HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County jury took about a half hour Friday to convict an Altoona man of resisting arrest on Christmas Eve 2022, despite the man’s claims that he wasn’t resisting. Kuwait D. Anderson, 37, tried unsuccessfully to convince the jury that Altoona police forcibly removed him from his residence without justification. “They’re in […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A 22-year-old Altoona man accused of using a handgun to strike a person on the head in downtown Altoona, then later fleeing from police seeking to arrest him on a warrant, was sentenced Thursday to four to eight years in a state prison. Blair County Judge Wade A. Kagarise imposed the sentence after […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County jury evaluating criminal charges against three people in a June 4, 2022, fight outside an Altoona bar has convicted one man of aggravated assault and simple assault, one man of two counts of simple assault and all three men of disorderly conduct. The jury, which rendered its verdicts Thursday, also […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County jury is being asked to evaluate aggravated assault and related charges that Altoona police filed against three men accused of beating up two people in a parking lot outside a bar on June 4, 2022. A joint trial for Jeremy J. Fornbacher, 30, Brandon J. Smida, 22, and Hunter John […]