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Using Unified Erie anti-crime initiative as model, District Attorney Jack Daneri aims to create unit that relies on data to address domestic violence.

Millcreek Township police have shut down at least temporarily a specialized detective unit set up to combat drug crime because of a detective shortage

By U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following announcement on May 19. Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced that Erie County has been officially designated as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) by the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy. Erie joins four other western Pennsylvania counties - Allegheny, Beaver, Washington, and Westmoreland - in receiving dedicated federal resources to coordinate federal, state and local governments to fight drug trafficking and abuse. "Through this designation,...

The number of confirmed shots-fired calls in 2020 jumped more than 80% over 2019's figures. Erie police officers took 136 stolen firearms reports in 2020. They took 76 in 2018 and 79 in 2019. There were eight people fatally shot in the City of Erie in 2020. Erie was already in the midst of another spike in gun violence when a 13-year-old boy was shot multiple times while walking home from a relative's house on the evening of Dec. 5. That shooting, which claimed the life of Kasir Gambill 10 days later, compounded the problem, according to Erie Police Chief Dan Spizarny. Following a year in whi...

Brown was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to a mandatory life term with no parole Brown has served more than 44 years, and on Friday was resentenced to 42 years to life, and made eligible for parole, in light of U.S. Supreme Court rulings on "juvenile lifers" The last of Erie County's nine "juvenile lifers" is on a path to leave state prison, possibly in the near future. Allen J. Brown, 61, got a life sentence with no parole for fatally shooting an Erie man with a rifle in 1976, when Brown was 17. He was resentenced in Erie County Court on Friday to 42 years to life.