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Swat-style Raid Ends Armed Facebook Marketplace Shoe Robbery In PA: Police
A Facebook Marketplace sale of $1,000 worth of athletic shoes ended with two men accused of robbing juvenile sellers at gunpoint before a SWAT-style raid led to their arrests in Bethlehem, police announced Monday, June 1.
Sekani Damani Hartley, 23, of Bethlehem, and Israel Alexis Cortes, 23, of Allentown, were charged following the robbery on the 1700 block of Shimer Avenue on Saturday, May 30, according to the Bethlehem Police Department.
Officers responded around 2:06 p.m. after receiving a report of an armed robbery involving two juvenile victims.
Investigators said the victims had arra…
Berks County Officer Kristen Yeager Killed On Duty
A police officer was killed while responding to an emergency call Friday, May 29, after her patrol vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Central Berks Police Officer Kristen Yeager, 42, a married mom of three from Boyertown, was responding with emergency lights and sirens activated when the crash occurred on West Philadelphia Avenue near Manatawny Road in Earl Township, state police said.
According to investigators, Yeager's patrol vehicle traveled off the paved portion of the roadway, crossed the grass shoulder, entered a ditch, and struck a tr…
PA Woman, 43, Killed After Driving Into Active NJ Crash Scene: Cops
A Pennsylvania woman was killed after driving into an active crash scene on Route 1 in Mercer County, NJ early Friday, May 29, narrowly missing police officers, firefighters, EMS personnel, and investigators working at the site, authorities said.
Police were called to a crash on Route 1 south at Washington Road at approximately 1:58 a.m., where a 2023 Kia driven by a 22-year-old Philadelphia man was traveling south in the left lane when it struck the passenger side of a tractor-trailer that was turning left from Washington Road onto Route 1 south, police said.
The Kia driver failed to …
‘You’re Going To Die’: Bucks Man Held On $1M Bail In Strangling Case, Cops Say
A Southampton man is being held on $1 million bail after police said he broke into a Warrington home, strangled a victim, and threatened to kill them during a violent domestic incident.
Warrington police responded to Basswood Court at approximately 9:09 a.m. on Tuesday, May 19, for a report of a domestic disturbance in progress, according to police in Warrington. Matthew Christopher Glassie, 32, broke into the home through a window following an argument with the victim, police said.
Officers arrived and found Glassie outside the home shirtless, covered in scratches and small bleeding c…
Murder Suspect From PA Extradited
The fifth and final fugitive wanted in a 2024 stabbing outside of a Bergen County bar has been extradited to New Jersey.
Ricky “Angel” Vargas, 37, was lodged in the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday, May 26, after being arrested at a home in Longview, TX, Thursday, May 7. Vargas, of East Stroudsburg, PA, had spent more than two years as a fugitive in the February 2024 killing of 31-year-old Hawthorne resident Richard Franceschi, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
Garfield police responded to the stabbing at approximately 12:44 a.m. on Feb. 4, 2024, at JoJo's Ba…
