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Friday, June 11, 2010
Man convicted of murder in Tom-Tom slaying
DAYTON — The man accused of gunning down Thomas “Tom-Tom” Watson on a basketball court last year was convicted of his murder Thursday, June 10.
Chamare Mays, 21, will not be eligible for parole until after he has served 40 years in prison.
This was the second time Mays was tried on the four murder counts. On March 1, a jury convicted him of felonious assault, which involved the shooting of Fabian Q. Gentry, not Watson, tampering with evidence and one count of inducing panic, plus firearms specifications on all three counts. However, the jury deadlocked on the murder counts, causing Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Gregory F. Singer to declare a mistrial.
After the first trial, Singer gave Mays a 22-year sentence. After the second, Singer sentenced him to 18 to life, to be served consecutive to the prior sentence.
Watson, 25, was a high-ranking member of the DVH gang when he was gunned down April 16 on a College Hill Park basketball court.
Mays surrendered to police on April 21 and has been in custody since.
Dayton police said last year that Mays was one of three gunmen, some wearing masks, who fired at a group of men who were playing on the Shaftesbury Road basketball court. Mays isn’t the gunman who killed Watson, detectives said, but they believe he shot one man in the leg.
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Sidney man with child porn receives prison sentence
DAYTON — A Sidney man who kept more than 12,000 child pornography images on his computer was sentenced Friday, June 11, to 84 months in federal prison.
Carson Trader, 62, who appeared before U.S. District Senior Judge Walter H. Rice, had pleaded guilty Sept. 18, 2008 to one count of possession of child pornography.
Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) went to Trader’s home March 6, 2007 while following up to a child pornography investigation that started in Michigan, according to a statement facts filed with the plea agreement.
Agents found images on the computer, then took it to the Miami Valley Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory, where analysts found more than 12,000 pornographic images of children, some depicting sadistic and masochistic conduct or violence. Trader downloaded some images over the Internet and acquired other images by trading with individuals online, according to Carter M. Stewart, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.
After his release from prison, Trader will be placed under lifetime court supervision. He will also be required to register as a sexual offender in any jurisdiction where he lives, works or is a student and to register with his new jurisdiction within three days if he moves.
Trader was ordered by the Court to obtain sex offender treatment while incarcerated and during his supervised release from prison. He must also perform 100 hours of community service and was ordered to have no to contact with minor children.
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