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Tip Leads To Child Porn Bust, Shocking Confession In Lancaster County: Police
A Lancaster County man has been arrested on multiple child pornography charges, police announced on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025.
Dakota Wayne Varner, 25, of New Holland, was charged after police executed a search warrant on his home, uncovering explicit materials depicting minors, according to the New Holland Police Department.
Officers began investigating after receiving a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Dec. 30, 2024. The tip led detectives to Varner’s residence in New Holland Borough, police said.
A search warrant was executed, resulting in the seizu…
Walters, Nochella Sold Heroin From PA Home With Kids Inside
Two parents in Stroud Township are accused of selling heroin and fentanyl from their home while their young children lived in dangerous, squalid conditions, authorities announced on Friday, Feb. 7.
Jessica Walters, 35, and Robert Nochella, 35, were arrested after Monroe County detectives and Children and Youth Services discovered drug paraphernalia, scales, and packaging materials scattered throughout their home on Thursday, Feb. 6, officials said. Walters was reportedly withdrawing from fentanyl during the investigation, according to the criminal complaints.
The home, where Walters and Noc…
Colin Best Accused Of Filming Child Porn: Williamsport PD
A Williamsport man is accused of providing alcohol to teens, secretly filming them, and possessing child sexual abuse material, police announced on Tuesday, Dec. 31.
Colin James Best, 39, has been charged with sexual abuse of children, invasion of privacy, corruption of minors, furnishing liquor to minors, criminal use of a communication facility, indecent assault, and endangering the welfare of children, according to Williamsport police.
The investigation began on Aug. 14, 2024, when a 17-year-old girl reported that Best had provided her and a 16-year-old girl with alcohol and marijuana at…
Arrest Made In OD Death Nearly 2 Years Later, Police In Bucks County Say
Authorities have announced an arrest made in an overdose death nearly two years later in Bucks County.
Following an "extremely lengthy" investigation with Springfield police and Bucks County detectives, William Wright, 38, was arrested on Tuesday, June 18, Springfield police said.
Police said only that the arrest stems from a death investigation at the Scenic View Apartments nearly two years ago.
Wright was charged with drug delivery resulting in death, criminal use of a communication facility, manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or delivery, involuntary manslau…
Two Charged For Killing Man On His Birthday In 2016, Says Bucks DA
Eight years after Herbert Lyals was shot and killed on his birthday, two men are charged with his murder, prosecutors say.
George Javon Clark, 33, and John Marquis Wilson, 43, were charged with murder and related counts following a grand jury investigation, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said on Friday, April 5.
Lyals, 38, was found dead on the 5000 block of Truman Street in Bristol Township on July 27, 2016, according to investigators.
Clark is charged with criminal homicide, first- and second-degree murder, robbery, and related counts, the DA's Office said.…