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Indiana, PA WCCS AM1160 & 101.1FM Dec 14, 2020 4:01 AM A number of defendants are scheduled to be sentenced today in Indiana County Court, including Simere Alford, the Philadelphia man who was convicted in September for attempting to kill two state troopers who were transporting him to SCI Pine Grove last year.  Alford’s sentencing was delayed previously due to coronavirus concerns. On June 24 th last year, the 21-year-old Alford broke free of his back-seat restraint, reached into the front seat, and grabbed the gun of the driver, Trooper Jeremy Leasure, firing a shot that missed Leasure�...

Indiana, PA / WDAD AM1450 & 100.3FM Dec 14, 2020 12:42 PM A man convicted in September for trying to kill two state troopers as he was being transported to SCI Pine Grove last year was sentenced this morning in Indiana County Court. Indiana County President Judge William Martin sentenced 21-year-old Simere Alford of Philadelphia to serve two to 40 years in state prison for each of two counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, which are set to run consecutively and five to ten years each for robbery-threat of immediate serious injury and robbery-person not to possess a firearm, ...