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Man with 3 active felony warrants arrested in Randolph Co.
ELKINS, (WBOY) — A man with three active felony warrants was arrested on Saturday after trying to escape through the basement of a residence. According to a press release from the Randolph County Sheriff's Office, they and the Beverly/Randolph County detachment of the West Virginia State Police responded to the Mabie area on May 31 for a 'felony fugitive apprehension attempt.' Man accused of sexually assaulting woman at Upshur County gas station State Police had been searching for 45-year-old Pete Perez who had three warrants from an investigation, charging him with child neglect with gross risk of injury, distribution and displaying child phonography and soliciting a minor via computer. Law enforcement was able to apprehend Perez without incident. He was booked into the Tygart Valley Regional Jail the same day. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Michael Cohen Admits He'd ‘Selfishly' Accept Trump Pardon: ‘It Would Make My Life a Little Easier'
Michael Cohen would 'selfishly' accept a pardon from the president if he were to issue one, Donald Trump's former attorney told MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin, Catherine Rampell, and Antonia Hylton on Sunday. Doing so 'would make my life a little easier, going back into real estate, dealing with banks and so on,' he noted before adding, 'But it's not going to change my life.' Cohen also said he had hoped to be pardoned by former President Biden. 'I also am concerned about the 70 million Americans, 70 million that are basically scarlet lettered for the rest of their life as a felon,' he explained. 'I did my did my time. I paid all the restitution … I owe no money. Why should I be a felon for life? That's not the way the system should work.' In that vein, Cohen also noted those approximately 70 million Americans 'are all afflicted by the fact that they have felony convictions.' He added, 'They can't get housing. They can't get bank accounts. You can't get credit cards and so on.' Former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., is also hoping to receive a pardon from Trump. He and Cohen are 'working on a policy that we believe would be like from the hand of God, which is what the president's power that's granted him in the Constitution,' Cohen explained. 'So you look at the list of people, though, who have received pardons and commutations in recent days and weeks. What do you make of the pattern that's emerging here, though? Some of them are really bad individuals,' he continued. 'Others are also caught up in white collar tax issues. And I agree with the tax issues, the nonviolent. But there are several who, let's just say, stole over a billion dollars, paid back 100 million dollars and now receive the pardon.' Cohen also cited Trump's 'first term to the goal of using pardons in large part for a form of criminal justice reform' when the president 'was meeting with Van Jones and others and, you know, it was in part a way for him to actually reach out to black and Latino voters.' 'That does not seem to be his focus this time around,' he concluded. Watch the interview with Michael Cohen in the video above. The post Michael Cohen Admits He'd 'Selfishly' Accept Trump Pardon: 'It Would Make My Life a Little Easier' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
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Michael Cohen: I would "selfishly" accept a pardon from President Trump
It's been one year since Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a felony. Now that he's back in power, Trump has been pardoning allies convicting of white-collar crimes. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen reacts to Trump's pardons with MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin, Catherine Rampell, and Antonia Hylton including saying he would accept one if offered.
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Canton woman sentenced for having more than 10 grams of meth in Sayre
SAYRE, Pa. (WETM) — A Canton woman was sentenced to time in state prison following an incident where officials say she had over 10 grams of meth, according to a release from the Bradford County District Attorney's Office. Ashley E. McCarney, 31, was sentenced to a minimum of 15 months to a maximum of five years in a Pennsylvania State Prison, for the crime of possession with intent to deliver meth, a felony, as stated in a release from the DA's office. PA man convicted for raping a child in 2022 The DA states that McCarney was charged with the crime after an officer from the Sayre Borough Police Department discovered McCarney with 13.78 grams of meth on White Wagon Road in Sayre, in November of 2024. Upon further investigation, the DA explained that McCarney also had a scale and other drug-related items, which pointed to her probable plan to sell the meth. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Trial scheduled for man accused of intentionally setting fire, causing explosion at Jamestown home
May 31—JAMESTOWN — A felony jury trial has been scheduled for a Nancy, Kentucky, man who is accused of intentionally setting a fire in September that extensively damaged his home and adjacent property, according to court documents. John Patrick Quinlan, 55, faces charges of endangering by fire or explosion, a Class B felony, two counts of endangering by fire or explosion, a Class C felony, and failure to control or report a dangerous fire, a Class A misdemeanor. He pleaded not guilty to the charges on Feb. 25 in Southeast District Court in Jamestown. A felony jury trial is scheduled for Sept. 30. A Class B felony is punishable by 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. A Class C felony is punishable by five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. A Class A misdemeanor is punishable by 360 days in prison and a $3,000 fine. Quinlan is accused of placing other people in danger of death under circumstances manifesting an extreme difference to human life, intentionally starting or maintaining a fire or causing an explosion that placed any part of a building or inhabited structure of another in danger of destruction, intentionally starting or maintaining a fire or causing an explosion that damaged property of another constituting pecuniary loss of more than $2,000, and failing to either take reasonable measures to put out or control the fire when he could do so without substantial risk to himself or to give a prompt fire alarm from Sept. 11-12. The Jamestown Fire Department responded to multiple reports of a possible house explosion at 545 1st St. W at about 1:35 a.m. on Sept. 12. When firefighters arrived, the garage was fully involved, The Jamestown Sun reported. The fire started in a detached one-stall garage at that address and spread to the house and the next-door neighbor's one-stall garage, The Sun reported. First responders located a 55-year-old resident, identified as Quinlan in court documents, who had severe burns but was outside the home and coherent, The Sun reported. Quinlan was transported to Jamestown Regional Medical Center and later airlifted for life-threatening injuries to a Minneapolis hospital. According to his brother-in-law, Quinlan was released from the Minneapolis hospital in October and was with family members in Kentucky healing from the fire, court documents say. The house at 545 1st St. W was Quinlan's residence at the time of the fire, according to a declaration in support of probable cause written by Troy Kelly, special agent with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Court documents say Quinlan was not one of the individuals who called 911. Court documents say individuals on the scene told Jamestown police officers that Quinlan made statements about "burning his house down and blowing the place up." The officers on scene reported that Quinlan had received significant burns, and he made statements to them that he woke up and smelled gasoline. "JOHN QUINLAN stated he went outside to smoke and 'the whole place blew up' and commented 'I probably ignited it,'" court documents say. Staff at the hospital reported Quinlan's clothing smelling like "chemicals," court documents say. A police officer's report indicated that he could smell gasoline coming from Quinlan's boots and jeans while logging the items into evidence. During the initial assessment of the scene with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Jamestown Police Department, deputy fire marshal and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, officers observed that the fire spread from the unattached garage at 545 1st St. W to the unattached garage at 543 1st St. W, the neighbor's property and ultimately to the main residence at 545 1st St. W., court documents say. Court documents say the main residence and the unattached garage smelled like gasoline. Videos from security cameras around the house at 545 1st St. W showed Quinlan carrying two containers into the residence at about 10 p.m. on Sept. 11, court documents say. The AC power was lost and the control panel started running on battery at about 10:10 p.m., court documents say. The insurance company's investigator also reviewed videos from the camera system and informed Kelly that an empty 1-gallon Shell Rotella oil container was located at the foot of the bed on the second level of the residence, court documents say. The insurance company's investigator also indicated that the container looked like one that Quinlan carried into the house in a video. After a search warrant was obtained for Otter Tail Power Co.'s records related to the house, Kelly observed that there was no power outage to the residence prior to the fire, indicating that the power to the AC system was manually turned off, court documents say.
