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NJ Man Trying To Meet PA Middle Schooler Gets Prison Time, DA Says NJ Man Trying To Meet PA Middle Schooler Gets Prison Time, DA Says
NJ Man Trying To Meet PA Middle Schooler Gets Prison Time, DA Says A New Jersey man will spend up to a dozen years in a Pennsylvania state prison after authorities say he tried to meet with a middle schooler for sex.  Steven Boutte, 53, of Burlington, was convicted in December for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, criminal attempt to commit statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor, and related counts, said the Bucks County District Attorney's Office.  Investigators said Boutte began a conversation with someone he believed to be a 13-year-old girl on a dating app in December 2022. He engaged in a "very sexual…

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by Mac Bullock
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PA Man Who Sex Trafficked 15-Year-Old Girl Learns His Fate PA Man Who Sex Trafficked 15-Year-Old Girl Learns His Fate
PA Man Who Sex Trafficked 15-Year-Old Girl Learns His Fate A Philadelphia man who sex-trafficked a 15-year-old girl was sentenced Monday, June 6 to 17 to 40 years in state prison, authorities said. Andrew Hall, 29, pleaded guilty on Feb. 28 to a slew of charges, including human trafficking of a minor, statutory sexual assault of a minor, promoting prostitution of a minor, and photographing child sex acts, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Hall was arrested on Aug. 21, 2020, when Bensalem police officers were called around 12:30 a.m. to the Best Western on the 3400 block of Street Road on a report of child prostitut…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Former Wildwood Officer To Star In 'Law & Order SVU' Episode Former Wildwood Officer To Star In 'Law & Order SVU' Episode
Former Wildwood Officer To Star In 'Law & Order SVU' Episode A Pennsylvania detective who got his start in North Wildwood expected to make an appearance in a Law & Order SVU episode next week. Det. Chris McMullin of the Bensalem Township Police Department has a principal role as an FDNY captain in Season 22's Episode 10, titled "Welcome to the Pedo Motel," a Facebook announcement reads. While McMullin, 51, has been acting for nearly a decade -- one of his most memorable gigs being a role as a cop in the 2011 film "Limitless" alongside Bradley Cooper -- this will be his first "Law & Order SVU" appearance. "I've been trying to get a princ…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Bensalem PD: Trenton Driver's Fatal Shooting Tied To Hookah Lounge Dispute Bensalem PD: Trenton Driver's Fatal Shooting Tied To Hookah Lounge Dispute
Bensalem PD: Trenton Driver's Fatal Shooting Tied To Hookah Lounge Dispute A shooting that left a 31-year-old Trenton driver dead, and his passenger critical in Bucks County on Saturday is connected with a dispute that started earlier at a hookah lounge near the scene, NJ.com reports. Police responded to the 4100  block of Old Lincoln Highway on reports of a shooting around 2 a.m., where they found Johnnie Clark, in the driver's seat of a car with a gunshot wound to his head, Bensalem police said. The only passenger in Clark’s vehicle, whose information is not being released, sustained multiple gunshots to his face and was transported to the hospital for trea…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Feds: Halfway House Runaway Gets 6½ Years For Eastern PA Bank Robbery Spree Feds: Halfway House Runaway Gets 6½ Years For Eastern PA Bank Robbery Spree
Feds: Halfway House Runaway Gets 6½ Years For Eastern PA Bank Robbery Spree A 53-year-old man who was on parole when he ran away from a halfway house was sentenced to 78 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay more than $6,700 in restitution for a spree of bank robberies in Southeaster Pennsylvania last year, federal authorities said. Michael Edmondson in September 2019 pleaded guilty to a four-count indictment charging him with robbing four banks in Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks, and Philadelphia counties, First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said. The charges arose from Edmondson’s early 20…

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by Cecilia Levine
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SEE ANYTHING? Bensalem Motorcycle Thieves On Loose SEE ANYTHING? Bensalem Motorcycle Thieves On Loose
SEE Anything? Bensalem Motorcycle Thieves On Loose The latest in a string of Bucks County motorcycle thefts was reported on Wednesday. About 9:45 a.m., a white male driving a white conversion van was captured on surveillance video (shown above) stealing a red 2014 Ducati motorcycle with a black seat/rims from Berkeley Trace Apartments on Bensalem Boulevard, police said. Once the motorcycle was loaded into the van, the suspect drove out of the complex onto Bensalem Boulevard then turned on to northbound Bristol Pike towards Bristol, police said If you recognize this Grinch or see this conversion van, please call Bensalem Township Police Dep…

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by Jon Craig