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Chester County Man With Traumatic Brain Injury Pleads Guilty To Lancaster County Crime Spree
A Chester County man blamed a traumatic brain injury and addiction for his months-long crime spree across Lancaster County, which ended in a violent crash, prosecutors announced on Tuesday, Dec. 24.
James Steffy, 41, of West Ridge Road in West Nottingham Township, pleaded guilty to 35 charges, including aggravated assault by vehicle while driving under the influence, burglary, theft, and access device fraud, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office.
Steffy suffered a traumatic brain injury that caused significant memory loss after crashing a stolen vehicle head-on into a…
Teen Sentenced For 61 Charges Years After Lancaster Park City Center Mall Shooting
The 16-year-old boy who was charged with 61 offenses for the shooting at Park City Center, is now 19 years old and has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to serve up to 32 years in prison, the Lancaster District Attorney's Office announced on Wednesday, May 29.
Jeremiahs Josiah-Alberto Sanchez, of Lancaster, fired a gun stolen out of Lebanon County and endangered the lives of 52 innocent bystanders during the incident, the District Attorney's office explained.
Sergio Vargas, 30, Elijah Deliz,18, and three other men were involved in the fight that led up to the shooting, but none were charge…
NJ Politico Gets 24 Years, No Parole, For Hiring Hit Men Who Killed, Burned Longtime Associate
UPDATE: A New Jersey political consultant was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for hiring two hitmen to kill a longtime associate from Hudson County.
Sean Caddle, 45, of Hamburg, will have to serve just about all of the plea-bargained sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system.
Caddle, a former aide to former State Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Elizabeth), admitted last year that he paid the killers to whack Michael Galdieri, the son of former State Sen. James Galdieri (D-Jersey City) and a prominent figure in local Hudson County politics.
Galdieri, 52, who'd worked for…
Man Who Murdered Lancaster Dad Learns His Fate, DA Say
A confessed killer is heading to prison, according to a release by the Lancaster County district attorney's office on Friday, January 13, 2023.
Police were dispatched for a report of a stabbing at 505 Pearl Street on Sept. 1, 2021, just before 7 a.m.
The officers arrived to find Brandon Schweers, 36, of the 500 block of Pearl Street in Lancaster, with visible injuries to his head and knee, as well as having difficulty breathing.
Prior to being taken to the hospital, Schweers told the officers that Aaron Robertson was the person who attacked with a knife and pepper spray.
During t…
PA Mom Helped Catch Serial Child Rapist: DA
A mom of three contacted officials after she learned three of her children— all under the age of nine, were being sexually assaulted and raped by a central Pennsylvania man, according to a release by the district attorney’s office.
Luis G. Torres Jr., 27, of the 300 block of North Lime Street, Lancaster, raped a child, as well as committed involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, and indecent assault of a child, according to the Lancaster County’s District Attorney’s office.
The three children were harmed by Torres Jr. when they were under the age of 9-years-old…
Philadelphia Man Gets Prison Time For Violent Assault On Guards
A Philadelphia man is going to spend time behind bars for a violent assault on sheriff's deputies last year, authorities said.
Jeffrey Dingle, 44, was sentenced to 18 months to 48 months in prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday, April 12 to three counts of aggravated assault and one count each of criminal trespassing, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct, according to the Bucks County DA's Office.
Dingle injured several deputies on April 21, 2021, and they were taken to Doylestown Hospital for treatment. One suffered a fractured orbital bone, authorities said.
The…