An Altoona man who was sentenced to life in prison 17 months ago after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the death of a 16-month-old child now wants to withdraw his plea, stating he was “forced to plead guilty in fear of no other avenue.” Drue Scott Burd, 25, was sentenced to life without parole […]
A Blair County judge has rejected a defense request to suppress evidence 3 pounds of methamphetamine and a small amount of cocaine found by state police during a March traffic stop along I-99. A trooper stopped a vehicle being driven by Victor Bones Colon, 43, of Philadelphia, for speeding and having an expired […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County jury is being asked to decide if an Altoona area man is a drug seller, based on 23 grams of fentanyl, xylazine and drug paraphernalia that parole agents and police found inside his residence during a June 22, 2022, search. Niheim Jabril Miller, 37, who went on trial Monday in […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County judge has rejected the challenges offered to criminal charges filed in June 2020 against a Hollidaysburg area man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl between 2016 and 2018. William J. Stonebraker, 53, had asked President Judge Elizabeth Doyle to suppress statements that he and his wife, Marie Stonebraker, made […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG Two people have pleaded guilty to murder and related charges in a drug-selling dispute that left two people dead of gunshot wounds inside an Altoona residence on May 28, 2020. Isiah “Zay” Payne, 35, Philadelphia, who pleaded guilty in Blair County Court on Tuesday to two counts of first-degree murder, is facing life-in-prison […]