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51 Cats, Dogs Rescued From Berks County Home, Owner Charged With Animal Cruelty 51 Cats, Dogs Rescued From Berks County Home, Owner Charged With Animal Cruelty
51 Cats, Dogs Rescued From Berks County Home, Owner Charged With Animal Cruelty A 50-year-old woman from Bern Township has been charged with animal cruelty after 51 cats and dogs were found at her home in poor condition, authorities said. Jennifer May Ayala was charged by Humane Police Officer R. Harnish from the Department of Animal Protection at the Animal Rescue League of Berks County. Ayala is charged with one felony count of Aggravated Cruelty to Animals – Causing Serious Bodily Injury, 51 misdemeanor counts of Cruelty to Animals, and 31 summary counts of Neglect of Animals. Harnish opened an investigation after receiving a tip about an owner refusing veteri…

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by Jon Craig
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Motorcyclist Dies After Allegedly Fleeing Police On PA Highway Motorcyclist Dies After Allegedly Fleeing Police On PA Highway
Motorcyclist Dies After Allegedly Fleeing Police On PA Highway A motorcyclist is dead after police say he fled from a traffic stop on Route 61 late on Tuesday, Aug. 8.  It began on Route 61 in Ontelaunee Township around 10:15 p.m., Northern Berks Regional Police said. Officers noticed "several" motorcyclists riding fast in the southbound lane and tried to pull them over, but they allegedly fled.  The bikers took off so quickly that police did not try to chase them, the department said.  A few minutes later, officers came across a crash scene at the intersection of Route 61 and Cross Keys Road, NBRPD said. One of the motorcyclists had co…

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by Mac Bullock
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Toddler's Killer Captured By US Marshals In Philadelphia: Cops Toddler's Killer Captured By US Marshals In Philadelphia: Cops
Toddler's Killer Captured By US Marshals In Philadelphia: Cops A man accused of killing a 2-year-old Berks County boy was arrested by US Marshals in Philadelphia early on Thursday, July 6, according to authorities.  Charles A. Acosta, 25, was taken into custody in Tacony, Marshals said.  Acosta was caring for the 2-year-old victim, the boy's younger brother, and his own daughter while his partner and her daughter went out to pick up laundry on the evening of May 4, the Berks County District Attorney's Office said. Acosta called his girlfriend and told her to return to their Bern Township home after the child became "swollen and lethargic" an…

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by Mac Bullock
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Man Found Guilty In Murder Of Berks County Air Force Veteran Man Found Guilty In Murder Of Berks County Air Force Veteran
Man Found Guilty In Murder Of Berks County Air Force Veteran A 29-year-old man was found guilty in the murder of a Berks County air force veteran, authorities said. Raphael E. Perez-Rodriguez, of Paterson, NJ, was convicted by a jury Thursday, April 20, of first-degree murder, burglary, robbery, and related charges in the killing of 76-year-old Dennis Fink, the Berks County DA's Office said. Perez-Rodriguez fatally stabbed Fink at his Bern Township home on July 17, 2020, prosecutors said. His sentencing is scheduled for Friday, April 22. Perez-Rodriguez had already been serving time for a 2020 incident in Reading in which he sho…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Berks County Nightclub Burglar Busted With Meth: Police Berks County Nightclub Burglar Busted With Meth: Police
Berks County Nightclub Burglar Busted With Meth: Police A burglar at a former Berks County nightclub was busted with meth, authorities announced. Police in Bern Township were called to the former Silo Nightclub in reference to a burglary in progress on Jan. 7, when they saw a running rental truck parked behind the building, authorities said. The responding officer could see footprints in the snow that showed someone had recently gone inside from this truck. The responding officer then encountered Joshua Gregg, of Blandon, who came out of the building before running into the BTPD officer. Gregg was detained while the officer conducted an investi…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Water Authority Worker, 38, Dies In Wyomissing Trench Collapse Water Authority Worker, 38, Dies In Wyomissing Trench Collapse
Water Authority Worker, 38, Dies In Wyomissing Trench Collapse Support is surging for the wife of a water authority worker killed in a Berks County trench collapse earlier this week. Western Berks Water Authority employee Cody Gipprich, 38, of Shillington, was doing routine work in a constructed pit with a colleague on Cambridge Avenue near Meadow Lane around 8:30 a.m. in Wyomissing on Wednesday, WFMZ reports. At some point, a pipe or valve failed, causing high-pressure water to shoot out on Gipprich, the outlet reports. Gipprich's coworkers and bystanders rushed to help him before crews pulled his body from the narrow pit, approximately 8 feet deep,…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Police: Chester County Auto Mechanic Recorded Female Co-Workers In Berks Dealership Bathroom Police: Chester County Auto Mechanic Recorded Female Co-Workers In Berks Dealership Bathroom
Police: Chester County Auto Mechanic Recorded Female Co-Workers In Berks Dealership Bathroom A former Berks County auto mechanic was charged after his female co-workers noticed they were being recorded in the dealership bathroom, WFMZ-TV 69 News reports. Jason Vander Duim, 37, of Phoenixville, Chester County, admitted to putting a camera in the women's bathroom at Volkswagen Reading in Bern Township, police told the news outlet. Duim threw the camera away after two victims realized what was happening, according to court documents obtained by the outlet. The camera that Durim used apparently was connected to a home surveillance app on his phone. He is now facing invasion of p…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Police: Planes Divert To Avoid Drunk PA Airport Trespasser Who Tried Making Snow Plow Getaway Police: Planes Divert To Avoid Drunk PA Airport Trespasser Who Tried Making Snow Plow Getaway
Police: Planes Divert To Avoid Drunk PA Airport Trespasser Who Tried Making Snow Plow Getaway Planes diverted at Reading Regional Airport earlier this week to avoid a drunken Lansdale man rolling in the grass, who then climbed an airport fence and hopped in a snow plow in an attempt to make a quick getaway, police said. Bern Township police responded to Route 183 near the airport around 2:20 p.m. on Dec. 15, where a man later identified as Norman J. Lee was rolling in grass and jumping in front of vehicles, authorities said in a press release. When he saw the police coming, Lee climbed over the 10-foot barbed wire-rimmed fence at near Millennium Aviation then broke into a red compan…

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by Cecilia Levine