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Second Set Of Defendants In Vaughn Prison Riot Case Found Not Guilty, No Decision On Some Charges

February 18, 2019February 18, 2019

Today, in response to the verdicts rendered in the cases of Abednego Baynes, Kevin Berry, John Bramble and Obadiah Miller, the second set of defendants to face trial for their …

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Courts / Crime / Public Safety

Shooting At Bottles On A Log Ends With Murder, Four Trials, Long Prison Sentence

June 6, 2018June 6, 2018

At his April 1985 trial, Coy Edward Bailey, Jr., of Woodside, Delaware, was convicted of intentionally shooting Frank Dukes to death on June 10, 1978. This was the culmination of …

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Courts / Crime

Jury Finds Philadelphia Man Guilty Of Two 2014 Millsboro Murders

March 9, 2017

Millsboro – A Superior Court jury has convicted one of the members of an organized criminal enterprise once operating in Sussex and Kent Counties on 21 charges related to a …

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Courts / Life / Wilmington

Delaware Supreme Court Justice Holland To Retire In March

February 9, 2017February 9, 2017

Justice Holland advised Governor Carney and his colleagues that he will retire at the end of March, 2017. He is the youngest person to serve on the Delaware Supreme Court, …

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Courts / Crime / Wilmington

Man Pleads Guilty To Shooting Robbery Victim

February 6, 2017

Wilmington – Dominique Melton, 21, of New Castle pled guilty to Assault Second Degree, Robbery Second Degree, Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony, and Conspiracy Second …

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Courts / Crime / Felton / Kent County / Public Safety

Man Gets 50 Years For Felton Bank Robbey

January 29, 2017

Kent County – A 46-year-old man from Bear was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a 2011 bank robbery in Kent County which resulted in a police pursuit and gunfire, …

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Crime / Glasgow / Public Safety

Man In Georgia Prison Pleads Guilty To Delaware Murder

January 22, 2017June 1, 2017

Wilmington – Deputy Attorneys General Colleen Norris, Phillip Casale, and Cari Chapman, and senior paralegal Kimberly Moro secured a guilty plea from a 30-year-old Bear man, resolving a 9-year-old murder …

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Courts / Greenville

Maine Man Gets 18 Years For Raping 14-Year-Old

January 14, 2017

  Georgetown – A 36-year-old man from Dresden, Maine was sentenced to 18 years in prison for raping a 14-year-old girl in a Delaware motel in 2015. Deputy Attorney General …

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Courts / Crime / Life / Newark / Public Safety

Newark Man Pleads Guilty To Attempted Kidnapping, Hoping For Light Sentence?

January 7, 2017January 7, 2017

Newark – Prosecutors have secured a guilty plea from the man that tried to kidnap a woman from a downtown parking lot last summer. Joseph B. Rudge, 35, of Newark faces at least …

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Courts / Life

Director of DOJ Family Division Named

December 16, 2016

Attorney General Matt Denn announced Friday that Deputy Attorney General Abigail Rodgers Layton has been named the next Director of the Family Division in the Delaware Department of Justice. Layton …

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