HOLLIDAYSBURG An Altoona man told a Blair County jury Tuesday that he was at the peak of his drug addiction in June 2021 when he bought fentanyl/xylazine for his own use and not to sell to others. Niheim Jabril Miller, 37, who testified about his drug use stretching over two decades, is challenging a […]
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 An Altoona man who has been fighting to prove his innocence in a 2017 drug sale has lost his latest quest for a new trial. President Judge Elizabeth Doyle, after reviewing Nickolas B. Stitt’s post-sentence motion, issued a Nov. 28 opinion concluding that Stitt’s evidence in pursuit of a new trial amounts to […]
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 Police continued Monday to look for a Blair County Prison inmate who escaped Sunday by accessing a ventilation shaft and using a homemade rope of prison clothing to get access to an unsecured window and roof. Isaiah Robert Tilghman, 33, who has been in the county prison since May 2 when arrested on […]