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Drunk South Jersey Woman Found With Heroin, Gun In Suburban Philly, Police Say Drunk South Jersey Woman Found With Heroin, Gun In Suburban Philly, Police Say
Drunk South Jersey Woman Found With Heroin, Gun In Suburban Philly, Police Say A New Jersey woman was arrested after police say they found her with drugs and a gun after stopping her for public intoxication in the Philadelphia suburbs. Officers on drug surveillance stopped Colleen L. Brooks, 32, of Mantua, in the 1400 block of Chester Pike in Sharon Hill when they noticed she appeared drunk on Tuesday, Aug. 16, they said. During her arrest, cops looked through her backpack and found suspected heroin, drug packaging, and a handgun, police said. Detectives later discovered that she had a criminal history that forbid her from possessing firearms, they said. Brooks was …

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by Nicole Acosta
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Drunk, Disorderly Man In Wayne Turns Out To Be Connecticut Escapee Drunk, Disorderly Man In Wayne Turns Out To Be Connecticut Escapee
Drunk, Disorderly Man In Wayne Turns Out To Be Connecticut Escapee A drunk and disorderly man stopped by Wayne police turned out to be a convicted purse snatcher who fled from custody in Connecticut, authorities said. Responding to a report of an inebriated man yelling at people near the busy intersection of Berdan Avenue and Hamburg Turnpike, Sgt. Doug Itjen and Officers Dennis Sagvay and Rob Feeney found Anthony Butler, 42, of Norwich, CT. “He was staggering, laughing and yelling out loud to passersby” while carrying three cans of beer and smelling of alcohol, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. A computer background check returned a warrant out of Newark an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'Dangerously Insane': Facebook Slams PA Man Accused Of BBQing Dog, Lighting $100 Bills On Fire 'Dangerously Insane': Facebook Slams PA Man Accused Of BBQing Dog, Lighting $100 Bills On Fire
'Dangerously Insane': Facebook Slams PA Man Accused Of BBQing Dog, Lighting $100 Bills On Fire A 49-year-old Pennsylvania man was "incredibly intoxicated" and burning $100 bills in a fire pit after shooting his dog then putting it on a hot barbecue grill, recent news reports say. Northampton Township officers responding to reports of an open fire found Nikolay Lukyanchikov sitting on a bench at his Holly Knoll Drive home near a fire pit and burning couch with a gun setting $100 bills on fire with lighter fluid, according to an affidavit obtained by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Once the fire was out, officers noticed an animal -- later determined to be Lukyanchikov's dog -- badly burne…

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by Nicole Acosta & Cecilia Levine
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PA Man Arrested For Calling Woman 45 Times In One Day, State Police Say PA Man Arrested For Calling Woman 45 Times In One Day, State Police Say
PA Man Arrested For Calling Woman 45 Times In One Day, State Police Say A man with a history of abuse was charged with harassment after calling a woman 45 times in one day, according to Pennsylvania State Police in Cumberland County. Brian Knouse, 44 of Mechanicsburg, PA, was arrested in South Middletown Township on April 26 after attempting to contact a woman 45 times in a 24-hour period, police say. Knouse went to the woman’s home even after she told him to stop contacting her, says PSP. Knouse has a pattern criminal behavior, having previously plead guilty to charges in York and Cumberland counties for public intoxication, DUIs, harassment and assaults st…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Drunken NJ Man Punches Officer After Brawl At Indiana Rest Stop, Authorities Say Drunken NJ Man Punches Officer After Brawl At Indiana Rest Stop, Authorities Say
Drunken NJ Man Punches Officer After Brawl At Indiana Rest Stop, Authorities Say A New Jersey man was drunk when he got into a brawl at a rest stop in Indiana and then punched a responding police officer, authorities said. Parwinder Kang, 42, of Mt. Holly, battered another individual at the Pilot Travel Center on Warrenton Road near Haubstadt Indiana around 7:20 p.m. on Jan. 16, the Gibson County Sheriff's Office said in a release. "Mr. Kang was an extreme state of intoxication and was verbally and physically noncompliant with officers during the investigation," authorities said.  Kang was booked in the Gisbon County Jail on charges of battery, public intoxic…

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by Cecilia Levine