This article was originally published on GoErie.com on July 6, 2018 Several categories of crime in Erie, including shots fired calls, the number of people shot and robberies committed with a firearm, have declined in the first six months of 2018 when compared with the same period a year ago, according to the Erie Bureau of Police. […]

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on July 4, 2018 An 18-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing marijuana and resisting arrest while a student at Erie High School in April. The defendant, Armond R. Calhoun, received two years of probation during the same hearing. Calhoun pleaded guilty to a second-degree misdemeanor count of

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on July 6, 2018 The 30-year-old man accused of cutting a young woman’s throat with a box cutter on Tuesday has a history of severe mental illness that stretches back to when he was 14 years old. The bizarre and sometimes violent behavior of the defendant, Steveland

The article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on May 9, 2018.  John P. Grazioli, accused of fatally shooting his wife in their Millcreek Township home before driving to Erie and confessing to a Catholic priest on the afternoon of March 8, sat silently in a packed courtroom on Tuesday afternoon as prosecutors presented testimony

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on May 7, 2018 Erie police investigators charge that a city man left his 11-month-old son unattended in a bathtub in early December when he left their westside apartment to cash his paycheck without telling anyone else that the boy was bathing. A relative later called 911

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on April 29, 2018 The return of warm weather has the Erie Bureau of Police ready to send out special patrols on foot and on bicycles to advance its community policing efforts. Foot and bicycle patrols, based out of the bureau’s mobile precinct, are returning to Erie’s

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on April 24, 2018 Lawrence Park Township police said a 14-year-old junior high school student at Iroquois High School faces terroristic threats and disorderly conduct charges in a gun threat incident at the school on Friday afternoon. The student was placed in the Edmund L. Thomas Juvenile

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on April 19, 2018 An Erie man charged in a city police drug investigation that stemmed from complaints about suspected drug activity at the Liberty Plaza during the fall waived a felony charge to court under an agreement reached with prosecutors on Thursday. Jonathan W. James, 40,

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on April 16, 2018 An Erie auto salesman received prison time and must pay tens of thousands of dollars in restitution following his sentencing in federal court Monday for conspiring to arrange fraudulent vehicle sales. Brian A. Vergotz, 50, will spend six months in federal prison followed

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on April 10, 2018 A Wesleyville man is facing prison time after pleading guilty Tuesday to burglarizing an Erie store where police found him stuck in the ventilation ductwork. Michael Rodriguez-Santiago, 20, pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony count of burglary under an agreement with prosecutors that was