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The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office secured the conviction of a Pittsfield man who robbed four stores in 10 days in 2018.
Judge John Agostini sentenced Jameail Beckett, 37, to serve six to eight years in state prison on four counts of armed and masked robbery.
In an unagreed plea, the District Attorney’s Office requested the court to sentence Beckett to serve eight to ten years in state prison while Defense Counsel requested five to seven years.
Beckett robbed four stores in Pittsfield at gunpoint between December 18, 2018 and December 29, 2018. On December 18, he robbed Family Dollar, on December 19, Angelina’s on Wahconah Street, on December 27 he robbed Alltown on Tyler Street, and on December 28 he robbed Angelina’s on West Housatonic Street.
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In remanding Lonnie Durfee back to pretrial custody for violating pretrial release terms, Judge Paul Smyth ruled that no conditions of release exist to ensure the safety of the public from Durfee, given what he described as Durfeeâs history of violent behavior while intoxicated.
Prosecutors said a monitoring device showed that Durfee consumed alcohol twice in recent months.
Defense lawyer Robert Sullivan had argued that severe alcohol use disorder was difficult to overcome, and that Durfee â who is working with a counselor at the Brien Center to try to stay sober â should be permitted to continue wearing a monitoring device and to obey a curfew, which would allow him to keep his job as a laborer for a stone company.
Clockwise from top left: Bridge CEO and Founding Director Gwendolyn VanSant, Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington, U.S. Attorneyâs Office Community Outreach Specialist Cara Henderson, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Garland, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Casey Anderson, Assistant U.S. Attorney Deepika Bains Shukla and Berkshire District Attorneyâs Office Community Engagement Director Bryan House attended a listening session on community safety Monday during Bridgeâs Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Zoom. SCREEN SHOT BY DANNY JIN â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
What does freedom look like in 2021?
Thatâs the question Gwendolyn VanSant, CEO and founding director of Bridge, asked participants Monday, leading off the Lee nonprofitâs Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Zoom.