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Stolen NY, NJ Cars Found In Allentown Chop Shop: Lehigh County DA
Ten vehicles stolen from locations around New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania were recovered from a chop shop in Allentown — leading to the arrest of the shop's owner on Friday, Sept. 27, according to authorities. Allentown Auto Works & Recycling, owned by Cesar Garcia-Martinez, 34, of Easton, was identified as a chop shop that was dismantling stolen vehicles during an investigation by the Lehigh County Auto Theft Task Force Unit, the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office explained in a release on Monday, Sept. 30. The investigation began when the task force was contacted by Allen…
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Funeral Details Released For Cheltenham Middle Schooler Who Drowned
Funeral details have been released for a Pennsylvania middle school student who died more than two weeks after an incident while swimming with friends. Emilio Tarr died on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 1:13 p.m., according to a GoFundMe campaign launched by his mom, Elaina Tarr. He was a sixth grader at Elkins Park School in Cheltenham. Emilio was swimming with friends on Sunday, Sept. 1 when he suffered "a tragic drowning accident," his mother previously wrote. Emilio was hospitalized and later died. "Our shooting star was sent to heaven," Elaina Tarr wrote in an update. "As a fa…
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Overnight Standoff With SWAT Team Ends In Arrest: Cheltenham Police
A suspect brandished a handgun during a standoff with a SWAT team in Cheltenham, according to township police. Authorities said they spotted the suspect's car behind the 8250 Limekiln Pike Wawa around 11 p.m. Tuesday night. The vehicle was being sought in connection with a felony that took place outside of Cheltenham earlier in the day, police explained. A woman in the car exited when police arrived, but a male suspect " refused to comply with orders," according to officials. Police said he made threats and brandished a handgun before a Montgomery County SWAT team was called.&nb…
Police & Fire
Country Club Death: Tree Falls Onto Golf Cart In Pennsylvania Killing Passenger, Cops Say
A falling tree killed one person riding in a golf cart at a Pennsylvania country club this weekend, authorities said. It happened Saturday, April 13 around 3:05 p.m. at the JC Melrose Country Club in Cheltenham, where a tree fell on a golf cart, killing the person in the passenger's seat of the cart, local police said. The tree fell on the golf cart as the victim and another person were driving the golf cart on the course while playing golf, police said. The driver of the golf cart sustained minor injuries. The Montgomery County Coroner's Office will determine the cause and manner of death…
Police & Fire
Girlfriend Conspired To Rob, Kill Boyfriend In Norristown: DA
The ambush killing of William Carter in Norristown on Jan. 20 was orchestrated in part by his own girlfriend, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. Katherine Emel, 29, of Plymouth Meeting, is charged with second-degree murder, robbery, and conspiracy, prosecutors said. Carter was visiting the mother of his child on Powell Street when he went outside to grab money from his Buick LeSabre, investigators said in the criminal complaint. The 35-year-old had recently won $3,000 from sports betting, authorities wrote. On his way back to the Powell St…
Police & Fire
Homicide In Norristown, $5K Reward Offered For Information Leading To Killers: DA
Montgomery County detectives are looking for the gunmen who robbed 35-year-old William Grover Carter before shooting him dead on a Norristown street Saturday night, Jan. 20, prosecutors say. Carter was visiting a friend's house on Powell Street when he went outside to grab something from his car just before 8 p.m., the District Attorney's Office said. When he was on the first block of West Wood Street, three men hopped out of a grey Toyota RAV-4 and rushed him at gunpoint, authorities said. Montgomery County District Attorney's Office They robbed Carter, fatally shot hi…
Lifestyle
Rapper Gives Small PA Hometown Shoutout On Major Podcast That Reaches Millions Of Listeners
He can rap, but he's got no sense of direction. At least that's what Cheltenham native, comic and actor Lil Dicky, who you may know as David Andrew Burd, said on this week's episode of "Armchair Expert." "The thing that I'm the least good at in life is geography, sense of direction, knowing where things are," the 35-year-old rapper said in the first 10 minutes of his interview with Monica Padman and Dax Shepard. "You can plop me down in my hometown of Cheltenham Pennsylvania, if I didn't have a GPS I'd be sleeping in my car even if I'm an eight-minute drive from my home." In 2020, F…
Police & Fire
DUI Driver Killed 77-Year-Old In PA Crash: Prosecutors
The woman accused of swerving into the wrong lane and killing a 77-year-old driver in Cheltenham last spring is now charged with DUI and homicide by vehicle, prosecutors announced. Kaitlyn Dilemmo, 32, was arrested early on Friday, Aug. 11, said the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. Dilemmo, of Doylestown, was headed east on Cheltenham Avenue on June 6 last year when she crossed over a concrete median into the westbound lane, according to police investigators. She hit 77-year-old Jacqueline Kovach head-on and was thrown from her Toyota RAV4, authorit…
Police & Fire
Suspect Masterminded 24 Burglaries Across Greater Philly, DA Says
One man was responsible for two dozen burglaries across greater Philadelphia and made off with nearly $300,000 in stolen goods, authorities claim. Jamal Reid, 35, of Philadelphia, faces nearly 40 felony charges related to a string of break-ins and stick-ups over a 10-month period, said the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office in a release. A multi-jurisdictional task force of police investigators from across the region believes that from May 2021 to March 2022, Reid victimized businesses in Abington, Bensalem, Cheltenham, Rockledge, Upper Moreland, and Philadelphia, prosecutors s…
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'Targeted Murder': Montco Mom Shot Dead In Front Of Son At Dunkin
Authorities are investigating what they call the "targeted murder of a mother" in the drive-thru line at a Cheltenham Dunkin Donuts early Tuesday morning. The victim, 35-year-old Rachel King of Elkins Park, was shot dead in her car at the Melrose Shopping Center on Cheltenham Avenue on April 11, said the county District Attorney's Office in a statement. ALSO SEE: Montco Mom Shot Dead In Front Of Son Was 'Energetic With Iconic Laugh' Rachel King Rachel King Facebook photo It happened around 7:30 a.m., prosecutors said. King was waiting in the drive-thru line at Dunkin when an armed su…
Police & Fire
Man Stabbed After Confronting Car Thieves Outside Montgomery County Home, Police Say
A man was stabbed after confronting car thieves outside his home in Montgomery County, authorities said. Officers responding to the 200 block of Grove Avenue in Cheltenham found a man suffering from multiple stab wounds around 3 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, local police said. The unidentified victim was taken to a local hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition, authorities said. Witnesses apparently told police that the victim confronted a group of masked men who were breaking into his car in front of his home. "A struggle ensued and one of the males stabbed the victim m…
Police & Fire
Man Sold THC Edibles Via Instagram To Kids Across Philly Area, DA Says
A 20-year-old Pennsylvania man is facing charges for using Instagram to sell THC edibles to children as young as 11 years old, authorities said. Quashon Rice was arrested after a raid of his Philadelphia home on Tuesday, June 14 turned up 40 bags of marijuana-laced edibles, 10 individually packaged bags of marijuana, a ghost gun, and drug-related materials, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said in a joint release. “This defendant was targeting children as young as 11 years old to sell his drugs to, imbedding drugs in cereals and snack products that appeal to children," D…
Police & Fire
1 Wounded, 3 Arrests Made In Cheltenham Drive-By Shooting: Police
One person was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Cheltenham on Saturday, April 16, authorities said. The victim was inside a white Jeep Compass traveling northbound on Ogontz Avenue when the occupants of a dark-colored Ford Taurus opened fire around 4:40 p.m., Cheltenham police said. The victim was taken to Abington Hospital in serious condition but was expected to survive, police said. It was not immediately clear if the victim was a driver or passenger. Officers later spotted the Ford Taurus and arrested three occupants, while a fourth managed to flee, police said. They re…
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Post Birthday Bash Crash: Friend Tried Taking Keys From DUI Man Who Hurt 3, Killed 1, DA Says
An 18-year-old DUI driver has been charged with murder by vehicle in the Cheltenham crash that killed a 20-year-old man and seriously injured three others earlier this year, authorities in Montgomery County said. Despite futile attempts from friends to stop him, Alexander Koenigsberg — of Huntingdon Valley — got behind the wheel of his 2006 Honda Civic to drink with friends after a bowling alley birthday party on Jan. 22, 2022, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. A few hours later, Koenigsberg was navigating a curve on Greenwood Avenue in Cheltenham…
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Authorities ID Victim Killed In Cheltenham Crash
NOTE: The victim's age was incorrectly reported as 19 in an earlier version of this report, as stated by the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. A correction has been made to reflect the victim's correct age, which is 20. *** Authorities have identified the 20-year-old victim killed in a one-car crash in Cheltenham early Sunday. The victim has been identified as Nicholas Bednarek, of Abington, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Cheltenham Township Acting Police Chief John Slavin said Monday afternoon. An autopsy performed Monday mor…
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Second Drug Dealer Arrested In Overdose Death Of 27-Year-Old Cheltenham Man: DA
A second Pennsylvania drug dealer has been charged in a February 2021 overdose death of a 27-year-old victim, authorities in Montgomery County announced Wednesday. Jeffrey Lebron, 50, of Cheltenham, was arrested on charges of drug delivery resulting in death, and related offenses for his alleged role as the supplier of the drugs that killed 27-year-old Nathan Lauch in Cheltenham, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said. Lebron is the second person arrested in connection with Lauch's death, following Saeed McCrae, 23, of Elkins Park, who was arrested in July 2021, authorities …
Police & Fire
Cheltenham Police Arrest Armed Robbery Suspect Caught On Video Stabbing Woman
Police in Montgomery County have arrested a man they say stabbed a woman during a robbery at a Cheltenham convenience store on Wednesday. Avery Armknecht, 19, was charged with attempted criminal homicide, robbery, aggravated assault. Armknecht, of Norristown, was seen on surveillance video entering the Mr. Cigarette store on West Cheltenham Avenue around 12:55 p.m. with a pocketknife and telling the employee to open the register., according to Cheltenham police. He held the knife to the woman's throat and a struggle ensued. Armknecht then stabbed her multiple times in the chest and fled w…
Police & Fire
Philly Sex Offender Pens Google Reviews Of Revealing Photos He Snapped Of Women, Police Say
A registered sex offender from Philadelphia took hundreds of revealing photos of women at area businesses, then uploaded them to Google maps -- penning Google review for many of them, as first reported by NorthPennNow. James Dirk Roberts, 55, is facing 11 misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy following the 10-month investigation launched last July by Montgomery Township Police Department. An investigation was launched last July after police were tipped off to reports of a man taking photos of a female employee at an area business, the criminal complaint says. The woman was pa…
Police & Fire
Man Suffers Head Injury In Cheltenham House Fire
A man was left with a head injury after a fire broke out in a Cheltenham home early Friday morning, 6abc reports. Fire crews arrived at the 200 block of Deaver Road to find heavy flames on the first and second floors of the home, around 1:30 a.m., authorities told 6abc. The flames spread to the attic and roof of the single-family house before firefighters were able to gain control, 6abc reports. A man suffered a cut to the head and was being treated at the scene by EMS, authorities told 6abc. No other injuries were reported.
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DA: Philly Burglar Ejaculates On Woman, 102, While Raiding Her Home, 8 Others In Suburban PA
A 41-year-old Philadelphia man sexually assaulted three homeowners including a 102-year-old woman whom he ejaculated on while raiding their suburban Pennsylvania homes in a series of at least nine burglaries, authorities said Friday. Raheem White was arrested in the series of daytime burglaries and assaults across Montgomery County and Philadelphia that date back to last July, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. Between July 13, 2020 and Jan. 13, 2021, nine daytime residential burglaries and three attempted burglaries were reported in Cheltenham, Haverford, Spring…
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