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Former High School Employee Pleads Guilty to Sexual Solicitation of a Child

Also, Medicaid Fraud unit prosecutes two health care workers in separate cases. The former athletic director at McKean High School in the Red Clay School District, Brian Budd, 34, of Columbus, NJ, has pled guilty to Sexual Solicitation of a Child. In July 2016, Budd solicited a 16-year-old student to allow him to engage in […]




Career Criminal Convicted for Attempted Knife Attack

Drug dealer enters plea and is sentenced A 48-year old Wilmington man was found guilty by a Superior Court jury on charges related to an attempted stabbing. In June 2016, Eli Escalera threatened an innocent bystander while holding a knife at a DART bus stop on Route 13 near Memorial Drive in New Castle. The […]




More Gang Members Plead Guilty

Other defendants face prison time for assault, weapons, and drug charges A total of 20 members of the Only My Brothers (OMB) gang have now pled guilty to charges included in the 2016 indictment related to the activities of OMB after 3 more members entered pleas and were sentenced in Superior Court. • Anthony Fistzgiles, […]




Rodney Square Killer Convicted

A Superior Court jury has convicted Calvin Hooker, the man who stabbed another man to death on Rodney Square in 2015. The 26-year-old from Wilmington was found guilty but mentally ill on charges of Murder Second Degree, Aggravated Menacing, and Endangering the Welfare of a Child. He was also found guilty on two counts of […]




Significant Prison Sentences for Rape, Robbery, Assault, Weapons, and Gang Activity Convictions

Robert Hearne, 51, of Hockessin was sentenced to 7 life terms plus 80 years in prison for the repeated rape of a child over a 9-year period. Deputy Attorney General Diana Dunn obtained the sentence in Superior Court after Hearne was convicted at trial in January on 7 counts of Rape First Degree, 4 counts […]







 Pages Tagged With: "Criminal Division"

Former High School Employee Pleads Guilty to Sexual Solicitation of a Child

Also, Medicaid Fraud unit prosecutes two health care workers in separate cases. The former athletic director at McKean High School in the Red Clay School District, Brian Budd, 34, of Columbus, NJ, has pled guilty to Sexual Solicitation of a Child. In July 2016, Budd solicited a 16-year-old student to allow him to engage in […]




Career Criminal Convicted for Attempted Knife Attack

Drug dealer enters plea and is sentenced A 48-year old Wilmington man was found guilty by a Superior Court jury on charges related to an attempted stabbing. In June 2016, Eli Escalera threatened an innocent bystander while holding a knife at a DART bus stop on Route 13 near Memorial Drive in New Castle. The […]




More Gang Members Plead Guilty

Other defendants face prison time for assault, weapons, and drug charges A total of 20 members of the Only My Brothers (OMB) gang have now pled guilty to charges included in the 2016 indictment related to the activities of OMB after 3 more members entered pleas and were sentenced in Superior Court. • Anthony Fistzgiles, […]




Rodney Square Killer Convicted

A Superior Court jury has convicted Calvin Hooker, the man who stabbed another man to death on Rodney Square in 2015. The 26-year-old from Wilmington was found guilty but mentally ill on charges of Murder Second Degree, Aggravated Menacing, and Endangering the Welfare of a Child. He was also found guilty on two counts of […]




Significant Prison Sentences for Rape, Robbery, Assault, Weapons, and Gang Activity Convictions

Robert Hearne, 51, of Hockessin was sentenced to 7 life terms plus 80 years in prison for the repeated rape of a child over a 9-year period. Deputy Attorney General Diana Dunn obtained the sentence in Superior Court after Hearne was convicted at trial in January on 7 counts of Rape First Degree, 4 counts […]