HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County Prison inmate who joined in the Sept. 15, 2022, brutal assault of another inmate was sentenced Thursday to 15 to 30 years’ incarceration for his role in the assault and for unrelated drug-trafficking and firearm offenses. Delano Anthony Brown, 23, apologized in court, where he told Judge Jackie Bernard that […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County judge is defending the lengthy sentence she handed down in October to a man who sexually assaulted two 5-year-old girls in 2021 and used a cellphone to record the assaults. Judge Jackie Bernard, in an opinion that will be forwarded to the state Superior Court, defended her decision to sentence […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Johnstown man who joined in an effort to steal commissary items on Sept. 15, 2022, from a fellow Blair County Prison inmate has rendered guilty pleas for a county sentence, followed by 10 years’ probation. Korey Cortez Sitton, 37, who was inside the jail cell where an inmate was beaten when he […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG An Altoona woman whose malnourished six-week-old infant was near death when found nearly three years ago by a county child welfare caseworker was sentenced Tuesday to five to 20 years in jail. Blair County Judge Jackie Bernard imposed the negotiated sentence on Katie Lynn Rowles, 32, who rendered guilty pleas in December to […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG Defense attorneys for a Frankstown Township man accused in the 2021 stabbing death of his 24-year-old brother have started to initiate appeals to a November judicial ruling. Attorneys for Vasudev Aswathappa, 20, who remains incarcerated in the Blair County Prison on homicide and related charges in the death of Suryadev Aswathappa, filed a […]