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HOLLIDAYSBURG An Altoona man who sold guns and drugs during a two-month police investigation was sentenced Wednesday to five to 15 years’ incarceration. Jerome J. Brinson, 31, arrested Oct. 16 after selling $1,000 worth of heroin to a confidential informant, presented guilty pleas before Blair County Judge Jackie Bernard, who handed down the recommended […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County jury has convicted an Altoona man of strangulation, assault, witness intimidation and all related offenses that developed after he initiated a fight with his ex-girlfriend at a local convenience store and later tried to coerce her into influencing his potential sentence. Justin Paul Seilhamer, 38, an inmate at the county […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG An Altoona man was sentenced Wednesday to 12 to 25 years’ incarceration, as recommended in exchange for a no contest plea to drug delivery resulting in death and guilty pleas to 20-plus drug-trafficking offenses filed in 2021. Joseph Anthony Cassarly Jr., 43, was charged in the May 28, 2021, overdose death of Andrew […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County Prison inmate has rendered guilty pleas to drug-trafficking charges that developed from her role in early 2023 to smuggle drugs into the prison when she wasn’t an inmate and from drug sales and possession at her former Juniata residence. Jennifer Rae Grimm, 41, Altoona, rendered pleas on Friday […]