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TweetPinShareWill serve consecutively to federal CSAM charges By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – Eric Lavon Williams, 37, of Pima, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for the Oct. …
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TweetPinShareBy Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – A prison cell will most likely be the final home for an elderly Pima man who pleaded guilty to child sexual exploitation charges. Virgil …
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TweetPinShareBy Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – A local pilot will spend the next 7.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to three amended counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a …
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TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy GCSO: Vance Edward Davidson, 34, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexual conduct with his underage niece. By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – A Pima …
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TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald: Former Thatcher head football coach Sean Jacob Hinton was sentenced to 11.25 years in prison on Wednesday for dealing fentanyl. Pictured is Sean after a …
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TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald Graham County’s first native-born attorney By Edres Bryant Barney PIMA – Charles Roseberry Rogers, born Dec. 2, 1888, in Pima, Arizona, was the third child …
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TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald: Judge Travis W. Ragland rejected a plea agreement for Damian Maldonado regarding the burglary of the Taking Aim Guns & Ammo store. Prosecution to seek …
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TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy GCSO: Damian Maldonado took a plea agreement that will send him to prison for 2.5 years, but the judge deferred acceptance until after a review of a pre-sentence …
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TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo: Judge Travis W. Ragland sent a probation violator to prison for 2.5 years. By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – A man was sentenced to 2.5 years …
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TweetPinShareContributed File Photo/Courtesy GCSO: Raymone Aragon, shown here after being booked into jail in January 2021, has been given another chance at rehabilitation during a recent petition to revoke his …
Judge gives youthful drug addict another chance at rehab Read More