Bucks Teen Pleads Guilty To Killing 12-Year-Old In 2022: DA Bucks Teen Pleads Guilty To Killing 12-Year-Old In 2022: DA
Bucks Teen Pleads Guilty To Killing 12-Year-Old In 2022: DA Ash Cooper, who previously went by Joshua Cooper, was sentenced to 15 to 40 years in prison on Thursday, March 21, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office.  Cooper, 18, pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, prosecutors said in a release.  Prosecutors said Cooper killed 12-year-old Morgan Connors and then video-called a friend asking for help "cleaning up the scene and disposing of the body." Officers responding to Cooper's trailer home at Top of the Ridge Tra…
Bucks County Fire Company Mourns Longtime Member Bucks County Fire Company Mourns Longtime Member
Bucks County Fire Company Mourns Longtime Member James Curran, a retired life member of the Eddington Fire Company of Bensalem, died last Thursday, March 14, according to his obituary. He was 83.  His Eddington colleagues said Curran served more than 40 years with the company and had been battalion chief, company secretary, and fire police captain. He was also part of the all-volunteer Philadelphia Second Alarmers.  Other area departments offered condolences on social media.  Our thoughts and prayers are with Jim’s family and friends and the Eddington Fire Company - Station 28. As they mourn the loss of Jim Curran. May…
Montco Man Killed In Bucks Crash Was 'Cherished Husband, Father' Montco Man Killed In Bucks Crash Was 'Cherished Husband, Father'
Montco Man Killed In Bucks Crash Was 'Cherished Husband, Father' Marcus Pochettino, a Montgomery County husband and father of two, died suddenly in a car crash last Tuesday, Feb. 27, loved ones said in a GoFundMe. He was 38.  Pochettino was killed when his car crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bensalem, the Bucks County Coroner's Office told Daily Voice.  He lived in Lafayette Hill with his wife of 12 years, Casey, and their sons, 9-year-old Charles and 7-year-old Sebastian, wrote GoFundMe campaign organizer Jamie Kaye.  "Marcus was the epitome of a loving spouse and father, deeply involved in his community and family life," Ka…
Drug Trafficking Group With California Ties Operated In Southeast PA: Feds Drug Trafficking Group With California Ties Operated In Southeast PA: Feds
Drug Trafficking Group With California Ties Operated In Southeast PA: Feds Five members of an alleged trafficking group active in greater Philadelphia face federal charges, the US Attorney's Office announced this week.  Investigators say the group sent cocaine and methamphetamine to Pennsylvania through the mail for distribution in Reading, Quakertown, Bensalem, Plymouth Township, Coopersburg, and elsewhere. Authorities said they seized 40 firearms, over 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 60 pounds of meth, one kilogram of fentanyl, one kilogram of cocaine, 65 pounds of marijuana, 300 fentanyl pills, six pounds of psilocybin mushrooms, and $15,000 cash from the su…
NJ Man Trying To Meet PA Middle Schooler Gets Prison Time, DA Says NJ Man Trying To Meet PA Middle Schooler Gets Prison Time, DA Says
NJ Man Trying To Meet PA Middle Schooler Gets Prison Time, DA Says A New Jersey man will spend up to a dozen years in a Pennsylvania state prison after authorities say he tried to meet with a middle schooler for sex.  Steven Boutte, 53, of Burlington, was convicted in December for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, criminal attempt to commit statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor, and related counts, said the Bucks County District Attorney's Office.  Investigators said Boutte began a conversation with someone he believed to be a 13-year-old girl on a dating app in December 2022. He engaged in a "very sexual…
Driver Arrested For Bensalem Fatal Hit-Run Of 14-Year-Old Boy Driver Arrested For Bensalem Fatal Hit-Run Of 14-Year-Old Boy
Driver Arrested For Bensalem Fatal Hit-Run Of 14-Year-Old Boy Six months after a 14-year-old was hit and killed crossing Street Road in Bensalem, police say they caught the driver who fled the scene.  James Shulski, 35, of Trevose, surrendered to Bensalem police on Tuesday, Jan. 23, authorities said in a release.  Investigators say the teen victim was struck near the Route 1 overpass around 10:15 p.m. on July 6. First responders found him unresponsive in the middle of Street Road and rendered lifesaving aid, but he died from his injuries, police said.  Detectives at the time said he was hit by a driver in a Honda who briefly stopped at…
NJ Driver Wanted For PA Hit-Run: Police NJ Driver Wanted For PA Hit-Run: Police
NJ Driver Wanted For PA Hit-Run: Police Police investigators in Bensalem are asking for the public's help in tracking down a hit-and-run driver.  A red Ford F350 extended cab pickup truck hit a pedestrian just before midnight on Friday, Jan. 12, sending him to the hospital with broken bones, authorities said.  It happened near the corner of Street Road and Brookwood Drive, according to police. Authorities said the truck had a New Jersey plate numbered L23RZD, but that no records could be found for that tag.  Anyone who spots the truck or can identify the driver is asked to call Detective Shawn Smith at 215-63…
Feds: Leader Of Ring That Flooded South Jersey, Philly 'Burbs With Fentanyl, Meth Gets 18 Years Feds: Leader Of Ring That Flooded South Jersey, Philly 'Burbs With Fentanyl, Meth Gets 18 Years
Feds: Leader Of Ring That Flooded South Jersey, Philly 'Burbs With Fentanyl, Meth Gets 18 Years A drug kingpin who headed a network that slung fentanyl and meth in South Jersey and the suburbs of Philadelphia while he hid from his pursuers was sentenced Thursday to a plea-bargained 18 years in federal prison. Glenn Long, 29, of Philadelphia, must serve just about all of the time he received in U.S. District Court in Camden on Jan. 4 because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Long – known on the street as “Bless” and “Max” – ran the operation as a fugitive for three years while under a federal indictment for major drug trafficking out of Philadelphia. A second drug conspi…
Dealer Sentenced For Selling Pill That Killed Bucks Woman: Prosecutors Dealer Sentenced For Selling Pill That Killed Bucks Woman: Prosecutors
Dealer Sentenced For Selling Pill That Killed Bucks Woman: Prosecutors A Bensalem drug dealer will spend up to two decades in state prison for selling the pill that led to a Bristol woman's deadly overdose last year, according to the District Attorney's Office.  Shakur Ali Brisbon had previously pleaded guilty to drug delivery resulting in death, prosecutors said.  Brisbon was charged with the death of 23-year-old Olivia Seaberg after she was found unresponsive in a home on Bristol-Emelie Road last Nov. 23, the day before Thanksgiving. Her autopsy revealed the cause of death was acute fentanyl toxicity, and pills containing the drug we…
Pair Snagged Wallet From Elderly Woman In Bucks County: Police (VIDEO) Pair Snagged Wallet From Elderly Woman In Bucks County: Police (VIDEO)
Pair Snagged Wallet From Elderly Woman In Bucks County: Police (Video) Two thieves robbed an elderly shopper at the Street Road Giant last week, according to Bensalem police.  A pair of women arrived at the store as passengers in a newer, black Chevrolet Suburban on Friday, Dec. 15, investigators said.  Inside, one woman distracted the victim while the other reached inside her purse and snatched her wallet, police said. Then they walked out of the store, got back into the Suburban, and fled the scene.  The women were caught on security camera entering the store and police are asking for the public's help in identifying them.  Bensalem …
Negotiated Deal Lands Bensalem Drug Dealer, Fatal Hit-Run Christmas Driver In PA State Prison Negotiated Deal Lands Bensalem Drug Dealer, Fatal Hit-Run Christmas Driver In PA State Prison
Negotiated Deal Lands Bensalem Drug Dealer, Fatal Hit-Run Christmas Driver In PA State Prison A 21-year-old man whose drug dealing scheme came to light while out on bail in a 2021 fatal hit-and-run Christmas crash has been sentenced to several years in Pennsylvania State Prison. Kevin Michael Baker Jr., 21, of Bensalem, pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the crash that killed 65-year-old John Dugan as he crossed State Road in Bristol Township to go to a Christmas party on Christmas Eve in 2021, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced. While out on bail, Baker was arrested by Bensalem Township Police for a series of illegal narcotics purchases, particular…
Delivery Truck Driver Kidnapped, Robbed In Bucks County: Police Delivery Truck Driver Kidnapped, Robbed In Bucks County: Police
Delivery Truck Driver Kidnapped, Robbed In Bucks County: Police One man is in custody and several others are sought after a truck driver was kidnapped and robbed in Bensalem, said township police.  Dikenson Joshua Noel, 25, of Philadelphia, is charged with multiple felonies related to the Oct. 23 incident, authorities said.  The victim was getting in his delivery truck at KMC Distributor on Byberry Road when two men approached and demanded money at gunpoint, according to investigators.  When the trucker said he didn't have any cash, the robbers forced them into their vehicle, police said.  The victim was blindfolded and forced…