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High-Speed Chase Sentencing Follows Charges In Fatal Lancaster Shooting: DA High-Speed Chase Sentencing Follows Charges In Fatal Lancaster Shooting: DA
High-Speed Chase Sentencing Follows Charges In Fatal Lancaster Shooting: DA One of the three men charged in a deadly 2022 Lancaster City shooting has been sentenced in an unrelated high-speed chase, authorities announced on Thursday, May 29. Jorge Luis Santiago, 26, of Coral Street, was sentenced to two-and-a-half to seven years in state prison for fleeing police during a December 2022 traffic stop, the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office said. Santiago blew through at least one stop sign while fleeing Lancaster City police in the 1000 block of Dillerville Road, according to the release. His actions posed “a high risk of danger to the public,” including “dr…
Street Fight Turns Deadly, PA  Killer Convicted After Two Mistrials: DA Street Fight Turns Deadly, PA  Killer Convicted After Two Mistrials: DA
Street Fight Turns Deadly, PA Killer Convicted After Two Mistrials: DA A Lancaster man who gunned down another man during a street confrontation has been convicted of first-degree murder, the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday, April 30. Wilberto Melendez, 48, formerly of the 700 block of Rockland Street, shot William Earl Cooper Jr., 31, after an escalating series of arguments early on Friday, Oct. 27, 2017, prosecutors said. The dispute ended on the 300 block of South Marshall Street, where Melendez fired four shots, hitting Cooper in the chest and abdomen. Cooper died hours later at a local hospital. The conviction followed …
‘Like Dressing Up A Skeleton’: PA Son Meant No Harm Leaving Mom’s Body In Car, Defense Says ‘Like Dressing Up A Skeleton’: PA Son Meant No Harm Leaving Mom’s Body In Car, Defense Says
‘Like Dressing Up A Skeleton’: PA Son Meant No Harm Leaving Mom’s Body In Car, Defense Says A man accused of leaving his mother’s dead body in a trash-covered car outside a Lancaster County home will face trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday, April 16. Kevin Hyun Ahn, 31, who has no fixed address but was last living in Schuylkill Haven, is charged with Abuse of Corpse after Northern Lancaster County police discovered his mother’s body in a vehicle parked outside a home in the 100 block of Fruitville Pike in Penn Township on Sunday, March 24, authorities said. During a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Torrey Landis, officers testified that 61-year-old Hyun Ahn of …