Justice has been served in the June 2016 stabbing death of 27-year-old Honduran immigrant Carlos Leiva-Oviedo. Danny Saad, the 16-year-old boy who had confessed to the Chambersburg slaying, received an 18-year prison sentence last Friday. He previously pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter on Oct. 2. Saad was originally charged with murder, armed robbery and weapons …
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The North Jersey teenager who stabbed and killed 27-year-old Carlos Leiva-Oviedo during a June 2016 Chambersburg attack will serve at least one decade of hard time behind bars. Danny Saad, 16, of Newark, has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter, admitting he killed the hardworking Honduran immigrant during a visit to New Jersey’s capital city. The …
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A Mercer County grand jury issued two murder indictments last week. Jonathan Weathers, 26, was indicted on charges of murder, robbery and tampering with a witness in connection with the death of 60-year-old Stephen Merrill. Weathers is accused of severely beating Merrill during a robbery on August 2, 2016. Merrill was found suffering from a …
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The Newark boy accused of stabbing 27-year-old Carlos Leiva-Oviedo to death last year is now incarcerated on pretrial detention and facing murder charges as an adult. Danny Saad, who recently turned 16, has been charged with murder, armed robbery, murder during commission of a crime, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and unlawful …
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The public helped identify a suspect wanted for murder, prosecutors announced Friday. A 15-year-old from Newark was arrested Thursday night for the stabbing death of 27-year-old Carlos Leiva-Oviedo last month. The last two weeks, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office released a still image and video of two men wanted in connection with the murder. Mercer …
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TRENTON >> Following the release of a photograph last week, authorities are still searching for two men they say are connected to the murder of a Honduran man who was stabbed to death last month. In another attempt to identify the men, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office released an 8-second video Friday of two men …
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Authorities are searching for two men they say are connected to the murder of a Honduran man who was stabbed to death this month. The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office released a grainy photo Wednesday of two men walking near the area where 27-year-old Carlos Leiva-Oviedo was stabbed to death in the early-morning hours of June …
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A man from Honduras who has lived in the capital city for about two years was stabbed to death Tuesday morning, becoming the city’s eleventh homicide victim this year. Carlos Leiva-Oviedo, 27, was stabbed around 3 a.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Hudson and Genesee streets. When police arrived, they found him lying in the …
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