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PA Middle School Teacher Sends Students Nudes, Has Sex With Teen: Affidavit
A coach and teacher in the Central Dauphin School district has been charged and arrested in connection with multiple sex crimes with multiple students, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Alexander Jeffery Sweigard, 32, of Camp Hill, is a coach with the Central Dauphin Wrestling Program and a teacher at Central Dauphin Middle School, where he was once a student, according to public records. He is accused of exchanging nude images with teens and having sex with a high school student. Nude photos of Sweigard on a 16-year-old girl's phone prompted an interview…
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GF Burned On 23% Of Body Boiling Water, BF Convicted: Dauphin County DA
A 41-year-old Harrisburg man was convicted after he learned his girlfriend was leaving him so he poured boiling water over her while she was falling asleep, the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office announced Monday, Aug. 26. Wisly Oxcena was found guilty of aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person follow a trial before Judge William T. Tully, according to the DA and court documents. During the trial, Oxcena's now ex-girlfriend testified that she had told him she was leaving him in the morning and then went to bed on June 5, 2019. While she was falling as…
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Guilty
! Pennsylvania Kidnapper Bit, Pulled Hair Out Of Woman's Head
A Middletown man has been found guilty in a bizarre kidnapping case, the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office announced on Wednesday, Aug. 21. Bryan Edwin Perry, Jr., 37, was convicted of kidnapping, aggravated assault, intimidation of a witness, strangulation, and other charges on August 14, according to the DA's release. The conviction comes following a three-day trial. On Sept. 2, 2023, Perry took a Harrisburg woman hostage from a home in the 2200 block of Logan Street in Harrisburg "for three hours while he drove her to secluded spots," as stated in the release, ad…
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Fellow Inmate Charged In Dad's Death In Dauphin County Prison
The cause of death of a Pennsylvania father and inmate has been revealed and new charges have been filed, the Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo announced on Tuesday. Michael Howard Butler II, 37 of Gratz, died following a "medical emergency" in his bunk in the Dauphin County Prison at 10:22 p.m. on Jan. 17, 2024, as Daily Voice previously reported. It is now known that the emergency was caused by a fentanyl overdose from what Richard Leonard Weikel thought was heroin which he had smuggled into the prison in his shoe, the DA explained in the release on March 26.&n…
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Ex-Police Officer In Two PA Boroughs Took $98K, Stole Guns From Evidence Locker: Authorities
A central Pennsylvania former police officer has been charged for thefts he committed on the job, authorities say. 48-year-old Christopher John Still formerly of the Marysville and Halifax boroughs of police is accused of submitting for hours he never worked while employed with the Halifax Borough from 2019 and 2022— resulting in a theft of $98,754.50, according to a release by the Dauphin County district attorney's office on Dec. 1. Additionally, he is accused of taking three guns from the evidence locker— two of which were sold to Reeser’s Gun Shop for $500, according…
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PA School Janitor Uses Jets Fan Snapchat To Tell Undercover Cop He Had Sex With Child: DA
A central Pennsylvania school janitor chatted online to an undercover police officer about his sexual exploits with an 11-year-old, authorities announced on Thursday, Oct. 6. Zachary Payton Hart, 19, of Lykens, shamed Jets fans by using his "onlyjets" Snapchat account to send a picture of his penis to a 13-year-old girl, on June 4, 2022, according to a criminal complaint. But he wasn't going to get away with it as her sibling was friends with a police officer, according to the criminal complaint and statement released by the Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo. The poli…
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10 Teens Charged For 'Sexual Hazing' At Central PA High School: DA
A month-long investigation into allegations of hazing on a high school football team has led to charges against 10 teenagers, according to the Dauphin County District attorney's office. The Middletown Area school district began investigating a hazing that happened on August 11, 2022—after a cellphone video film by high school football players was shared on social media. The high school's football team's season was canceled after a second video surfaced on Wednesday, August 24. Both videos show incidents of hazing happening in the "high school turf room for heat acclimation pract…
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6-Year-Old Girl Raped 'On At Least Two Occasions,' Pennsylvania State Police Say
29-year-old man raped a 6-year-old girl at least two times, Pennsylvania state police allege. Cody Alan Jones of Williamstown was accused by the girl of sexual abuse, and "investigative efforts were undertaken which revealed that Jones sexually assaulted the victim on at least two occasions from July to August 2022," state police say. The Dauphin County district attorney’s office and the state police's Child Abuse Protective Unit approved the following 14 criminal charges against Jones: nine felonies for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent ass…
Police & Fire
PA Woman Convicted Of Brother's Christmas Eve Murder
A Dauphin County jury has convicted a 28-year-old woman of third-degree murder in her brother's Christmas Eve murder in 2020. Nafiisah McNeill initially tried to claim she stabbed Leon White-Jones dead in self-defense, in front of her sister's home on the 2400 block of North 4th Street in Harrisburg in 2020, Dauphin County District Attorney's Office. The jury rejected McNeill's claim, though. After the stabbing, McNeill fled and tried ti dispose of the knife, then went into her sister's home while the police were at the scene, the DA's office said. Chief Deputy District Attorney …
Police & Fire
PA Hospital Attempted Rapist Who Attacked Nurses While 'Dreaming' Gets Prison Time: DA
A Pennsylvania man who claimed to have woken up from a dream and been in a "blackout" when he attacked three nurses has been sentenced to up to 35 years in Pennsylvania state prison, authorities said. Christian Bonnette, 37, of Harrisburg, was convicted of attempted rape and three counts of aggravated assault for the Aug. 20, 2018, attack, according to the Dauphin County district attorney's office. Bonnette was at the hospital awaiting surgery on a broken jaw he sustained during a fight, the DA says. Bonnette lured a nurse into his room at the Hershey Medical Center and immediately be…
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Veteran Police Officer Caused Deadly I-81 Crash, State Police Say
A 20-year veteran of a local police force in Pennsylvania caused a deadly crash along Interstate 81 on Monday, Apr. 11, authorities say. The crash happened on I-81 southbound at mile marker 65.5, Susquehanna Township around 9 a.m., according to a release by Pennsylvania state police. A 2007 Nissan Diesel driven by Syla James Pope was disabled on the side of the road and a road service technician Jeffery Hanwell came to assist him in a 2012 Ford F350, the release shows. A 2019 Dodge Ram 1500 driven by Keith William Morris went over the fog line hitting the Nissan in the rear propelling all …
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Ex-Harrisburg Councilwoman's Family Torn Apart By Gunman Released After Violating PFA
Two 6 and 7-year-old sisters are orphaned after their uncle shot and killed their parents and critically injured their aunt at their grandmother's Harrisburg home earlier this week, shortly after being freed from prison for child molestation and sexual assault. Meredith Greene and Tyler Thames were shot and killed by Gregory Gerrod Greene Jr. at the home of Greene's mother, former City Councilwoman Sandra Reid, around 7 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, police said. Greene— who was released from prison for raping a child in 2016 after serving four years— also stabbed his young nieces during the a…
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PA Child Molester Killed 2 People, Stabbed Nieces, Before Chase Ending In Bus Crash: Police
"Uncle stabbed us." That's what two young children told police at the scene of a fatal shooting on Wednesday, according to the criminal complaint. A central Pennsylvania man has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting and stabbing that occurred at a home prior to a chase, and that ended with a crash into a school bus in Londonderry Township, authorities say. Gregory Gerrod Greene Jr.Dauphin County district attorney's office Gregory Gerrod Greene Jr., 31, of no fixed address, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder followi…
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Man Who Attempted To Run Down Six PA State Troopers Found Dead In Prison: Authorities
A man who was being held in lieu of bail-- for attempting to run down six Pennsylvania state police troopers-- was found dead in prison, authorities say. Jamal Kimani Crummel, 46, of Harrisburg, was found dead in the Dauphin County prison hospital minutes after nurses checked on him Monday around 9:30 a.m., Dauphin County officials say. A corrections officer and medical staff performed CPR and used an AED, prior to the arrival of EMS crews at the prison, authorities say. Crummel was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m., officials report citing the county coroner. He had been in the prison …
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PA Mom Of 4 Killed By Man Wanted For Violating Protection Order
A mother of four young children was a victim of domestic abuse, who shot and killed by the husband she had a protection order against, according to a release by the Dauphin County district attorney's office. Kyra Lee Macon Haley, 24, of Harrisburg, was found shot dead inside the home of her estranged husband Dallas Haley located at 2965 Rumson Drive in the City of Harrisburg on Oct. 20, 2020, at approximately 1:40 a.m., according to the district attorney. When police arrived, they found Kyra Haley on the floor, unresponsive and bleeding from a gunshot wound to her left shoulder area. Ther…
Police & Fire
2 Charged In Central PA Boy's Fentanyl OD Death, Police Say
A 48-year-old Harrisburg man has been charged with providing the drugs that a 14-year-old boy overdosed and died using at a Central Pennsylvania hotel, according to local police and PennLive. Susquehannah police responded to Red Roof Inn on Corporate Circle on reports of the juvenile's suspicious death around 12:30 a.m. Oct. 29, authorities said. Court records obtained by PennLive say the boy was identified only as H.B., and had purchased fentanyl for Cheyenne McGuinness, 23. She apparently allowed H.B. to be with her in the hotel when he used the fentanyl, overdosed and died, the outlet s…
Police & Fire
Central PA Woman Killed In Jeep Accident 'Changed The World'
She changed the world. She was an exemplary public servant. She was the best motivator. These are just a few of the ways that Kathy Teopfer Possinger was being remembered. The 44-year-old Harrisburg resident was identified by PennLive as the woman killed after being pinned between her own Jeep and her house. She and two men were using her Jeep Wrangler to remove a large shrub from the front of her home on the 300 block of Hamilton Street in Harrisburg Friday, PennLive previously reported citing Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo. Chardo said the incident was "clearly accidenta…
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Dating App Nightmare Becomes Reality For Woman Raped By PA Man, Jury Says
A woman's worst nightmare became reality when a man she met on a dating app made unwanted advances and then raped her, authorities in Pennsylvania say. Thomas Wilton, 57, of Landisville, Lancaster County, was convicted for his crimes by a jury in Dauphin County on Tuesday. Wilton and the woman he met on Zoosk, a dating app, and texted for several weeks before meeting for dinner at the Arooga’s in Hummelstown on Oct. 7, 2019, according to a statement released by the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office After the date, the pair walked to the 41-year-old woman's car together because it w…
Police & Fire
Ex-Con Trucker Who Sexually Assaulted NJ Woman After PA Crash Gets 20 Years
A 41-year-old North Carolina truck driver who sexually assaulted a New Jersey woman cleaning out her car moments after a Pennsylvania crash was sentenced to up 20 years in prison, authorities said. Demetrice Herron approached the woman getting items out of her disabled car in a remote lot behind a garage after the crash on Oct. 19, 2018, the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office said. After making small talk, Herron pushed the woman into the wrecked car and sexually assaulted her, authorities said. The victim returned to New Jersey where she obtained medical treatment resulting in …
Police & Fire
Boy, 7, Drowns In Central PA Hotel Pool
A 7-year-old boy has drowned at a central Pennsylvania hotel, according to police. Crews were called to the Red Lion Hotel at 4751 Lindle Road for a reported drowning on Wednesday shortly before 10 p.m. When emergency crews arrived, they found an unconscious boy who had already been removed from the pool. Life saving efforts were initiated by the rescuers prior to the crews arrival. Police, Fire and EMS responders provided additional emergency care to the child who later died at the Penn State Hershey University Hospital. The Swatara Township Police, Dauphin County Coroner's Offi…
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New Details Released In PA Murder-Suicide That Left 3 Kids Without Their Mom
A Pennsylvania man who shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself in front of the couple's infant daughter apparently had a long history of domestic violence, a news report says. Elizabeth Wise of Swatara earlier this year reported being punched in the ribs and abdomen earlier this year by her husband, Brian Womelsdorf, but wanted to make the relationship work, PennLive reports. Court-ordered counseling and anger management classes, she thought, would help, the outlet says. But early Saturday morning, Wise was shot multiple times by her husband after calling 9-1-1 reporting only her …
Police & Fire
Lawsuit
: Wife Of Dauphin County Inmate Who Died Of Suicide Suing Prison
The wife of a former inmate of the Dauphin County Prison who alleged that her husband had hired a hit man to kill her is suing the prison for her husband's suicide while in their custody. Linda Macauley on Monday filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Middle District Court in Harrisburg against the prisons, seeking more than $150,000 in damages. Macauley claims her husband was supposed to be monitored every 15 minutes following threats of self-harm. On March 21, 2019, he had been left unattended for 29 minutes before he was declared deceased by the Dauphin County Coroner at 4:03 a.m. Ac…
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