old Jason Beck at 31 Sandy Lane.
Jeffrey Stovall, Jr., 22, of 8 Malden St., Worcester, Mass., was charged with murder a day later after telling police Beck’s death was the result of a domestic argument.
He pleaded not guilty to the crime and his case is still winding its way through the pre-trial process. Stovall is due next in New London Superior Court on April 6.
NEW LONDON - A New London Superior Court judge on Tuesday set a tentative June trial date for a 20-year-old Uncasville man accused of stabbing his grandparents to death in 2019.
Judge Hillary Strackbein noted the June 22 date for Marcus Fisher was contingent on whether the state will by that point be ready to resume trials after pausing such proceedings last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fisher’s public defender Kevin Barrs also warned his client, who viewed the proceedings remotely, the trial date was subject to change, but told Fisher he’d be the “first on the list” when trials restart.
Two New London County men convicted of sexually assaulting young girls have now died due to COVID-19 complications while serving their prison sentences.