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Enola Man Who Stabbed Woman’s Foot With Knife, Cut Her Nose With Shears; Sentenced Enola Man Who Stabbed Woman’s Foot With Knife, Cut Her Nose With Shears; Sentenced
Enola Man Who Stabbed Woman’s Foot With Knife, Cut Her Nose With Shears; Sentenced A Cumberland County man who stabbed a woman’s foot with a kitchen knife and cut her nose with kitchen shears during a violent Thanksgiving assault has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, authorities announced on Tuesday, Jan. 14. Shawn Swingler was handed an aggregate sentence of 8 to 20 years in state prison followed by three years of probation by Judge Jessica E. Brewbaker, according to the Cumberland County District Attorney's Office. Swingler attacked his partner on Thanksgiving 2023 at his East Pennsboro Township apartment following an argument, police said. The victim told inv…
Mechanicsburg Pastor Charged With Human Trafficking, Prostitution Offenses After Carlisle Spa Mechanicsburg Pastor Charged With Human Trafficking, Prostitution Offenses After Carlisle Spa
Mechanicsburg Pastor Charged With Human Trafficking, Prostitution Offenses After Carlisle Spa A Cumberland County pastor faces serious charges after allegedly patronizing a massage parlor at the center of a human trafficking investigation, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice Wednesday, Nov. 27. Stephen Robert Melton, 65, of Mechanicsburg, a pastor at Big Spring Presbyterian Church in Newville, is accused of paying for sex acts at least 68 times over five months at GL Massage Spa in Carlisle. The charges, filed by the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office, include: Felony Patronizing a Victim of Human Trafficking with Reckless Disregard Misdemeanor…
Texas Man Sentenced For 10+ Years Of PA Girl's Assaults: DA Texas Man Sentenced For 10+ Years Of PA Girl's Assaults: DA
Texas Man Sentenced For 10+ Years Of PA Girl's Assaults: DA A decade of sexual assaults by a Texas man that denied a girl "privileges" unless she complied, has ended with his sentencing the Cumberland County District Attorney Seán M. McCormack announced on Tuesday, Oct. 1.  Joseph "Joe" Peter Tondo, 60, of Rosharon, TX sexually assaulted the girl in Southampton Township, PA for over a decade, the Cumberland County District Attorney's office explained in a release on Friday, Feb. 2.  Judge Christylee Peck sentenced Tondo to "an aggregate sentence of 11-22 years in a state correctional institution, followed by a term of 10 years of…