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Officer Injured During Drug Arrest In Allentown: Police
An Allentown police officer was taken to an area hospital with minor injuries after a suspect resisted arrest on Wednesday, July 3, according to city officials. Police said they were patrolling near North Boyer and Russell streets around 6 p.m. when they spotted two men "involved in suspected drug activity." They initiated an arrest and 23-year-old Jeniel Rivera Gotay resisted and tried to flee, according to APD. He was placed in custody and police said they found fentanyl and crack cocaine in his possession. Another suspect, 50-year-old Pablo A. Garcia, was found to have crack…
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Unlicensed Driver Was DUI In Crash That Killed Pregnant Woman: Montco DA
A Philadelphia man is in police custody for the May crash that killed Nya Janae Stokes, according to prosecutors. The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said 27-year-old Jabrial Terry had fentanyl, oxycodone, Benzodiazepines and cannabinoids in his system during the May 4 wreck. Authorities said Stokes, who was nine months pregnant, was the passenger in a Toyota that Terry's Buick struck head-on on Skippack Pike in Whitemarsh. The 24-year-old was unresponsive and taken to Abington Hospital, where she died after her baby was delivered in …
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West Reading Man Charged After $65K+ Drug Bust: DA
A two-month investigation ended with the seizure of more than a kilogram of drugs and one arrest in Berks County, said the District Attorney's Office on Friday. Eric Emilio Delacruz, 36, of West Reading, is charged with multiple counts related to drug trafficking, prosecutors said. Police began investigating drug sales at 343 Chestnut Street in April, the DA's Office said. On Thursday, June 13, county detectives executed a search warrant and said they recovered: 735 grams of cocaine with a potential street value of $36,750 744 fentanyl pills with a potential street value…
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'Operation Black Diamond': Feds Seek Alleged Philadelphia Fentanyl Trafficker
Eleven members of a suspected drug trafficking organization are in custody, federal authorities say. The group, allegedly headed by 30-year-old Wilfredo Avila, is accused of running "significant quantities" of fentanyl and cocaine throughout Philadelphia's Kensington and Fairhill sections from February 2023 through this month. The organization also "routinely offered and sold firearms of all kinds to its drug dealer customers," said the US Attorney's Office in a release on Thursday, June 13. Ten suspects were arrested and one more is awaiting transfer from anoth…
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Coatesville Parents Ran Fundraiser For Son Who Allegedly Overdosed On Their Drugs
The Coatesville parents charged with their son's overdose death last July launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for his funeral expenses. The verified campaign raised $895 after it was posted on July 30, 2023. "My name is Mousa Hawa I am asking for help to cover cost for my son Hunter Hawa," the campaign reads. "He passed suddenly 7/26/2023 we are having him cremated and then we will have a service for him(.)" Hawa and Holly Back are each charged with third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in Hunter's July 26 overdose death, the Chester County District Attorney'…
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Coatesville Parents Charged In 8-Year-Old's Fentanyl Death Had Unused Narcan Doses In House: DA
Two Coatesville residents have been arrested and charged in the fentanyl overdose death of their 8-year-old son last summer, authorities said Holly Back and Mousa Hawa were each charged with third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the July 26, 2023 overdose death of their son, the Chester County District Attorney's Office said on Tuesday, June 4. Police also said they found two unused doses of Narcan in the East Lincoln Highway home of Back and Hawa, who both denied the possibility that the boy had gotten into "their medicine," when interviewed by detectives, according to a…
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