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Delaware Man Shot In Foot At PA Wawa Over Garbage Bag Full Of Marijuana: DA
Two have been arrested following a fight-turned-shooting over a garbage bag full of marijuana at a Wawa parking lot, the Chester County District Attorney’s Office and the West Goshen Police Department announced on Monday, Oct. 21.
Frank Johnson, 21, of Coatesville, and Zahir Scott, 18, of Wilmington, Delaware, have been arrested in connection with the shooting in the 700 block of East Market Street in West Goshen Township at 2:03 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, according to the DA's release.
Both men have been charged with Criminal Attempt Homicide, Aggravated Ass…
Delco Felon Reaches For Gun After Crash Ends Police Chase, Troopers Claim
A police chase in Ridley Township ended in a car crash and an arrest on Monday afternoon, Jan. 8, state police wrote in a release.
Troopers tried to pull over a driver, later identified as 30-year-old Khalid Mack, in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 around noon, according to officials.
Mack stopped initially but then sped away, exiting the highway onto Highland Avenue, troopers said.
The 30-year-old blew through a red light before crashing into another driver and several parked cars, authorities said. After his car came to a rest, police claimed Mack was "actively re…
Stalking Ex-BF Making Death Threats Attempts Chester County Home Break-In, Police Allege
A Delaware man is sought by police in Pennsylvania for several incidents of stalking, harassment, making death threats, and an attempted break-in, according to multiple police releases.
Juan Cesar Castro-Fernandez, 36, of Wilmington, DE is charged with stalking, harassment, and related counts, according to borough police.
His ex-girlfriend and child called the police after finding a broken window in the living room of their home in the 400 block of Juniper Street on Oct. 26, authorities said. The woman told officers that she had been having ongoing issues with Castro-Fernandez a…
Auto Dealer Murdered In Hudson Valley: 29-Year-Old Sentenced
Five years after shooting and killing a Hudson Valley automobile dealer, a 29-year-old man has been sentenced to prison.
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh announced Thursday, Nov. 30, that Eric Ross, Jr., of Wilmington, Delaware was sentenced to 25 years to life after being found guilty of murder by a jury in Rockland County Criminal Court in March of 2022.
Related story: Suspect Indicted In West Nyack Murder Of Auto Dealer
On Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018, Ross drove to Youbs Auto Sales, located at 375 Route 59 in West Nyack, to confront owner Youbens Jos…
PA Firefighter Killed In Crash Was 'Ring-Hunting' For His Girlfriend, Loved Ones Say
Colin Reedy, the Chester County firefighter who was killed in a car crash late Friday, Oct. 20, planned to spend the rest of his life with his girlfriend, loved ones said in his obituary.
The 25-year-old Reedy and his partner Emily Gindele, were both volunteers with the West Whiteland Fire Company, who were on their way to a call during heavy downpours when their vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree around 9 p.m., authorities have said.
Reedy, of Exton, was pronounced dead at the scene while Gindele, a 24-year-old probationary firefighter, was hospitalized in critical but stable con…
Man Shoots Sleeping Victim In Back Of Head In Yonkers, Gets Decades In Prison
A 24-year-old man will spend more than two decades in prison for his execution-style killing of a sleeping victim in Westchester.
New Castle, Delaware resident Eric Williams, age 24, was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison for the 2021 fatal shooting of 22-year-old Wilmington, Delaware resident Jabree West in Yonkers, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office announced on Friday, Aug. 11.
According to DA officials, on the day of the murder, June 20, 2021, around 4:30 a.m., Williams used a 9mm semi-automatic pistol to shoot West once in the b…
Trio Used Soldier's Stolen ID To Buy Guns Illegally: Montco DA
Three men are charged in connection with a scheme to use a US soldier's stolen identity to buy guns illegally, according to authorities.
Taalibudeen “Taalib” Ibn Hasdn Anderson, 22, and Tariq Anderson, 23, both of Philadelphia, and Daijon Griffin, 21, of Wilmington, Delaware, are each in police custody, said Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele's Office.
It began in Apil, prosecutors said, when an active duty Army serviceman visited his mother in Philly while on leave, the DA's Office said.
The soldier lost both his Pennsylvania driver's license and his U…
Carjacking, Kidnapping, Rape: Multi-State Crime Spree Stretched Into PA, Feds Say
Four Delaware men are accused in a crime spree that stretched into Pennsylvania and allegedly included car theft, kidnapping, gunpoint robbery, and rape.
Twenty-four-year-old Tonnaire McNair-Matthews, 23-year-old David Hinson, 21-year-old Michael Caldwell, and 20-year-old Mahkiya Powell were each named in a July 13 indictment unsealed in a US District Court in Delaware this week, said the US Attorney's Office.
The spree, federal authorities say, took place on April 14 and began in Delaware. Investigators claim the four suspects were riding around in a stolen …
Bucks County Gun Trafficker Learns His Fate
A convicted gun trafficker in Bucks County will spend five to 10 years in state prison, authorities announced.
Bashir T. Shakir, 25, of Yeadon, was convicted of twelve felonies connected to straw purchases of firearms that were later uncovered in criminal investigations across the mid-Atlantic, said Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub in a statement Wednesday, Nov. 9.
The investigation began in December 2020, when two guns Shakir purchased turned up on the streets of Philadelphia, the DA said. Another turned up in Wilmington, Delaware and a fourth in Millville, New …
RI Man Who Kidnapped, Killed MA's Jassy Correia Sentenced To Life In Prison
A Rhode Island man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for kidnapping and killing a 23-year-old mother from Boston, the US Attorney's Office for Massachusetts reports.
Louis Coleman, of Providence, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for the death of Jassy Correia, of Dorchester on Tuesday, Oct. 11.
Corriera was reported missing after leaving her birthday celebration at Venu Nightclub in downtown Boston in the overnight hours of Sunday, February 24, 2019, authorities reported.
Shortly after 2 a.m., Correia got separated from her friends and tried to getting a…
Ex-PA State Police Trooper Gets Decades In Prison For Sexually Abusing Child: DA
A former Pennsylvania State Police trooper was sentenced to 42 to 88 years in prison for sexually abusing a child, authorities said.
Darren Lawrence, 62, of Wilmington, DE, was convicted in Sept. 2021 of 19 counts of abuse, including rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, and related offenses, Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan said.
An investigation into Lawrence began in Feb. 2020 when the victim, who is now over 21 years old, told Chester County detectives that she was sexually abused by him when she was between the ages of nine …
