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NJ Man Charged After Girlfriend Found Shot Dead In PA Hotel: Police Release Details
Authorities have revealed chilling new details about the murder of a Trenton woman found shot to death at a Pennsylvania hotel last week. Her boyfriend, who sparked a standoff in New Jersey hours later, has been charged with her killing, police said Tuesday, Jan. 21. Orenthia Upshur, 51, is accused of shooting 49-year-old Maisha Coon inside a rented room at the Sleep Inn on Street Road in Bensalem in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Jan. 15. The investigation began when a family member of Upshur’s walked into the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Trevose at 5 a.m. that day. The r…
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Suspect, Victim ID'd After PA Hotel Homicide, NJ Standoff
A woman was fatally shot at the Sleep Inn on Street Road in Bensalem, PA, and the suspect was apprehended following a barricade situation in Trenton, police and prosecutors said during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 16. The victim, identified as 49-year-old Maisha Coon of Trenton, NJ, was killed in the hotel room late Tuesday night. The suspect, her boyfriend, 51-year-old Orenthia Upshur, also from Trenton, fled the scene to a home in New Jersey, where he admitted to killing Koon and attempted to kill her family, authorities said. Details about Coon's life have been shared by her comm…
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Six Members Of Catalytic Converter Theft Ring — Including Gloucester Man — Sentenced: DA
Six members of a multi-million-dollar catalytic converter theft ring that spanned the Delaware Valley have been sentenced, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced on Monday, Dec. 16. The defendants included Michael Williams, the 53-year-old owner of TDI Towing in Philadelphia, his three sons-in-law Michael Bruce, Kevin Schwartz, and Patrick Hopkins, his wife Deborah Davalos, and her sister Lisa Davalos. Williams, of Huntingdon Valley, was sentenced to 2 ½ to 5 years in state prison, followed by two years of probation, and was ordered to pay $124,900 in restitution to 157 vic…
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Homicide Charge Lodged Against Strip Club Shooter From Trenton (
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A New Jersey man previously charged in a shooting at a Morrisville gentlemen’s club is now facing a homicide charge after the victim died from his injuries, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday, Dec. 11. Pedro E. Rodriguez, 28, of Trenton, NJ, is accused of fatally shooting Mekhi Norman, 28, at The Border Gentlemen’s Club at 440 S. Pennsylvania Ave. on Thursday, Aug. 29, authorities said. Norman, an innocent bystander, was struck in the head, thigh, and torso while trying to assist staff during an altercation at the club’s doorway around 1:15 a.m., police sai…
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Victims Speak Out At Sentencing Of PA Man Who Filmed Sex Assaults On Victims 2 To 12
A Bucks County man who pleaded guilty to recording the sexual assaults of three children and sharing the footage on social media has learned his fate. Brian Nathaniel Harris, 29, of Bristol, was sentenced to 18 to 42 years in the state correctional institution by Common Pleas Judge Gary B. Gilman, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced Friday, Aug. 23. He was also sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to undergo sex offender treatment and a mental health evaluation. Relatives of the victims packed a courtroom at the Criminal Justice Center on Friday wit…
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Harrowing Details Emerge In Bucks County Rampage That Left 3 Dead
Prosecutors are shedding new light on the Saturday, March 16 incident that left three Pennsylvanians dead and one New Jersey man in police custody. Andre Gordon Jr. was arrested in Trenton on Saturday after an hours-long manhunt, Daily Voice reported. The incident began just before 9 a.m. when he arrived at his father and stepmother's 45 Viewpoint Lane home in Falls Township, according to the criminal complaint from the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Investigators said Andre Gordon Sr. answered the door and "confronted" his son before going inside to get dressed.…
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Gunman Captured, Victims ID'd: Details Released In Hours-Long Trenton Hunt For PA Killer
Andre Gordon, the 26-year-old gunman accused of gunning down three people in Pennsylvania, was captured in Trenton after an hours-long search Saturday, March 16, authorities said. Gordon was arrested on New York Avenue in Trenton at approximately 5 p.m., the New Jersey Attorney General's Office said. He'd initially gone into a Phillips Avenue home, where members of a SWAT team had staged. Gordon was lodged at the Mercer County Jail. Trouble began around 8:50 a.m. when Gordon, in a car he'd carjacked in Trenton, drove to Pennsylvania and broke into a Viewpoint Lane home in Falls Township, t…
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Life Sentence For NJ Killer Who Dumped Victim's Body On PA Highway: Prosecutors
A man convicted in a 2020 Bristol Township murder received a life sentence in a Bucks County court on Tuesday, Jan. 23, according to the District Attorney's Office. A jury found Robert S. Christie, 37, of Trenton, New Jersey, guilty in the first-degree murder of Joshua McRae back in October, prosecutors said. Police found the body of McRae, 31, also of Trenton, on the shoulder of I-295 near the I-95 interchange early on Jan. 19, 2020, Daily Voice reported. Prosecutors said he had been shot five times. Investigators later found that McRae, Christie, and two other men had v…
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Feds: Leader Of Ring That Flooded South Jersey, Philly 'Burbs With Fentanyl, Meth Gets 18 Years
A drug kingpin who headed a network that slung fentanyl and meth in South Jersey and the suburbs of Philadelphia while he hid from his pursuers was sentenced Thursday to a plea-bargained 18 years in federal prison. Glenn Long, 29, of Philadelphia, must serve just about all of the time he received in U.S. District Court in Camden on Jan. 4 because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Long – known on the street as “Bless” and “Max” – ran the operation as a fugitive for three years while under a federal indictment for major drug trafficking out of Philadelphia. A second drug conspi…
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Infant Assault Found In 2K+ Images On NJ Man Who Teaches Music In Bucks: DA
More than 2,000 images of child pornography — including sexual assaults of infants — were found on a New Jersey man's phone when police came to interview him at one of the Pennsylvania schools where he works. Christopher Bygott, 47 Mulberry Avenue, Hamilton, NJ was charged and briefly held on Dec. 19 after a 50-day investigation into files uploaded by Bygott's Gmail account on the Pennsbury School District's IP address after the Bucks County District Attorney's Office received CyberTips from Amazon.com Inc. Bygott, a Curriculum Coordinator for …
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NJ Man Admits Selling Fentanyl That Killed Bucks County Man, Court Finds
A New Jersey man has admitted to selling the drugs that killed a Pennsylvania resident more than four years ago, authorities say. Lamar Campbell of Trenton pleaded guilty to strict liability for drug-induced death and related counts in a Mercer County courtroom last Friday, Dec. 8, said the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. The investigation began on June 29, 2019, after Morrisville police found 40-year-old Joseph Prieth dead in an apartment on Plaza Boulevard, prosecutors said. Prieth was discovered in a bathroom surrounded by "used heroin bags…
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NJ Road Rage Driver Who Killed PA Dad At McDonald's Learns Sentence
The New Jersey driver who admitted to killing a Levittown man during a road rage incident early this year will spend over a decade behind bars, said the Bucks County District Attorney's Office on Thursday. Daniel S. Dietrich, 45, of Palmyra, was sentenced to 12 to 24 years for the Feb. 5 death of Jason Smith, prosecutors said. Authorities have claimed Dietrich and Smith were involved in a "driving incident" about a mile before they both arrived at the 7700 Bristol Pike McDonald's. When Smith tried to pull into the parking lot, Dietrich used his truck to block the way, poli…
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PA Man Who Filmed Sexual Abuse Of Toddler, Tweens Held On $20M Bond: DA
A Pennsylvania resident accused of sexually abusing multiple children and filming the acts is being held on a $20 million bond, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday, Nov. 28. Brian Nathaniel Harris, of Bristol Borough, faces more than 160 criminal charges — most of them felonies — related to sexual assault and child pornography dissemination, according to prosecutors. Harris first came under investigation on Oct. 31 when Bucks detectives received an online tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, authorities said. …
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Couple From PA Charged In Computer Repair Scam That Conned Victims In NJ, Elsewhere
A Pennsylvania man whose wife was charged with a computer scam that allowed her to siphon money out of unsuspecting victims’ accounts had a similar scheme going, Bergen County authorities announced. Kuleep Sethi, 66, was arrested by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office on theft, conspiracy and money laundering charges earlier this week -- five months after they busted his wife, Mona, for the same thing. The Furlong, PA couple scammed victims not only in New Jersey but throughout the world, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The thieves “created the belief that vic…
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Philly Tow Yard Operated Multi-Million Dollar Catalytic Converter Theft Ring: DA
A Philadelphia-based criminal organization involved in the mass theft of catalytic converters has been shut down, authorities announced in a press conference Tuesday, June 27. Ten adults and one 17-year-old are accused of targeting cars across the Delaware Valley, said Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub. Catalytic converters, pollution control devices found on the bottom of gas-powered vehicles, are made with "rare and precious metals" that make tempting targets for thieves, and reports of stolen converters have "skyrocketed" across the region in recent years, the DA's Offi…
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Man Told Witness To Call 911 Before Wife Shot Him Dead At Bristol Borough Wharf: DA
A Bucks County woman is charged with homicide after authorities say she shot her husband dead — while he lay defenseless — in the middle of an argument at the Bristol Borough Wharf. It happened around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, May 30, said Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub's Office in a release. Witnesses told police that 40-year-old Sammar Khan and her husband, 38-year-old Faisal Iqbal, were having a conversation near the coastline when Khan began "speaking loudly in another language," the DA's Office wrote. A short time later, witnesses reported hearing a …
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Bucks Son Put Fentanyl In Mom's Iced Tea, Shot Her Dead In Philadelphia: DA (
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A 28-year-old Bucks County man is accused of killing his mom by spiking her iced tea with fentanyl then killing her in Philadelphia over the weekend, authorities said. Sean Rivera, of the Morrisville section of Falls Township, drugged his 72-year-old mom, Carol J. Clark, before driving her to Philadelphia where he shot and killed her, Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said. Rivera left his mom's body in a shed, but officials found her early Monday morning, April 10, and pronounced her dead, Weintraub said. The investigation began on Sunday afternoon for a report of a do…
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Missing PA Man Was Kidnapped By Coworker Who Then Fled To NJ: Authorities
A Philadelphia area man has been charged with kidnapping and murder in the disappearance of his Bucks County coworker, who has been missing since 2021. Michael Allen Stark, 49, of Royersford, is believed to have kidnapped Matthew James Branning, after a shift at his Silverdale job in October 2021, took him to withdraw money at an ATM and then fled in Brannging's car to New Jersey, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said. The kidnapping happened on Oct. 15, 2021, when Stark forced Branning to make the withdrawal before disposing of his body, which has yet to be found, auth…
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Cache Of Firearms, 50 Bags Of Fentanyl Leads To Bucks Ghost Gun Manufacturer's Historic Arrest
The owner of a Bristol business faces more gun charges than anyone in recent Bucks County history after detectives seized "dozens" of firearms and partially assembled "ghost guns" from his home, authorities say. Prosecutors say Russell Byron Norton, 32, of Bensalem, played a key role in the Pentz organization, a drug- and weapon-trafficking ring that operated across lower Bucks County, said District Attorney Matthew Weintraub in a statement Friday, Dec. 23. Nicholas Pentz, the suspected ringleader of the crew, was arrested on various charges in June, as Daily Voice reported. Investigat…
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Beth Capaldi's Husband Charged With Homicide, Details In Grisly Murder Released: DA
The husband of missing Sellersville woman Elizabeth Capaldi is now charged with her murder, Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said in a press conference Thursday, Dec. 15. Stephen Capaldi is charged with strangling his wife to death in their bedroom and dismembering her body the following day in their home, the DA told reporters. He disposed of her remains across greater Philadelphia, including in a Montgomery County dumpster and a riverbank in Delaware County, officials believe. As Daily Voice has reported, Elizabeth Capaldi was reported missing by he…
Obituaries
Pair Killed In Suburban Philadelphia Bar Shooting Were Childhood Friends
Two men killed in a shooting at a bar in Suburban Philadelphia have been identified by loved ones as close childhood friends. Steve Panebianco and Ray Ferrell were gunned down around 11:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 7 in the parking lot of Steam Pub on Second Street Pike in Upper Southhampton, CBS Philly reports. A third individual was wounded. An outpouring of condolences have been posted over social media, remembering the two "brothers" after their tragic passing. Panebianco and Ferrell were tragically gunned down while on a lighthearted night out, and are being remembered as "some of the best d…
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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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Gunman Convicted In Bucks County Shooting: DA
A 22-year-old gunman was convicted Wednesday, May 11 of shooting at a group of people that included a 4-year-old child in 2019, authorities in Bucks County said. Sysco Schruby, of Bristol, was found guilty of multiple counts of aggravated assault, carrying a firearm without a license, possession of an instrument of crime, and recklessly endangering another person in the shooting, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said. Schruby intended to shoot 28-year-old William Flemming, when he fired off several rounds at Flemming's 4-year-old child and three others who were standing…
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Charges Upgraded For PA Mom Who Shot Young Sons: DA
UPDATE: 'PA Mom Went To NJ For Heroin After Young Sons' Planned Murders: DA' Charges have been upgraded for 38-year-old Pennsylvania mom Trinh Nguyen who shot her 9-and 13-year-old sons last week, authorities said. Nguyen was newly charged with first-degree murder on Monday, May 9, in the Monday, May 2 shooting, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Jeffrey, who went by "JT" and Nelson Tini died on Friday, May 6, less than a week after being shot in the head by their mother while in bed at their Timber Ridge Road home in Upper Makefield, authorities said. JT was a…
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'He Killed My Husband:' Mom Tells Police Son Stabbed Dad To Death Inside Philly Area Home
A 22-year-old man was being held without bail Friday, April 29 for stabbing his dad to death inside a suburban Philadelphia home, authorities said. Jordan M. Kurman was charged with murder and possession of an instrument of crime in the stabbing death of Gregory A. Kurman, 49, who was pronounced dead inside his home on David Drive in Newtown Township around 4:55 a.m., according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Kurman was found on the living room floor with a deep laceration to his throat and a pool of blood under his head and around his neck, police said. Officers also n…
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PA Rapist Who Abused Little Boys For Years Gets Prison Time: DA
A 28-year-old Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 19 to 40 years in state prison on Wednesday, April 6, for the repeated rapes of two boys in Bucks County, authorities said. Rosalio Suchite, of Warrington, pleaded guilty on Aug. 27, 2021, to two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of a child, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Suchite was charged in November 2020 following an investigation by the Warrington Township Police Department, which discovered that he sexually abused the boys, ages 7 and 9, at his home on the 2200 block of Pileggi Road for at least three ye…
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Philly Man Killed In Bucks By Ex-GF, Son After Threatening To Tell Husband About Affair: DA
A 52-year-old Philadelphia father to nine children was gunned down by his ex-girlfriend and her son after apparently threatening to tell the woman's estranged husband of their affair in December 2020, authorities in Bucks County announced over the weekend. Christopher M. Wilson was shot outside of his workplace, a recycling facility in Middletown Township, on Dec. 10, 2020, according to a Grand Jury presentment. His ex-girlfriend, Joyce Brown-Rodriguez, 55, and her son, Kahlill Saleem Brown, 33 — both of Philadelphia — were charged with murder and related offenses, the Bucks Coun…
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: Police Capture Man Wanted In Murder Of Bristol Township Stepfather
UPDATE: Police have captured a Bucks County man wanted as a person of interest in the murder of his stepfather, authorities said. Brian Joseph Carey, 41, was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 16 in Trumbauersville Borough by state police troopers on charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said. He was being held at Bucks County Correctional Facility in lieu of 10 percent of $750,000 bail. Carey was believed to be driving the silver 2006 Chevy Trailblazer owned by his stepfather, who was found dead inside a Bri…
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Couple Gets Prison Time For Violent Suburban Philly Carjackings
A couple was sentenced on Monday for two violent carjackings and an attempted carjacking in Bucks County last year, which resulted in two people being hospitalized, authorities said. Eric Meehan, 29, and Ashley Young, 32, both pleaded guilty on Oct. 12 to two counts each of robbery of a motor vehicle and aggravated assault and one count each of criminal conspiracy to commit robbery of a motor vehicle and attempt to commit robbery of a motor vehicle, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Meehan also pleaded guilty to three counts of terroristic threats and one count of fl…
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Philly Man Sentenced In Bucks Basketball Park Shooting
A 26-year-old Philadelphia man was sentenced to 17 to 34 years in Pennsylvania State Prison for a shooting at a Bucks County basketball park in 2019. Taariq Alfons Norris pleaded guilty last August to attempted murder, aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, persons not to possess a firearm, possession of a firearm without a license, and possession of an instrument of crime, DA Matthew Weintraub said. He entered the guilty plea midway through his jury trial. Common Pleas Judge C. Theodore Fritsch sentenced Norris to 17 to 34 years on the attempted murder charge No…
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Drunken, Speeding Driver Sentenced In I-95 Crash That Killed 2 In PA
A 38-year-old DUI driver was sentenced Friday to 19 ½ to 39 years in state prison for his role in a high-speed crash that killed two people and seriously injured two others on I-95 nearly two years ago, authorities said. Kevin R. Peters was convicted by a Bucks County jury last month of two counts each of third-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, homicide by vehicle while DUI, aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI, and related charges. Peters was driving a Mazda CX-5 more than 100 miles per hour when he rear-ended a minivan around 1 a.m. on Dec. 6, 2019, in the southbound lane o…
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