Court briefs for June 16, 2000

Friday, June 16, 2000 | 11:14 a.m.

Guilty plea in murder draws probation

A 26-year-old man arrested in January in connection with a 1991 murder was placed on five years' probation Thursday.

Roman Calderon pleaded guilty to attempted accessory to commit murder in the June 1991 death of Ruben DeLa Torre-Ureno, 20, and was sentenced by District Judge Jeffrey Sobel Thursday.

Calderon was one of five men accused of attacking DeLa Torre-Ureno and two of his friends on June 15, 1991, in the 4200 block of Charlotte Drive.

DeLa Torre-Ureno and his friends were asked by the group of men what gang they were with and they were beaten when they replied they weren't with a gang.

During the attack, DeLa Torre-Ureno was shot once in the back.

Three other men had already been convicted in connection with the incident when Calderon was arrested in January as he crossed the Arizona border from Mexico. The fifth man, Juan Carlos Escamilla, 27, is still a fugitive.

Sobel ordered Calderon to serve two weeks in jail every year for five years. He must also perform 16 hours of community service a month.

If Calderon fails to follow the rules of probation, he could get up to four years in prison.

Man sentenced to 4-10 years in pornography case

A Las Vegas man arrested three years ago on child pornography counts was sentenced Thursday to four to 10 years in prison.

Frederick Osburn, 45, pleaded guilty to open and gross lewdness, possession of burglary tools and four counts of possession of child pornography and was sentenced by District Judge Mark Gibbons.

Osburn was arrested in 1997 on 57 charges, including multiple counts of child pornography possession and open and gross lewdness after police found him prowling through residential neighborhoods.

Suspecting that he might be a serial rapist they had been looking for, police searched his home and found hundreds of videos of naked youngsters and thousands of pornographic pictures of children.

Osburn was never charged in connection with the serial attacks.

Gibbons gave Osburn credit for 898 days already served in jail.