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'I Want To Put A Bullet In Your Head' PA Man Gets Jail For Anti-Semitic, Islamophobic Rant 'I Want To Put A Bullet In Your Head' PA Man Gets Jail For Anti-Semitic, Islamophobic Rant
'I Want To Put A Bullet In Your Head' PA Man Gets Jail For Anti-Semitic, Islamophobic Rant A Philadelphia man was sentenced to 16 months in prison for making threatening antisemitic, Islamophobic rants over the phone, authorities said. Yaniv Gola, 51, was sentenced on Tuesday, Oct. 22 after being charged for making phone calls threatening to injure, rape, and kill eight different victims, the US Department of Justice said in a news release.  After serving the prison time, Gola will be placed under three years of supervised release, the Department of Justice said. The calls were made between Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022 and Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, according to the news release. Gola …

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by Merriell Moyer
Politics
Threats To 'Skin' Political Official Lands PA Man Federal Charges: Indictment Threats To 'Skin' Political Official Lands PA Man Federal Charges: Indictment
Threats To 'Skin' Political Official Lands PA Man Federal Charges: Indictment A 62-year-old man was charged with threatening to kill a representative of a Pennsylvania state political party, the US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday, Oct. 22. John Pollard sent threatening text messages to the political party official on Friday, Sept. 6, according to the USDOJ.  Pollard was indicted for the crime and arrested on Monday, Oct. 21, federal authorities said. The official with the unnamed state political party had previously posted online that they were recruiting volunteers to help observe at the polls on Election Day, according to the indictment. This …

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by Merriell Moyer
Schools
PA State Police Respond To Threats Across Mulitple School Districts PA State Police Respond To Threats Across Mulitple School Districts
PA State Police Respond To Threats Across Mulitple School Districts Threats have prompted Pennsylvania State Police to increase their presence in schools across multiple districts, PSP Troop M PIO Nathan Branosky told Daily Voice on Friday, Sept. 13. "We are increasing our presence at schools," Trooper Branosky told us.  The threats were directed towards Northwestern Lehigh School District and East Penn School District, he explained.  The previous day, threats in the Wissahickon School District led to an early dismissal and increased local police presence. No viable threats were found.  All of the school districts are working with police to…

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by Jon Craig
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Schuylkill County Man Threatened FBI Agents On Social Media: USDOJ Schuylkill County Man Threatened FBI Agents On Social Media: USDOJ
Schuylkill County Man Threatened FBI Agents On Social Media: Usdoj A 42-year-old Schuylkill County man used social media to threaten FBI agents, authorities said. Joshua Frisch, of Frackville, was sentenced on Aug. 7, to time served (six months) and three years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Julia K. Munley for one count of Influencing a Federal Official by Threat, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Frisch previously pleaded guilty to threatening federal law enforcement officers, namely FBI Agents, with the intent to interfere with those officers in the performance of their official duties, according to U.S. Attorney…

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by Jon Craig
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Foreign Citizen Who Threatened To Assassinate Joe Biden, Donald Trump Goes To Prison In PA Foreign Citizen Who Threatened To Assassinate Joe Biden, Donald Trump Goes To Prison In PA
Foreign Citizen Who Threatened To Assassinate Joe Biden, Donald Trump Goes To Prison In PA A Somalian man living in Pennsylvania threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, and now he's in a Pennsylvania Prison, according to a release by the US Department of Justice on March 15, 2024. Mohamed Farah, 34, who was living in Cumberland County, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson to three years’ imprisonment on Wednesday, March 13.  Following his release, the Court has also imposed a three-year term of probation.  "The indictment alleges that in January 2022, Farah, who is a citizen of Somalia, threatened to ass…

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by Jillian Pikora
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TV Show Gets Threats To Kill Florida Sheriff From Pennsylvania Man: Police TV Show Gets Threats To Kill Florida Sheriff From Pennsylvania Man: Police
TV Show Gets Threats To Kill Florida Sheriff From Pennsylvania Man: Police A Pennsylvania man will be extradited to Florida after threatening to kill a county sheriff in a message to a television show.  Jason E. Senseman, "admitted to sending several threatening and/or vulgar messages to [...] a social media account of the TV show 'On Patrol: Live'," the Volusia County Sheriffs in a release on Wednesday, Sept. 27.  The TV show contacted the VCS on Sunday, and detectives quickly reached the Pennsylvania State Police, "who were aware of the messages and also already familiar with Senseman."  He has a lengthy record in Pennsylvania crim…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Bucks High Schooler Threatened Teacher Over Bad Grade, Cops Say Bucks High Schooler Threatened Teacher Over Bad Grade, Cops Say
Bucks High Schooler Threatened Teacher Over Bad Grade, Cops Say A Bensalem High School student will face criminal charges after authorities claim she threatened her teacher.  Township police were called to the school, 4319 Hulmeville Road, to investigate reported threats on Wednesday, June 14, the department said in a release.  Officers worked with school district administrators and learned the student, 15, was "responsible for the threat because she was upset about her grade in class." The student had no access to weapons and the teacher was "not in any immediate danger," police noted.  The Bucks County District Attorney's Office i…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
SWAT STANDOFF: Drunken Man Barricades Himself In Philadelphia Basement With Gun (DEVELOPING) SWAT STANDOFF: Drunken Man Barricades Himself In Philadelphia Basement With Gun (DEVELOPING)
SWAT Standoff: Drunken Man Barricades Himself In Philadelphia Basement With Gun (Developing) A drunken man armed with a shotgun barricaded himself in the basement of a home brought a large police presence to the scene in Philadelphia Sunday, June 4. The man reportedly threatened an elderly woman around 4 p.m. on the 15100 block of Milford Street and then refused to come outside, city police said. A barricade was declared just after 4:05 p.m. after the victim was able to escape. The scene was active as of 4:40 p.m.

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by Cecilia Levine
Politics
Gun Pulled At GOP Meeting By Ex-Allegheny County Council Candidate: Affidavit Gun Pulled At GOP Meeting By Ex-Allegheny County Council Candidate: Affidavit
Gun Pulled At GOP Meeting By Ex-Allegheny County Council Candidate: Affidavit A 2021 candidate for the Allegheny County Council pulled a gun and threatened members of the Plum Borough GOP Committee, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Eric Philip Casteel, a 62-year-old Cyber Security Architect also threatened three members of the Republican Committee— Mike Doyle, former US Congress nominee and current Plum council president, Paul Dern, current council vice president and Gerard "Jerry" Purcell, who is running for Plum council— at the Plum Community Center on Center New Texas Road on Thursday, April 27, 2023, around 8 p.m., according to the affid…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Bensalem Student Charged For Sending 'Threatening Photo' To Classmates: Police Bensalem Student Charged For Sending 'Threatening Photo' To Classmates: Police
Bensalem Student Charged For Sending 'Threatening Photo' To Classmates: Police A Bensalem High School student will face criminal charges for allegedly sending classmates a picture of a firearm, which prompted a police presence at the school early on Tuesday, April 25.  Authorities were called to the school, 4319 Hulmeville Road, after administrators learned that a "photograph of a gun" was being shared "via cell phone," township police previously said.  Upon investigation, police learned that no gun was displayed or found on campus and determined there was "no active threat," the department said. Students were not dismissed, police noted, though au…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Northampton Patron Kicked From Bar Threatened To Kill Cop: Police Northampton Patron Kicked From Bar Threatened To Kill Cop: Police
Northampton Patron Kicked From Bar Threatened To Kill Cop: Police A man kicked out of a Northampton County business later threatened to kill the police who showed up at the scene, authorities allege.  Slate Belt regional officers were called to the American Legion post in Wind Gap Borough at about 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 19 for a reported "disturbance," the department wrote in a statement.  On arrival, police found 61-year-old Gregory L. Lutz of Saylorsburg. According to detectives, he threatened other patrons after being asked to leave the American Legion. When a Slate Belt officer tried to intervene, authorities said Lutz also threatened to …

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Man Threatens To Kill Slate Belt Officer After Getting Booted From American Legion: Authorities Man Threatens To Kill Slate Belt Officer After Getting Booted From American Legion: Authorities
Man Threatens To Kill Slate Belt Officer After Getting Booted From American Legion: Authorities A 61-year-old man threatened to kill police officers after being kicked out of an American Legion in Wind Gap, authorities said. Gregory L. Lutz first threatened patrons after getting the boot from the establishment around 7:35 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 19, Slate Belt police said. Lutz then threaten to kill the intervening officer, and continued using lewd language in the parking lot — threatening to "commit the crime of homicide of an officer," according to authorities. Lutz was arrested and taken to the Northampton County Central Booking Center, where he was arraigned before a Magisterial Dis…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Woman Allegedly Held Hostage For 24 Hours By Ex-Con With Charges In Six Pennsylvania Counties Woman Allegedly Held Hostage For 24 Hours By Ex-Con With Charges In Six Pennsylvania Counties
Woman Allegedly Held Hostage For 24 Hours By Ex-Con With Charges In Six Pennsylvania Counties A woman was allegedly kidnapped, held hostage for 24 hours, assaulted, and had her children's lives threatened by a man with criminal charges in six Pennsylvania counties dating back 30 years, according to court records obtained by Daily Voice.  Richard Clover Young, 52, was "hiding and waiting" outside of the victim's home while she was waiting to be picked up by her sister on Nov. 5, according to the criminal complaint. Young reportedly "tricked" the victim by telling her that he'd drive her in his 2011 Kia Sportage and then bring her back home but he instead made excuses to keep her in h…

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by Jillian Pikora
Schools
Bomb Threat Closes Lehigh School For Third Day In A Row Bomb Threat Closes Lehigh School For Third Day In A Row
Bomb Threat Closes Lehigh School For Third Day In A Row For the third consecutive school day, classes at Lehigh Career and Technical Institute in Schnecksville were disrupted Tuesday, Nov. 15 due to a violent threat, administrators said in a post on the school website.  Officials said the threat was reported just before 8:30 a.m., sending the school into lockdown. Pennsylvania State Police were already onsite due to similar threats that closed the school on Friday, Nov. 11 and Monday, Nov. 14, administrators said.  Those threats were transmitted via the anonymous tipster app Safe2Say, both remain under criminal investigation by s…

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by Mac Bullock
Schools
Lehigh School Suspends Classes Over Violent Threat Lehigh School Suspends Classes Over Violent Threat
Lehigh School Suspends Classes Over Violent Threat A Lehigh County high school canceled classes on Friday, Oct. 28 after administrators received a violent threat.  Lehigh Career and Technical Institute in Schnecksville alerted police after receiving "a threat directed at the school," administrators said in a message on the school's website.  Classes are scheduled to resume normally on Monday, Oct. 31, they added.  The warnings came exactly two weeks after LCTI students and staff participated in a six-hour active intruder security drill, according to a post on the school website.  State police are investigating the…

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by Mac Bullock
Schools
Violent Threats Place Chester County School On Lockdown Violent Threats Place Chester County School On Lockdown
Violent Threats Place Chester County School On Lockdown For the second time in as many weeks, Coatesville Area High School was the subject of violent threats on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 13 and 14, authorities have announced.  In a release from the Chester County District Attorney's Office, officials said classes were suspended Friday after threats were made on the anonymous tip-sharing app Safe2Say.  The closure came just hours after police canine teams searched the school for weapons on Thursday, following up on a separate threat made on the same app. No weapons were recovered in the Thursday search, and students were dismissed. …

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by Mac Bullock
News
Mass Shooting Threat Leads Pennsylvania Police To Weapons Stockpile At Autistic Man's Home Mass Shooting Threat Leads Pennsylvania Police To Weapons Stockpile At Autistic Man's Home
Mass Shooting Threat Leads Pennsylvania Police To Weapons Stockpile At Autistic Man's Home An Autistic man threatened a mass shooting after a text fight with his girlfriend⁠— and then police found weapons amassed in his home, according to court documents and the Pennsylvania state police.  Evan K. Etzweiler, 23, of Millersburg, began making threatening statements to his 52-year-old ex-girlfriend and her family on July 26 and continued through August 10, 2022, even though she reached out to the police on Aug. 5 after he posted a photo with a gun on Facebook, according to a release by the state police the following week and court documents.  "Etzweiler had previously made…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Philadelphia Murder Suspect Nabbed In Massachusetts Philadelphia Murder Suspect Nabbed In Massachusetts
Philadelphia Murder Suspect Nabbed In Massachusetts A man wanted for a Philadelphia murder could was arrested in Massachusetts, authorities said. Wagner Ernesto Tejeda-Pena was wanted for fatally shooting Loi Nguyen, age 77, while he was on a walk in Philadelphia on the morning of June 21, CBS Philadelphia reports. Tejeda-Pena also tried shooting two other victims fifteen minutes before shooting Nguyen but his gun malfunctioned, Boston Police said. Tejeda-Pena was also wanted in connection with two stabbings in Boston, including a homicide in West Roxbury, and has also threatened family members, police added. He was arrested in the are…

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by David Cifarelli
News
SERIAL CALLER: Midwest Woman Jailed For Threatening To Blow Up Ramsey Police HQ SERIAL CALLER: Midwest Woman Jailed For Threatening To Blow Up Ramsey Police HQ
Serial Caller: Midwest Woman Jailed For Threatening To Blow Up Ramsey Police HQ A Midwest woman who once set fire to garbage bins outside a middle school -- and then contacted authorities to confess -- was charged this week with threatening to blow up Ramsey police headquarters. The threat by Amber Schadewald, 24, "led to a search of the building, parking lot and departmental and personal vehicles by Bergen County sheriff's bomb dogs" back in January, Ramsey Police Chief Brian Lyman said. The subsequent investigation led to Schandewald, who "was believed to be in a group home in Minnesota at the time she made the threat," Lyman said Thursday. Schadewald has a history…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
MOST WANTED: Warrant Issued For Teen Charged In DelCo Shooting After Detention Center Escape MOST WANTED: Warrant Issued For Teen Charged In DelCo Shooting After Detention Center Escape
Most Wanted: Warrant Issued For Teen Charged In DelCo Shooting After Detention Center Escape A warrant was issued Friday, March 11 for the arrest of a 16-year-old boy charged with attempted murder in the shooting at a Delaware County football game last summer that killed 8-year-old Fanta Bility, authorities said. Angelo "AJ" Ford, of Sharon Hill, escaped from an Aspire youth facility sometime between the night of Feb. 24 and the morning of Feb. 25, the Delco Times reports. He also allegedly called his defense attorney's office and threatened to kill them, according to the Sharon Hill Police Department. Ford is also charged with aggravated assault and weapons offenses in the Aug. 1…

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by Nicole Acosta
News
Feds: Armed NJ Ex-Con Gets 9 Years, No Parole, For Threatening To Kill Woman Feds: Armed NJ Ex-Con Gets 9 Years, No Parole, For Threatening To Kill Woman
Feds: Armed NJ Ex-Con Gets 9 Years, No Parole, For Threatening To Kill Woman A Trenton ex-con who'd been free all of a month when he threatened a woman with a gun -- after serving time in connection with a killing -- is headed to federal prison for nine years. Omar Kennedy, 40, must serve out just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Kennedy had originally been charged with murder in the September 2016 killing of a 19-year-old city man who was gunned down in an alley. He fled to Virginia, where members of the U.S. Marshals NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force captured him. Essex County prosecutors cut a deal with Kenn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Happy Meal? Virginia Man Threats To 'Blow Up' Pennsylvania McDonalds: Police Happy Meal? Virginia Man Threats To 'Blow Up' Pennsylvania McDonalds: Police
Happy Meal? Virginia Man Threats To 'Blow Up' Pennsylvania McDonalds: Police Customer and employees stopped a man from Virginia who threatened to "blow up" the McDonald's he used to work at, according to a release by police. Azeem Jaleel Burton, 22, of Melfa, Virginia, was arrested after he caused a scene by threatening the safety of employees and customers at the McDonald's he was recently fired from on Friday, according to Old Lycoming Township police. Burton demanded that he receive his back pay right there and then, so when store management explained that his check had been sent to him via certified mail he yell, “get me my fucking money or I’ll come behind th…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Honduran Immigrant Who Beat Bucks Family Dog To Death Captured After 4 Years: Police Honduran Immigrant Who Beat Bucks Family Dog To Death Captured After 4 Years: Police
Honduran Immigrant Who Beat Bucks Family Dog To Death Captured After 4 Years: Police A man who threatened family members and killed the pet dog in 2018 is in custody, authorities in Bucks County say. A warrant was issued in February 2018 for Rony Arturo Garcia. He was arrested on one count of aggravated cruelty to animals on Jan. 12, 2022, Hilltown Township police said. On Feb. 3, 2018, officers responded to the 1400 block of Route 113 on reports of a male subject threatening members of the household, and who had possibly killed the family’s pet dog, police said.  No family members were injured, but the dog was found dead on the property, police said. A join…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Teen Girl Charged With Making Threats Against Emmaus High School Teen Girl Charged With Making Threats Against Emmaus High School
Teen Girl Charged With Making Threats Against Emmaus High School A teenage girl was charged for making threats against a high school in the Lehigh Valley, LehighValleyLive reports. Police launched an investigation after the East Penn School District dismissed Emmaus High School students early on Friday, the outlet says. According to school officials, credible threat messages had been circulating on social media. Investigators were able to quickly execute a search warrant and arrest the 14-year-old girl, according to the news outlet. Click here for the full story from LehighValleyLive.

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Shooting Threat Forces Early Dismissal Of Coatesville Area Schools Shooting Threat Forces Early Dismissal Of Coatesville Area Schools
Shooting Threat Forces Early Dismissal Of Coatesville Area Schools Coatesville Area School District officials decided to close schools early Thursday after receiving a threat on social media. "No specific school has been identified in the threat and the threat claims a shooting will occur next week," school district officials said in a statement posted to Facebook around 9:30 a.m. All Coatesville Area School District schools are dismissing this morning out of an abundance of caution, after the... Posted by Coatesville Area School District on Thursday, October 7, 2021 Schools were dismissed "out of an abundance of caution," they said. Parents were inf…

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by Nicole Acosta
News
Police: Caller Hospitalized After 'Threatening' NJ Congressman Police: Caller Hospitalized After 'Threatening' NJ Congressman
Police: Caller Hospitalized After 'Threatening' NJ Congressman Law enforcement mobilized quickly after a troubled Bergen County man called U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s office apparently threatening possible violence on Thursday, authorities said. Described by responders as a 32-year-old Oakland man, the mid-morning caller told a staffer at the Democratic congressman’s Glen Rock office that he was “aggrieved over the lack of responsiveness he felt he was receiving from various governmental agencies in response to a complaint he had made,” Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. He said he was “on his way” to seek Gottheimer’s help and suggested someone call po…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'Taste Of Your Own Medicine': Caller Threatens Rape, Bombing At Palestinian Center In Clifton 'Taste Of Your Own Medicine': Caller Threatens Rape, Bombing At Palestinian Center In Clifton
'Taste Of Your Own Medicine': Caller Threatens Rape, Bombing At Palestinian Center In Clifton VIDEO: Clifton police provided extra security while investigating a deluge of threatening phone calls Tuesday to the Palestinian American Community Center. “Is this the terrorist community center?” the caller asked during one of more than 30 exchanges with staff that began before noon and continued until nearly 6 p.m. Referring to himself as “Jebediah,” the caller said he lived “next to” the Lakeview Avenue center and was going to “beat your f*****g ass.” “You Palestinians blow up children and behead them,” he said at one point. “I'm going to come rape you and give you a taste of your own …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
PA Man Threatens To Harm Woman Over Price Of Easter Candy, Police Say PA Man Threatens To Harm Woman Over Price Of Easter Candy, Police Say
PA Man Threatens To Harm Woman Over Price Of Easter Candy, Police Say A man threatened to harm an Adams County woman over the price of Easter candy according to Pennsylvania State Police.The threats allegedly occurred around 9:30 a.m. at the Family Dollar located at 3460 Biglerville Road in Biglerville Borough on March 15. Karissa Bateman, 25, of Gettysburg, reported the incident to police. The man allegedly made terroristic threats towards Bateman following a dispute over the price of Easter candy, according to a PSP report issued March 26. There is no word on any on-going investigation relating to this incident.

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by Jillian Pikora
Schools
Threat Written Above Urinal Prompts Police Presence At Northampton County High School Threat Written Above Urinal Prompts Police Presence At Northampton County High School
Threat Written Above Urinal Prompts Police Presence At Northampton County High School Classes at the Bethlehem Area School District went on as scheduled after a threat was found written above a urinal at the high school Friday morning, officials said. The undisclosed threat was found above a urinal in a bathroom at Freedom High School, the district said on Twitter. “In consultation with Bethlehem Township Police, school and district officials determined that classes will continue as usual,” the post said. Meanwhile, Bethlehem Township police were patrolling school grounds for the rest of the day “out of an abundance of caution,” the district said.

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
GOTCHA! Police Nab Gunman Accused Of Firing Shots Into MontCo Democratic Committee Office GOTCHA! Police Nab Gunman Accused Of Firing Shots Into MontCo Democratic Committee Office
Gotcha! Police Nab Gunman Accused Of Firing Shots Into MontCo Democratic Committee Office A Pennsylvania gunman has been arrested weeks after sending a threatening email to an executive and firing shots at the Montgomery County Democratic Committee Office on Jan. 20, authorities announced. Executive Director Brian Levy told police he noticed the bullet holes in the front window of the Airy Street office building when he arrived around 4:45 p.m., Norristown police initially said on Facebook. Levy believed that the shots were fired into the building while it was unoccupied from Jan. 19 at 6:30 p.m. to Jan. 20 at 7:30 a.m., police said. Two of the three bullets were retrieved by o…

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by Nicole Acosta