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Police ID Armed Carjackers Who Stole Vehicle With Infant In Upper Darby: 'Armed And Dangerous'
Police have identified two suspects at large following an armed carjacking in which a vehicle was taken with an infant inside in Upper Darby Friday afternoon, Aug. 30. Phillis Fugah, 23, from Upper Darby, and Ian Dean, 21, of Philadelphia, approached a man waiting for his wife on West Chester Pike around 3:10 p.m., UDPD Superintendent Timothy M. Bernhardt said. "During a struggle, the suspects managed to take the vehicle, unaware that a 2-month-old child was still inside," Bernhardt said. As the suspect fled west on West Chester Pike, they realized police were pursuing them and abando…
Police & Fire
PA Driver Charged In Pursuit That Left Motorcyclist Dead In NJ
A 32-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged after a police pursuit led to the death of a motorcyclist, a Vietnam War veteran, in Warren County on Tuesday, Aug. 13, authorities said. At 10:19 a.m., a New Jersey State Trooper began following an SUV on Route 80 eastbound and initiated a traffic stop, the Warren County Prosecutor's Office said. The driver of the SUV, Sean Mamakas, a Kempton, PA resident, continued traveling eastbound, exiting the interstate at Exit 12 and headed toward County Road 521 southbound in Hope Township, authorities said. The SUV then collided with the…
Police & Fire
Driver Killed After 10-Mile Pursuit With PSP Identified By Coroner
Officials have released the 19-year-old man killed in a pursuit that ended in a crash with Pennsylvania State Troopers Thursday, June 6. Troopers were attempting to stop Matthew Stepp, of Lehighton, in a 2008 GMC Sierra 1500 for code violations around 6:24 p.m. Thursday, Trooper Anthony Petroski III said. Stepp failed to stop, though, initiating a 10-mile pursuit, during which Stepp "committed numerous vehicle code violations," Petroski said. He ultimately lost control, left the roadway and struck a tree near Hazelwood Road and Laural Lane, Towamensing Township, according to Petr…
Police & Fire
Police Chase In Carbon County Ends In Crash: State Police
A police pursuit through Carbon County ended with a wreck that sent a 20-year-old driver to the hospital on Thursday, June 6, according to troopers. State police said they tried to stop the driver on Route 248 in Franklin Township around 6:30 p.m. He fled for 10 miles before losing control of his car and striking a tree in Towamensing Township, authorities said. The driver, a Lehighton resident, was air-lifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest with serious injuries. State police said the investigation is ongoing.
Police & Fire
PA Man Wanted For Car Theft Caught After Pursuit In NJ: Police
A 31-year-old New Jersey man wanted out of Pennsylvania was arrested after he was found with a stolen car and then led officers on a foot pursuit over the weekend, police said. Robert Hollingsworth, who was charged in Easton, PA with car theft last year, became the center of an investigation in Fairfield (Essex County), NJ, on Saturday, March 30, when police were notified of a stolen green Kia Soul stolen out of Passaic three days prior, Fairfield police said in a release. Police found the Kia at a BP gas station on Route 46 east, parked, running, and unoccupied around 1 p.m., officers said…
Police & Fire
Johnathan Pacheco Arrested After Cop Chase: Allentown PD
A police pursuit in Allentown on Wednesday, March 13 ended in two accidents and an arrest, city police said in a release. Johnathan Pacheco, 32, is charged with multiple offenses including criminal trespassing, fleeing police, and assault, authorities said. Officers were called to the 800 block of Greenleaf Street around 10:30 a.m. for a suspicious vehicle, authorities said. Pacheco fled when they arrived and police gave chase, according to the release. Authorities said Pacheco crashed into a police vehicle and then struck a bystander's car. He was arrested after fleeing …
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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…
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Cop Chase Led To Phillipsburg School Bus Crash
The driver of the car that rammed into a Phillipsburg school bus on Route 22 Tuesday afternoon was fleeing authorities in two states, WFMZ reports. A bus transporting first- and second-graders from Phillipsburg Primary School was struck by a vehicle shortly after dismissal on Dec. 12, Daily Voice reported. Superintendent Gregory Troxell has said that some of the 22 students onboard received minor injuries. The driver of the other vehicle had been the subject of a police pursuit that began in Lopatcong, WFMZ reported, citing the Warren County Prosecutor's Office. Authoritie…
Police & Fire
Teen Leads Police On 'High-Speed' Chase Through Poconos, Police Say
A 17-year-old Monroe County boy was arrested after leading state and local police on a high-speed chase through the Poconos region last week, authorities claim in a release. It happened on Monday, April 24, Pocono Township police wrote. Officers patrolling on Route 611 spotted a white BMW with its headlights off and tried to initiate a stop, but the driver fled the scene, the department said. Officers lost sight of the BMW but later flagged it down at a nearby Sheetz, they said. The driver fled again, leading township police, Pocono Mountain Regional police, and state troopers o…
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Naked Florida Man With Dead Deer In School Bus Leads PA Police On Chase
The day before Tony Jay Saunders Jr. turned 25, he led Pennsylvania state police on a chase, crashed a BMW, killed a deer, stole a school bus— putting the deer inside to "use as fertilizer"— led police on a chase, fled from the school bus— stripped naked— led police on a foot chase, was arrested and admitted to it all with a smile on his face, according to a police release. Saunders of Port Saint Lucie, Florida has no known current address in Pennsylvania, yet when he was arrested he told the police that he had taken the bus after crashing the the BMW, apparently into the deer, in the e…
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Escaped Horses Lead Police In 'Slow Pursuit' In Bucks County
Two horses who escaped from their home lead authorities in Bucks County on a low-speed chase on Tuesday, March 29. In videos uploaded to Facebook, police officers are seen following the fugitive pair as they trot leisurely along Main Street in Hulmeville Borough. Penndel Police assisted Hulmeville Boro Police Department with the slow pursuit of two horses down Main Street today.... Posted by Penndel Borough Police Department on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 Penndel and Hulmeville police departments were able to contact the horses' owners, and the pair were safely returned home after being …
Police & Fire
Remains Found Near Where Lyft Driver Went Missing In Florida: Report
Human remains have been found near the last known location of Gary Levin, a missing Lyft driver with Pennsylvania roots — and his loved ones are waiting to find out if they are his, various news reports say. Meanwhile, Matthew Flores, 35 — a fugitive who had been wanted in a January murder case — was captured in North Carolina following a police pursuit Feb. 3 in Levin's red Kia Stinger, the Associated Press reported. Levin, a 74-year-old ride service driver and Philly area native, was last heard from on Monday, Jan. 30 while driving fares around the Palm Beach Gardens area, his daughter Li…
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King Of Prussia Mall Cop Shooter Had Ghost Gun: DA
A 27-year-old Philadelphia man has been charged with attempted murder after a brief police pursuit that ended in a shootout with the officer at the King of Prussia Mall over the weekend, authorities said. Andrew Wiley was later identified as the suspect wanted for a hit-and-run at the Upper Merion mall on Sunday, Dec. 18 around 2:30 p.m., Montgomery County Prosecutor Kevin Steele said. An Upper Merion bike officer responded to the scene where the suspect vehicle, a red Nissan Juke, fled the parking deck and tried to leave the mall near the Season 52, where the vehicle became stuck in t…
Police & Fire
Pursuit-Crash On Route 422 Injures 2 State Troopers: Report
Two Pennsylvania State Troopers were seriously hurt in a pursuit that ended in a crash on Route 422 overnight, according to CBS News. The troopers were trying to stop a U-Haul box truck wanted in recent thefts when they initiated a stopping maneuver that caused a crash between the box truck, troop car and a dump truck around 3 a.m. on the westbound side in Limerick, the outlet said. The troopers were taken to Paoli Hospital while the suspects tried to flee. Click here for more from CBS News.
Business
5 Maryland Thieves Crash Into Tractor-Trailer During Chase On I-83 In PA: Police
What started as a retail theft of perfume quickly escalated to a police pursuit on an interstate in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, September 7, authorities say. Teona James, 25, Tymera James, 20, Destiny Thomas, 22, Joseph Wright, 31, and a 16-year-old teenage girl, were all involved in chase which began at the Ultra Beauty in Lower Paxton Township around 7 p.m., according to area police. The police were dispatched to a report that two women "had just stolen a large amount of fragrances and other merchandise" from the store located at 5112 Jonestown Road, police say. The women fled from …
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'I Hangout In Dumpsters All The Time,' Says MD Ex-Con Nabbed For PA Target Theft: Police
Marlo Harvard Jr. is no “Harvard man." The Baltimore native fled from police after allegedly repeating a crime he previously was convicted of less than two years after he was released, according to police and court records. Harvard Jr. came to the attention of police in York County, Pennsylvania falling multiple Walmart thefts, according to court documents. The first indecent of $325 of stolen items in West Manchester Township happened in Jan. 2016, but it appears to have only come to light following a bizarre retail theft at a different Walmart on Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, according to…
Police & Fire
Horrifying New Details Released In Holiday Weekend Double PA Murder
More details have been released in the Memorial Day Weekend double murder in Chester County. Mamadou Kallie, 23, took his 22-month-old child out of the Toyota Corolla after killing the boy's mother and a woman who was five months pregnant Sunday, May 29, Coatesville, Chester County DA Deb Ryan said. Kallie gave the baby to relatives then carjacked someone he knew before leading police on a pursuit in a bloodied shirt just before 11 p.m. He was found holding a gun to his head before being arrested in Valley Township, and later charged with murder in the deaths of Tiara Rodrigu…
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Detectives Nab Bronx Pair In Violent Bergen County Carjackings
A pair of violent Bergen County carjackings – one that produced a 110 mph pursuit and another that left a driver wounded – both involved a Bronx man who’s now in custody, authorities said. Authorities have moved to extradite Dariel Perez-Grullon and an accused associate, Luis Guzman-Encarnacion, both 22, to New Jersey to face charges. The first incident literally began and ended in minutes after a 31-year-old livery driver had his Lexus E350 taken by gunpoint outside a home on Pascack Road in Washington Township shortly before 1 a.m. March 23. Paramus police spotted the vehicle soon after …
Police & Fire
Shooting-Pursuit Injures PA State Trooper On I-76
Details have been released in a shooting-pursuit on Interstate 76 in Lancaster County that hospitalized a Pennsylvania State Trooper on Friday, April 15. Two troopers pulled over two SUVs, one black and one white, around 11:35 p.m. near mile maker 273.2 east in Elizabeth Township, Trooper Kevin Kochka said. One SUV pulled over onto the shoulder and the other one directly behind the trooper's vehicle in the right lane of travel. At that time, one trooper approached the black SUV, which was stopped directly behind their patrol vehicle and the other trooper approached the white SUV. …
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NJ Dad Who Ran After Stolen Car With Son Inside Recounts The Horror, Hopes Others Take Note
A Bergen County dad whose car was stolen with his 11-year-old son still in the back seat said he desperately chased the speeding vehicle on foot terrified by the thought that he'd never see his boy again. Then came a moment of what he suspects was divine intervention. Now Daniel Reiser hopes others can learn from his ordeal. The youngster was "wet and frozen" from a morning soccer game when they pulled into the parking lot of the Chase Bank on County Road near Central Avenue in Tenafly around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 2, Reiser said. "I went into the ATM vestibule just a few feet in…
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DUI Driver Missing Tire Led 100+ MPH Police Pursuit In Central PA: Authorities
A 31-year-old driver had been drinking when he led police on a 100 mph pursuit, but was tracked down by police who followed the scrape marks from the rim of his car that had lost a tire, they said. A man later identified as Kenneth Pohlit was spotted stumbling around near Grandview Drive and Golf Course Road around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 19, Carroll Township police said. Pohlit's vehicle was spotted at the American Legion on Route 15 South. When officers arrived, Pohlit was standing outside of his car with the trunk and passenger side door open, police said. As o…
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: Clifton Driver, 18, Shot In Head After Aiming Jeep At Officer During Bronx Stop
An 18-year-old Clifton man was clinging to life after he was shot in the head while driving his Jeep at a New York City police officer following a pursuit in the Bronx, authorities said. Luis Manuel-Monsanto had blown several lights on Boston Road when officers in separate unmarked cars pulled him over at East 165th Street around 8 p.m. Sunday, March 6, Chief of Department Kenneth Corey said. Three passengers, including the Jeep's owner, were in the vehicle with him, authorities said. "The officers drove ahead of the vehicle and angled their unmarked police car with the warning lights in f…
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Police Pursuit Of Stolen Car In Pennsylvania Ends With Crash In Maryland: Reports
A suspect is in a Baltimore hospital following a crash that ended a police pursuit that started in Pennsylvania, according to multiple media outlets citing Pennsylvania state police. A Pennsylvania trooper spotted a stolen car driving southbound on Interstate 83 near the Loganville exit in York County around 7 a.m. on Monday, abc27 reports citing police. At one point the car was going at speeds over 70 mph, WBAL reports citing police. When the driver failed to follow police commands, the chase crossed state lines into Baltimore County, Maryland– only ending when the stolen car crashed a…
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Four Pennsylvania State Troopers Hospitalized After Pursuit on Route 30
UPDATE: Two of the troopers were released from the hospital on Tuesday morning, according to Trooper Megan Ammerman. Two Troopers were released from the hospital this morning. We are continuing to pray for a speedy recovery of all members involved 🙏 — Trooper Megan Ammerman (@PSPTroopHPIO) February 22, 2022 ORIGINAL: Four troopers were hospitalized following a crash during a police pursuit along Route 30 on Monday, according to a release by Pennsylvania state police. State police attempted to stop a vehicle in the Chambersburg Borough after observing several traffic violations on Mond…
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Aerial Video Tracks Carjacker's Philly Pursuit, Arrest After Stealing Car During NJ Test Drive
Aerial footage captured by NBC10 shows a man in a carjacked SUV leading a police pursuit through Philadelphia, after stealing a vehicle during a test drive in New Jersey. Trouble began last Thursday when the 41-year-old suspect is believed to have forced a car salesman out of a 2022 Kia Sorento during the test drive in Cherry Hill, police said during a press conference. The stolen car was spotted speeding through a North Philadelphia neighborhood on Monday night. The suspect had threatened to shoot if the salesperson did not get out of the car, and fled from police on the 1800 blo…
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Seven Youths Nabbed In Series Of Clifton Car Thefts, Multi-County Pursuit, Crash
A Clifton police officer dove into a moving car after the teenager who stole it bailed out during one in a series of incidents involving out-of-town car thieves -- one of whom is only 14. Six of them were captured following a pursuit and crash involving another stolen vehicle and a Clifton police car later that day, Lt. Robert Bracken said. Officers interrupted the theft of a 2017 Mazda on Chittendon Road around 3 a.m. Monday, Bracken said. The thief hopped out of the car while it was still moving, forcing an officer to dive in to keep it from damaging nearby property, he said. The teen a…
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! Car Thieves Elude NJ Owner, Crash High-Priced Bentley
Two thieves crashed a luxury SUV worth upwards of $250,000 shortly after stealing it from a Wayne residence, authorities said. The owner called police from another vehicle while chasing the bandits who snatched the 2021 Bentley Bentayga from Massola Drive shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. The owner lost sight of the vehicle after it turned onto Hamburg Turnpike off Berdan Avenue but gave a dispatcher enough information to point police in the right direction, Daly said. Officer William Hall began pursuing the vehicle on Alps Road a short time later, he said. Tra…
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PA Mom Tried Covering For Daughter Who Led Police Pursuit, Authorities Say
A Pennsylvania mom took the blame for her daughter who led a brief police pursuit to avoid having her arrested, authorities said. A Susquehanna police officer tried stopping a vehicle when the driver lost control of the vehicle while fleeing, and then took off running on foot around 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 25, local authorities said. The driver was not immediately located, but her mom was identified as Tammy Jones and claimed to have been driving the vehicle "to avoid having her daughter arrested," police said. Jones was arrested and charged with hindering apprehension, authorities said.
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State Police Pursuit Ends In 4-Vehicle Crash In Whitehall
What began as a state police pursuit in Lehigh County Tuesday night ended in a four-vehicle crash that injured three people, WFMZ reports. A trooper tried to pull over two cars at Airport Road and Race Street in Hanover Township sometime around 7 p.m., the outlet says citing Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Nathan Branosky. A chase ensued, but it came to an end when the two cars collided with two other vehicles at the intersection of Routes 145 and 329 in Whitehall, according to WFMZ. The drivers were taken to area hospitals with unspecified injuries, the news outlet says. Click her…
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NY Man Who Raped, Threatened Woman With Screwdriver Sentenced In Pennsylvania
A New York man guilt of rape has been sentence to serve more than a decade in a Pennsylvania Correctional Institution, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office. Walter Dolder, 37, of Milton, New York, will serve up to 27 years for rape and assault among other charges. Dolder will also have to register as sex offender for the rest of his life. The charges stem from an incident in Mount Joy in July 2020. Police were dispatched to a residence in Mount Joy for a domestic in progress. Upon arrival, the victim came out of the residence and told police Dolder had been in th…
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Levittown Shooting Suspect Shot Dead After Chase Ends In Philadelphia
A Levittown shooting suspect was shot dead following a police pursuit that ended in Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon, reports say. Terrance Andre Bey, 29, is accused of shooting a man who was attempting to help the victim of a domestic assault at the Racquet Club Apartments on Veterans Highway in Middletown Township, around 2:40 p.m., according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. A 9-1-1 caller told emergency dispatchers that a 28-year-old woman, who lived in the apartment complex, was involved in a domestic assault with her boyfriend, later identified as Bey, of …
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