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Philly Man Attempted Murder-For-Hire Plot, Illegally Bought Guns: AG Philly Man Attempted Murder-For-Hire Plot, Illegally Bought Guns: AG
Philly Man Attempted Murder-For-Hire Plot, Illegally Bought Guns: AG A Philadelphia man is accused of straw purchasing dozens of guns and paying one alleged customer to commit murder.  Richard Taylor, 37, is being held in lieu of a $5 million bail, according to the state Attorney General's Office.  Authorities said Taylor bought at least 31 guns and transferred them illegally to other people. He "told individuals he could get them as many firearms as they wanted because he did not have a criminal record," prosecutors said.  Twelve of those firearms have been recovered by police on Philadelphia streets, nine were seized during arrests, and 14 …

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by Mac Bullock
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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
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Twice Convicted PA Sex Offender Caught With Child Porn On Twitch, Police Say Twice Convicted PA Sex Offender Caught With Child Porn On Twitch, Police Say
Twice Convicted PA Sex Offender Caught With Child Porn On Twitch, Police Say A twice-convicted child sex offender has been found with child porn — again, police say.   Brandon Scott Dasilva, 29, of Ephrata was detected with child pornography on an email account traced to Twitch— a popular live-streaming site typically used for gaming, police announced on June 1, 2023.  Ephrata Borough police linked the Twitch account to the email used by Dasilva after receiving a tip about the email account from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2022.  "Ephrata Police Detectives and the Lancaster County Computer Crimes Task Force ser…

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by Jillian Pikora
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YMCA Employee Made Child Porn Shared On Snapchat: PA State Police YMCA Employee Made Child Porn Shared On Snapchat: PA State Police
YMCA Employee Made Child Porn Shared On Snapchat: PA State Police A 21-year-old YCMA employee was found making and uploading  child pornography to Snapchat, according to a release by Pennsylvania state police. Snapchat reported that a video containing child pornography had been uploaded the company's server to the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children— who contacted Pennsylvania state police computer crimes unit, the release shows. The suspect was identified as Lamont Antonio Lovett Jr., of the 330 block of Lantern Lane in Chambersburg, police say. Child pornography was found during a search of Lovett's home conducted on Tuesday, Mar. 8…

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by Jillian Pikora
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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
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PA Firefighter, Solider, Prison Guard Messaged 11-Year-Old Girls On Kik App, Authorities Say PA Firefighter, Solider, Prison Guard Messaged 11-Year-Old Girls On Kik App, Authorities Say
PA Firefighter, Solider, Prison Guard Messaged 11-Year-Old Girls On Kik App, Authorities Say In the days since a local firefighters arrest, more details have emerged about the circumstance that led to his arrest for child pornography dissemination. Robert Joseph Romberger, 26, of Elizabethville, was arrested on Friday for sharing nine videos of child pornography on March 5, as Daily Voice previously reported. Romberger supposedly sent videos through the Kik messenger app to girls between the ages of 11 and 16, asking to have sex with him or watch them perform sex acts on other men, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Romberger was an active public servant who worked as …

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by Jillian Pikora