Saturday, February 16, 2013
Bethlehem girls, now 18, were convicted in taking part in a string of convenience store robberies this summer.
Two teenage girls from Bethlehem convicted of acting as lookouts in a string of summer robberies from Allentown to Palmer Township will serve at least 28 months and no more than six years in state prison. On Friday, Northampton County Judge Leonard Zito sentenced Ashley Eskaff and Ashley Horning – both now 18 – to 14 months to 28 months in prison for their part in four robberies in Bethlehem and one in Palmer, according to The Express Times. However, he ordered their sentences to run concurrent to a 28-month to six-year sentence handed down for similar crimes in Lehigh County, the newspaper reported. After she was arrested in July, Horning told Bethlehem police that she and her three accomplices robbed convenience stores “for the money …
Judge hands down stiff sentence to SouthSide robber, despite questions about witnesses.
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Saturday, February 16
A Bethlehem man who was convicted in an April SouthSide stickup of a cab driver was sentenced to serve six-and-a-half to 20 years in state prison on Friday. Manuel Martinez, 44, got the stiff prison sentence from Northampton County Judge Emil Giordano despite questions that were raised about the truthfulness of the prosecution’s witnesses, according to The Express Times. Martinez’s attorney, Tony Rybak, said he will appeal. According to the arrest record, Martinez walked up to the cab at Broadway and Fiot Street early Easter morning and pointed a black semi-automatic handgun at the cab driver’s head and demanded cash. He ran off with $156, but a passenger in the cab told police she saw Martinez enter a home at 715 Broadway, near the …
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Decoitius Dickerson gets 100 to 200 months in prison; ex-girlfriend says that's not enough.
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
A Bethlehem man shot by city police through a bathroom window after he was spotted stabbing his estranged girlfriend was sentenced to 100 to 200 months in a state prison for the crime, according to reports in The Morning Call and The Express-Times. Decoitius Dickerson was sentenced earlier today by Northampton County Judge Leonard Zito, after hearing from family members, including the victim, Kristina Fallstich. Dickerson was tearfully apologetic, according to the published reports, but family members were dismissive of his apparent contrition. In fact, Fallstich told Zito that she believes Dickerson will come after her once he is ultimately released, which could take as little as eight years and four months. Dickerson, 45, was found …
Friday, July 8, 2011
Man who made her pregnant when she was 15 gets 6-12 months in county prison.
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Friday, July 8, 2011
A Bethlehem teen-ager and her family pleaded for leniency for a man accused of getting her pregnant when she was 15, according to this report on The Morning Call’s website. The reason: They want him to be a part of their lives and help raise the newborn child. As a result, Northampton County Judge Anthony Beltrami sentenced Ivan A. Alvarez-Lopez to six months to a year in the county jail, instead of a longer state prison sentence as a result of him pleading guilty to unlawful contact with the girl. According to the report, family members called Alvarez-Lopez, 24, of New Jersey a good man who made a mistake and, if it were up to them, he would not have been charged.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Bucks County man groped four girls in Bethlehem; city man punched and robbed 14-year-old.
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Friday, July 1, 2011
A Bucks County man who pleaded guilty to groping four girls in Bethlehem escaped a state prison term, when a Northampton County judge agreed to a plea deal, according to this report in The Morning Call. Robert W. D’Ginto Sr., 47, of West Rockhill Township, will spend one to two years in the Northampton County Prison and then another 15 years on probation, during which he will have to undergo sex offender treatment and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. In other court news, Kenneth Ortega, 21, of Bethlehem was sentenced to nine to 23 months in Northampton County Prison for a felony robbery of a 14-year-old boy in South Bethlehem in December, also according to The Morning Call. He pleaded guilty in May to …
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Hector Otmo gets 5 1/2 to 15 years for December 2009 attack.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
A Bethlehem man was sentenced to no less than 5 1/2 years in prison by a Northampton County judge for raping an 11-year-old girl in 2009, according to this Morning Call report. The report says Hector Otmo, 25, apparently badmouthed the victim to his pre-sentence evaluators, saying the sex was consensual and the girl had provoked it. Judge Anthony Beltrami said he was offended by those comments.
Daryl Nerl
10:49 pm on Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Just by way of clarification, 5 1/2 was the minimum sentence. The maximum is 15 years, as it says in the sub-head. more ›