Attorney General Jennings Unveils Internal Reform Measures for Criminal Prosecution
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, February 18, 2019
Prosecutors encouraged to divert more low-level offenders to treatment, ask for low end of sentencing, support commutations and expungements Citing incarceration and recidivism rates that outstrip the national average, an unprecedented opioid epidemic, and a groundswell of public support for reform, Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced Monday morning more than 30 internal protocols and positions […]
Driver Sentenced For Injuring Two Pedestrians In Dover
Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, February 15, 2019
Other defendants guilty on weapons and assault charges A man who ran over two teens as they crossed Route 13 in Dover has pled guilty and been sentenced to prison. In August 2018, William Smith, 52, of Dover, hit the girls with his vehicle while they were in a pedestrian crosswalk at the intersection of […]
Police Chief Pleads Guilty
Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, February 8, 2019
Other defendants plea to gang activity, weapons, murder, rape, and theft charges Michael Capriglione, Chief of police for the Town of Newport, has pled guilty to charges stemming from official misconduct. In May 2018, Capriglione ordered the deletion of a surveillance video, which depicted him striking another vehicle in the parking lot of Newport Police […]
Killing of Hockessin Man Resolved With Guilty Plea
Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Benjamin Rauf, the New York man charged with the 2015 killing of a Hockessin man found shot in his car, has pled guilty to the fatal shooting. Rauf, 29, of Westerlo, NY pled guilty yesterday to Manslaughter and Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony in connection with the shooting death of […]
Ellendale Man Sentenced for 2017 Murder
Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, February 1, 2019
Fatal shooting sends Wilmington man to prison; two others plead guilty to raping minors in two separate cases An Ellendale man received a 35-year-prison sentence for murdering another man. Deputy Attorneys General Susan Schmidhauser and Stephen Welch secured the sentence for 36-year-old Don Martinez. In July 2017, Martinez fatally shot Kevin King in the parking […]
