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It may not seem like a long time, after all, it will be for “just” three days. Be that as it may, Ronald Dixon is being taken away from his children, his home and his employment to be locked up because he acted reasonably, saving his children from a hardened criminal who had broken into his home. I wrote a story about Mr. Dixon’s state of affairs about six months ago in an article entitled, “What Any Father Would Do.” The article was about Ronald Dixon who was awakened in the middle of the night by the sounds of an...

A Father Is Going To Jail: His Name: Ronald Dixon By Paul Walfield It may not seem like a long time, after all, it will be for just three days. Be that as it may, Ronald Dixon is being taken away from his children, his home and his employment to be locked up because he acted reasonably, saving his children from a hardened criminal who had broken into his home. I wrote a story about Mr. Dixon's state of affairs about six months ago in an article entitled, "What Any Father Would Do." The article was about Ronald Dixon who...

It may not seem like a long time, after all, it will be for “just” three days. Be that as it may, Ronald Dixon is being taken away from his children, his home and his employment to be locked up because he acted reasonably, saving his children from a hardened criminal who had broken into his home. I wrote a story about Mr. Dixon’s state of affairs about six months ago in an article entitled, “What Any Father Would Do.” The article was about Ronald Dixon who was awakened in the middle of the night by the sounds of an...

A Brooklyn man who shot and wounded an intruder while defending his family will spend three days in Rikers Island, the same jail housing the burglar who terrorized his home, because he owns an unregistered gun. Ronald Dixon, a 27-year-old father of two, caught an intruder rifling through drawers in his son's room early on Dec. 14. "I went in. … I looked in his face. I didn't know this guy; I was so shocked. … In a nervous voice I said, 'What are you doing in my house?' and he ran toward me yelling, 'Come upstairs!' like there were...

<p>June 10, 2003 -- A Navy veteran who shot a burglar as the crook crept into his toddler's bedroom has dodged a possible three- month prison sentence for criminal possession of a weapon by coming clean with prosecutors.</p> <p>Ronald Dixon, 27, flashed a broad grin yes terday after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct, a violation that will send him to Rikers Island for just three days, in a deal with Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes.</p>