A 19-year-old Pittsfield man who authorities have implicated in a shooting that left another young man seriously injured was deemed dangerous by a judge on Friday.
On Friday, Trever Field and Michael Taylor were arraigned on motor vehicle homicide charges in the October 2019 crash that killed Anthony Emard, a 61-year-old father of three.
PITTSFIELD â Lonnie Durfee appeared poised Wednesday to plead guilty to burning a hulking Biden-Harris hay bale display in what a judge concluded was an act of political intimidation.
But, after learning that the judge would sentence him to a year in jail, he withdrew his plea.
Durfee, 50, was arrested in October, shortly after he admitted to police that he set the blaze on the property of Holiday Brook Farm. He spent about 54 days cumulatively in pretrial lockup, and had requested he be sentenced to time served.
But, during a hearing Wednesday in Central Berkshire District Court, Judge Paul Smyth adopted the prosecutionâs recommendation of a year in the Berkshire County Jail and House of Correction, the maximum sentence for his charge of felony burning personal property.