A woman who seriously injured her three-month-old baby has been sentenced to three to six years in state prison.
21 year-old Alana Dinch of Bradford pleaded guilty in May to aggravated assault with extreme indifference to value of human life after her baby suffered a brain hemorrhage, fractured skull and broken rib from being shaken, squeezed and hit by a chair she was throwing at her boyfriend.
A co-defendant, 24 year-old Jonathan Burke of Bradford, will be in court July 11 for a pretrial conference.
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A man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into Stoney North in Bradford and set the getaway vehicle on fire has pleaded guilty.
32 year-old James Bunce of Rew was the getaway driver for the burglary, help set a pickup truck on fire and in a separate case, broke into and stole items from a Foster Township camp.
James Hammond, a co-defendant in the burglary and arson cases, pleaded guilty last and is scheduled for sentencing June 20. Another co-defendant, Michael Randolph, is scheduled for a last day to plea conference on June 27.
And, the case against another co-defendant, Michael Randolph, is pending.
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A man who stole nearly $20,000 from his parents’ business, and another $1,100 from another business has been sentenced to 45 days to 23 /12 months in McKean County Jail.
52-year-old Timothy Zampogna of Kane stole 43 checks from Flickerwood Wine Cellars between June 7, 2016, and January 3 of this year, and forged his mother’s name on them. He cashed them at several places.
On January 3 he tried to cash a check for $1,175 at the Kane Save-A-Lot on a closed account.
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A man who injured a City of Bradford Police officer has been sentenced to 23 1/2 months in McKean County Jail.
33-year-old John Winn of Bainbridge, NY, was being taken to drug rehab at BRMC when he started threatening his mother, who called 911 before he grabbed her phone and threw it out the car window.
As police were trying to take him into custody at the hospital he knocked one officer into a vehicle hard enough to dent the vehicle. The officer needed medical attention. While three other officers tried to get Winn under control, the injured officer was able to use a Taser on Winn
On the way to the patrol car, Winn also kicked another officer, but did not injure him.
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A 20-year-old Duke Center woman who had sex with a 14-year-old boy in Bradford has been sentenced to 7 to 18 months in McKean County Jail..
Rhonda Hanes had sex with the boy at least three times between December 13 and 31.
She was 19 at the time.
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A Port Allegany woman has been sentenced to 18 months of probation for hiding her boyfriend from police when he was wanted in Tioga County.
When police went to the home of 50-year-old Ginger Post on March 12 looking for Jerimiah Adams, she told the officer he was not there and that she had not seen him for a long time. But when the officer searched the home he found Adams hiding in a crawl space.