SANDRA K. REABUCK
sreabuck@tribdem.com
EBENSBURG —
TaeVon “Tae” Dixon, the alleged shooter in a Johnstown homicide, was put on probation for one year this week in Cambria County court on his guilty plea to possession of drug paraphernalia.
But he won’t be re-leased anytime soon.
He and his brother, Jharon “Hood” Dixon, are being held in the county prison without bail on homicide and related charges in the beating and fatal shooting of 38-year-old James Pelham Jr.
The shooting took place June 11 in the 100 block of Church Street in the city’s Old Conemaugh Borough section, near where the brothers lived.
TaeVon Dixon, 21, was given the probationary sentence Monday by Judge David Tulowitzki, who also imposed fines and costs totaling $1,616.
Johnstown police alleged that when they entered a residence at the Solomon Homes looking for Dixon on Oct. 22, 2008, they found two women, a white powder which tested positive as cocaine, digital scales, a knife with white powder
on it and a blender with white powder residue.
One of the women told police Dixon had used the various items to make a fake mixture of cocaine that could be sold to obtain money, according to the affidavit.
The Dixon brothers are due in county court Sept. 28 for formal arraignment before Judge Norman Krumenacker on the homicide and related charges.
