A Rochester woman has pleaded guilty to a second degree kidnapping charge for her part in a bizarre abduction last summer. The Monroe County District Attorney’s Office says 47-year-old Jillianne Mencel agreed to plead guilty in return for a sentence of 17 yeaers in prison, followed by five years of post-release supervision. Mencel was accused […]
The Rochester Fire Department’s Arson Task Force has charged a Georgia man with setting fire to a house at 82 Danforth Street. The department says 27-year-old Victor Watkins of Atlanta dragged a couch from a first floor living room out onto the front porch early Saturday morning and set it on fire. Multiple smoke alarms […]
Michael Stagles and his girlfriend, Erica Bell, will go on trial together for the death of three-yeear-old Brook Stagles. Both were in court today, where their trial was set for July and the judge refused defense requests to deny statements they made about the girl’s death to Child Protective Services. Bell is charged with murder […]