Police briefs
• AKRON — Lonnie Blue, 30, of Portage Path, was sentenced July 10 to seven years in prison for the October 2005 rape of a 12-year-old Akron girl, according to Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh. Blue also was given three years for gross sexual imposition and labeled a sexually oriented offender. Visiting Judge Thomas Curran ran the sentences together for a total of seven years. A jury convicted Blue June 13 following a three-day trial, after a grand jury indicted Blue on two counts of rape, a first-degree felony, in October. The jury returned a guilty verdict on one count of rape and one count of a lesser offense, gross sexual imposition, after deliberating less than a day.
• AKRON — Judge Patricia Cosgrove upheld the jury-recommended verdict of death against Clarence Fry, 45, of Ackley St. in Akron, for the murder of Tamela Hardison, 41. Judge Cosgrove ordered a sentence of death by lethal injection set by the court for July 31, 2007. The remaining counts of aggravated murder, murder, aggravated burglary and domestic violence were merged with the death sentence. Fry also was ordered to be placed in solitary confinement for one day each July 31, the date of the murder, for the remainder of his life. Fry murdered Hardison, his former live-in girlfriend, in 2005. Investigators discovered Hardison’s body on her daughter’s living room sofa, stabbed multiple times. Her 2-year-old granddaughter, whom she was babysitting, was sitting beside the body. A neighbor called police after Hardison’s 3- and 5-year-old grandsons ran across the street to report Fry had killed their grandmother. All three children were unharmed.
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