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Man Threatened To Burn Down Central PA Home With Family Inside: Police Man Threatened To Burn Down Central PA Home With Family Inside: Police
Man Threatened To Burn Down Central PA Home With Family Inside: Police A Camp Hill man is accused of breaking into a home, assaulting a woman, and threatening to burn the house down with its occupants inside, police announced on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. Lower Allen Township police first responded to the 1100 block of Primrose Avenue on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, at 9:06 p.m. after receiving a 911 hangup call. A woman could be heard crying before the call ended, according to police. The caller told officers that Dustin Michael Noel, 31, had shown up at the house and started an argument about money. During the dispute, Noel allegedly threatened to destroy her belong…

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Carnival Run By Sex Offender Has Pennsylvania State Police Searching For New Victims Carnival Run By Sex Offender Has Pennsylvania State Police Searching For New Victims
Carnival Run By Sex Offender Has Pennsylvania State Police Searching For New Victims A registered sex offender — who only abused children — secretly ran a carnival business in Pennsylvania and state police fear he may have new victims according to a release on Feb. 8.  Richard Lee Ridley was convicted of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child in 1993 and 2006, as well as open lewdness in 2020 and harassment in 2023, according to the Pennsylvania State Police Megan's Law Sexual Offender Registry and court records.  The 53-year-old Carlisle resident is considered a "sexually violent predator," Trooper Megan Frazer stated in a release.  In June of …

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DNA On Tie-Dye Towel Links PA Man To Assault Of Family Member, Police Say DNA On Tie-Dye Towel Links PA Man To Assault Of Family Member, Police Say
DNA On Tie-Dye Towel Links PA Man To Assault Of Family Member, Police Say A 38-year-old man has been charged after a towel linked him to months of sexual assaults with a young family member, police announced on Monday, Oct. 23.  Around 11:40 a.m. on May 21, 2023, a girl under the age of 16 and her mom reached out to the Lower Allen Township Police Department to inform them "that a family member, John Heinrich George II, had been sexually assaulting her for the last two months," as stated in the release.  The incidents happened in Camp Hill beginning on March 2, 2023, according to court documents.  During the girl's meeting with the police she "rev…

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'American Cultures' Teacher, PA Dad Admits To Uploading Child Porn To Kik 'American Cultures' Teacher, PA Dad Admits To Uploading Child Porn To Kik
'American Cultures' Teacher, PA Dad Admits To Uploading Child Porn To Kik The former eighth-grade "American Cultures" teacher at Hershey Middle School, Arthur "Art" Neal Titzel has pleaded guilty and been sentenced after being caught uploading videos of child pornography to the social media app Kik, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice.  The 53-year-old from Camp Hill is "a teacher of American history interested in the many stories that tell us who we are and where we came from," according to one of his many social media accounts. Apparently, social media is what got him in trouble as the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office charged hi…

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Central PA Mom Bites Corrections Officer, Police Say Central PA Mom Bites Corrections Officer, Police Say
Central PA Mom Bites Corrections Officer, Police Say A 43-year-old mom fought and bit a corrections officer, Central Pennsylvania police announced on Sept. 1. Shanika Shanta Cheatham most recently of Enola was spotted driving erratictly around 11:15 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24, according to the East Pennsboro Police Department. She was found appearing to be under the influence of alcohol without a valid license at the intersection of North Enola and East Columbia roads, the police explained. Cheatham was arrested and put in a patrol vehicle to be taken to the Cumberland County Prison for chemical testing — but before arriving at the priso…

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Mom Repeatedly Abdandons 4-Year-Old Child In Central PA, Police Say Mom Repeatedly Abdandons 4-Year-Old Child In Central PA, Police Say
Mom Repeatedly Abdandons 4-Year-Old Child In Central PA, Police Say A mother has been arrested after her 4-year-old child was found wandering in an intersection, police announced on June 14, 2023. Katharine M. Jordan, 39, of Carlisle was identified as the mother of the young child found standing in the intersection of South Spring Garden Street and Ashland Avenue just before 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday.  "This was not the first incident of the child leaving the house and ending up in a dangerous situation unattended," Carlisle police said.  Jordan was arrested on one count of endangering the welfare of a child, according to the police and confirmed by…

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Off-Duty Officer Catches PA Convict Who Escaped Three Times, Police Say Off-Duty Officer Catches PA Convict Who Escaped Three Times, Police Say
Off-Duty Officer Catches PA Convict Who Escaped Three Times, Police Say A 23-year-old convicted drug dealer who escaped from police three times has been caught— this time by an off-duty officer, police announced on Friday, June 9, 2023.  Dayquawan Martaze Long was spotted in the 100 block of East Street at approximately 7:09 p.m. on Thursday, June 8, 2023.  The Carlisle Police Department along with the East Pennsboro Township Police, the Pennsylvania State Police, and the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office attempted to arrest him on numerous warrants but "Long fled from police on foot by running through multiple residential backyards and jum…

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NJ Man Caught Going 142 MPH On PA Turnpike: State Police NJ Man Caught Going 142 MPH On PA Turnpike: State Police
NJ Man Caught Going 142 MPH On PA Turnpike: State Police A 23-year-old New Jersey man—who missed his last NJ court date for speeding—was found going 142 miles per hour, leading Pennsylvania State Police on a chase on the PA Turnpike, according to PSP Newville.  Alix Preston Eugene of Tinton Falls Township was clocked at the high speed in gray Hyundai Elantra on Interstate 76 at 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, according to a state police release the following weekend.  A traffic stop was attempted but Eugene supposedly sped on for more eight miles when— "in an attempt to elude the police" he swerved across two lanes …

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Dad Charged With Murder Of First Baby Born At Penn State Hampden: Authorities Dad Charged With Murder Of First Baby Born At Penn State Hampden: Authorities
Dad Charged With Murder Of First Baby Born At Penn State Hampden: Authorities The first baby who was born at Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center has died and his father has been charged with his murder, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Tuesday, May 9, 2023.  Avery Sampson was 8 lbs and 12 ounces when he was born to Kathryn "Kat" Durham and Timothy "Tim" Lloyd Sampson at the Hampden Medical Center in Enola at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, according to Penn State Health News. The 13-month-old was "found died under suspicious circumstances" at the couple's home in the 100 block of Big Spring Terrace in West Pennsboro Township, Newville at 7:10 a.…

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Daughter Stabs Sleeping Dad With Kitchen Knife At Shippensburg Motel, PSP Says Daughter Stabs Sleeping Dad With Kitchen Knife At Shippensburg Motel, PSP Says
Daughter Stabs Sleeping Dad With Kitchen Knife At Shippensburg Motel, PSP Says A 21-year-old woman stabbed her father multiple times with a kitchen knife while staying at a Shippensburg motel on Thursday, March 9, 2023, Pennsylvania State Police stated in a release on Saturday, March 11, and in court documents obtained by Daily Voice on Monday, March 13.  Natalee Linn Clark, 21, stabbed her sleeping father at Theo's Motel on Walnut Bottom Road at 1:53 p.m. according to the police release.  She hid the large kitchen knife under her bedding and waited for him to fall asleep before stabbing her 53-year-old father as he lay in the bed next to her's, the police …

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Drunk Man With Car Full Of Cocaine Crashes Into Patrol Cars In Carlisle, Police Say Drunk Man With Car Full Of Cocaine Crashes Into Patrol Cars In Carlisle, Police Say
Drunk Man With Car Full Of Cocaine Crashes Into Patrol Cars In Carlisle, Police Say A  drunk man driving around five marked patrol cars and an ambulance with emergency lighting activated at the scene of an accident was found with illegal drugs and firearms in his fire vehicle authorities say.  Jimmie L. Phillips struck at least one of the police cars in the 300 block of Kingsley Road Lower Allen Township on Jan. 27 at 1:20 a.m., according to a release on Feb. 10 by area police.  The 39-year-old's Mitsubishi Outlander was stopped and "he was found to be intoxicated by alcohol and controlled substances. He was then placed under arrest," the pol…

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Probationer Bites Now Ex-Girlfriend At Central Pennsylvania Sheetz: Police Probationer Bites Now Ex-Girlfriend At Central Pennsylvania Sheetz: Police
Probationer Bites Now Ex-Girlfriend At Central Pennsylvania Sheetz: Police A man supposedly choked and bit his now ex-girlfriend on his way into a Sheetz and then got into a fight at the self-checkout, police in Pennsylvania say.  The Middlesex Township police were called "for an active physical domestic" at the Sheetz on Harrisburg Pike on Tuesday, Nov. 29 around 11:30 p.m., according to a release by the department the following day.  Upon arrival, the police found 34-year-old Clifford Roy McKelvey of Carlisle at the self-checkout shouting at his ex-girlfriend.  Following an investigation, "it was determined that McKelvey strangled and b…

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